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"The report suggests the average American consumes 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information in a single day. (Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is only 460,000 words long.) This doesn’t mean we read 100,000 words a day — it means that 100,000 words cross our eyes and ears in a single 24-hour period. That information comes through various channels, including the television, radio, the Web, text messages and video games. ... The study suggests that, on average, most Americans consume 11.8 hours of information a day. Most of this time is spent in front of some sort of screen watching TV-related content, taking up a little over four and a half hours of our daily information consumption. Then there’s the computer, which we interact with for about two hours a day. There’s also the phone, radio, music, and print. Most of these experiences happen simultaneously, too, such as talking on the phone while checking our e-mail, or instant messaging while watching TV." - pg holmlov from Mento

"In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video). Information at work is not included." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Sherry Turkle, a professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has studied interaction with technology for more than two decades. Unlike with computers, Professor Turkle said, consumers have a deeply personal connection to their cellphones, where they keep contact lists and family photos. “They carry them in their pockets,” she said, “next to their skin.” One woman Professor Turkle spoke to for a study was so grief-stricken after she had misplaced her cellphone that she described the loss as a death. “People feel it is an extension of their body and mind,” the professor said, but, she added: “Like Peter Pan, we do not see our electronic shadow until it is pointed out to us. We assume it is not there.” Proving adultery is not the only value of a text message to a divorce lawyer. Last year Mr. Karpf, the lawyer from Miami, represented a husband whose wife was seeking sole custody of their child. The wife claimed the husband had left her and the child. He... more... - pg holmlov from Mento

“If you want people to branch out in new directions, then it’s important to provide for their long-term horizons, to give them time to experiment and potentially fail,” says Pierre Azoulay, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and an author of the study. “The researcher has to believe that short-term failure will not be punished.” ... "The researchers believe their evidence shows it is possible to manage lab work in a way that increases the chances that scientists will produce breakthrough findings, not just incremental advances within an established paradigm. “You can generate innovation, but the details matter,” says Azoulay. “What you want to provide incentives for is future performance, not performance today.”" - pg holmlov from Mento

"Not content with launching the first TV with a built-in SD-card based video recorder back in August, the company is now launching the first TV that can connect to streaming services such as YouTube and iPlayer. The new television, available at first with 26-inch and 32-inch screens, comes with an ethernet port, but is also built to work with an additional wireless dongle. Its operating system, developed by another British company, allows it to connect to services that previously required a PC. It can also stream images from a user's PC." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Far from being a cure for the industry's woes, substituting streams for downloads wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy and slows innovation. ... It's this last part that has the technologically naive excited. They assume that because a downloading client can be designed in such a way that it doesn't save the file, no "copy" is being made. They assume that this is the technical equivalent of "showing" someone a movie instead of "giving them a copy" of it. But the reason some download clients discards the bits is because the programmer chose not to save them. Designing a competing client that doesn't throw away the bits – one that "makes a copy" – is trivial. All streaming involves making a copy, and saving the copy just isn't hard." - pg holmlov from Mento

"FotoFlexer – FotoFlexer is one of most advanced online image editors you will find on the internet. FotoFlexer allows you to add several effects, decorate images, animations and more in a easy to use way. You can also easily edit images from sites like Photobucket, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and other sites. SplashUp – SplashUp previously known as Fauxto, is another great editor which is also closest Photoshop clone on the web. You can work with multiple layers just like Photoshop along with the other image editing features." - pg holmlov from Mento

"On Oct. 9, Mr. Obama and his team reviewed General McChrystal's troop proposals for the first time. Some in the White House were surprised by the numbers, assuming there would be a middle ground between 10,000 and 40,000. "Why wasn't there a 25 number?" one senior administration official asked in an interview. He then answered his own question: "It would have been too tempting." ... Retail stores have long manipulated this bias, as they constantly present consumers with deliberately mediocre and expensive options, just so other options seem more reasonable. (The easiest way to make a $50 T-shirt seem like a good deal is to surround it with $100 T-shirts.) When it comes to decision-making, context is everything. The point is that most of us are natural compromisers, eager to find a middle-way." - pg holmlov from Mento

