Why Facebook Subscribe can’t compete with Twitter Nisha Chittal, thenextweb.com Last week, Face­book announced that jour­nal­ists using its new “Sub­scribe” tool have seen a 320% uptick in sub­scrip­tions since the tool’s launch last fall. Face­book has made it clear that it wants this tool to com­pete with Twit­ter and to br… // They don’t want to say foreign subscribers are spammers? You read the comments they leave and tell me what the hell they are, then?
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Why Facebook Subscribe can’t compete with Twitter
Nisha Chittal, thenextweb.com

Last week, Face­book announced that jour­nal­ists using its new “Sub­scribe” tool have seen a 320% uptick in sub­scrip­tions since the tool’s launch last fall. Face­book has made it clear that it wants this tool to com­pete with Twit­ter and to br…

// They don’t want to say foreign subscribers are spammers? You read the comments they leave and tell me what the hell they are, then?

The Political Consequences of a Drones-First Policy Joshua Foust, theatlantic.com The global counterterrorism mission imposes substantial political costs to the U.S. Yet policymakers are rushing ahead anyway. Why we should start thinking more about politics, and less about killing bad guys.If you talk to any secu­ri­ty or…
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The Political Consequences of a Drones-First Policy
Joshua Foust, theatlantic.com

The global counterterrorism mission imposes substantial political costs to the U.S. Yet policymakers are rushing ahead anyway. Why we should start thinking more about politics, and less about killing bad guys.

If you talk to any secu­ri­ty or…

Newt: Not Over Until GOP Conventionthedailybeast.com PersistenceNewt Gin­grich won’t give up that eas­i­ly. With new polls show­ing Mitt Rom­ney up by 15 per­cent­age points in Gin­grich sought to play down the impor­tance of Flori­da and promised that the race would con­tin­ue right up until the… // Pay no attention to Florida, eh? It’s a state that doesn’t matter? Interesting strategy of winning over support of your party.
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Newt: Not Over Until GOP Convention
thedailybeast.com

Persistence

Newt Gin­grich won’t give up that eas­i­ly. With new polls show­ing Mitt Rom­ney up by 15 per­cent­age points in Gin­grich sought to play down the impor­tance of Flori­da and promised that the race would con­tin­ue right up until the…

// Pay no attention to Florida, eh? It’s a state that doesn’t matter? Interesting strategy of winning over support of your party.

Thought SOPA Was Bad? 10 Reasons to Oppose ACTA Joe Brockmeier, readwriteweb.com So, we’ve shot down SOPA and PIPA. Con­grat­u­la­tions Inter­nets for a job well done. Mis­sion accom­plished, right? Not so much. While that’s two bad pieces of leg­is­la­tion pushed back, there’s much more where that came from. Leav­ing aside… // Wonderful.
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Thought SOPA Was Bad? 10 Reasons to Oppose ACTA
Joe Brockmeier, readwriteweb.com

So, we’ve shot down SOPA and PIPA. Con­grat­u­la­tions Inter­nets for a job well done. Mis­sion accom­plished, right? Not so much. While that’s two bad pieces of leg­is­la­tion pushed back, there’s much more where that came from. Leav­ing aside…

// Wonderful.

Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph Derek Thompson, theatlantic.com Pres­i­dent Obama’s State of the Union speech was sur­pris­ing­ly bull­ish on reviv­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing, prompt­ing one very clever per­son on Twit­ter to say some­thing along the lines of: “Democ­rats want the econ­o­my of the 1950s, while… // Shift from manufacturing to services and even another shift to managing services. Definitely a country of consumption and little production.
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Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
Derek Thompson, theatlantic.com

Pres­i­dent Obama’s State of the Union speech was sur­pris­ing­ly bull­ish on reviv­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing, prompt­ing one very clever per­son on Twit­ter to say some­thing along the lines of: “Democ­rats want the econ­o­my of the 1950s, while…

// Shift from manufacturing to services and even another shift to managing services. Definitely a country of consumption and little production.

Source code theft prompts Symantec to issue warning to customers

Andrew Munchbach, engadget.com

Secu­ri­ty soft­ware pub­lish­er Syman­tec has con­firmed it was the vic­tim of a cyber attack, result­ing in the theft and dis­clo­sure of prod­uct source code. Ear­li­er this month, the online-collective Anony­mous stat­ed, via Twit­ter, that it…

// Even the bastions of security get hacked. You can’t eliminate ALL risk when you operate online. Companies can’t let the potential risk that something might happen keep them from ever doing anything.

AT&T Winning the iPhone Race Against Verizon, But Loses $6.6 Billion Peter Pachal, mashable.com Well, now we know where a bunch of those iPhones that Apple sold went. AT&T revealed it acti­vat­ed 7.6 mil­lion iPhones last quar­ter. That eas­i­ly bests Ver­i­zon’s 4.2 mil­lion iPhone acti­va­tions over the same peri­od.AT&T says the… // Winning/losing the battle/war?
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AT&T Winning the iPhone Race Against Verizon, But Loses $6.6 Billion
Peter Pachal, mashable.com

Well, now we know where a bunch of those iPhones that Apple sold went. AT&T revealed it acti­vat­ed 7.6 mil­lion iPhones last quar­ter. That eas­i­ly bests Ver­i­zon’s 4.2 mil­lion iPhone acti­va­tions over the same peri­od.

AT&T says the…

// Winning/losing the battle/war?

