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Sneak peak: The New TV landscape

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:38:40 -0800

It looks bleak. Ironic…. yes maybe.

Good to see image only emails are still being sent around.

The Internet in 2015 - Dawn of the Zettabyte Era

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:32:32 -0800

The Internet in 5 years will see the dawn of the Zettabyte Era and an overtaking of Web traffic with video consumption at the helm.

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Motion Graphics: Countdown - HD

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:06:09 -0800

By Desrumaux Celine

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Oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:24:48 -0800

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

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PayPal's Mobile Payment Rocket

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:58:00 -0800

Mobile payments are on an exponential trajectory.

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Via BI

PayPal revealed that they processed nearly $4 billion in mobile payments last year, up from a miniscule $25 million in 2008. To give you an idea of mobile commerce's astronomical growth, PayPal initially predicted $1.5 billion in mobile payments for the year before raising before raising projections to $3 billion in June.

With rival Square now processing $11 million a day (up from $4 million in July), we are very bullish on the mobile payments market.

Forrester estimated in June that mobile commerce will reach $31 billion by 2016, and even that may look conservative now. Yesterday at CES, eBay CEO John Donahoe said that PayPal expects to handle $7 billion in mobile transactions this year.

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Facebook to reach One Billion users in September

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:00:00 -0800

Facebook says it has 800 million active users.

Building a chart based on previous user number announcements, iCrossings says Facebook will probably reach 1 billion users sometime in August 2012.

In the past, "active" has meant that these people log in once a month. What's truly stunning is that Facebook says more than 50% of its users log in every day.

Via Business Insider

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1000 stickers & 1000 kids - The Obliteration Room

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:23:01 -0800

The Obliteration Room… totally cool.

Via: thisiscolossal.com & GOMA

This space has been transformed into a series of domestic—style rooms, reminiscent of the average Australian home, filled with furniture and objects painted entirely white. This functions as a blank canvas that becomes ‘obliterated’ over the course of the exhibition through the application of brightly coloured dot stickers.

This series of images shows ‘The obliteration room‘ in its pristine state before the exhibition opened, along with the application of the very first dot stickers.

You can revel in ‘The obliteration room‘ during ‘Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever‘, on display at GOMA until 11 March 2012. You can also read more about Yayoi Kusama and the exhibition at ourdedicated website.

See the full gallery on Posterous

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Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:52:19 -0800

Just one example of the mind boggling scale of online activity...

In a single minute there are over 695,000 status updates on Facebook.

Via: Business Insider

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Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:52:24 -0800

Want to hook up things to the Web? Maybe you want to get a tweet when your laundry's done, or get an email when the basement floods while you're on vacation. Even if you're good with electronics and programming, these are involved projects. Instead of worrying about wiring or networking code, you can focus on your idea.

http://kck.st/ruJgAV

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NIKE Laces

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:39:00 -0800

Love the illustration and colouring on this idea from designer Hugo Silva.

http://www.typographyserved.com/gallery/NIKE-Laces/2407112

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Android Market reaches 10 billionth app download

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:56:36 -0800

Interesting stats from BI - Android with over 600 devices in the market globally is definitely picking up momentum with consumers through choice. However the article notes that both app stores are growing at around the same rate.

Via: Business Insider

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This morning, Google announced that the Android Market had passed its 10 billionth app download.

Apple got there first -- it passed 10 billion in January.

It also got there faster, hitting 10 billion about 30 months after its launch in July 2008. Android launched in October 2008, so took about 38 months to reach the 10 billion mark.

However, Google also announced it is now at a billion downloads per month. Apple hit that mark in July of this year. So both stores hit that magic number about three years after launch. And both are now growing at around the same rate.

One more note: this doesn't measure the total number of apps downloaded because there are multiple app stores for Android. There's only one for Apple.

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Poster Collection

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:31:41 -0800

A very cool collection by designer Mats Ottdal

http://www.typographyserved.com/gallery/Typography-Posters/2235658

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A small collection of different typography posters. These are old and new type experiments, mostly just for fun.

via http://www.typographyserved.com/

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Poster of the Month - Pulp Fiction

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:28:32 -0800

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Liquid Table Lamp

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:49:02 -0800

DESCRIPTION

A lamp which appears to be flowing liquid.

http://www.kyouei-ltd.co.jp/liquid_lamp_table_r.html

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Dead Kennedys Visualisation

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:22:17 -0800

via Aaron Michie & Visual Complexity

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Project Description:

A visual overview of Dead Kennedys' five studio albums including quotes of the lyrics, track titles, album titles and their release years, soundwaves, track lengths, song writers and the lyrical themes and their relations.

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=772

http://anttonnuotio.com/dead_kennedys.html

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Found: Cinemagraphs

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:52:00 -0800

What do you get when you mix a fashion photographer, and a master of animation? If you said beautiful gifs, then you are 110% correct! Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have teamed up to bring us beautiful animated photographs, a.k.a Cinemagraph. These Cinemagraphs are more than a picture, but not quite a video. Their main goal is to visually illustrate a short story. To give you a comparison, think of the magical newspaper from the movie Harry Potter.

(Rest of article here / via InspirationFeed)

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World Usability Day

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:09:29 -0800

Make World Usability Day the 11/11/11... it's easier to type.

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The Mobile Blue Ocean

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:31:49 -0800

Via Business Insider

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ComScore has data out on the US phone market and Asymco breaks them down, including this great chart at right on the evolution of the US phone platform install base.

It highlights a few key points, some of which are already known, but some of which don't get talked about enough:

The Blue Ocean is still HUGE. For all that we (justifiably, more on which below) talk about who among Apple, Google, RIM, Microsoft et al. is winning in smartphones, the biggest opportunity remains the Blue Ocean of getting smartphones in the hands of non-smartphone users. (This is true of the US, but also very true of developing markets where the shift to mobile is enormous.)

http://read.bi/vuyMAo

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Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic Channel / UPC

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:17:00 -0800

Appshaker recently launched a unique way for people to interact with the amazing world of National Geographic Channel's content from around the globe.

Using the principles of augmented reality, people could immerse themselves in different scenes such as dolphins, leopards, the space landings, dinosaurs and more.

View the video here:

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Jawbone UP Helps You Exercise More, Eat Well, Sleep Better

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:51:00 -0700

Jawbone, a company best known for making fashionable Bluetooth earpieces, announced today that it will sell an all-in-one smart fitness gadget that aims to help people totally improve their personal health and fitness.

The $99 device, called Jawbone UP, is a simple-looking wristband capable of collecting data about a person's activity throughout the day as well as sleep patterns at night.

Paired with Jawbone apps on Apple mobile devices, such as iPhones and iPads, Jawbone UP also collects and analyzes the data to help you make better sense of your habits and lifestyles, identifying, for example, the effects of exercise on your ability to sleep deeply.

[Read the rest of article here]

(via PCMag.com)

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