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Irish cookery teacher terrified into handing over website name to Lady Gaga | Irish Business | IrishCentral – the smart thing would have come to an agreement with the Irish cookery teacher and agree to licence the name to her for cookery blogging purposes only. Instead they’ve risked a social media shit-storm for a box-ticking exercise. In this day and age, that’s an act of gross negligence and incompetence by whoever signed off on this and I feel for the Irish cooker teacher involved. More Irish related content here.

Consumer behaviour

Under the Influence: Consumer Trust In Advertising

The Demographics of “Cell-Mostly” Internet Users

Economics

The typical American family makes less than it did in 1989This isn’t a lost decade for economic gains for Americans. It is a lost generation.

Lexington: The American Dream, RIP? | The Economist  – the cyberpunk novels like Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy were right

The Decline of Great Industrial Cities – Euromonitor International – interesting data, will this be mirrored by suburbanisation in China and other emerging markets?

How to

(mt) Media Temple » WordPress Performance: From A to Z

Infinite scroll: its impact on SEO and how to fix it | Econsultancy

Ideas

The Feynman Lectures on Physics Website – great reading material

Innovation

Integration of graphene photodetector into computer chip could revolutionize telecommunications | Science Recorder

Audi’s Diesel V10 SUV Supercar Somehow Gets 30 MPG | Wired.com – its like the car of my childhood dreams has been built by Audi

Media

Netlabels : Free Music : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive – surprisingly good electronica in amongst this lot

How Google could fix the press release | Econsultancy

Online

Quitting Facebook: What’s Behind The New Trend To Leave Social Networks? Eurasia ReviewReasons for quitting Facebook were mainly privacy concerns (48.3 percent), followed by a general dissatisfaction with Facebook (13.5 percent), negative aspects of online friends (12.6 percent), and the feeling of getting addicted to Facebook (6.0 percent; other/unspecific, 19.6 percent).

Retailing

Supermarkets in Africa: The grocers’ great trek | The Economist – partly because South Africa is turning into a basket case, and partly because of commodity market driven growth in other African countries

Mobile Statistics – Study debunks commonly held beliefs about showrooming – Internet Retailer

Security

Schneier on Security: Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips – that’s Intel’s business screwed in China

Software

Offline reading with the NewsBlur iOS app – NewsBlur – great performance tweaks

Yahoo hires Google’s Technical Lead for Android’s Open Source Project — Tech News and Analysis – the hire will bring outsized kudos to Yahoo! engineering teams as much as anything else

Bump Mobile Contact Sharing App Acquired By Google, Will Stay Alive For Now | TechCrunch – interesting move, kill a competitor to NFC?

Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors | Ars Technica – Microsoft and Yahoo! seem to have dropped right off

Jolla’s Sailfish OS gains Android compatibility, making it an easier sell for manufacturers — Tech News and Analysis – expect homebrew ports as well

Telecoms

Nokia’s Last Great Deal: Zero to $7.2 Billion – WSJ.com – interesting article on the next chapter for Nokia as an infrastructure business

Web of no web

Google Glass Not Expected To Reach Europe For Years – voice recognition a barrier to rapid expansion

Wireless

BBC News – Mobile phone emergency alert system to be tested in UK – interesting implicit message of we know who and where you are

China Mobile Marketing & Mobile User Insights — China Internet Watch

Apple Clearly Doesn’t Care At All About Winning Smartphone Market Share – Business Insider