From the video, in 2011: Whopping increase in app creation and downloads: – ONE BILLION apps downloaded worldwide each month – $3 BILLION paid by Apple alone to independent apps developers Surge in use of social media mobile platforms: – 166 PERCENT increase in Facebook Mobile users in the first half of 2011 alone – 103 MILLION wireless tweets were posted each day – ONE BILLION Foursquare check-ins – 26 PHOTOS were made “hipstery” on Instagram every second Ongoing explosion in data traffic: – EIGHT TRILLION texts were sent – up 1.1 trillion from last year – 1800 PERCENT increase in traffic on U.S. networks predicted in just four years Unprecedented competition and choice: – MORE SMARTPHONES purchased than PCs in the United States – MORE WIRELESS SUBSCRIPTIONS than people – TWO BILLION networked mobile devices by 2015 – 4G SERVICES being rolled out by at least six carriers in 2011 alone Massive potential for job creation and economic growth: – 2.4 MILLION American jobs supported by wireless – $27.5 BILLION investment in U.S. mobile networks by wireless carriers – 500,000 JOBS & $400 BILLION to U.S. GDP with additional 500 MHz of additional spectrum
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2011: The Year Mobile Took Over The World
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March Madness: Market Edition
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/VYDD2f0jEaA/468
CNN can only turn a blind eye for so long. Thousands of New Yorkers protesting against budget cuts on the streets of the Big Apple. They marched to Wall Street demanding the government tax the rich instead of cutting social programs. Are we witnessing in Wisconsin and New York the beginings of a domestic democratic domino effect in sync with the one flipping the script across the middle east?
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Most Courageous, Awe-Inspiring, Terrifying Tsunami Footage
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The courage to stand and keep filming this footage is virtually super human. The power of nature utterly awe-inspiring and the devastation wrought is terrifying beyond measure.
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Facebook Comments Expose a Flaw in Zuckerberg’s Vision
http://technologizer.com/2011/03/07/facebook-comments-zuckerberg-vision/
“You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly … Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.“ -Mark Zuckerberg, as quoted in The Facebook Effect It is with Zuckerberg’s remarks in mind that I read a couple of conversations over the weekend about Facebook’s new comment system for blogs and other websites. Although many websites — including this one — allow commenters to sign in with Facebook, some high-profile sites, such as TechCrunch, have switched over the new system, which is run entirely by the social network. This requires commenters to write under their real names, provided they aren’t using an alias on Facebook, and by default displays the comment on the user’s wall and friends’ news feeds. Not surprisingly, the switch had a chilling effect on TechCrunch, according to MG Siegler. Although the venomous remarks that once dominated the site’s peanut gallery are gone, in their place are “comments that gush about the subject of the article in an overly sycophantic way,” Siegler writes. There are also fewer comments overall.
The calming of TechCrunch’s comment section may seem like a net positive, but entrepreneur Steve Cheney sees it as troublesome. Facebook comments are a threat to authenticity, he argues, because people bottle up when their real-world connections are watching. “The problem with tying internet-wide identity to a broadcast network like Facebook is that people don’t want one normalized identity, either in real life, or virtually,” Cheney writes. The proof is in TechCrunch’s comment section after the switch. It may be more hospitable, but it’s also less interesting. And the folks who aren’t commenting at all are probably the ones who refuse to open their Facebook identities to the world. They’ve been shut out. All of this puts a dent in Zuckerberg’s vision of having a single identity for every aspect of your life. Maybe it’s something the world will eventually embrace, but with mixed results on a leading tech blog — which should be at the vanguard of Internet trends — I’m not holding my breath. (And just to be clear, my intent isn’t to slag on TechCrunch or extol some other system. I have no say in how Technologizer handles its comments.)
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Add Chat and Drag & Drop Sharing to Your Site With Meebo Bar
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Mashable/~3/52cbnFoUIHQ/
We know that some of you have been eyeing the special Meebo features we launched earlier this year on Mashable with envy. Who doesn’t want to add Meebo Chat, drag and drop content sharing, and extra analytics to their site? Today, Meebo is handing out an early Christmas present — Meebo Bar — and gifting all those extra special features to anyone that wants them on their own sites.
The beta version of Meebo Bar comes jam-packed with goodies you can customize to spruce up your site, encourage sharing and enable visitor-to-visitor instant messaging. The Meebo Bar even comes with access to a site dashboard that includes tracking share data by clicks, type and intention.
As you can tell from our site, the Meebo Bar sits at the bottom of the page. You can select which buttons and widgets you want to appear to enable extra items like Twitter Search, Digg and Stumbleupon buttons or buttons that show a quick view of your Facebook (Fan Page), Flickr, YouTube and Lala accounts. Of course, full Meebo Chat functionality is also baked right into the bar as well.
Drag-and-drop content sharing is also pretty nifty, so just as on Mashable, your readers can grab images and videos and drag them to share with their friends on Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo or via e-mail and IM. Perhaps the best part is the ease of installation. Meebo will walk you through the process, and for self-hosted WordPress blogs, it’s as simple as installing a plug-in, picking your buttons from the Meebo Bar dashboard and customizing them in WordPress if you so choose. For unsupported blog platforms, you can add pre-generated snippets of HTML to your site’s code. This is a welcome development for publishers everywhere, as the Meebo Bar offers a free and simple way to keep your site visitors more engaged. Reviews: Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Mashable, Meebo, StumbleUpon, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube Tags: meebo, meebo bar, social media
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This *is* the droid you’re looking for
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/dHWNK2kNzrA/
Surely iDon’t have all the answers, but if the battery life can last through a full average day’s use, Motorola & Verizon may have the first real iPhone competitor.
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Health Care Overhaul Summarized Via MASSIVE PIG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z_RVl-ph3s&feature=youtube_gdata
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Jeff Rubin at the World Affairs Council 6 9 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RkVJF5NIdg&feature=youtube_gdata
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Change We Can Believe In - Matt Miller on the Tyranny of Dead Ideas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1k_bw4sReM&feature=youtube_gdata
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Chomsky on the economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTtPYM8RSDE&feature=youtube_gdata
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