World Population Forecast to Top 7 Billion in 2011. @Karoli Awh I wasn't chosen! You had to sign up not sure if you can still get in or not, might be worth a try. You all enjoyed the trailer , but now the year's biggest blockbuster has arrived at last. iPhone TweetDeck v2.0 is here ! In Hollywood they would call it a "re-imagining" - keep the essence of the original, but bring it bang up to date with a new team, top-class effects and plenty of scope for sequels.
Ditch the camp soundtrack and overacting of Batman and Robin , and replace it with the cool car and new suit of Batman Begins . With the all-new iPhone TweetDeck, we have done just that. Our team took the original iPhone app and distilled the essence of what made it so popular into a series of guiding principles. They then embarked on creating a brand new app from scratch, making use of all the latest technologies and design approaches, but all the while with an eye on those fundamental principles from the original.
After several months of feverish work, locked in the lab at the Batcave for hours on end, a new app was born. Downloading the app iPad users, don't fret, your time will come! Listen to Free Music Online - Internet Radio - Free MP3 Streaming. True/Slant Shutting Down - mediabistro.com: WebNewser. Indisputable Proof That Bears Are The Best (PHOTOS) Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts | Social Media Consulting - Convince & Convert. The Men of Journolist | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment. Somebody needs to say it. The Journolist scandal will not be finished until someone says it.
Who let the dogs out? The website iowntheworld.com is posting pictures of the Men of Journolist, the listserv where “journalists” got together to hammer out talking points to help liberal politicians. The Journolist has been called corrupt. A disgrace. Something that will never be lived down. It’s childish to make fun of someone’s looks, I know. Scanning the pictures of the Men of Journolist, it becomes apparent that Nietzsche had it exactly backwards. Maybe there is some correlation between beauty and conservatism. Facebook To Birthday Pigs: “F*ck You B*tches” NHS reports fall in drug, tobacco and alcohol use among schoolchildren | Society. A more innocent time. Fewer schoolchildren are now drinking, smoking and taking drugs, according to NHS report Fewer schoolchildren are smoking, drinking or taking drugs, according to an NHS report which contradicts the widespread belief that such behaviour is increasingly popular with young people.
The proportion of 11- to 15-year-olds who have taken drugs on at least one occasion has fallen from 29% in 2001 to 22% last year. And the proportion who admit to having ever used alcohol has dropped from 61% in 2003 to 51% in 2009. But the biggest decline has been in smoking. When the study began in 1982 53% of participants said they had smoked at least once, down to 29% last year. The findings were welcomed by doctors, health campaigners and the Department of Health, which said that better education, public health campaigns and action by agencies may be among the factors that explain the drop. A health department spokesman said: "Children in this age group shouldn't really be drinking at all.
Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They’re Two Different Products For A Reason. Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn’t look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display, previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX. (The low price, $139 for the Wi-Fi version, certainly doesn’t hurt.) Immediately following the announcement, I saw something that confused me. For whatever reason, it seems plenty of people are comparing the Kindle to the iPad, almost as if these people want the Kindle to be the iPad. What is the Kindle? You don’t buy it to surf the Web, you don’t buy it to watch movies, and you don’t buy it to play games. No, because the Kindle does one thing, and it does it well: it displays e-books.
It’s a fine device, one of the better consumer electronics items in recent memory. So, the Kindle is an excellent e-book reader. What is the iPad? To be fair, yes, the iPad does much more than merely display e-books. But not everybody is in the market for such a device. Google’s Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.28% How’s this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment? Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.29%, with it closest competitor Yahoo taking up just over 0.8% of market share and Microsoft’s Bing barely touching even half that, according to recent data from StatCounter as relayed by Pingdom. This graph, made by Pingdom, puts it all in perspective: As you can tell from the graph, put together using global visitor stats for more than three million websites, Google’s near-100% piece of the mobile search pie is even a good deal larger than their still impressive share of the overall search engine market.
