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Apparently The Internet Is A Complete Waste Of Time
Dec 2nd
And here we all thought we were changing the world and creating The Future. 74% of online adults say they use the Web for no reason whatsoever. The Internet is just there, dangling over our heads like a mobile full of planets and kitties and smiley faces, and we’re just staring up at it from our cribs like a bunch of little babies.
At least, that’s what this Pew Internet study is getting at, I think. It gives a bunch of different numbers, really. They range from 53%-ish to 81%-ish. It’s pretty hard to nail down. Anyway, various kinds of people use the Internet for various kinds of things, including nothing. Here are some charts and graphs to look at.
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So, let’s see here. In a typical day, it looks like half of The Millennials in the U.S. go online just, you know, cuz. There’s a line there for all adults, but it’s blotchy and dotted and doesn’t go all the way to the end, so you can’t really tell what that stat is. It’s okay, though. There’s another chart in here.
Yeah, so I guess what’s different about this one is that the one up there says “on a typical day,” and this one doesn’t. It’s impossible to tell from the sentences in this blog post, which all kind of seem like the same sentence rewritten a bunch of different ways. Or am I having a stroke?
Well anyway, these lines look similar, but not as steep as the other ones, meaning that a bigger proportion of grownups use the Web for no reason “in a typical day” than they do… um… at all.
So, there ya go! Conclusions! The Pew Internet post contains lots of conclusions, like the fact that people have more computers and faster Internet connections, which contributes to the ability to use the Internet, so that’s fascinating.
Then it talks about how “the internet has become a competitor to all kinds of other leisure activities,” although it clarifies that “the competition is fuzzy.”
And that’s about it. Do you feel informed? I don’t. This report sucked. So why the hell is it on Techmeme?
See also, The Big Secret About Cats On The Internet.
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Op-Ed: Why National Unfriend Day Is A Complete Waste of Time
Nov 17th
Today is National Unfriend Day, a day for Facebook users to fess up to their social networking habits. There are two things you can do today: Unfriend many of your Facebook friends and use Facebook as an actual, completely manageable social network, or accept the many virtual friends that your Facebook network has to offer you.
Once upon a time, friends were people you saw often, maybe even every day. You had a small group of friends with whom you shared meaningful, in-person experiences, spoke with face-to-face and–gasp!–talked on the phone with. You didn’t only text or tweet or post on their Facebook walls, you actually talked to them. Those were the good old days, right?
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Ah yes, I remember real people. I didn’t know them by their Facebook profile pictures or Twitter handles. I didn’t wonder if their were secretly artificial intelligence robots. I didn’t look for them on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. And I certainly didn’t think about what it would be like to meet them, or if they were different online than they were in-person.
Dunbar’s number refers to the number of people one “knows and keeps social contact with,” according to WIkipedia. That number is usually between 100 and 230, but I’ve heard people say 140 or 150. If you have more than 150 Facebook friends, you’ve probably surpassed the actual number of manageable social relationships.
In Facebook’s defense, it did launch smart lists this past September, which helps you discover who you interact with the most (because you may not already know, right?). Then it organizes those contacts by dropping them into segmented lists like close friends, acquaintances, family, school, city, past job, current job, community interest, you get the idea.
Facebook is, of course, just trying to convince you to stay on the network by giving you more options for organizing your most likely overblown virtual social life. Now, it’s up to you to decide what if you’d rather have a social network of virtual friends or real friends. That’s not something Facebook or any social network can help you with.
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Yahoo-Bing Integration Complete Everywhere but Korea
Oct 20th
Yahoo has finished transitioning to a Bing back-end in every country except Korea. The near completion of the global transition should signal improved profitability for both Bing and Yahoo.
Yahoo and Bing: A Hair Away from Global Fusion
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Key2seo.com A Complete Shop Of SEO Services For Website Owners – Emailwire (press release)
Aug 8th
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ZURB Design Wants To Help Your Nonprofit Complete A Mission
Aug 4th
Silicon Valley design agency ZURB is holding their fourth annual ZURBwired event on August 18, in which the firm donates 24 hours of their time to accomplish one mission for a nonprofit partner, whether it’s designing a website, creating a fundraising campaign, or solving any other problem they can think of. The deadline for nonprofits to apply is Friday, August 5 (tomorrow). The proposal submission can be found here.
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ZURB says the donations of time and effort for this event exceed $30,000 each time, and that the first three events have raised over $100,000 for their partners. ZURB has found that the collaboration benefits both parties, even if it sounds “crazy:”
“This event gives the ZURB team a chance to help a nonprofit get unstuck by giving back in the best way we know how – by helping them solve problems through our time and effort. We get to stretch and grow while sharing our unique skill set for designing things for people.”
Many nonprofits, especially small ones, have a lot on their plate, and building a great Web portal often takes a back seat to more immediate concerns, even though a website might be vital. It’s great of ZURB to offer their creative and technical services as a donation.
