Blogging is an effective way to illustrate expertise, personality, and thought process.
I think most of us will agree that resumes are crummy. You can’t really communicate your life’s accomplishments and skill-set through an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Does anyone even read your resume anyway?
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Analyst Ian Maude has tweeted a great chart. Maude says, “Thinking about Twitter monetisation- ad revenue per user under 1/2 FB and 1/3 LinkedIn- lots of headroom for growth.” And that’s certainly one way to look at it.
Continue reading… “Google’s ad revenue per user is way ahead of its rivals”
Apple stores can already pinpoint your location with unprecedented accuracy.
2014 will be the year that the “internet of things”—that effort to remotely control every object on earth—becomes visible in our everyday lives. But most of us don’t recognize just how far the internet of things will go, from souped-up gadgets that track our every move to a world that predicts our actions and emotions.
Continue reading… “Will the Internet of Thing replace the web?”
An analysis by price intelligence firm Profitero on retail pricing habits has revealed a pretty staggering statistic: Amazon changes its prices more than 2.5 million times a day. By comparison, Walmart and Best Buy changed their prices roughly 50,000 times each in the entire month of November.
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The Reserve Bank of India says it is “closely watching” the growth of bitcoins.
The virtual currency, Bitcoin, has been gaining popularity globally this year and is catching the attention of India’s youth.
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Sixty-one percent of all website traffic is now non-human, while a mere 38.5 percent represents humans clicking things, according to a new report from security content delivery network Incapsula,. This is a 10 percent increase in non-humanness just since a similar study in March.
Continue reading… “Bots dominate 61.5% of all website traffic”
National Library of Norway
All of the books in the National Library of Norway’s collection will be digitized. They will process the text to make it searchable and make them available to read online.
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Deer Hunter 2014 tally.
It is kind of a funny thing to celebrate during a season of good cheer, but Glu Mobile said today that 9,830,162,858 animals have been killed in Deer Hunter 2014. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “Deer Hunter 2014: 40M downloads and 9.8B animals killed”
The NSA described games communities, such as World of Warcraft, as a ‘target-rich network’ where potential terrorists could ‘hide in plain sight’.
Because of leaks from the former National Security Agency employee, Edward Snowden, the NSA is still under the microscope. The NSA has been straddling a fine line between being a terrifying and comically inept government institution. Now, in the latter category: a report that the NSA infiltrated the dark world of online gaming.
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Even though the Semantic Web may have failed, there is a higher intelligence coming to applications anyway, in another form: Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). And this may just be the next evolution of the operating system.
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How far will the FBI will go with its use of malware to spy on people?
The FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now, according to a Washington Post report.
The heavy investment of both time and money can be a put off when you want to build an app for your business. But, now entering the mobile market no longer necessarily requires thousands of dollars and months of work. There are many mobile platforms available to help you build an app on a budget — quickly, and with no coding knowledge required.
Continue reading… “Top 10 platforms for building mobile apps”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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