| Eight Companies With the Potential to Disrupt the Media Pete Erickson is trying to become the go-to man that brings innovators and industries together. Through his Disruptathon series, he travels North America, putting on one-day events where entrepreneurs compete in front of industry leaders to present disruptive ideas. The prizes are not large, but the opportunity for brand awareness in front of industry leaders can be invaluable. Disruptathon came to the Washington D.C. area on Thursday evening with eight entrepreneurs in tow to make their pitches at USA Today headquarters in McLean, Va. When it comes to disruption, the news industry was hit hard by lack of innovation and forward digital thinking. As one presenter put it: "the foundation for the news business has shifted." Take a look at the eight startups trying to change the way we consume, produce or interact with the news.
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Retailers Failing to Deliver on Consumers' Mobile Desires A new report from e-commerce platform maker Demandware dug into today's mobile shopping trends among consumers and found that retailers are falling short of delivering the experiences customers want. Although there's high demand for things like barcode scanning, branded applications, mobile checkout, price comparison services, mobile coupons, access to mobile product information and more, many retailers simply aren't offering these types of tools to their customers.
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Facebook to Launch iPad App, Says Report Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said, when asked when we would finally see an iPad app for the social networking service, "iPad isn't mobile. It's a computer, sorry." The implication was that there would never be a Facebook app for Apple's tablet computer, because, frankly, it didn't need one. Now, according to a new report, things may have changed. An official iPad app for Facebook could be only be weeks away.
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How Real Time is Changing the Way We Work Instant access to information has change the world. In the early days of the Internet, people buzzed about the "Information Superhighway." Thinking back to the early 1990s and the first iterations of America Online and Netscape, everything seems so...quaint. In the mid-1990s, it took two minutes or more for a modem to make a connection and boot the World Wide Web for your "surfing" pleasure. Two minutes is an eternity in today's Internet and communications landscape. The ability to send messages and find information in real-time has certainly changed the way we work and live.
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Google Makes It Easier to Use "Related Search" On the heels of some major search improvements earlier this week, Google has announced another round of search-related updates today - this time to its "related search" feature. On the surface, these changes are simply meant to make the display of related queries much easier for users to navigate. Starting today, if you perform a search on a particular category, Google will display some of the most popular and referenced items within that category. It will also include the three top sources of this information.
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RIM's Q1 Report: BlackBerry Sales Fall Short, Layoffs Coming Research in Motion has just held its earnings call for the first quarter of fiscal 2012, and the news doesn't look too great. "Fiscal 2012 has gotten off to a challenging start," said Jim Balsillie, RIM's Co-CEO. "The slowdown we saw in the first quarter is continuing into Q2, and delays in new product introductions into the very late part of August is leading to a lower than expected outlook in the second quarter."
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Mozilla Working on pdf.js, Will Render PDFs in HTML5 Mozilla is working on technology that will allow PDF documents to be rendered within the browser, rather than utilizing a browser plug-in or an external app to open them. On his blog, Mozilla researcher Andreas Gal has described the project to build a PDF reader in HTML5 and JavaScript. Typically, PDFs are rendered in a browser with a plugin - either with Adobe's own PDF reader or with another provider's renderer. These plugins often cannot take full advantage of PDF features. Furthermore, as Gal points out, there is quite a large trusted code base, something that's forced the Google Chrome browser to have sandbox the PDF renderer in order to avoid code injection attacks. An HTML5 version would be make this more secure, as would the open source nature of the project.
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Pottermore: J.K. Rowling Launches a Mysterious New Website Avid Harry Potter fans followed a series of online clues yesterday that led them to Pottermore.com - a fairly standard "coming soon" website with a magenta background and a couple of owls... oh, and a signature of one very famous author: J.K. Rowling.
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Imprisoned Syrian Blogger a Fake: This Week in Online Tyranny Gay Girl in Damascus a straight man in Scotland. When the "cousin" of blogger "Amina Abdallah Arraf" reported her abduction, people around the world were upset. This lesbian, half-American Syrian blogger seemed like someone they could relate to. Soon, questions arose and, in part due to the efforts of NPR's Andy Carvin, it came out that this was a fake account. It turned out the blog was created by Tom MacMaster, an American living in Scotland. Regardless of his motivations, which seemed decent, it was a profoundly stupid move that will be seized by detractors to "prove" there are no oppressed bloggers in tyrannical regimes and no gay women in Arabic countries.
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Firefox Extension Brings Semantic Recommendations to Browser Tabs Mozilla is always experimenting with how content is searched and discovered in Firefox. Mozilla Labs has released a new experimental feature today in its Prospector series. Called Predictive NewTab it supplements the fixed list of top sites presented to users when they open a new browser tab in Firefox. The idea is to use the semantic data of browser history and tagged bookmarks to give users recommendations of places to visit on the Web when they open a new tab. It should make the "speed dial" list of sites users frequently visit faster and more relevant.
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You should see how my pal Wesley Virgin's biography begins with this SHOCKING and controversial VIDEO.
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact, Wesley was in the army-and soon after leaving-he found hidden, "mind control" tactics that the CIA and others used to get everything they want.
THESE are the same tactics many famous people (notably those who "come out of nowhere") and elite business people used to become wealthy and famous.
You've heard that you use less than 10% of your brain.
That's really because most of your brainpower is UNTAPPED.
Maybe this thought has even taken place INSIDE your own head... as it did in my good friend Wesley Virgin's head 7 years back, while riding an unlicensed, beat-up trash bucket of a vehicle with a suspended license and in his pocket.
"I'm very fed up with living check to check! When will I finally succeed?"
You took part in those types of questions, ain't it so?
Your success story is going to be written. All you have to do is in YOURSELF.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN WESLEY'S METHOD