Note that the red bars represent non-mobile search market share, not a combination of both. As for Yahoo, Bing, and the ‘others’ – good luck taking on Google on that front. The Funniest Notes To Thieves Ever Written (PHOTOS) July 29 - LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY. Evidence Ties Manning to Afghan WikiLeaks Data. The Science Of 'Inception' - Forbes.com. Amazon: E-books Will Overtake Paperbacks by the End of 2011. Cat Proximity. Amazon unveils 3rd-generation Kindle e-book reader. By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY Amazon.com will unveil on Thursday its answer to Apple's iPad and other devices seeking to replace its Kindle as the premiere digital book reader. It's a third-generation Kindle that's lighter, smaller and faster than the current model — and also has a sharper display, longer battery life and twice the storage. Amazon (AMZN) has added Wi-Fi reception for those who want to use a speedy Internet service to download e-books.
The model, which starts shipping on Aug. 27, will be priced at $189, same as the current Kindle. But Amazon hopes to rattle rivals by offering a version that just uses Wi-Fi for wireless connections and that will sell for $139. At these prices, "People are going to buy multiple Kindles for the household," CEO Jeff Bezos told USA TODAY. Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey agrees: "Anyone who said 'I don't want to get (a Kindle) because they're too expensive,' will look at $139, and say, 'It's time to become a digital reader. iPad Owners Are ‘Selfish Elites.’ Critics Are ‘Independent Geeks.’ Discuss. | Epicenter. It’s not exactly official, but should also surprise no one: According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as “selfish elites” while have-not critics are “independent geeks.”
Chart courtesy of MyType Of course the “haves” would probably call the “have nots” “cheap wannabes” to which the “have nots” would retort: “FANBOI!!” Which is why we should stick to the science. Consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm’s conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness. In other words, “selfish elites.” They are six times more likely to be “wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30-50 year olds,” MyType’s Tim Koelkebeck told Wired.com.
Ouch. Apple's Magic Trackpad gets the iFixit teardown treatment, nothing terribly magical found. Well, we knew it wouldn't take very long, and it didn't: iFixit's gotten its hands on Apple's Magic Trackpad and ripped it to shreds. This is one operation they're not shy about calling delicate, folks -- this thing is seriously thin and its components packed in quite lovingly. So what's going on in there?
Well, besides the magical dust, they found a Broadcom BCM2042 chip, which is the same one the Magic Mouse uses for Bluetooth connectivity, and a Broadcom BCM5974 touchscreen controller chip, which also powers the iPhone and iPod touch. There is plenty to be seen in the photos at the source, and there's one more below. Comments. 'Speaker Boehner'? Republicans Sell Access In Hopes Of Winning Back House. House Republicans are attempting to nationalize the fall elections in hopes of winning back control of the chamber, with a new effort to raise money called Boehner for Speaker . House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has a lot at stake in November, and he’s going all-in. Donors giving big bucks or helping to raise at least $100,000 for the National Republican Congressional Committee will get “meetings with Boehner, calls from senior aides with updates on the campaign and ‘VIP access to all events, including roundtables, briefings, breakout discussions and interactive panel discussions,” according to , which obtained some materials Boehner’s office was shopping around for the new campaign.
Check out the documents here and here . Reports : Here’s an image from the new Web site, which includes a link to “boot Nancy”: You can buy a “Boehner for Speaker” mouse pad for $10 or coffee mug for $15. The disclaimer: The Boehner materials also tell his personal story. Watch : The Shock of Unfamiliarity | alexpriest.com.
After storm, Pepco PR man tries social networking to calm customer ire. The crisis control center of Pepco this week is a repurposed conference room, which smells like ambiguous takeout. Anybody who is in charge of anything has spent the past several days around a giant table at the corporation's downtown headquarters, strategizing how to restore electricity to the thousands of homes that lost it during Sunday's storm. A whiteboard keeps a tally of the powerless: 122,749, as of 1 p.m. Tuesday. Throughout the building meander the Blue Shirts, the media specialists who all wear cerulean Pepco button-downs in case they are asked to give interviews.
"Do you need a bottle of water? " "I need a lobotomy. " Tucked away in a nearby cubicle is Andre Francis. He is 25. How much would you say, Andre, that Twitter activity has gone up this week? "I would say," Francis says, "it has gone up ridiculously. " Take, for example, this one Twitter user, who goes by "brad_stonegate.
