October 2009
51 posts
“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the...”
WatchVery cool interactive multitouch sphere by London design house Seeper.
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at...”
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the...”
Total number of Twitter tweets, in real-time! →
#BeatCancer Sets Guinness World Record, Raises... →
Twitter hits 5 billion tweets →
Facebook usage is just off the charts - September...
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Top U.S. Web Brands and Parent Companies for September 2009 | Nielsen Wire
The average U.S. Internet User — that’s the AVERAGE USER — spent nearly 5.5 hours last month on Facebook. 105M total U.S. users use the site.
Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions for September 2009 (U.S., Home and Work)
RANK, Unique Audience (000), Time per Person (hh:mm:ss)
1 Google 153,928 2:36:52
2...
How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to... →
betashop:
This is awesome!
Is Rupert Murdoch the decoy for News Corps’ real...
by Simon te Brinke Digital Communications Strategist Gramercy Park Consulting As a media communications professional of nearly 2 decades let me say that I’m a massive fan of Rupert Murdoch. I think he’s a visionary and a media genius. I regularly use him as a reference and role model in many presentations to clients and colleagues.
That said I simply cannot understand the strategic rationale...
The Synergy of Search and Social Media - eMarketer →
“There’s no greater feeling than the feeling of creativity.”
– me (via betashop)
“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic,...”
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of...”
'Udorse' →
“Turns users into their own advertising/PR agency, allowing them to promote the products, services, places, people, and brands they love using their own photographs and descriptions—and with the chance to make their own money.” - businessideas.net
Kukoo Email Client →
“We’ve all been at that stage when we decided to close down our email client, promising ourselves to leave it that way for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, we had to reopen it five minutes later to find out about that possibly urgent message waiting for a reply. As horrible as that may sound: we can’t live without email. So let’s rather make it more enjoyable. Reclaim...
54 Percent of CIOs Ban Social Media At Work →
“Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice,...”
– Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn - Richard Wiseman (via betashop)
6 gadgets Japan loves (and the U.S. rejected) →
New iPhone apps allow for detailed 3D analysis of... →
We’re getting used to hearing about new weird and wonderful apps for the iPhone, everything from cosmic ordering to your own personal voodoo doll app. The biggest problem with iPhone apps these days is the sheer number of them, tens of thousands of them in fact, so you basically have to sort out the treasures from the trash. We were fortunate the other day to stumble upon a trio of new apps that...
(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos →
WatchBeau Lotto’s color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can’t normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what’s really out there.
Psychology of Technology: Relationships 2.0: How... →
Revealing Google’s Stealth Social Network Play →
YouTube’s New Logo Shouts From The Rooftops: ‘1... →
Online advertising overtakes TV expenditure,... →
33 Creative and Beautiful Logos →
4 Things Old Media Can Learn From the Music... →
ABC Boyer Lectures w. Rupert Murdoch "Who's afraid... →
Technology has helped transform the world. Some say it has turned it upside down. Rupert Murdoch argues that we must not be prisoners of the past - modern day Luddites - if we are to succeed in the golden era.
“So today I start with a simple and provocative proposition: whinging about the technology will get you nowhere. The only way to deal with new technology that up-ends your job or your...
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and...”
“There was no business plan…They had a vision. It was a customer-focused point of...”
– The Story of Jeff Bezos’ $250,000 Investment into Google in 1998 | Growthink (via betashop)
The social future of television →
shawnyeager:
Ethan Zuckerman:
Herkko [Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology] sees a near-fatal embrace between content providers and cable companies. They’re co-dependent, and scared of alienating one another. But this dependency can limit innovation in services. We’ve seen less development around on-demand video, the ability to watch on demand than we might expect than...
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.” —...”
The contiguous United States, visualized by...
thedailywhat:
Data Visualization of the Day: The contiguous United States, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s.
Stephen Von Worley @ Weather Sealed compiled this rather spectacular infographic using a list of all 13,000+ US locations of McDonald’s (the “barometer of cookie-cutter commercialism creep”) in order to determine where true wilderness lies within the lower 48.
The...
An oldie, but a goody for the Phillips... →
“I’ve got a thing for watermelon ATM.” S te Brinke, October, 2009”
WatchEvery couple years an invention comes along that REVOLUTIONIZES the pancake industry! This is one of those inventions and this is ACTUALLY worth watching!!
“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To...”
