Any thing worth doing is worth over doing...
Cathy Moak
Information’s Social Highways
A startup studies the paths taken by viral messages
“ There is no recipe for virality, says Gilad Lotan, head of R&D for a startup called SocialFlow, which aims to help clients from the Economist to Pepsi more effectively capture attention on Twitter. But the deluges of data that viral tweets generate hold potentially valuable insights into how and why certain things spread beyond their author’s network of regular contacts.”
Full Story: Technology Review
McKinsey Q has published an interesting interactive graphic about the cities of the future - i e 2025. Looking at this image taken from their showing the future hotspots tells us clearly that the western world is not at the center of the world anymore… Click on the link to play with graphics for yourself.
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When Amazon launched its lending library on November 3, the collection had only 5000 titles. But the collection has grown exponentially since then, as the Public Libraries blog points out, with 66,037 titles available the morning of December 28.
Some of this growth is undoubtedly because Amazon decided on December 8 to expand the collection beyond titles from established publishing houses and also to include works from self-published authors, but the size of the collection and the speed with which it has grown is, nevertheless, impressive. Amazon says on its website that the library also contains “more than 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers.”
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