Even with no messages
67% of cell owners check their phone for messages, alerts, or calls — even when their phone is not ringing or vibrating; 18% say that they do this “frequently.” Pew Research Nov. 30, 2012
View ArticleMary Meeker: Asset-Heavy Lifestyle Is Being Replaced With Asset-Light Value
Mary Meeker provided an Internet Trends update on Dec. 3, 2012 at Stanford. Among her insights: an “asset-heavy” lifestyle is being replaced with an “asset-light” consumer value, particularly among...
View ArticleCES 2013: Incremental Innovation Without 3D
Most of the new product introductions shown at Las Vegas’ monster Consumer Electronics Show largely offered incremental innovation. What follows are, the most significant announcements organized by...
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search
The film The Social Network implies that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was driven by the desire to persuade women to have sex with him. While the movie has been proven to be fairly inaccurate...
View ArticleMySpace: New and Improved Brand Showcase
Backed by the promotional push of a new album by investor Justin Timberlake, MySpace officially relaunched its newly redesigned site. The user experience is definitely a cut above the competition....
View ArticleRace Against the Machine
When 60 Minutes aired a report that inferred that robots were taking jobs away from American workers, one robotics pundit sharply criticized the program because it was based on the work of two...
View ArticleFacebook Mobile Advertising
Facebook today announced that is mobile ad revenues reached 23% of total revenues in fourth quarter 2012, up from 14% in the quarter before. The company also notes that “Mobile DAUs exceeded web DAUs...
View ArticleSuperbowl and Social Media Drop Kick Television to the Second Screen
Mainstream television is beginning to take a backseat to social media, part of a phenomenon that surfaced in the late 90s, when we first documented an emerging trend called “multi-media tasking.” The...
View ArticleInternet’s Newest Craze: Animated GIFs
They’re everywhere now. Propelled by pure entertainment lovers, the internet’s newest craze, animated GIFs, are making a big comeback. GIFs have become memes that explain concepts in animated style...
View ArticleSquare Leads Fast Company’s List of Top 10 Finance Innovators
Fast Company has published its list of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in finance , lead by our pioneering fave, Square. The list is fascinating, if only for the decoding of innovation...
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