February 2012
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Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers... →
Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites. The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular categories suc…
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“#roadmapconf Whether it was the steam engine, shipping lanes, railroads, cars...”
– Connectedness and us: Some takeaways from GigaOM RoadMap — Tech News and Analysis
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October 2011
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“#ows Wealth should be a function of hard work, risk-taking and even a bit of...”
– Tea Party, OWS & Blue Republicans: Is This Phase Change? | The Moderate Voice
We’re Not Alone: 8,699,999 other species on Earth →
jtotheizzoe:
8,700,000: Newest estimate of eukaryotic species on Earth (doesn’t count bacteria, etc.)
1,200,000: Number of species we have catalogued in the past 250 years
$48,500: Estimated cost of cataloguing a species, including paying those pesky scientists
1,200: The number of years it would take to catalogue the rest at this rate (and at a total cost of $364 billion)
I think we need a...
How Apple Is Becoming A Search Engine →
Apple is quietly disintermediating Google in mobile search. Tech writer Dan Frommer says that through its new, voice-controlled mobile “Assistant” feature in iOS 5, Apple could change the way people…
September 2011
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“The phones new security options go beyond simply securing access to the phone,...”
– NFCNews | Fujitsu develops waterproof biometric mobile phones
August 2011
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“The budget crisis will accelerate the move toward cloud services. Governments,...”
– Tight Budget? Look to the ‘Cloud’ - NYTimes.com
July 2011
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June 2011
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“the notion that “solar is too expensive” doesn’t hold up...”
– Solar’s getting cheaper, fast | Grist
May 2011
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