Chartbeat, which measures real time traffic, found “effectively no correlation between social shares and people actually reading.” Article is from The Verge.
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A generation of adults who don’t know life without earbuds. Surprised there has not been more written about the phenomenon. This is about perception of music (or chemistry of it.) “When you listen to music, a part of your brain called the nucleus accumbens activates. This triggers the release of the ‘pleasure chemical’ dopamine, that lives in a group of neurons in your brain called the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA):
Up until now, I thought throttling bandwidth was an urban legend. Looks like that might not be so. From GigaOm. “Peering disagreements aren’t fun or consumer-friendly, but they might be the reason consumers’ video streams are suffering. New data purports to show much an effect these fights are having on your broadband.”
This are amazing. Business cards that can be easily scanned into any smartphone. “The TouchBase cards—which feel exactly like any other business card—are embedded with a distinct pattern of conductive ink that mimics a multi-touch gesture on a smartphone’s display.” From Gizmodo.
via Your Smartphone’s Touchscreen Can Read These Magical Business Cards.
This is from the NYT this morning about Facial Recognition. We’ve been reading about how its application will be location-oriented, in aisles where we are standing to push us specials etc. This is new for me. People most likely to spend money. “Facial recognition technology, already employed by some retail stores to spot and thwart shoplifters, may soon be used to identify and track the freest spenders in the aisles.”
This article from The Next Web talks about using “tactics” vs “strategies.” But when it boils down to it, they are only bandaids. Relationships are the only way to build a business. “The only way to ensure what you’ve made has the traction it needs to take off is to bring your own people to the party.
That way, if the party needs to change location, everyone’s game to move it elsewhere with you. You can’t stand by the punchbowl and cross your fingers, hoping people show up. You have to invite others.
But before even that, you have to actually make friends and foster relationships. Really, you have to build a following of people that like what you do. People that would benefit from what you’ve made and maybe, just maybe, like it enough to tell other people they know.”
via Strategies vs. tactics: Which is best for growing your audience? – The Next Web.
From GigaOm – Who has built the fastest network? The most resilient network? The network with the most room to grow? Gigaom takes a look at how the carriers stack up on LTE given their recent flurry of activity.
via The state of LTE in the U.S.: How the carriers’ 4G networks stack up — Tech News and Analysis.
From Wired Business – “According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is developing checkout systems based on its Kindle tablet, and these devices could appear in brick-and-mortar stores as early as this summer. Apparently, the project is a result of Amazon’s recent acquisition of engineers and technology from GoPago, a point-of-sale startup that struggled to escape the shadow of rival Square.”
via Kindle Cash Registers Could Let Amazon Track You in the Real World | Wired Business | Wired.com.
By the time a topic is “trending” on Twitter, it’s probably old news already. Today in New York City, data-crunching company Dataminr announced a new tool for journalists. Its goal is to seek out news stories before they’re heavily reported.
From Wired.
via New Twitter Tool Finds Hot Topics Before They Trend | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
Inside.co is cutting “around the world in 80 days” down to 18.This travel startup introduced its portal for $10 travel guides today, which aim to provide a local experience of a new place in just three days.Inside was founded by Andrew Hyde and Brady Becker, two Boulder-based serial entrepreneurs who wanted to combine their love of startups with their love of travel. The result is Inside Travel Guides.
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