April 2011
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DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life →
The media talk is about smartphones, because African coverage of technology is pitched at the rich, but 90% of the phones Nokia sells in Africa are at the low end.
These are the models that people in richer countries happily used a decade ago. You made calls, you texted a lot, you fiddled with ringtones, and you played simple games. The steady earner remains the Nokia 1100. This is the AK-47 of...
“This is Google as an anti-Babel, with the utopian goal of a future in which all...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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Discovery News: SETI suspended →
latimes:
reblogged via shortformblog:
SETI’s broke, guys: The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence will take a breather for a little while. The SETI Institute, which owns these sweet-looking satellites, ran out of money for its Allen Telescope Array, and the program will take a breather. Paul Allen (who recently became a patent troll) provided a big chunk of the original funding, and the...
A cadaver gets under her skin →
joshsternberg:
latimes:
A first-year medical student can’t help but wonder while working on an anonymous donor — who was this man?
Really good article and interesting perspective; have to imagine many first year med students go through the same thought processes.
In these six weeks, I have learned that our bodies can differ substantially, with apparently no impact. There are certain things...
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“When you start reading things on Tumblr, it’s a long chain of obsession. Hence...”
– Green Valley junior Alex Crupi
R-Jeneration: Teens tapping Tumblr for entertainment, news, expression - Living - ReviewJournal.com
I *love* this article!
(via marc)
“I feel like everyone loves each other,” Green Valley High School junior Kati Velazquez says. “It’s like...
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“Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in...”
– Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)
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Amazon to Release Ad-Subsidized Kindle for $114 →
marco:
Bizarre:
Ads will appear on the device’s screen saver and show up as a banner on the homepage, but will not appear inside books.
It’s only a $25 savings from the normally-$139 Kindle 3. I’m sure they can find buyers for it, but at what cost to Amazon’s (and the Kindle’s) image?
vai ser a oferta kindle da compra coletiva. O poupar pelo poupar. Se é subsidiado devia ser de graça.
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“Like the district court, we see no basis for allowing them to do so. At some...”
– Facebook Wins Decision Enforcing Winklevoss Settlement - Bloomberg (via tedr)
“Já deu.” disse o juiz
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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Groupon? Twitter? Zynga?... →
cnnmoneytech:
Very interesting report from Caris & Co. Internet analyst Sandeep Aggarwal today. Although Aggarwal mainly follows the big publicly traded Web stocks — your Googles, Amazons and eBays of the world — he obviously keeps track of the top private firms as well.
Aggarwal and his team put out an exhaustive list of 400 top private Internet companies Monday morning. They ranked their...
The New York Times launches its first Tumblr blog... →
There are now more than 160 such media organizations—ranging from magazines and newspapers, to digital operations, to TV and radio shows—engaging their readers through Tumblr, an intuitive self-publishing platform that launched in 2007. These dozens of publishers make up a healthy portion of the site’s 67 million unique monthly visitors and 5.3 billion monthly page views, said...
