Yahoo: Rough and Tumblr | The Economist

Are you kidding me?  I want to scream Yahooo! and tumble on the floor…

What is this world coming to?  Our use of technology to share thoughts and images is creating billion dollar companies and changing commerce.  The internet economy and the gadgets that support it are impacting what we do, how we spend our money and how companies influence what we do and how we spend our money.

Yahoo is making an aggressive move to stay afloat with the cyber giants allowing it to tumble with the best…

Do you Yahoo and tumble?

“AT A recent conference, Ken Goldman, the chief financial officer of Yahoo, admitted that the internet giant had an aging audience and was looking for things to “make us cool again”. The firm’s senior executives appear to think Tumblr can give it a …”

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‘Radio Without Rules’: Google Announces New Music Streaming Service | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

It may be that rules and laws are becoming obsolete when it comes to controlling online content.  Perhaps laws and regulations come from a time when things stood more still and traditions lasted.

Today, the internet and the digital universe continue to expand in a seemingly endless pattern of innovation and entropy that make Napster now seem antique.

“Google announced its subscription streaming service, Google Play Music All Access (wow that’s a mouthful), at Google I/O Wednesday. It’s all about harnessing the power of Google to provide you with stellar music recommendations, on your phone, tablet, or on …”

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CISPA Probably Won’t Be Introduced In the Senate

According to the folks at MASHABLE, cyber space, government intelligence and international and domestic intrigue vis a vis the internet and what goes on between people’s keyboards in their networked relationships and other vital packs of information exchanges through the online data river we call cyber space will not be looked at by the Senate as originally expected.

“The House of Representative’s version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, probably won’t be taken up in its entirety by the Senate, according to a new report. CISPA passed the House last week with bipartisan support despite a veto threat from …”

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Alibaba: The world’s greatest bazaar | The Economist

Perhaps the internet is not so “internet.”  Perhaps the worldwide web is not so wide…

The Chinese are flexing their keyboards and their massive capital and in their wake they are leaving internal and external competitors washed ashore.  New, rising, Chinese companies are weaving a web between buyers and sellers in the largest populated market on earth–China.

The result is a leading internet, already, giant like a Chinese private company called “Alibaba.”  It is peering beyond its borders as it forms relationships with such giants as Yahoo and, according to the London Economist, because of its sheer scale, it is able to keep internet “spiders” like the ones that are the life blood of giants like Google at bay.  The Policy ThinkShop recommends the following Economist article for those who want to be in the know.

“In 1999 Trudy Dai used to spend all night sending e-mails from her friend Jack Ma’s apartment, trying to answer queries from American customers without letting on that she was Chinese. Ms Dai was one of the first dozen employees of Alibaba, an online listings service Mr Ma, a teacher, had just started. It was already having some success connecting small Chinese manufacturers to …”

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Closing the Digital Divide: Latinos and Technology Adoption | Pew Hispanic Center

Given the size, and growing, of the Latino community in the USA, social media, the internet and all things digital are bound to be affected by Latino consumer power….

Also, given the impact of social media on electoral politics and the growth of this community, watch-out for it’s impact in the upcoming electoral challenges…

Checkout the analysis from Pew on Latino digital habits and consumer behaviors….

Latinos own smartphones, go online from a mobile device and use social networking sites at similar—and sometimes higher—rates than do other groups of Americans, according to a new analysis of three surveys by the Pew Research Center.

The analysis also finds that when it comes to using the internet,1 the digital divide between Latinos and whites is smaller than what it had been just a few years ago. Between 2009 and 2012, the share of Latino adults who say they go online at least occasionally increased 14 percentage points, rising from 64% to 78%.2 Among whites, internet use rates also increased, but only by half as much—from 80% in 2009 to 87% in 2012.

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No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan – Philanthropy 50 – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

What started as your kids chit chatting and “wasting time on their computer” is now one of the largest money making business in human history and is creating resources that are challenging the wold’s elite in philanthropy…. Such is the new “WWW” world our heads are in with our feet on the ground while we look up at a world that boggles (perhaps “googles”) the mind!

 

Amount donated in 2012: about $498.8-million

Beneficiary: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Background: Mr. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook, and Dr. Chan is a pediatrician.

Mark Zuckerberg, 28, and Priscilla Chan, 27, gave 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at about $498.8-million, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to support education and health programs.

This is the young billionaire’s second large donation. In 2010, he pledged $100-million to establish Startup: Education, a foundation to support programs working to improve public schools in Newark, N.J.