Check out this video from last year’s event in partnership with Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT):
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Jun 22nd
TweetDeck v2.0: A Complete “Re-imagining” Of The iPhone App
Apr 26th
Calling it a re-imagining à la Hollywood’s recent Batman movies, TweetDeck has released a redesigned iPhone app. The new version takes “the essence of what made it so popular” (TweetDeck that is, not Batman) and ses that to rethink the app’s design and functionality.
For those who use TweetDeck on your desktop computer, you’ll probably agree that that means a focus on columns. The standard columns are still available: Mentions, DMs, Lists and so on. But now you can also have combined columns (adding your Home, Me, and Inbox columns so you can see updates from multiple Twitter accounts you might have). You can also customize the appearance of feeds in your columns.
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In these special columns, you can select which accounts you want to use and mix-and-match the feeds that appear them. For example, you can create a column that contains your DMs, your Facebook newsfeed, and a Twitter list. Or perhaps a Twitter search with Mentions.
The newly updated app also contains support for Deck.ly, which gives you the ability to send and read updates that are longer than 140 characters. As with the desktop client, you can choose to turn this feature off.
Just like the new Twitter client we wrote about a few weeks ago Tweetbot, this updated TweetDeck contains a number of new gestures: pinch inward on a column, for example, to acces column settings or tap the status bar to jump to the top of a column.
And as with Tweetbot, there’s an emphasis here on tracking Twitter conversations, giving you the ability when you view a tweet to see the related discussion around it.
These features all seem to make sense and are vast improvements over the older TweetDeck version. It’s certainly a sign too that there is still innovation happening around third-party Twitter clients, despite Twitter’s insistence that companies do something else rather than build them. Will the new TweetDeck app replace the official iPhone app on my phone? I’m not sure, but as as someone who relies on it on the desktop, I’m willing to give it a try.
TweetDeck says it’s working on an update to the iPad app too, which should be available in the next couple of weeks.
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Apr 23rd
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StackMob: The Complete Technology Stack for Mobile Apps
Jan 28th
StackMob is a new startup with a brilliant idea: make mobile development easier by offering a single platform for integrating backend services into mobile apps. Company co-founder Ty Amell describes the service as “Heroku for mobile,” referring to the way Heroku, a platform-as-a-service provider, provides add-ons to Ruby developers looking to integrate additional functionality into their apps. Like Heroku, StackMob will let mobile app developers pick and choose which backend services they want to integrate into their apps, too. That way, developers can spend less time and effort on infrastructure concerns, and can instead focus on perfecting an app’s user experience, its design and client-side code.
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What the StackMob Stack Includes
StackMob is developing/offering the following:
- A single integration point to backend services
- API creation and management – API infrastructure in the cloud for API’s built in minutes, not weeks. Developers can also write their own business logic and upload that custom code in Java, Ruby, Python, Lua or any JVM supported language.
- Analytics across all StackMob services where you can drill-down by geographic location, platform, app version, demographic info and more.
- Messaging (both push and email) powered by SendGrid, Inc.
- Social (Twitter, Facebook, Google) – both logging in and social network sharing is supported.
- Location services (not available in the beta, but in development)
- Advertising (not available in the beta, but in development)
- Monetization (not available in the beta, but in development)
- An open source iOS SDK is available (Android coming soon)
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Some of these services, as noted above, will be available in StackMob’s beta due to launch in either February or March, while some are still in development.
Initially, StackMob is just focused on the iOS platform but plans to extend to Android in the near future. However, because the SDK (software development kit) provided is open source, there’s nothing stopping developers from downloading a copy and tweaking it to suit their needs.
Although the exact pricing structure has not yet been determined, StackMob will be available as a freemium offering, we’re told. It will be free to download and use for a set amount of time (probably 30 days, as is standard), but when you’re ready to publish your app to the iTunes App Store, you’ll need to pay. The pricing tiers will then be scaled by app usage.
If you’re a developer interested in testing StackMob when it launches, you can sign up for the beta here on the company homepage.
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Complete Internet Blackout in Egypt
Jan 27th
After blocking Twitter on Tuesday and, intermittently, Facebook and Google on Wednesday, the Egyptian government has upped the ante, throwing a complete Internet access block across the whole of the country. Additionally blocked are Blackberry service and SMS.
Reports are pouring in, many to Twitterers via landline, that the country has been “cut off” and is now a “black hole.”
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Reports from Cairo, Alexandria and elsewhere in the country indicate the block is wholesale and countrywide.
CNN’s Ben Wedeman commented, “No internet, no SMS, what is next? Mobile phones and land lines? So much for stability” and asked “Will #Egypt totally cut communications with the outside world?”
That depends, I think, on whether the idea now is to disrupt communications between groups of protesters or to lay a blackout curtain across Egypt to mask a total crackdown. As many as eight protesters, three in Cairo and five in Suez, have been killed, along with one policeman. I think if landlines and mobile go, the question must become, is the Egyptian government planning a wholesale massacre?
Those in and outside of Egypt have pledged to keep as much in connection to one another using whichever avenues remain. This is one of those times, however, in which the presence of functioning traditional journalists will pick up from the citizens who had been reporting on the ground.
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