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Most Tablet Users Are Educated, Employed, Not Young

External Author — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:00:16 +0000

Tablet users are educated, employed, and earning money but are not necessarily young, according to new data. At this point, 11 percent of Americans have a tablet device and 77 percent of them use it daily. Approximately 46 percent are in the 30 to 49 age bracket, however, and they are serious about their news, according to an infographic produced by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The Economist Group. Of the 1,200 tablet owners polled by Pew, 53 percent use their device to access news every day. Getting news is actually almost as popular as email, at 54 percent compared to 53 percent, and the average user spends about 90 minutes catching up on the day’s events. It’s not just quick bursts of breaking news users are reading, however. About 42 percent read in-depth articles on their tablets, but despite social-networking linkups at every turn, just 16 percent share what they’re reading on those services. Most stick to a small number of recognized sources, though 33 percent said they have branched out to new publications on their tablets. Surprisingly, apps have not taken over. About 21 percent of people mainly access news via apps, but 40 percent primarily use the browser. About 31 percent use both equally. Who are these people? About 51 percent are college grads, 53 percent earn more than $75,000 per year, and 62 percent have full-time jobs. While most are between 30 and 50, 22 percent are between 18 and 29 and 32 percent are over 50. Pew found that 81 percent are using the iPad, bolstering recent reports that suggest the iPad will dominate the market for many years to come. But Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire hits the market next month, which could take a bite out of the market for cheaper tablets. For more, see the infographic below. Click for ginormous chart: Source: Most Tablet Users Are Educated, Employed, Not Young The Tablet Revolution–A PEJ Infographic

Google and Your Memory

External Author — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:00:05 +0000

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What Does It Take to Get a Job at Google?

External Author — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:30:21 +0000

Via Jobvine:

Infographic by Jobvine Recruitment Network

Roger McNamee: Everything is changing

External Author — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:26 +0000

Hat tip Business Insider * Microsoft is toast because we’re moving to a post-PC era; * HTML5, the new web standard that allows to make interactive web pages, is going to revolutionize the media and advertising industries; * Social is “done”, it’s now a feature, don’t go do a social startup. roger mcnamee elevation partners Image: Screenshot Here’s what we thought were the most interesting points and assertions from the speech (quotes are paraphrased): * Microsoft’s share of internet-connected devices has gone from 95% to under 50% in 3 years; * Windows no longer provides measurable ROI to enterprises, who will shift spending to other products and services; this is a huge opportunity; * Google is a victim of its own success: its search has become polluted by SEOs. What shows that Google has failed is all those “non-search” services that really solve a search problem, like Match.com or Realtor.com. If you add them all up, they account for 50% of searches. * HTML5 is going to change everything. “In HTML5, an ad is an app, a tweet is an app, everything is an app.” “It’s a blank sheet of paper, and creativity rules again.” * For example, “my band is putting out a full HTML5 site. You can watch all of our shows on an iPhone, live.” It’s very cheap and it changes the game because they don’t have to pay anyone anything. * In HTML5, you don’t need to have display ads: Amazon can have a section of its store as an ad. So if you’re reading a book review, you can buy the book right from the page. * Because HTML5 can make sites rich and interactive, engagement on a site can go from seconds to minutes. * So a site could say: we have 5 sponsors today, which one would you like, and the sponsor follows you around throughout your experience on the site. “The fact that you can create and satisfy demand in the same place is only true in infomercials today, but it will be true on the web.” This, in turn, is highly disruptive to TV advertising. * “The iPad is the most important device since the IBM PC.” * “Apple will sell a hundred million internet-connected devices this year. That’s two thirds of the PC market.” If you add the other non-PC internet devices, that’s more valuable than the PC market. * The iPad is the training wheels for HTML5. iPad apps show us what we need to beat in terms of creating a better experience on HTML5. * Apple is an unstoppable freight train. In terms of tablets, it has no competitors and will probably end up with iPod-like marketshare. “It’s like IBM in the 60s; I can’t predict what that means; you need to find a way to play with it, but you also need to find a way to play over it” with HTML5. * The fact that most people now have more than one device means the cloud is vital, because you want to have all your stuff on all your devices. It also means the old PC paradigm is dead, because the old PC paradigm means everything stored on one device, instead of everything in the cloud synced to many devices. * In terms of keeping your stuff in the cloud, “Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple have completely failed to get the mobile experience right.” (We’ll let McNamee stand by that statement.) * “Facebook has decided that they’re Twitter on steroids”. * Currently Facebook Connect is free; eventually they’ll charge for it because it’s access to their social graph which publishers need, and that’s how they’l make money. * Don’t try to be “social”: the big social platforms are created. You can’t create a social company, it’s just a checkbox. “The last 500 social companies funded by the VC community are all worthless. I’m serious.” * But this creates an opportunity: while everyone is focused on social distribution, there’s a huge opportunity to get content right with HTML5. “Let’s create a new product, the way music videos were a new product.” * Apple makes more gross margin per iPhone than most Android phones make in gross revenue, McNamee says. * “Television is the last protected media business,” but it’s going to get disrupted. For one, once televisions are computers, analytics of who watches will get more accurate than Nielsen panels. “Everyone knows that if we go to actual measurement, ad rates will collapse because the numbers aren’t as good as Nielsen makes them look.” * McNamee also had a few words about the economy: “we’re about 40% of the way of deleveraging the global economy, but we’re only 10% of the way of deleveraging the US consumer…I don’t care what your politics are, removing government demand from the economy when it’s struggling is ridiculous.” And to prop things up, the Fed is printing money and inflating bubbles, “but for us, that’s great!”: capital is very cheap; consumers are acting like the party’s on, so there’s lots of opporutnities. * McNamee says he does “full contact investing”: he proves the concepts of what he invests in by trying them out with his band. So he knows HTML5 is going to work because it works for his band. Then he added, to audience laughter: “You’re going to say it’s a dipshit little band, yeah, it is, but we like it and our fans like it” and it works.

