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“For every book you send to 1DollarScan, you’ll also have to send along a signed waiver stating that you understand you’re having a copy of your books made under the company’s Fair Use Policy. The waiver also frees the company from any liability that they might have incurred for making a copy of a book that you don’t own. Once the contracts are signed, just pop them into the box with your books and ship them off to the company’s offices in California. When the books are received by 1DollarScan, the workers cut the spines off of them. This ensures that the pages of the book lay flat on the scanner, and makes it impossible to resell the hard copy of the book after it’s been scanned. When the scanning’s complete, the pages are shredded and recycled, ensuring that the owner only has access to one copy of their book: the freshly minted digital version, which can be downloaded as a PDF from the company’s website via the user’s password-protected account.” —Review: 1DollarScan Book Digitizing Service (via infoneer-pulse)
1dollarscan - scan your hard copy books for a dollar
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“Email is the main cause of information overload at work today. It prevents us from being able to make good decisions and tackle important tasks according to priority.” —Can Activity Streams Save Us From Information Overload? | Fast Company | Business Innovation (via infoneer-pulse)
Does this happen to you at work? What other ways have you been able to adapt?
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25 Definitions of Big Data Q: Can you please provide me with a definition of Big Data? A: The definition of Big Data is a moving target. 25-definitions-big-data In order to make it possible to follow the discussion, as it evolves, we have started a list of definitions of Big Data, as we read them on the internet.What’s your definition of big data?
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Would you want that much transparency?
Breaking Workplace Taboos: A Conversation About Salary Transparency
Joel Gascoigne’s salary is $118,000 a year and he doesn’t care who knows it. The co-founder of Buffer, a 10-person startup that allows users to schedule social media updates, Gascoigne is the proponent of a radical new way of doing business where there is no cloak and dagger, where every employee knows everything that is happening in the business.Full Story: 99u
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According to an eMarketer report, online video ad spending will reach $4.14 billion, an increase of 41.4% from 2012′s numbers.
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On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.
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“An estimated 5 million Americans are already using wearable devices to sync their lives to the cloud, and their ranks are growing rapidly. Like Paulus, they are sending vast amounts of information—collectively referred to as Big Data—to the servers of salivating Silicon Valley executives. In just the first half of last year, venture-capital firms invested $700 million in businesses developing new wearable and embedded devices. According to a study by the consulting giant McKinsey, Big Data could be worth $300 billion annually to the health-care industry alone. But its value to sports-apparel companies, health-food purveyors, and even mattress-makers is also apparent. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 283 vendors showed up to promote digital health products—over 100 more than the number of companies hawking games. One British mobile-research firm estimates that by 2017, 70 million people will be buying wearable devices annually and slapping them on their wrists (and chests, ankles, and necks). And while there is no valuation yet for, say, what Paulus’ heart rate is worth per beat, there’s reason to think that users of tracking apps and sensor-laden devices are giving the milk away free.” -
Inline, Online, Off: Like Creative Directors and Social Strategists Before Them, Planners Start Moving In-House In her role as CMO, IKEA North America, Leontyne Green Skyes decided her first hire would be a strategic insight manager. As AdWeek reported a while back, “That’s been central to the changes Green has put in place at IKEA, where she is credited with remaking the home furnishings giant’s…
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Interesting article… Predicting the future…
“What Turchin and his colleagues have found is a pattern of social instability. It applies to all agrarian states for which records are available, including Ancient Rome, Dynastic China, Medieval England, France, Russia, and, yes, the United States. Basically, the data shows 100 year waves of instability, and superimposed on each wave — which Turchin calls the “Secular Cycle” — there’s typically an additional 50-year cycle of widespread political violence. The 50-year cycles aren’t universal — they don’t appear in China, for instance. But they do appear in the United States.”
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Bad at Their Jobs, and Loving It from your experience do you agree?
