Until there’s another service that all the people I care about use, I’m stuck under Facebook’s big, blue thumb. I can’t click Like on this situation.
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« Pinterest users are 80% female and 20% male. In addition, female Pinterest users are far more active than their male counterparts. 92% of all pins are made by women » (via Pinners be Pinnin’: How to Justify Pinterest’s $3.8B Valuation – Ecommerce Blog)
Don’t be afraid of robots—be afraid of becoming one – Quartz
« Apparently fearing the robot takeover and the potential for a society of “cultivated leisure” we are now desperately trying to become robots ourselves in order to boost our productivity. While Silicon Valley pumps billions of dollars into realizing the Singularity, app developers, the military and many others are busy trying to decode our brains in order to hijack them into efficient robotic productivity ».
Le français Lafourchette racheté par l’américain Tripadvisor, Actualités
« C’est une nouvelle start-up française qui va sans doute passer sous pavillon américain. La société américaine Tripadvisor a fait une offre exclusive de rachat sur le site de réservation de restaurants Lafourchette ».
« Amazon sold $67.8 billion of electronics, media and other products last year — more than its next 10 biggest online competitors combined ». (via Apple Jumps to Second Place in Online Retail – Corporate Intelligence – WSJ)
Antivirus “is dead,” says Brian Dye, Symantec’s senior vice president for information security. “We don’t think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way.” Antivirus products aim to prevent hackers from getting into a computer. But hackers often get in anyway these days. So Mr. Dye is leading a reinvention effort at Symantec that reflects a broader shift in the $70 billion a year cybersecurity industry. Rather than fighting to keep the bad guys out, new technologies from an array of companies assume hackers get in so aim to spot them and minimize the damage.
Without legal options it’s hard to beat unauthorized copying, Google argues. “Piracy often arises when consumer demand goes unmet by legitimate supply. As services ranging from Netflix to Spotify to iTunes have demonstrated, the best way to combat piracy is with better and more convenient legitimate services,” the company explained. “The right combination of price, convenience, and inventory will do far more to reduce piracy than enforcement can.”
Who knows, at some point in the future, we might all look back and laugh at how silly it was to need to know things like email addresses and URLs at all.