Nick Kristof: Facebook Subscribers Are More Valuable Than Twitter Users

Chelsea Stark, mashable.com

Mash­able’s Davos cov­er­age is pre­sent­ed by BMW i, a new con­cept ded­i­cat­ed to pro­vid­ing mobil­i­ty solu­tions for the urban envi­ron­ment.

Mash­able CEO and founder Pete Cash­more sat down at the World Eco­nom­ic Forum in…

// Implications that Facebook Subscribers may be more engaged than Twitter users. I can see how that makes sense, since Facebook allows for a greater spectrum of interaction.

9 Best Practices for Social Networking in the Workplace

9 Best Practices for Social Networking in the Workplace
Maria Ogneva is the head of community at Yammer, where she is in charge of social media, community programs, internal education and engagement. You can follow her on Twitter, her blog, and via Yammer’s Twitter account and company blog. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably witnessed …

Source: Mashable

The Rise of Antibiotic Resistance: Consequences of FDA’s Inaction Robert S. Lawrence, theatlantic.com By allowing big food to self-regulate when it comes to using antibiotics as a growth promoter in animals, the FDA is setting us up for disaster.Two weeks ago, the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) announced that it would ban cer­tain off-la… // Imagine that, overusing antibiotics leads to invincible bacteria. Who knew?
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The Rise of Antibiotic Resistance: Consequences of FDA’s Inaction
Robert S. Lawrence, theatlantic.com

By allowing big food to self-regulate when it comes to using antibiotics as a growth promoter in animals, the FDA is setting us up for disaster.

Two weeks ago, the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) announced that it would ban cer­tain off-la…

// Imagine that, overusing antibiotics leads to invincible bacteria. Who knew?

Research: 19 percent of Americans own a tablet Megan Lavey-Heaton, tuaw.com Pew Research Cen­ter has found that the num­ber of Amer­i­cans own­ing tablets shot up by 10 per­cent to 19 per­cent between mid-December and early Jan­u­ary, near­ly dou­bling the num­ber of tablet own­ers dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son. The num­b… // Very fast adoption. Tablets represent a similar but overall very different experience compared to PC interaction.
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Research: 19 percent of Americans own a tablet
Megan Lavey-Heaton, tuaw.com

Pew Research Cen­ter has found that the num­ber of Amer­i­cans own­ing tablets shot up by 10 per­cent to 19 per­cent between mid-December and early Jan­u­ary, near­ly dou­bling the num­ber of tablet own­ers dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son. The num­b…

// Very fast adoption. Tablets represent a similar but overall very different experience compared to PC interaction.

YouTube Reaches 4 Billion Views Per Day Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Google’s video-sharing prop­er­ty YouTube now sees 4 bil­lion video views per day. That’s a 25% increase over the past eight months, the com­pa­ny told Reuters in a report released this morn­ing. There’s now approx­i­mate­ly 60 hours of video… // Insane numbers. 60 hours of video uploaded every minute. That’s one hour of video uploaded every second. Handle that, servers.
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YouTube Reaches 4 Billion Views Per Day
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com

Google’s video-sharing prop­er­ty YouTube now sees 4 bil­lion video views per day. That’s a 25% increase over the past eight months, the com­pa­ny told Reuters in a report released this morn­ing. There’s now approx­i­mate­ly 60 hours of video…

// Insane numbers. 60 hours of video uploaded every minute. That’s one hour of video uploaded every second. Handle that, servers.

10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers Matt Petronzio, mashable.com As a writer, you know how impor­tant the lit­er­ary com­mu­ni­ty can be for your work, but you don’t have to shut your cre­ative front door as soon as you’re pub­lished. Social net­works can become vir­tu­al com­mu­ni­ties that allow you to extend… // I’ll have to check these out. Cool to see writers keeping it real.
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10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers
Matt Petronzio, mashable.com

As a writer, you know how impor­tant the lit­er­ary com­mu­ni­ty can be for your work, but you don’t have to shut your cre­ative front door as soon as you’re pub­lished. Social net­works can become vir­tu­al com­mu­ni­ties that allow you to extend…

// I’ll have to check these out. Cool to see writers keeping it real.

5 Flaws in Your Mobile Marketing Strategy Scott Forshay, mashable.com Scott For­shay is a lux­u­ry and pre­mi­um brand mar­ket­ing con­sul­tant and mobile strate­gist who’s been fea­tured in PSFK, Lux­u­ry Daily, Fash­ion’s Col­lec­tive, Busi­ness of Fash­ion and The Wall Street Jour­nal. He is the cre­ator and…
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5 Flaws in Your Mobile Marketing Strategy
Scott Forshay, mashable.com

Scott For­shay is a lux­u­ry and pre­mi­um brand mar­ket­ing con­sul­tant and mobile strate­gist who’s been fea­tured in PSFK, Lux­u­ry Daily, Fash­ion’s Col­lec­tive, Busi­ness of Fash­ion and The Wall Street Jour­nal. He is the cre­ator and…

Apple saw 350,000 textbook downloads from its iBookstore in 3 days, says analyst

Matt Brian, thenextweb.com

Apple may have record­ed more than 350,000 text­book down­loads from its iBook­store in the three days fol­low­ing the com­pa­ny’s edu­ca­tion event, where it announced its new iBooks 2 plat­form, new text­book fea­tures and other iPad-centric…

// I’ve heard some reports that textbooks can be 3-5GB. Apple needs to work on that. Can’t fit too many on my 15GB iPad.