How much digital information will be produced in 2010? 1.2 Zettabytes
How many 16GB iPads would it take to hold 1.2 Zettabytes? 75 billion (or an iStack the size of Wembley Stadium’s field and 339 miles high)
That is pretty hard to visualize, so thank goodness for the folks at Wikibon (full visualization)
I’ve seen Clay Shirky make his cognitive surplus point a couple of times but this visualization really puts it into perspective.
One of Steve Yelvington’s “Ten good-enough predictions about tech, media and news”.
I’m hearing this point a lot recently.
Martin Nisenholtz, the SVP for digital operations at The New York Times Company, recently identified ‘identity’ as one of the fundamental building blocks for engagement, and acknowledged that identity doesn’t just mean real names but a track record based on a lot of input.
Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg has previously listed the shift from anonymity to real identity as one of the four “shifts” taking place among web users.
With more and more startups relying on identity and reputation (e.g. Quora), I suspect we’ll see a lot more buzz in this space.
Elizabeth Iorns, an extremely talented scientist (and my wife), now has her very own Tumblr page…. check it out!
My colleague Neil Budde wrote a great post on the Newstogram blog today.
It’s so good I decided to reblog the entire post below, but you should still head over to the Newstogram blog if you want to join the discussion.
We’ve cracked the nut and it’s not even close to 2015
“Delivering news digitally in a personalized manner is a nut many a startup – as well as many established Internet companies and publishers – are desperately trying to crack.”
That’s the way TechCrunch began an article this week about another company entering the personalized news arena. Earlier in the week, we learned that The Washington Post Co. had purchased personalized news venture iCurrent. A week or so earlier, Google News rolled out some modest customization features.
Clearly, the field of personalized news is getting hot. Which makes us glad that DailyMe and our Newstogram platform have a three-year headstart and a unique approach. We’re not desperately trying to crack the nut, we have the nut cracked and are rolling Newstogram out on a range of news and information sites.
Personalization of news has been kicked around for a while. MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte described a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual’s tastes in his 1995 book, “Being Digital.” He called it The Daily Me, a term we later adopted for our company, though he has nothing to do with DailyMe Inc.
In a commentary written for The Wall Street Journal last December, Google CEO Eric Schmidt described a device for news that “knows who I am, what I like, and what I have already read. So while I get all the news and comment, I also see stories tailored for my interests.” In his article, Schmidt imagined such a device being available in 2015.
In our view, 2015 is already here.
Newstogram already is serving up personalized news to users of sites like Variety.com and Impre.com and through several modules on DailyMe.com. Our approach of tracking and analyzing the content users consume and using the resulting individual interest profiles to make recommendations has outperformed other approaches in tests and we continue to improve and refine our algorithms.
We welcome the additional interest in news personalization, because it only serves to highlight our position as the leader in the field.
LeBron James has close to 60,000 Twitter followers without even sending out a tweet - perhaps he’s planning to tweet the outcome of his free agency negotiations rather than giving a press conference…. definitely worth watching this space!
UPDATE: almost 120,000 Twitter followers and one tweet, but still no indication of where he’ll play next season.
UPDATE #2: its almost a week since “The Decision” and I still can’t believe it…. @kingjames, @dwadeofficial and @chrisbosh all on the same team! And @m33m! The upcoming Miami HEAT season is going to be insane.
Access The Times from only £1….. or just look on the BBC website.
So today is finally the day The Times (of London) starts charging for access to its web content (and separately, Gannett launched a series of small-scale paywall tests at three of its sites).
A recent poll of Times Online readers showed that 76% are “not at all likely to pay for content”. Which begs the question: haven’t the other 24% heard of BBC News, the Guardian, the Independent, the Telegraph, Sky News, etc etc etc etc?
… and then BOOM! we got acquired by Amazon, so no more rollin’ in late with our pajamas on.
I’m probably the millionth person to re-post this awesome video from the Screaming Monkey at Woot, but I couldn’t resist. Congrats to Matt and all the folks at Woot - hope you keep up the crazy antics and, of course, the awesome daily deals.
The promise of the ‘new and improved’ Google News (see the video here)
It still seems like a lot of set-up work to me but I love that Google is making personalization such a prominent part of the Google News experience.
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