I understood the value of Highlight immediately. Within hours of downloading the app, I walked into a cafe and ran into someone I had met before, but only in passing. Who was he, I wondered while talking to him in vague generalities so as not to give away my poor recognition skills. It was a pretty pointless conversation that perhaps could have been a great one if I could have just remembered who the hell he was.
I sat down and pulled out my phone which had been buzzing since I entered the cafe. There, right in front of me in the form of a push notification was the name of the guy I was just talking to. I swiped it and got taken into Highlight where I could see his picture, where he worked, and our common friends. Brilliant.
Ideally, of course, I’d check the notification before I talked to the guy. But that’s my own fault. I was new to this. You get the idea. And this is just one potential value of Highlight.
Google+ 最早達到,但卻快死了… XDDD
Caterina Fake cited this timeline to 50M users on why the worst thing a social network can do is force growth. “My perspective is it takes a while to grow this stuff,” she said to Liz Gannes in AllThingsD. “It takes time for the culture to grow. You need time to develop antibodies to spammers and trolls.” Adding user registrations at such a fast pace doesn’t leave enough time for a dedicated, engaged user community to organically create itself and establish norms, she argued.
Over the past few months, we’ve been working closely with KDDI to launch the Android version of PicCollage! We are excited to announce that it is now live through KDDI’s “au Smart Pass” and fully integrated with their au Cloud service. KDDI is the second-largest telecom carrier in Japan,…
iPhone and Android Growing Like Crazy. Downloads up 83%, Phone Activation up 142% from Last Year
Full Story: Singularity Hub
Use of microblogging in China quadrupled in 2011 compared with the previous year, with nearly half of all Chinese Internet users now taking to the near-instant service to gather news and spread views - government Internet think tank
Full Story: Yahoo News
Study: Kids Think Technology is Fundamentally Human
Taking a deeper look at the stories the children created, the survey found that unlike many adults who see technology as separate from humanness, it seems that “kids tend to think of technology as fundamentally human: as a social companion that can entertain, motivate, and empower them in various contexts.”
While this dreamy perspective is partially the result of childhood imagination (something kids from any generation can have), it is clear that kids are eagerly anticipating new ways that tech can enhance their lives.
Sure, it’s easy to dismiss how children look forward to the future and dream without inhibitions, but that’s exactly what some of the greatest innovators of our time have done. Children don’t just react, they imagine, and that’s why this study can’t be overlooked.
It is easy to both draw these implications too far as well as dismiss them for the reason that there are many examples of the opposite. I think there really are deep implications of this for the future and that the rate of accelerating technology development these young generations are grown up in will have profound implications for how these young people are shaped.
A question asked by many, but for now only a few shared their thoughts on Quora. Truth is there are many ways to defining a game changer technology: disruptive, innovative, impacting existing solution providers in the same market or in related markets, etc. Amazon DynamoDB could be all or none…
Understanding Social: An Infographic of a New Business Idea
Social business is a loaded term, and an increasingly popular one. Do you really know what it means? Do you know where the core value of a social business lies? The infographic below will help.
Full Story: Forbes
Internet advertising spending in China increased by more than 50 percent last year to finally overtake print media ad spending, according to data from iResearch, cited by the China Internet Watch blog. (via Research: Internet ad spend up 57% to overtake print media in China - The Next Web)
