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Does it make sense for an ad agency to launch an incubator for tech start-ups? You could (and many no doubt would) say that this was merely a distraction from the day job.
Agencies As Incubators - Only Dead Fish
The Top Ten Things We Can't Believe Eric Schmidt Ever Said
Eric—it's been great. We're going to miss you as CEO of one of history's most important and influential companies.
UPDATE: The server has been returned.
The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid - Instapaper Blog
Jeff Jarvis a tout pour plaire aux journalistes. Sa taille d’acteur américain, sa disponibilité permanente, son sens de la formule, complètent avantageusement généreux sourires et auto-dérision permanente d’où ne sont pas exclues les contradictions avouées. Il présentait hier à La Cantine son dernier ouvrage Nu sur le web devant une assemblée jeune et pleine de respect pour un auteur venu développer une vision résolument positive et optimiste des évolutions du web, et s’est attellé avec passion à démontrer que les individus, entreprises, organisations et États ont tout à gagner à une généralisation de la transparence.
Le baratin de Jeff Jarvis | Digital-In
The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were "internet addicts", and many of these were depressed.
Internet addiction' linked to depression
Your Brain on Computers - Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime - NYTimes.com
Just another day at the gym. As Ms. Bates multitasks, she is also churning her legs in fast loops on an elliptical machine in a downtown fitness center.
When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched.
How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
Carpe Diem We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble.
New Rules for the New Internet Bubble
Google launched its most ambitious social-networking effort yet, broadening a battle with Facebook to grab the attention of Web users and advertising dollars.
Google Takes On Facebook With New Social Network Google+ - WSJ.com
Firstly, 74% of respondents are using the name that most people know them by .
Suspended Google+ accounts
For a company that gave itself a traditionally mis-spelt web-style pseudonym to make it stand out online, Google is handling the issue of monikers rather badly when it comes to Google+ .
Google+ pseudonym wars escalate – is it the new being 'banned from the ranch'?
Augmented reality leader Layar just took its system to a whole new level by installing a real-world object recognition protocol that's a little like Google's Goggles. In one swoop it may have turned AR apps from intriguing, inspiring, and occasionally useful toys into serious tools for information discovery and, of course, advertising. Let's call it hacking the real world.
Augmented Reality Kills The QR Code Star | Fast Company
It took my husband and me eight months to conceive our first child. Much of that time was passed in bored agitation, like a long wait at a Verizon Wireless store.