Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! Tomorrow, Saturday, January 15, Wikipedia will turn 10 years old. Earlier this week, founder Jimmy Wales spoke to NPR reflecting on the current state of Wikipedia after its first 10 years. Take a listen (click on Wikipedia icon below to launch audio) (more…)
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Look who’s 10 Years Old- Wikipedia!
Posted in Globalization, Internet, tagged Asia Online, Kirti Vashee, Thai Wikipedia Translation project, Thailand, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Turns 10 years old on January 14, 2011| 2 Comments »
100 Things to Watch for in 2011
Posted in Education, Entertainment, Internet, Lifestyle, Pop Culture, Technology, tagged Internet Trends in 2011, JWT Intelligence 100 Things to Watch in 2011, Technology Trends in 2011, Tube Free Toilet Paper on January 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
JWT Intelligence has put together a fascinating list of 100 Things to Watch in 2011. Spanning technology, fashion, pop culture, sports, film, environment, it is a pretty comprehensive list, but slanted towards technology related trends. Slide 9 in the Slideshare presentation below lists all 100 items and each subsequent slide provides specific commentary on each individual item. (more…)
My Blog: 2010 statistical year in review
Posted in Blogging, Internet, tagged 2010 Year in Review for Reading Writing Reflecting Blog, PC Worlds Top 100 Products of 2010, The Power of the Indian Head Wiggle, Wordpress analysis for Reading Writing Reflecting on January 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
WordPress.com (specifically, their stats helper monkeys as they call them) created a nice statistical summary of 2010 for this blog (and in fact for all wordpress blogs– a really nice year end surprise from them– much appreciated). Below is their analysis and comments. More of my commentary at the end of the summary.
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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: (more…)
Reading List from Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers
Posted in Book Review, Economics, India, Internet, Public Policy, Technology, tagged Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers, Reading List from Top 100 Global Thinkers, Recommended books by Top 100 Global Thinkers on December 31, 2010| 3 Comments »
In my previous post, I mentioned the recommended book list from Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010. Here’s a slide show version the book list on Foreign Policy’s site. For a quick glance at Top 20 books, here’s the full list in one spot with the book description offered by Foreign Policy magazine.
- Fault Lines by Raghuram Rajan– Rajan’s look at the fissures that brought about the global financial crisis — and which are still at work today.
- Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin– As the Wall Street crisis went global, Sorkin updated his account of the crisis’s ground zero to include more recent events. (more…)
PC World’s Top 100 Products of 2010
Posted in Consumer Products, Internet, Technology, tagged 2010 Technology Innovation, Apple vs Google 2010, Best Tech Products 2010, Google Android 2.2, PC World Top 100 Products on November 30, 2010| 29 Comments »
Last month, PC World released its Top 100 technology products of 2010. This is a good reference list to see where innovation is occuring, areas for upcoming marketplace disruption, see which companies have the best outlooks, and to wet the appetite for any technology enthusiasts for their next set of gadget purchases.
The top 100 by product category (total and % of Top 100) breaks down as shown below between Tablets, PC and E-Readers, HDTV and Home Theatres, Mobile Phones and Apps, Digital Cameras and Printers, Productivity Software, Storage and Useful Gadgets, and Web Services and Games.
The 31 Most Innovative Startups- World Economic Forum’s 2011 Technology Pioneer winners
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, tagged Aster Data, Davos, Foursquare, Medicine in Need, Opower, Spotify, Technology Pioneer Programme, World Economic Forum on September 11, 2010| 1 Comment »
This week the World Economic Forum, an independent, not-for-profit international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Per their website, the Technology Pioneers programme is the World Economic Forum’s way of identifying and integrating those companies – normally in a start-up phase or in their first rounds of financing – from around the world that are involved in the design and development of new technologies. The innovations of these companies reflect society’s attempts to harness, adapt and use technology to change and improve the way business and society operate.
Each year, approximately 30 are recognized as Technology Pioneers in three categories: (more…)
Mobile Applications- 157 fascinating stats about the Past, Present, and the Future
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Technology, tagged 157 Mobile Application stats, Android App Store, Data about App Stores, Iphone App Store Data, Mobile Applications, Mobile Entertainment on August 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
As I’ve written in this blog a few times, like many, I’ve become an addicted smart phone user. In this post, I laid out my iPhone App storage usage patterns vs the average usage patterns, and raised some questions about the future growth and characteristics of users of these platforms.
Now, I’ve come across some even more robust external data from the site Mobile Entertainment (ME) sets analyzing App usage of different smartphones which provide some further insight into the questions I raised in that previous post. Embedded below is a presentation with 157 Mobile App stats that ME has released and says we should all know about. Some fascinating data here. (more…)
Yahoo!, Twitter, and the World Cup
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Sports, tagged #fifa, #worldcup, #worldcup2010, Grant Wahl and Twitter, Twitter's impact to the World Cup, Working at Yahoo!, World Cup 2010, World Cup and Twitter, World Cup and Yahoo! on June 12, 2010| 2 Comments »
Yesterday, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa began.
As I write this, I’m eagerly awaiting the US-England match later this morning. Some are calling the match the most eagerly awaited match in the history of US soccer. For me, the World Cup spectacle held every 4 years is one of the best of all sporting events; it combines fantastic skill, unbelievable passion and energy from the fans of the teams, globalization and a common them that people around the world can rally around, tradition and history that fans cling to, and opportunity for late game drama. The 2002 run for the US team was one of my favorite sporting moments of the 2000’s, as I documented here.
As I think back to the last World Cup in 2006 and the current one in 2010, I also think about two Internet and social media companies—Yahoo! and Twitter. (more…)
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