Can Facebook become the Web?
By Jessi Hempel, senior writer FORTUNE -- Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today at f8, Facebook's sort-of-annual developers' conference, to the screaming affirmation of thousands of laptop-toting fanboys (and also a few women) and a live-streaming audience that surpassed 100,000. What began a few years back as a fringe festival for legit hackers has become ground zero for anyone interested in helping build the infrastructure of tomorrow's Internet. What's changed? A year and a half after the last f8, where the "like" button debuted, Facebook has increased its users 40% to 750 million and eMarketer estimates it will double revenues to an estimated $4.27 billion. Zuckerberg has become the Robert Moses of his generation, building out not just an operating system for the web or a way to organize it -- but the web itself. "Imagine expressing the story of your life," Zuckerberg explained. But it's not a given that the web belongs to Facebook.
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9 Laws of Consumer Affinity in the Digital Age
Brian Solis is principal of Altimeter Group, a leading research-based advisory firm. Brian is also the author of The End of Business as Usual, which explains how to tap into today's biggest digital trends. Follow him @briansolis. Today, people have uninhibited access to platforms, channels and tools to express themselves at will. On a basic level, consumers need to feel that they are being heard, that action is taken on their behalf. The reality is that society and technology evolve faster than a brand’s ability to adapt. Today's biggest trends — the mobile web, social media, gamification, real-time — are changing the landscape for business, government, media and consumerism. Although this is the end of business as usual, it’s also the beginning of a new era of visibility. Connected consumers discover and communicate differently than their traditional consumer counterparts. To attract consumers and earn their loyalty, businesses must follow the “Laws of Attraction and Affinity.” 1.
EducTice : Education, technologies de l'information et de la communication
by admin — last modified 2017-11-22 10:08 The very fast evolution of working and learning environments deeply questions school and society. The development of shared digital fluency is presented as a political, social and educational objective. This results in keen institutional demands for a development of the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) by the pupils, the teachers and by all the actors of education. The need for understanding the complexity of ICT integration for educational purposes gave rise, at the national and international levels, to a very significant development of research interested in the design of computer-based environments and in the inquiry into the usage and the learning. EducTice team of IFE (French Institute for Education) contributes to advancing this research. EducTice onTwitter : @EducTice
6 Great Twitter Quiz and Polling Apps
GambleAware is set to shut down in a phased closure following the introduction of new gambling legislation in the United Kingdom. The charity has been in operation since 2002, working to raise awareness of gambling-related harm and to provide essential support to those in need. The organization confirmed the end of its tenure in an official statement, which will see it succeeded by the appointment of three new commissioners, as well as the introduction of a new statutory levy to fund their work. Commissioners will be tasked to carry out work and development on research into gambling harm, prevention, and treatment measures. All of this comes after the long-awaited gambling reform policy was presented in May. In its statement, the body indicated “the work historically delivered by GambleAware will now transition to the UK government and new commissioners across England, Scotland and Wales”, with the charity’s closure expected by March next year. Image credit: GambleAware
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Why Self-Publishers Should Consider Using Lightning Source
Self-publishing services are on the rise — a dramatic one. And because of this, technologies are evolving weekly, and advertising is flowing. If you’re using a free subsidy press and e-book distributor to self-publish and sell your book, one service to get familiar with is Lightning Source. Lightning Source has free book cover templates, spine-width calculators, and bar codes, and visibly higher-quality printing. Book Cover Templates Maybe you’ve hired a professional designer who is using InDesign or Quark to lay out your book. Weight and Spine Width Calculator But … the spine width in your book cover template only works if you’re printing with LSI because of differences in paper weight among all the various printers. Click here to read the whole series Bar Codes A bar code costs about $25, but your LSI book cover template will include a bar code for free! Print Quality The print quality from LSI is undeniably better than that of CreateSpace, Lulu and other subsidy POD services. Distribution
16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend
(It’s actually up to 18 now.) A number of designers have attempted to design a visual, infographic resume, and while this is certainly not mainstream (yet), it is gaining some momentum. I wanted to highlight some of the great examples available on the web, but the line between an infographic resume and a designer resume is tough not to cross. Michael Anderson’s 2008 concept on an infographic resume (above) is probably the most well known. I decided to update my résumé with a different perspective on the typical time-line theme. I do agree it’s more of an overview and less of a project-experience-oriented resume, but I’ve been thinking a lot about (and looking at) resumes lately, and I feel like what you really need to do is grasp someone’s attention first. Also using the subway map metaphor, Kevin Wang plots out his activities during his school years. Curriculum Vitae, by Uito2 in 2007, shows his experience level in different software packages as progress bars. Which ones do you like?
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The Scale of the Universe, Five Ways
by Maria Popova What coffee beans, dinosaurs and lakeside picnics have to do with Isaac Asimov and formalized figments. Since yesterday was 10.10.10, we’ve decided to celebrate this cosmic alignment of numerical symmetry by illuminating the measurements of magnitude. What better way to celebrate 10.10.10 than with Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic Powers of Ten film, an adventure in magnitudes circa 1977? The film opens with a lakeside picnic in Chicago and branches outward into the universe, jumping to a vantage point ten times further out every ten seconds until our galaxy becomes a mere speck of light among many, then speed-zooms back to Earth, magnifying the view tenfold every ten seconds. Powers Of Ten is among our absolute favorites, a beautiful intersection of design heritage and scientific curiosity — we highly recommend adding the DVD, companion flipbook and breathtaking photography hardcover to your collection of cross-disciplinary cultural trophies. Share on Tumblr
