Et cetera
Literally “the rest of it”. There’s a little more of my own words and opinions in these.
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Pew Social Media Survey Reshared post from +Tom Anderson Here's an interesting social media survey conducted by PEW. When Americans were asked why they use social media, here's the answer for the "major" reason: 66% – Connect with Family & Friends14% – Connecting around a shared hobby or interest9% – Making new friends5% – Following…
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Here are some timestamped highlights because it’s 1:11 long: @ 3-8 min in – talking about having vision, focus, and “pissing people off”. @ ~14 min – Server side computing (his own staggeringly spot-on predictive network setup when you remember this is 1997) Including gigabit(!) and thin clients @ 20 min – Rapid Software development…
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Reshared post from +erick schonfeld Airplane reading; The Great Stagnation by +Tyler Cowen. Will be moderating a debate with him and +Erik Brynjolfsson at Techonomy. Excellent book, read it. Some key takeaways:-the rate of innovation was higher in the 1800s "because innovation was easier and it could be dine by amateurs." (I'd argue we are…
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Reshared post from +Eileen Rivera Quick Android poll. Next week we're addressing crappy battery life, which is (for me) the #1 problem when using an android phone. —Besides— all of these options: Juice Defender, turning off notifications, keeping your phone charged, and extra external batteries — what apps or methods do you use to get…
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Sixth Grader giving a TEDTalk on making iPhone Apps. Reshared post from +Ken Rutkowski Watch This Insanely Smart 6th Grader Give a TEDTalk About Making Apps For the iPhone This TEDTalk was given by Thomas Suarez at TEDxManhattanBeach. Thomas is in the 6th grade at a middle school in the South Bay, and heโs made…
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Reblogging this blog link from a blog. Reshared post from +Chris Pirillo I'm encouraging you bloggers to blog this blogging link from your own blog. Embedded Link 10 Reasons to Use WordPress for Your Web Site ~ LockerGnome Email. WordPress is everywhere, and it's one of the most simple and easy to use content management…
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Here’s a clip from BBC News interviewing a trader that’s kind of shocking. There are questions as to whether or not he is a part of a social satire group called the “Yes Men”. The Yes Men have denied this, and the BBC has investigated it and are satisfied that he is a legit trader.…
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This article: http://css.dzone.com/news/google-dart-%E2%80%9Cultimately very nicely says the following: – that a group of really smart programming folk are making a computing language for client-side processing called “Dart” to compete with or follow, or take the next steps in web development where JavaScript falls short. – That the process to do this will lead eventually to…
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[vimeo 28700284 w=400 h=225] Jeff Tweedy recites “My Humps” from Jasmine D on Vimeo.
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