October 2012
5 posts
“In-stream, native advertising works best. What do LinkedIn, Twitter, Buzzfeed...”
– Turning social media into cash: 6 insights from the new tech titans — paidContent
(via futuristgerd)
Makes sense to me…
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say...”
– C.J. Huff, the superintendent of Joplin Schools since July 2008, led his district of 1,100 employees and 7,700 students through the recovery effort that has followed the devastating May 22, 2011 tornado that ripped through the heart of Joplin, Missouri. (via poptech)
Great quote - I love this...
“Your conscious is so small, it’s the broom closet in the mansion of the brain.”
– David Eagleman’s research includes time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system. (via poptech)
I’d love to see what David actually means with this… Something like the part of the brain where consciousness can be located is relatively...
September 2012
41 posts
Camera+ For iPad →
parislemon:
Camera+ has been on the homescreen of my iPhone for years. Today, they released a version for the iPad. No, you probably don’t want to be that dumbass holding up your iPad at a concert (though you can be that guy with this release!), but this is brilliant for editing.
To that end, developer tap tap tap updated the iPhone app as well with iCloud syncing (and iPhone 5 support, of...
Customer experience will be become a new... →
smarterplanet:
ibmsocialbiz:
Companies in nearly every industry disappoint their customers, especially when customers cross channels. Many cusomer experience initiatives don’t realize their potential because neither employees nor partners have a complete picture of what the customer experience (CX) actually entails or the dynamics that go into creating it. They need a new approach: one that...
Social Data Startup Gnip Goes Deeper Into... →
courtenaybird:
Gnip is announcing a new product today that provides access to the full database of public tweets from the beginning of time — or rather, the beginning of Twitter.
…The new product, called Historical PowerTrack for Twitter, has been in testing with customers including Esri, Brandwatch, PayPal, Brandwatch, Waggener Edstrom, Network Insights, Union Metrics. Moody says this data...
Apple's Stock Price Breaks Through $700, Sets New... →
parislemon:
The stock will open tomorrow well above $700 (it’s $702 right now in after-hours). The market cap is at $655 billion — it’s now nearly $400 billion ahead of Microsoft.
It was only May 26, 2010 that Microsoft was still ahead in that regard. Since then, Microsoft has gained around $35 billion in value. Apple has gained $430 billion.
Incredible…
iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24... →
parislemon:
Apple:
Apple today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 5 topped two million in just 24 hours, more than double the previous record of one million held by iPhone 4S. Demand for iPhone 5 exceeds the initial supply and while the majority of pre-orders will be delivered to customers on September 21, many are scheduled to be delivered in October.
Insert “disappointment” joke...
Exercise Can Help Protect Against Future Emotional... →
psychotherapy:
Exercise may help people cope with anxietyand stress for an extended period of time after the workout, according to a new study.
Researchers compared how moderate intensity cycling for 30 minutes versus a 30-minute period of rest affected anxiety levels in a group of healthy college students.
Led by J. Carson Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at...
Google's "Pluto Switch" →
parislemon:
There’s at least one “open” joke to be made here. Probably several. But this is actually pretty fascinating.
Pretty interesting… I wasn’t aware of this development, I wonder what this means for datacenter networking technology in general!
August 2012
125 posts
“This is one of the clearest examples of a regime shift in the recent historical...”
– Reaction to five summers with Arctic sea ice concentration unrecovered from its precipitous decline in 2007 - by Mike Wallace, University of Washington climate scientist, on Arctic sea-ice trends and implications. (via revkin)
Long, sobering read on the decline of the Arctic sea ice. I do wonder... 