It’s important to start back in the fall of 2010 if you want to understand the strange but spectacularly profitable world of Google and Facebook today. Facebook was a rising start four years ago. They had built the ultimate social walled garden — almost a separate alternative to the Internet at large.
Continue reading… “Google and Facebook go beyond social”
As always, if your airline seat is not comfortable, just get up and walk around!
Quote of the Day: “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” – Marcel Pagnol
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Would you pay for online privacy?
Once we went online the concept of privacy changed. What was once private personal information has now been twisted and altered by the digital age, like so many analog and now antiquated concepts before it.
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The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning.
It would have been awesome to have been an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was available. All words; short ones, cool ones. All you had to do was ask. It didn’t even cost anything to claim. This grand opportunity was true for years.
Continue reading… “It’s not too late to start something on the internet”
Publishers have failed to adequately respond to the new ways that consumers get information.
About ten years after the commercial debut of the Internet, America’s newspapers posted record high advertising sales of $49.4 billion in 2005. This lead many publishers to think their businesses would not be seriously affected by the digital revolution. But they were wrong.
Continue reading… “The ongoing newspaper crisis by the numbers”
“Digital Ethereal”
Artist and researcher Luis Hernan from the University of Newcastle in the UK In a project he is calling “Digital Ethereal”, artist and researcher Luis Hernan at the University of Newcastle in the UK has rendered the invisible visible — revealing in red, yellow, green and blue the Wi-Fi signal strength in the world around him.
Continue reading… “‘Digital Ethereal’ – Invisible Wi-Fi revealed through light graffiti”
The absolute greatest vertical in Google’s AdWords revenue is auto insurance.
Google is well on its way to establishing its leadership through the registration of 6 billion daily unique searches and indexing of over 50 billion web pages (2013), when it comes to collecting and organizing information. What remains to be seen is how this information is being made universally accessible and at what price. One of the industries that has particular advantage of access to the world’s information is insurance.
Continue reading… “Google could become the primary sales channel for the insurance industry by 2020”
According to a report from Cisco on consumer internet traffic, online video is going to be massive. By 2018, over 75% of all traffic is going to be video based.
Continue reading… “79% of all internet traffic by 2018 is going to be online video”
Share of Internet usage is two times higher in Asia and Africa.
Over the past two years online photo sharing has sextupled. Nigerians are on their phones 30 percent more than Americans. We now spend more time on mobile than on print and radio combined.
Continue reading… “The state of the internet in 10 graphs”
An instructor for Udacity teaching an online Python class.
AT&T and the online education provider Udacity have partnered to create the “nanodegree,” a new type of college degree similar to the Micro Colleges that Futurist Thomas Frey predicted. The vocationally focused nanodegree is designed to be a lifelong learning portfolio that would be widely recognized by the tech industry and far cheaper to obtain.
Continue reading… “The ‘nanodegree’ – A new type of college degree created by AT&T and Udacity”
Music consumers migrated to streaming music services that live in the cloud in accelerating numbers.
How does the surveillance state consolidate control? By living in “the cloud” — where all our pertinent data is stored on computer servers operated by the likes of Google and Amazon and Microsoft — becomes too seductive to avoid and too cheap not to afford.
Continue reading… “Big Brother is watching your streaming music”
People tend to talk about optimistically about the Internet. They talk about it in terms that describe how it ought to be rather than how it actually is.
Continue reading… “‘Mesh networking’ – the promise of a new internet”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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