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Jan 10

Daily Links for January 3rd through January 8th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • Then vs. now: How prices have changed since 1999 – During the subsequent decade, the stock market made us rich as kings, then poor as church mice. We've taken a look back to see how the years have affected the price of 50 things we buy, or wish we could buy. Thanks to inflation, it takes around $1.30 to buy what $1 bought in 1999.
  • UNHsocialmedia.pdf (application/pdf Object) – The study found no correlation between heavy social media usage and grades. There was no
    significant difference in grades between those considered to be heavy users of social media and
    those considered to be light users. For example, 63 percent of heavy users received high
    grades, compared to 65 percent of light users. Researchers found similar results with lower
    grades. While 37 percent of heavy users of social media received what were defined as lower
    grades, 35 percent of light users received fell into that same category. There also was no
    correlation between grades and the social media platform used. For example, almost the same
    number of heavy and light users of both Facebook and YouTube received the same category of
    high and low grades.
  • How Social Media Has Changed Us – Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen social media galvanize thousands over politics, create as many industries as it has destroyed, and offer an abundance of visual and audio entertainment. But has all this incredible change actually changed us, or just the world we live in?
  • 100 Years of Consumer Spending | Visual Economics – A look at the changes in consumer spending habits over the last century.
  • The Big Picture » Blog Archive » Guide to 2010 Outlooks – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO 2010 INVESTMENT PREDICTIONS AND OUTLOOKS[.] We’ve compiled many of the very best outlooks from various analysts, gurus, hedge funds and investors. We hope you find the list helpful in mapping your successful 2010[.]
  • The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
  • Social Media Glossary | The Social Media Guide

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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 15th

  • Are you using Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter differently? | Blog of Mr. Tweet – Recently something struck me as I was checking out Facebook in the morning. One of my friends wrote a note for a party he was having, and I left a somewhat raunchy comment (joking of course). Immediately after that I switched over to Twitter, and tweeted a couple of very professional sounding comments and links.
  • The Atlantic Online | March 2009 | How the Crash Will Reshape America | Richard Florida – The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all?
  • Mining The Thought Stream – What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any imaginable subject or event? Well, then you’d have a different kind of search engine altogether. A real-time search engine. A what’s-happening-right-now search engine.
  • IR theory for lovers: a valentine’s guide – So maybe learning some [international relations] theory can actually help your love life. If it does, and you're lucky enough to find the right person, and then you might decide you want to institutionalize the relationship by getting married. (This assumes that you're straight, of course, or fortunate enough to live in a part of the world that recognizes the rights of gay people to marry as well).

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Feb 08

Daily Links