Snapshot: Apple App Store

External Author — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:15:52 +0000

In light of today’s Apple announcement, here is a look at the App Store, via Social Media Graphics: > click for bigger graphic click for ginormous graphic

LinkedIn IPO: Pure Idiocy

External Author — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:41:11 +0000

Now this is just plain dumb: That's something like six hundred and sixty times earnings, and if their current sales rate (~$375 million annualized) is sustainable then it's also more than twenty-seven times sales. Yeah, Bernanke isn't intentionally blowing bubbles in the stock market, and neither is anyone else. Ooook. (PS: Who remember 1999? Who remembers what came after 1999?)

Carsten Schloter will Social Media auf keinen Fall verbieten

External Author — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:17:21 +0000

Swisscom: Carsten Schloter will Social Media auf keinen Fall verbieten, nutzt selbst Skype.

Keynote and session videos from Google I/O now live

External Author — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:31:00 +0000

With Google I/O 2011 just two days behind us, we wanted to thank the nearly 1 million developers who joined us at Moscone Center, attended I/O Extended events and watched online via I/O Live from 161 countries around the world. The keynote presentations highlighted the momentum and vision for two of our most important developer platforms: Android and Chrome. On the topic of Android, Hugo Barra, director of Android Product Management, opened Day 1 of the conference with the themes of “Momentum, Mobile and More,” announcing Movies in Android Market, Music Beta by Google, Android @ Home, Android Open Accessory and a preview of the new Ice Cream Sandwich logo. Read the blog post summary or watch the keynote in its entirety below. The Day 2 keynote was all about Chrome, which has grown to 160 million active users, up from 70 million last year. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, discussed the launch of the HTML5 version of Angry Birds built with GWT on App Engine, Chromebooks for consumers and businesses and in-app payments. If you missed it, watch the Chrome keynote below. These launches are just a few of the more than 30 announcements we made over the two days, including the launch of Google App Engine 1.5, a updated Google Prediction API, new additions to the Fusion Tables API and many more. For more information about these and the other news coming out of the event, visit the Google I/O label on the Google Code Blog. Additionally, in case you missed any of these announcements, HD recordings of the sessions are now available online. Find the highlights from this year’s event at www.google.com/io, where we’ll feature photos, announcements and the latest videos. Also stay tuned for a feature on “Backstage at Google I/O” where we’ll highlight the developers and artists who helped to make the event possible this year. Google I/O kicked off the year as our biggest developer event—but we’re only getting started. As of today, we’re announcing locations for our eight Google Developer Days (GDDs), which will take place all over the world with more than a few DevFests in between. Stay tuned for more info on the 2011 event details, but we’ll look forward to seeing you in Brazil, Argentina, Prague, Moscow, Tokyo, Sydney, Israel and Germany for our Google Developer team world tour. Posted by Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President of Engineering

A gadget’s life: From gee-whiz to junk

External Author — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:30:25 +0000

A very cool look at the cost and popularity of gadgets since the 1980s – covering phones, computers, TV, video, and audio. You can clearly see the “digital revolution” start around 2000, killing off earlier technologies; it’s also interesting to see the cost of any gizmo fall over time (the circles get smaller). > Source: Alicia Parlapiano Washington Post

Head-Tracking mit Frontkamera bringt 3D auf’s iPad 2 und iPhone 4

External Author — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:58:49 +0000

Nicht wenige bemängeln die schwachen Kameras beim iPad 2. Tatsächlich schiesst das iPhone 4 wesentlich bessere Fotos als das iPad 2. Meiner Meinung nach hat das iPad 2 aber auch keine Kamera um damit schöne Fotos zu schiessen. Wäre auch eine ziemlich unhandlicher Fotoapparat… Die Kamera soll die Funktionalität des iPad 2 erweitern. Zum einen ermöglicht die Kamera FaceTime, zum anderen hilft sie bei Apps zum Thema Augmented Reality. Die Doktoranden Jeremie Francone und Laurence Nigay von der Universität Joseph Fourier Grenoble haben aber noch einen Verwendungszweck mehr gefunden. Die Kamera erkennt den Kopf des Benutzers und kann so Berechnen in welchem Winkel der Benutzer auf das Display schaut und entsprechende Inhalte so in einem dreidimensionalen Effekt wiedergeben. Noch ist das alles ein Vorprojekt der Beiden. Doch auch Apple hatte bereits ähnliche Konzepte für die Mac Computer eingereicht. Eine spannende Geschichte mit erstaunlichem Resultat, wenn man sich die Filme unten anschaut. iPad iPhone