According to Gartner, Twitter, ebooks and web tv are heading for/into the trough of disillusionment. Web 2.0 and cloud computing will still take 5 years to become mainstream. That's way slower than they predicted a couple of years ago. Proof once again that hype and excitement in the on-line and tech worlds are still very different from the day to day grind of the real world.
Bing jingling. For $500. Some abuse. And a pretty good response.
Data visualization on a very sophisticated level. Scroll or click anywhere on the graphic to drill down on the data. Refine by group by choosing from the top right.
This is a powerful visualization. However, it still requires some serious effort to come to serious conclusions. Without it, you get this: we spend a lot of time eating, sleeping and working (the headline helped). The unemployed don't work as much. 11am is the peak work time. At 5am most people are sleeping. At noon, only 12% of people are eating (that seemed surprising). We spend less than an hour/day socializing (does that include all that time at work?) and at any given time no more than 10% of us are doing it. 5pm is peak travel time with 13% of us out there going somewhere. People 65+ don't spend much time on education.
Actually, oversimplifying doesn't do justice to what's here. Presenting tons of data this way is very impressive. Try it.
"His publisher supplied him with a list of 400 words, ones that the publisher thought children would be learning in school. His publisher told him to cut the list in half and to try and write an interesting enough book for children. Nine months later Dr. Seuss finished The Cat In The Hat, which used 223 words from the list plus 13 words that did not appear on the list.
The story is 1626 words in length and uses a vocabulary of only 236 distinct words, of which 54 occur once and 33 twice. Only a single word – another – has three syllables, while 14 have two and the remaining 221 are monosyllabic. The longest words are something and playthings." Wickipedia
micropayments aren't new (or very popular). and it seems hard to believe that 'progress' will lead to paying for much internet content. but...the car is rolling (premium twitter?)...and lot's of players have a vested interest in seeing it happen. inevitable?
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