Within the last few months, I’ve grown increasingly addicted to the question and answer site Quora. The breadth of topics about which the site’s users inquire is matched only by the depth and quality of the answers Quora users typically provide. It’s fun and intellectually stimulating to participate in discussions on topics of both an [...]
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1 Comment »The folks over at Pingdom have compiled an amazing breadth of statistics pertaining to the Internet as of the end of 2010. The numbers are staggering, interesting, and just as revealing as Amazon’s 2010 holiday sales statistics. Excerpted stats are listed below, but definitely consider checking out the source site for the complete picture with [...]
Forget about Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, and all the other platforms trying to aggregate online content into an easily accessible interface that bypasses traditional providers of television programming. Their inability to access the amount of basic content available with a cable TV subscription is their Achilles heel. Announcements today at the 2011 Consumer Electronics [...]
Much of the hype surrounding mobile payments and the digital wallet of the future has focused on the means by which small retailers can accept credit card payments with a smartphone. Platforms from startups like Square give the smallest retailers a convenient and reliable way to tap into the ubiquity of credit cards as a [...]
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