"The researchers found that, even after only a five second interruption, people took longer than normal to complete the next step in the task they were working on. Dr Hodgetts said: "The interruption breaks our cognitive focus on the task in hand, so we have to work out where we were up to and what we were planning to do next before we can resume the task at our original speed." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Today Google releases a new search-by-picture Android application called Google Goggles. You point your cameraphone at a product, landmark, logo, book or DVD, business card, or storefront, take a photo, and Goggles returns search results related to that photo. While I love the idea of the app, in practice Goggles is pretty slow to analyze a photo and return results, at least on my G1–and the results are hit-or-miss." - pg holmlov from Mento

"“We went through the whole payments process and worked on designing a brand-new (person-to-person) payment system,” said Dorsey in a conversation earlier today. The San Francisco-based startup today came out of stealth with a tweet by Dorsey. ... “We don’t store any information on the devices,” Dorsey said. And because this tiny white reader, which is small enough to hook up on a keychain, uses the headphone jack, Square can work with any device: Android, BlackBerry, Symbian Phones and even computers. “As long as we have software on that device, our reader works,” said Dorsey. Right now, they only have software for the iPhone & iPod touch. I have seen Square working at Dorsey’s café, Sightglass (my new favorite in San Francisco), and it works as advertised" - pg holmlov from Mento

"Nedladdningar "tar inte slut" enligt någon naturlag. En artikel på Wikipedia tar inte slut efter att den lästs 1 miljon gånger. Man kan förstås själv sätta en gräns för hur många gånger ett verk får laddas ned på det där viset. Det vill säga i någon bemärkelse kan kanske nedladdningarna "ta slut", även om det låter ganska dumt. Och skälen kan möjligen vara goda eller förståeliga. Men verket tar definitivt inte slut." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Sit next to your audience, listen to them, and give them what they want and need - whether it's yours or not. This is the winning model of a new media company, Amazon. ... It's the leaders' job to focus it on problem solving. By the way, a good indication of an organization's culture, is the leaders' ability to delegate work - including decisions. ... Your simple checklist •be helpful •help people connect to the right resources •become a trusted advisor Nobody cares about your product. That's not as exciting as what developers can do with it." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Tryck på topbaren (klockan) för att gå tillbaka till toppen... Dubbelklicka på hemknappen för att få upp iPod kontrollen... Lägga favoriter på hemskärmen... Dubbelklicka och trippelklicka på headsetknappen för att byta låt... Dubbeltappa för att zooma in och ut" - pg holmlov from Mento

"Well they finally did it. Someone made the ultimate television listings freeware and called it TVTrigger. So what makes it special? Not only does it feature all the main TV shows in a very easy to use categorised catalogue, but the information is exactly what you need to make an informed decision about whether to watch something or not. Ratings, description, episode listings, trailer and even the theme tune is immediately accessible from one show page. There are also direct links to review sites like TVRage.com and http://sharetv.org/ to add more detail if you need it. But the real sauce comes with the integrated BitTorrent client and the services built around it. Using the show listings themselves or via a very nice BitTorrent meta search engine, you can select individual shows or seasons to download, set up automatic downloads of favourites so you never miss an episode, and buy the DVD from Amazon directly from the page if you want all the extra goodies for your collection." - pg holmlov from Mento