" "I totally understand your frustration," he finally writes, as PepcoConnect. Arizona Braces for S.B. 1070 - Technorati Politics. If you live near the Tampa Bay area, many are still buzzing about the Rays' Matt Garza's no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers Monday night. In Chicago, the big story is closing arguments in the corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. If you live in Arizona, though, the only story is this Thursday's planned implementation of S.B. 1070, otherwise known as the very controversial, and much praised or maligned depending on who you ask, immigration law. In a nutshell, the law gives police the authority to check the immigration status of those suspected of being in the United States illegally if they are stopped any number of legal reasons, even as simple as a traffic violation such as running a stop sign. No matter where you stand when it comes to S.B. 1070, no one can deny that it has sparked a very emotional and boisterous debate.
It sounds to me like Sheriff Joe isn't playing around, but in all honesty, why should he? Continued on the next page. Storylab. Oldest Twitter User Ivy Bean Dies at 104. Apple - Safari - Safari Extensions Gallery. Finding That Morning Routine | alexpriest.com. Why The Most Interesting Man in the World Moves More Units Than Old Spice Guy. Consider for a moment the manly purr of Old Spice spokesman Isaiah Mustafa's "Hello, Ladies" salutation.
It's seduced the country social media-style: 94 million views on YouTube, 630,0000 Facebook fans, and an estimated 1 billion aggregate impressions in just one week. But wait. It appears consumers may have been too distracted by his glorious swan dives and monocle smiles to remember the actual product he was hawking. Sales of Red Zone body wash have actually declined 7% according to a report by SymphonyIRI. So did Mustafa's unprecedented popularity fail to translate into influence? Unfortunately for The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, there is: The Most Interesting Man in the World. Adding insult to injury, there's no question who would win a staring contest. "The Most Interesting Man is well proven," explains Thompson. I decided to track down The Most Interesting Man in the World and speak with him about viral advertising for our chronicle of the social graph, The Influence Project.
Old Spice Sales Double With YouTube Campaign. You know those YouTube videos with that manly Old Spice guy and his hilarious responses to Twitter fans? Of course you do. So does everybody, it seems, because Old Spice body wash sales have increased 107% in the past month in part thanks to that social media marketing campaign. We already published stats from video analytics company Visible Measures that made it clear that the Old Spice guy was a hugely successful initiative from marketing firm Wieden + Kennedy, achieving millions of viral video views quicker than past hits like Susan Boyle and U.S.
President Barack Obama's election victory speech. The statistic of the 107% sales increase over the past month comes from Nielsen, which also revealed that sales increased 55% over the past three months. Individual products that were slipping in sales saw spikes after actor Isaiah Mustafa showed them off in the TV and Internet video ads. The campaign began with simple TV ads, which then went viral on YouTube. See also: Dave Weigel Slate | Journolist | Dave Weigel. How Microsoft Xbox Uses Twitter to Reduce Support Costs.
For Microsoft’s Xbox support team, there’s no such thing as unwanted messages on Twitter – no matter how vulgar they may be. So why is a $58 billion company spending time listening to off-color tweets? Because “foul-mouthed tweens” just might be the first tip-off of a major service outage. Before any calls or emails come in, the support team can catch a tweet and get technical folks on the task. This article reveals how the Xbox team relies on Twitter to reduce support costs. “When people are passionate and they use that kind of language, a lot of times there’s legitimately something wrong with our service,” says McKenzie Eakin, program manager, Xbox LIVE Service Delivery (also known as @XboxSupport Elite Tweet Fleet Sky Captain). “Our ability to identify and fix emerging issues is so much faster with our ears to the street.”
They must be doing something right; the team recently landed the Guinness World Record for Most Responsive Brand on Twitter. Website Twitter: 30,000 followers Highlights: BP gets wake-up call and $32 billion in spill charges. Dave Weigel Hired by the Washington Post Company's 'Slate' Nissan Leaf gets early review: you might just forget its an eccentric electric car.
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