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10 devious new ways that computer hackers can control your machines (or fix them) – enough to make you go all survivalist
How TDK Upgraded the Old-School Boombox | Fast Company – interesting blend of insights and product design
British Health Technology Entrepreneurs Courting Silicon Valley’s Heavyweights | Fast Company
Sofa-Friendly iPad Reading Could Eat Into Primetime TV’s User Attention | Fast Company – surely an opportunity for social, integrated communications and content?
Americans See China as No. 1 – China Real Time Report – WSJ – this perception is going to affect US foreign and defence policy
Is China About to Decentralize? | Newgeography.com – interesting piece about the unintended economic side-effects due to the residency system
IABUK : Social media users ‘more demanding’ – bringing a crisis of brand reputation in its wake
Who’s Buying All That Luxury? Not the Rich – The Wealth Report – WSJ – interesting and mysterious buying patterns
Display your events on your own website with Lanyrd Badges – want to raise an executives profile? Start thinking about this
Will Microsoft Remove DOC Format Support? – 97 per cent of Word documents on the web are still in the .doc format
Social Media in China: The Same, but Different–CBR January-March 2011 – a more nuanced collection of social networks than the west
VALKEE – I’m not sure if this is as bogus as the holographic power bracelets but the product design is a cut above the usual medical product
Man of the house – I love this site by P&G. Great content unpatronising in tone
The Best Firefox Extensions – great hacks
IT’S OFFICIAL: The IPO Market Is Crippled — And It’s Hurting Our Country – interesting viewpoint by BusinessInsider on the state of the US IPO market
PC Sales Were Weaker in Q4, And the iPad Is To Blame | AllThingsD – disruption in consumer PC market
WWD attacks dumbing down of fashion | FT.com – Vanessa Friedman takes a chunk out of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD)
SOUNDWAGON – I remember seeing these VW record player vans a few years ago but couldn’t get one in time
T-Mobile UK backs down a bit, limits 500MB fair use policy to new and upgrading customers – Engadget – yet another reason not to go with T-Mobile. Good to see that they didn’t try to pull a ’3 like Home’ contract warrant debacle
Who Runs Wall Street? The Activists. – Deal Journal – WSJ – interesting that corporate activists want to reduce capital investment in companies. Now is not the time for short-termism and foreign rivals to the US will benefit from this move
Big in Japan? The New Starbucks Logo Could Assist Company’s Asian Expansion | Fast Company – especially as the western script logo could intimidate non-English speakers
How Do You Make Your Business Ideas Concrete? Look to Hamburger Helper | Fast Company
How Nike’s Visual Tricks Made the Oregon Ducks Look Fast (Despite Defeat) | Co.Design – Auburn kicked their butt, but interesting design tricks used by Nike on the Oregon uniforms
Thanks to a Super Material, Your Future Phone May Be an All-Glass Wonder | Fast Company – reminded me of the clear aluminium used for the whales in Star Trek: The voyage home
Analysis: Clients get creative as hedge funds lose sex appeal | Reuters – Hedge funds viewed as too conservative by some investors as they have adapted their strategies to suit the needs of big investors like pension funds
Custom ICs in small numbers to be cheap as (normal) chips • The Register
The Web’s €100 billion surplus – McKinsey Quarterly – expects everything to have a consumer price tag on the web and massive market consolidation
AMD CEO: What analysts are saying – only one leader could make an AMD turn-around plausible, definitely exciting, and that is Jerry Sanders III, AMD’s co-founder… Ouch, but also probably true
Micron COO sees mixed memory demand – for 2011 at least
SEO Tools. Link Checker. – Check Backlinks for PR, Anchor & Nofollow – great alternative to Yahoo! Site Explorer
Luxury hotels accommodate social | Market-interactive.com – smart use of social media
AirAsia goes social for airline PR crisis | Market-interactive.com – great travel sector social media case study
俊記: Handsome Bag Co. | Made in Kowloon – interesting business upcycling old Hong Kong taxi-seat upholstery into bags and accessories
Microsoft Fights Apple Trademark on ‘App Store’ – PCWorld – claims it is generic but then so is Windows.
The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky – smart stuff here from The WELL community and science fiction writer Bruce Sterling
Price and adoption timeline of gadgets – interesting data representation
Worlds Collide with smart appliances shown at CES | JWT Intelligence – smart homes as an enhanced service
Should Web Workers Prefer Books to E-Books?: Online Collaboration « – Printed books currently make for a richer, more memorable, and more easily understood learning experience than today’s electronic offerings can provide. The real questions are: How long will these advantages last? And how will developer of e-readers and e-books make their products more useful for the sorts of research that web workers do?
Skype Founder, Niklas Zennström – coming trends and China market : China Web 2.0 and Asia Tech News, Open Web Asia – “Skype’s hyper growth was from 2004 to 2007. At that time, I believed we scaled much faster than the ones before us, such as Yahoo and AOL. But, today, we can find companies growing even faster than us, like Youtube, Zynga, Groupon, etc.”
Why Twitter Alone Stood Up To the Government – connection with the Berkman Center and will help foster trust in the Twitter brand internationally
MediaPost Publications Report: Tracking ‘Digital Piracy’ Sites 01/11/2011 – looking at the write up it looks like iffy data claims in this ‘report’ by MarkMonitor
Dscoverme – Site – curation site with emphasis on real-time sharing rather than as an online aide memoire a la Pinboard.in or Delicious
Curation is the New Search is the New Curation – Yahoo!’s knowledge search was just too early and sunseting Delicious as insane
Daring Fireball Linked List: Google Dropping Support for H.264 in Chrome – Google exposes itself to anti-trust backlash and makes life for media owners a bit harder
How to open Websites at login | Mac OS X Hints – this is soo useful
MasterCard and Disney strike pan-European alliance – Brand Republic News – nice marketing affiliate agreement
Why Are So Many Marketers Dissatisfied With Social Media Results? | WebProNews
Optical control of graphene supports sensors
Verizon Wireless to offer iPhone 4 from February – implications for mobile telecoms providers in China and South Korea
CES: Yahoo Beats Google to Apps that Know What You’re Watching – Technology Review – contextual advertising matching for television programmes
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