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Newspapers Turning Ideas into Dollars | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

“All the news that’s fit to print,” has now become “All the news that’s fit to click.”  According to the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism so called “Print Media” has been struggling with the new media marketing paradigm needed to survive in the online market.

“In America’s embattled newspaper industry, some business innovations are showing clear signs of success, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. While many of these are occurring on the digital side, some papers are generating new print revenue-through circulation gains, niche products and even sales reorganization.

The report follows a year-long effort to identify newspaper successes in the search for new business models. This report analyzes four such dailies whose executives explained, in detail, the motivation and strategy behind their experiments and shared internal data about the results with the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.”

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Child trafficking: A cruel trade | The Economist

Our ability to communicate via the internet is pervading every corner of the globe and transforming societies open and close.  China is known for being one of the oldest bureaucracies closed to the so called West.  The Internet, however, seems to be growing inside China and providing new types of hope never before considered inside Chinese walls.  The once great wall now seems permeable by internet culture and international digital currents which China does not seem able to avoid.  The following Economist article sheds some light on this phenomenon:

“THE Chinese new year, which this year falls on February 10th, is a time of family reunions. But Xiao Chaohua is preparing to spend his sixth new year without his son, who was …”

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Information technology: Has Apple peaked? | The Economist

It can be said that Apple was born of Steve’s exigencies and vision and China’s ability to ruthlessly churn out product in mass and timely form.  This dual reality of visionary and mass maker may not be sustainable in the long term.

It can all be summarized, perhaps over simplified, in a few sentences–Apple’s success in market share, its quick to market technological business model, and the need for seemingly immediate mass production and delivery, forced Apple to turn to the one place that can build and turn out mass production like no other place in the history of mankind, namely “CHINA!”  This move, as if it had any other choice, forced Apple to build a market plan that may be compromised by of necessity choosing China’s ability to produce though perhaps at the cost of product quality…

Apple’s mantra and the late Steve’s DNA contribution was the pursuit of ruthless perfection and un-compromised aesthetics for its products.  This business model may now be in question because of the company’s performance and the quality of its products slowly becoming an ongoing topic and the mass production by the China based infrastructure may not keep up with Western consumer exigencies.  If Apple continues to falter on its production timelines, quality or consumer expectations, the current discussion may prove fatal for a company that can’t change either reality–Steve is gone for ever and China may be the only mass market production vehicle?

The pursuit of perfection and mass production shortcoming facts remain to be final and clear as much as the above Policy ThinkShop analysis may frame the discussion and hold…  The London Economist shares to the discussion as follows:

“TECH blogs are abuzz. Pundits are busy pumping out predictions. The company that makes the new device that is attracting so much attention is teasing reporters by being coy about its innovative features. Apple’s product launches are always like this. But this time the fuss is not about an Apple product: it is about …”

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Obama’s Fourth Year in Office Ties as Most Polarized Ever

The Gallup organization shares some survey data to give us perspective on the meaning and impact of the Obama presidency as it departs on a second term.  Although public opinion can be fickle and surveys have traditionally been somewhat suspect as they tend to over sample middle class folks with telephones, stable addresses, speaking “the king’s English,” literacy levels, and a host of other things that make phone, written or even face to face surveys a bit skewed, the Gallup polls do shape public opinion and, if for no other reason than that they are interesting and are a part of the equation that shapes public discourse, they should be looked at and discussed.  Check out what Gallup has to show us and give The Policy ThinkShop your opinion ….  Leave  us your comments below…

“During his fourth year in office, an average of 86% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans approved of the job Barack Obama did as president. That 76-percentage-point gap ties George W. Bush’s fourth year as the most polarized years in Gallup records.”

 

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Daily Number: Texting Is Nearly Universal Among Young Adult Cell Phone Owners – Pew Research Center

How is this new world of instant and non-stop communication likely to affect social relationships and how and with whom we spend out time?

The cell phone and our use of it is rapidly spreading to all and profoundly changing our world.  Interpersonal communication is changing… How will it change the way we live?

“The vast majority of cell phone owners send and receive text messages. Large numbers of cell owners across all demographic groups do so, with the exception of mobile phone owners 65 and older, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey conducted in August and September.”

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Social Networking Popular Across Globe | Pew Global Attitudes Project

The Pew Foundation continues its excellent work on cyberspace and the role that it is playing as it engulfs the imagination of the whole planet.

Must read story on how the internet is affecting the planet and all planetaria’s.

 

“Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed. In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. These sites are also popular in many lower-income nations, where, once people have access to the internet, they tend to use it for social networking.”

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