February 2012
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Yandex signs a search deal with Twitter →
In a deal that surely gives the middle finger to Google, Twitter has signed a deal with Russian search giant Yandex to provide access to its full feed of public tweets — its Firehose — allowing the company to deliver tweet search results in its Blog Search results.
Similar to Google’s Social Search — before it was dropped after Google refused to license Twitter’s full data feeds last year —...
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10 Tips to Make Your Phone Photos Amazing →
WatchInteractive and immersive video experiments from the guardian:
Condition One is a new app that uses the iPad to deliver interactive, immersive video. Here, Benji Lanyado demonstrates how it works, and showcases the Guardian’s first commissioned immersive video, shot in Tokyo. To view it, download the iPad app from Condition One at conditionone.com
• The Guardian’s Tokyo beta experiments
January 2012
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WatchThe New Environment for Advocates & NGOs
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Internet 2011 in numbers - Social Media →
courtenaybird:
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
100 million – Number of active Twitter users in 2011.
70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
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Magic Bullets →
Smart ammunition is about to make things a lot more dangerous for guerrillas fighting regular troops
The XM25, as the new gun is known, weighs about 6kg (13lb) and fires a 25mm round. The trick is that instead of having to be aimed directly at the target, this round need only be aimed at a place in proximity to it. Once there, it explodes—just like Shrapnel’s original artillery shells—and the...
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Visibility before all - for good or for bad →
Live video is now on tap from almost anywhere. Both the benefits and drawbacks are unpredictable
We have heard a lot about the benefits. This article in The Economist highlights some of the dangers:
Compelling pictures from a traceable source may also prove to be a double-edged sword for protesters. Police can mine video files for hidden information (“metadata” in the jargon) that could help...
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WatchThe Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the United States: charts
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WatchGoogle TV 2.0: Endgadget interview with Google TV Product Manager Rishi Chandra
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WatchHow to Track A Stolen Laptop
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Survey Finds Traditional TV Viewing Is Collapsing →
The Accenture survey results released on Monday show that the number of consumers who watch broadcast or cable television in a typical week plunged to 48% in 2011 from 71% in 2009. The same survey, which canvased about 1,000 consumers in each of 10 countries – Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and the Untied States – also found that the number of consumers...
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Online video still has a long way to go to beat... →
In terms of audience reach, Nielsen estimates that almost 145 million people watch video online in the U.S., compared to about 290 million who watch traditional TV. So the penetration of online video is already about half of the overall TV-watching population.
Yet for all the video people watch on the web, it is still a tiny fraction of how much they watch on TV in terms of time spent.
In a...
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