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Hadley Leggett: Baby-by-Number: Parents’ New Obsession With Data
What parents need is a good inoculation of common sense and some self-esteem, to realize that they can do this without a tool. Just because we have computers and hand-held devices, doesn’t mean we need a tracking device.
2010-01-02 to bestof, child, childrearing, children, data, obsession, parenting, technology by soobrosa
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model
Google will pay you to use their mobile OS.
2009-11-18 to bestof, business, free, freemium, good enough, google, gps, technology by lipi
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
Entire markets have been transformed by products that trade power or fidelity for low price, flexibility, and convenience.
2009-08-31 to bestof, business, healthcare, massmarket, military, mp3, technology by lipi
Cody Brown: MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______
Addressing what’s wrong with Twitter isn’t going to come from thin air. It’s going to take a lot of time, development, and platform competition.
2009-08-25 to bestof, business, development, evolution, media, online, society, technology by soobrosa
Allen Salkin: No Twittering Allowed
"It’s nice to keep something off the record. It’s kind of fun.”
2009-08-25 to bestof, media, realtime, technology, twitter by soobrosa
Bryan Appleyard: Steve Jobs - The man who polished Apple
Chief executive of Apple Inc and owner of Jackling House changed the world and cheated death. So why the paranoia?
2009-08-25 to bestof, business, myth, profile, technology by soobrosa
The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Experts guess that between 60 and 75 percent of the NYSE's daily trading volume is just computers trading against one another using a variety of strategies.
2009-08-04 to finance, technology by lipi
Nicholson Baker: Kindle and the future of reading
Can the Kindle really improve on the book?
2009-07-28 to bestof, books, business, e-book, experience, technology by soobrosa
Marc McClusky: The Nike Experiment - How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
Nike has discovered that there's a magic number for a Nike+ user: five. If someone uploads only a couple of runs to the site, they might just be trying it out. At five runs, they've gotten hooked on what their data tells them about themselves.
2009-07-05 to bestof, data, measurement, psychology, sports, technology by soobrosa
Tom Vanderbilt: Data Center Overload
The cloud, he calculates, consumes 1 to 2 percent of the worlds electricity.
2009-06-22 to bestof, data, informatics, infrastructure, it, technology by soobrosa

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