Alfred Man
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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.
(via emergentfutures)
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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.
(via Businessweek)
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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?
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Klout Announces Bing Integration & Begins To Filter Instagram Data Into User Scores Exciting new changes are hitting Klout today including integration with Bing search and the addition of Instagram data on user Klout scores. While Klout has integrated with Instagram previously (data has never influenced Klout scores), the Bing integration is new and can show directly on the Search Engine Results Pages.
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3D Printing: Secret Weapon Against Climate Change? by ClimateDesk
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Graphene - the future of battery? Looks promising
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Cleveland Museum of Art reinvented a new way to engage visitors through the use of physical and virtual world.
