One guy is sleeping, two people are browsing Reddit, this girl just found out her ex is engaged through Facebook: a typical MOOC class?
Here are four smarter takes on the web university phenomenon: http://ow.ly/m32Wu
Your Tumblr account vs. Your Facebook account
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I’M LAUGHING SO FUCKING HARD BECAUSE I LET THE 60 DAY TRIAL RUN OUT ON MY NEW LAPTOP AND THEN INSTALLED SOME OTHER ANTIVIRUS PROGRAMMING BECAUSE FUCK THAT I’M NOT PAYING FOR IT
AND NOW NORTON KEEPS SENDING ME PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE MESSAGES OH MY GOD
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A majority of Americans – 56% – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism, though a substantial minority – 41% – say it is unacceptable. And while the public is more evenly divided over the government’s monitoring of email and other online activities to prevent possible terrorism, these views are largely unchanged since 2002, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds
Business Insider published this graphic as part of an article they did summarizing the McKinsey report which featured disruptive technologies that are impacting the global economy.
“Police are searching for suspects’ photos on Instagram and Facebook, then running them through the NYPD’s new Facial Recognition Unit to put a face to a name, DNAinfo New York has learned. Detectives are now breaking cases across the city thanks to the futuristic technology that marries mug shots of known criminals with pictures gleaned from social media, surveillance cameras and anywhere else cops can find images.” High-Tech NYPD Unit Tracks Criminals Through Facebook and Instagram Photos - New York City - DNAinfo.com New York
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UX Matters Study Identifies 3 Common Ways to Hold A Phone
If you are interested in the usability of mobile phones - especially in creating your next app or mobile site, UX Matters has published a great report on a survey they did of study of “the way people naturally hold and interact with their mobile devices. For two months, ending on January 8, 2013, the team made 1,333 observations of people using mobile devices on the street, in airports, at bus stops, in cafes, on trains and busses—wherever we might see them.”
According to the report: “In over 40% of their observations, a user was interacting with a mobile phone without inputting any data via key or screen. Figure 1 (above) provides a visual breakdown of the data from our observations. The users who we observed touching their phone’s screens or buttons held their phones in three basic ways:
- one handed—49%
- cradled—36%
- two handed—15%”
More information here: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2013/02/how-do-users-really-hold-mobile-devices.php?
I know that I am with the majority as a one-hander. Where do you fit in with the common types of holding a phone?
