Tag Archive | business
TED’s Censorship Smells
You probably know TED videos if you are a geek. Lots of great stuff. ‘Unfortunately with corporate sponsorship comes a change of their mission statement from “spreading ideas” to “spreading idea acceptable to corporate sponsors.” ‘One of the TED videos that was censored recently.’ Find Out If Your Birth Certificate is Being Traded ‘To find […]
Discovery: Molecular Switch for Old Brains
Molecular switch to make old brains young again ‘It’s no secret that juvenile brains are more malleable and able to learn new things faster than adult ones – just ask any adult who has tried to learn a new language. That malleability also enables younger brains to recover more quickly from trauma. Researchers at Yale […]
How Much Information is on a Cellphone
‘Cellphone data searches are a contentious topic: there’s no clear overall consensus on how much information police can get from a phone before needing a warrant, or how deep a search should be able to go. When we carry a portal to most of our lives in our pockets, should police be able to look […]
NRA’s Anti-Hollywood Strategy
‘White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today called the National Rifle Association and their latest lobbying campaign centering on the president’s daughters “repugnant” and “cowardly,” but according to a new poll, the NRA’s tactics might just be working. After more than a month of attacking Hollywood, video games, and the David Gregory media elite, today’s […]
Childhood Determines Your Economic Destiny
Ever notice that children with ‘poor’ parents rarely become richer than their parents? ‘…Americans are aware of class, but they overestimate mobility, which, according to numerous studies, is going the way of the wooly mammoth. In fact, mobility in America is among the lowest in developed countries – just about on par with the UK. […]
Beware: Contract Signing Trap
Battling YouTube for Money and Creative Control ‘…Machinima, a multichannel YouTube network that specializes in video game content, came calling. The network offered him a partnership: It would put ads on his videos, and he would get a cut of the revenue generated from those ads. It sounded pretty good to Vacas, so he signed […]
Tumblr Now Viral on Search Engines
Searching for ‘Blog’ Now Means Searching for ‘Tumblr’ ‘Fernando Alfonso III at the Daily Dot points out that “blog” searches have been on the decline since May 2009, just before Charles Arthur heralded blogging’s death in The Guardian. And Tumblr is no doubt popular: In a big new Forbes profile, Jeff Bercovici notes how the […]
20th Anniversary of SMS Texting
Short Message Service will be 20 years old on December ‘To celebrate the 20th anniversary of what we, at clickSUMO, consider the most popular App ever invented – the SMS – the team has decided to interview the man, who 20 years ago, changed entirely the way billions of people now communicate…’ 20th-anniversary-of-sms-interview-with-neil-papworth/ What is […]
E-Commerce Proves Germany Best Book Lover
‘June research from Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online Forschung (AGOF) suggests that lower-ticket purchases may be at least partially responsible for those somewhat depressed spending figures. While those who go online to research products do not seem to discriminate by price point, that changes at checkout. ‘Books, an inexpensive purchase, topped the product research list as well as […]