"“If you disrupt the consumer experience, you’re in trouble,” warns Mike Kelley, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Stephen B. Burke, the chief operating officer of Comcast, recently called streaming “the biggest social movement I’ve ever seen.” “Online video consumption is off the charts,” he said at an industry conference." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Dunbar came away from his in vivo studies with an unsettling insight: Science is a deeply frustrating pursuit. Although the researchers were all using established techniques, more than 50 percent of their data was unexpected. (In some labs, the figure exceeded 75 percent.) "The scientists had these elaborate theories about what was supposed to happen," Dunbar says. "But the results kept contradicting their theories. It wasn't uncommon for someone to spend a month on a project and then just discard all their data, because the data didn't make sense." Perhaps they hoped to see a specific protein but it wasn't there; or maybe their DNA sample showed the presence of an aberrant gene. The details always changed, but the story remained the same: The scientists were looking for X, but they found Y." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Austen wrote more than 3,000 letters, many to her sister Cassandra. They corresponded constantly, starting new letters to each other the minute they finished the last one and sharing the minutia of their lives. From reading Austen's novels, I'd always assumed that people in her era spent a long time waiting for the mail. But the show mentions that during Austen's life, mail in London and environs was delivered six times a day. Sometimes, a letter sent in the morning was delivered the same evening. Which makes snail mail sound a lot more like email or twitttering." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Har du någon gång gått runt på stan och funderat över vad det skulle kosta att bo… där borta? Har du en iPhone eller en Android-telefon så är det från och med nu enkelt att få svar. Med hjälp av Boolis lager till programmet Layar så kan du få en äkta “Augmented Reality“-känsla när det gäller bostäder till salu." - pg holmlov from Mento

On Discipline: Ernest Hemingway offered two bits of advice that have improved my productivity since I was fifteen years old. He recommended quitting each day before you were finished – right in the middle of a sentence if necessary – so you know exactly where to start the next day. Brilliant. And of course, when you do get stuck and find yourself staring at the page/screen, just write one true sentence. The truest sentence you know. On Inspiration: Ray Bradbury offered some advice that always helps me get started on a new project: “Leap off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.” - pg holmlov from Mento

"Mobile voice service revenues are on a trajectory to reach their peak in 2010, after which they are likely to start declining, according to the latest market study by ABI Research. Vice-president for forecasting Jake Saunders comments, "Mobile voice has had a meteoric rise since digital cellular networks such as GSM were deployed in 1992. We forecast annual mobile voice revenues to reach $580 billion in 2010. From 2011 on, rising subscriber saturation will increasingly erode mobile voice revenues, not just in developed markets but also in a number of emerging markets." By 2014, mobile voice revenues will have contracted by 9.6 percent." - pg holmlov from Mento

"IKEA is releasing its ever popular catalogue as an iPhone app. You’ll be able to browse frequently updated versions of the catalogue from the comfort of your bed, toilet seat, office, dinner table or wherever else you might use your iPhone." - pg holmlov from Mento

"There will be 2.5 billion connected data-centric devices in use worldwide by 2014, but more than half will not be mobile phones, and many will not be sold by carriers, according to new research from ABI Research. These devices, including laptops, netbooks, eReaders, portable navigation devices (PNDs), mobile media players, mobile gaming devices and digital cameras, will make up 1.5 billion of the wirelessly connected devices on the market in 2014. This non-handset category of devices will blur the service provider line even further, giving wireless operators a run for their money, according to senior analyst Mark Beccue." - pg holmlov from Mento

"When you look at all the studies together, there are no reliable sex differences in word processing or language-related brain activity. Men and women did not differ in how their brains processed language. I came across this study from a fantastic talk by neuroscientist Lise Eliot, author of the book Pink Brain, Blue Brain that tackles many of the sex difference stereotypes. She notes how an initial study, published in Nature in 1995, did find results in line with the common myth, but that these results were not replicated." - pg holmlov from Mento

"A 33-year-old photographer has become an online sensation with pictures of her daily life at a Vienna zoo enthralling thousands of fans. But Nonja is no ordinary snapper - she is an orangutan." - pg holmlov from Mento

"Först är Splicd. Om man trivialiserar det så hackar det upp en Yotube video. Du kan välja vilken den du själv vill hacka upp och just den biten du hackar fram ur videon, blir också flyttbar. Den får alltså en egen url och du kan skicka precis det där skämtet och slippa allt jidder runtomkring." - pg holmlov from Mento