Link: “Why Apple Will Turn to Holograms”

“Look around your office hallway or college campus and you’ll see people holding interactive panes of glass. Smartphones and tablets, so revolutionary a few years ago, are quickly becoming commodities.” Von Ben Kunz > Weiter bei Bloomberg Businessweek

Link: “Real-life trending topics: Behavio unlocks your smartphone’s senses”

““When you leave the house, the three things you usually take with you are your keys, your wallet, and your phone,” says Nadav Aharony. One of those three things is a “sensing and processing machine,” he says. (Hint: not your keys.) The smartphone in your pocket knows where you are, who you’re with, how fast you’re moving, whether you’re standing up or sitting down.” Von Andrew Phelps > Weiter bei Nieman Journalism Lab

Link: “Meet the ‘collaborative’ consumer”

“The rise of social media is altering how people shop for everything from movies to food. But is that a social good?” Von Jill Allyn Peterson > Weiter bei Fortune Tech

Link: “Is Google+ a Ghost Town, and Does It Matter?”

“Google+ is a lonely place. At least according to a new study that paints the social networking site as a virtual tumbleweed town. Using information culled from the public timelines of 40,000 randomly selected members, data analysis firm RJMetrics found that the Google+ population, which currently numbers 170 million, is largely disengaged, with user activity rapidly decaying—at least when it comes to public posts.” Von Caroline Winter > Weiter bei Bloomberg Businessweek

Link: “Facebook Wants to Mimic Click-Through Success of Twitter Ads”

“Users were more likely to click on a Twitter ad than a Facebook ad in the first quarter, according to a recent study. Yet Facebook will likely be valued at more than $100 billion following its initial public offering next month, while Twitter struggles to find a consistent revenue stream and remains several years away from an IPO of its own.” Von Dave Copeland > Weiter bei ReadWriteWeb

Link: “Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End”

“People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.” Von Nick Bilton > Weiter bei The New York Times

Link: “Personal Data’s Value? Facebook Is Set to Find Out”

“Facebook, the vast online social network, is poised to file for a public stock offering on Wednesday that will ultimately value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion, cashing in on the fuel that powers the engine of Internet commerce: personal data.”

Von Somini Sengupta, Evelyn M. Rusli > Weiter bei The New York Times

Link: “Collision in the Making Between Self-Driving Cars and How the World Works”

“Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highways, legal scholars and government officials are warning that society has only begun wrestling with the changes that would be required in a system created a century ago to meet the challenge of horseless carriages.” By John Markoff. > Weiter bei NYTimes.com

Link: “Why Facebook’s Data Sharing Matters”

“Facebook has cut a deal with political website Politico that allows the independent site machine-access to Facebook users’ messages, both public and private, when a Republican Presidential candidate is mentioned by name. The data is being collected and analyzed for sentiment by Facebook’s data team, then delivered to Politico to serve as the basis of data-driven political analysis and journalism.” By Marshall Kirkpatrick. > Weiter bei ReadWriteweb

Video: “Using Kinect to build real world Google Analytics”

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