Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Facebook’s New Offline Sales Measurement Trick Could Make Ad Clicks Obsolete: Facebook is launching a new way for brick-and-mortar business owners to measure if their Facebook ads drove in-store sales, even if customers never clicked. – by Josh Constine – http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/13/facebook-custom-audiences-measurement/ What Tech Hasn’t Learned From Urban Planning: SAN … Read moreSunday’s Recommended Reads
Another bit of a catch up … How many Americans will be using an iPhone when the US smartphone market saturates?: As previously noted, the US smartphone market has followed an almost perfectly logistic growth. The measured data (via comScore, in green below) follows a predictive logistic function (thin blue whose formula is discussed here). … Read moreSnowy Saturday Recommended Reads
A bit of a catch up today. Been traveling … The Emerging Technologies Shaping Future 5G Networks: It may seem as if the fourth generation of mobile communications technology has only just hit the airwaves. But so-called 4G technology has been around in various guises since 2006 and is now widely available in metropolitan areas … Read moreWednesday’s Recommended Reads
Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: What the Hell Is Wrong With Nintendo?: Earlier this week, amidst all the hype over the launches of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the Bloomberg news service took a step away from the wall-to-wall coverage of the new consoles to discuss Nintendo and the Wii U. They say no … Read moreSunday’s Recommended Reads
Flykly vs Copenhagen Wheel … Remarkable similarities. Assistive power, smartphone apps, locking etc. Pricing is quite similar as well. I’ve actually been able to briefly test the Flykly and it was very impressive. The wheel is rather heavy, but you don’t notice that at all when pedaling … you only notice the rather enormous boost … Read moreElectric Assistive Cycling
Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: RISD President John Maeda to become design partner at Kleiner Perkins — Tech News and Analysis: If you need any more proof that venture capital firms are increasingly seeing the value of design, here it is: on Wednesday the President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), John … Read moreThursday’s Recommended Reads
Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Google is building Chrome apps support for Android and iOS, beta release coming as soon as January 2014: Google is working on bringing Chrome packaged apps from the desktop to the mobile world. The company is currently building a toolkit to help developers create Chrome apps for Android and … Read moreWenesday’s Recommended Reads
Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Volvo speeds ahead with autonomous cars on Swedish roads by 2017: If there’s one name synonymous with safety and caution in the car world, it’s Volvo. You might be surprised, therefore, to hear that the Swedish carmaker is taking the lead in putting self-driving cars on public roads, with … Read moreTuesday’s Recommended Reads
Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: When Algorithms Grow Accustomed to Your Face: People often reveal their private emotions in tiny, fleeting facial expressions, visible only to a best friend — or to a skilled poker player. – by ANNE EISENBERG – http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/technology/when-algorithms-grow-accustomed-to-your-face.html Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet: Gigabit-class … Read moreMonday’s Recommended Reads
Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: PS4 And Xbox One Pose Major Problems For Internet Providers: As the Sony’s Sony’s Playstation 4 launched midnight today in the UK, there are some potential pitfalls that mean consumers might not get the most out of their systems unless they carefully consider their home network. Consoles used to … Read moreSunday’s Recommended Reads