Two analysts from BTIG Research went to Kansas City to see what Google's new cable-company killer, Google Fiber, is like.What's it like? It's awesome. The Time Warner Cable system in Kansas City appears to be freaking out about the rollout of Google Fiber, and for obvious reasons.
An interactive game designed by Google that's actually about getting Google good data for footpath routes to compete with Nokia's recently announced turn-by-turn navigation for pedestrians.
A very interesting movie that deals with anonymity on the internet. 2 filmakers look at a friendship formed online between an artist and a small-town family. I really liked the documentary!
Story about buying 1 million Facebook data entries for 5$. The information in this list has been collected through our Facebook apps and consists only of active Facebook users, mostly from the US, Canada, UK and Europe.
When users are not paying for services up front, the publisher must extract a "cost" somewhere. Online, this cost is our attention, our time. We pay for social media with pieces of our lives-whether it's because a blog baits us into reading something or a game tricks us into sticking around long after we should have left-and these bits of life are sold to advertisers, literally, for pennies.
Jonah Lehrer's discredited 'Imagine' has vanished from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and his publisher's website. Ideas regarding ownership and control when considering e-books