The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens
Regardless of whether they’re looking for it or just happen upon it, their next big thing might be Tumblr. They want more privacy and less bragging and can find it there. According to Adam Rifkin in a TechCrunch column: “Teenagers, amusing images, sharing only with trusted friends? In some ways, Tumblr is actually Facebook 2.0!” And “some data suggests that Tumblr may have already eclipsed Facebook as the most popular social network among 13-25 year-olds,” writes The Verge.
See the full story here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4049592/the-age-of-the-brag-is-over-why-facebook-might-be-losing-teens
83-Year-Old Inventor Wins an Open Source Competition to Make 3D Printing Cheaper
3D printing's not just a game for the young, as 83-year-old inventor Hugh Lyman recently proved. Lyman won a novelty check worth $40,000 from the Maker Education Initiative, Inventables, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, all big proponents of entrepreneurship and 3D printing, for his latest invention. That invention takes little plastic pellets, which are incredibly cheap, and melts them down into long strands of plastic filament, which are not so cheap. The resulting filament can be used in 3D printers like the Makerbot to create objects, and the Lyman Filament Extruder makes those materials cheaper than ever.
Lyman didn't just invent his extruder spontaneously. In May 2012, Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan and the Kauffman Foundation started up a contest to overcome the high cost of plastic filament spools, which can be up to 10 times more expensive than pellets. Their challenge set a high bar: Inventors had to create an open source machine to convert pellets to filament spools, and the parts could cost no more than $250.
Read the full story here: http://www.tested.com/tech/3d-printing/453924-83-year-old-inventor-wins-open-source-competition-make-3d-printing-cheaper/
ABC Unified: Disney’s new advertising platform could finally put TV anywhere you want it
As TV audiences increasingly turn to online options for content discovery and consumption, audience-measuring firms such as Nielsen have made necessary adjustments regarding cross-platform analysis. The potential of the new metrics will be tested with Disney’s new Unified initiative in which ABC, ABC Family and ESPN will start using Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings to sell their ad inventory.
See the full story here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/5/4066982/abc-unified-disney-nielsen-tv-anywhere-advertising-platform
Digitalsmiths Finds Tablets a Threat to Pay TV
Digitalsmiths' survey found that 26 percent of tablet owners have their cable or satellite provider's app downloaded. Of those people, only 18 percent use the app and 6 percent use it daily.
The study found stronger usage among third-party social TV and TV network apps: 15 percent of tablet owners have downloaded social TV apps, and 30 percent of those people use the apps daily. Also, 32 percent of tablet owners have downloaded TV network apps and 22 percent use them daily.
IR Digital Holography lets firefighters see through flames.
A team of Italian researchers has developed an imaging technique that uses infrared digital holography to peer through chaotic conflagrations and capture potentially lifesaving and otherwise hidden details. By employing specialized lens-free technique, researchers created system that can cope with flood of radiation from environments filled with flames as well as smoke. Team describes its breakthrough results and their applications in paper published in OSA's open-access journal Optics Express.
Read the full story here: http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/IR-Digital-Holography-lets-firefighters-see-through-flames-20003909
I’m starting another content company, and I plan to make a fortune
In my opinion, it is probably the single best venture sub-sector to create, and one that venture capitalists should be scrambling to invest in. In fact, I’ll wager that the venture community is going to have to start putting money into content companies, because they are going to be one of the best performers of the 2010 decade.
1. They are among the least risky investments
2. They have far fewer systemic risks than anything else
3. There is room for many victors in this space
Read the full post here: http://pandodaily.com/2013/03/04/im-starting-another-content-company-and-i-plan-to-make-a-fortune/
The Internet Needs a Plan B
At TED 2013 last week, Danny Hillis, an early Internet user who registered the third domain name ever (Think.com), spoke on the vulnerability of the expanding Internet.
According to Hillis, this once small and trustworthy circle, “a system essentially built on trust,” as he puts it, has expanded “way beyond its limits.” And what frightens Hillis the most about the growth and vulnerability of the Internet is that so many things we don’t even imagine as being connected to the Internet actually are.
“it’s very hard to get people to focus on Plan B, when Plan A is working so well.”
See the whole story here: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/the-internet-needs-a-plan-b/
Disruption guru Clay Christensen says incumbent media players are making a classic mistake
[Philip Lelyveld comment: this is a familiar message from Prof. Christensen, but still a good one.]
Existing players in an industry almost always fail to appreciate how disruption will affect them or understand how to adapt to it, Harvard professor Clay Christensen says, and media companies are making all of those same mistakes.
Existing players are often good at what the Harvard scholar calls “sustaining” innovation, but they are rarely good at disruptive innovation. The latter is the kind that transforms something that used to be complicated and expensive — and therefore available only to the wealthy or those with special skills — and makes it available to a much broader group of users.
See the full story here: http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/28/disruption-guru-clay-christensen-says-incumbent-media-players-are-making-a-classic-mistake/
Leap Motion’s Sick 3D Gesture Control Hardware Will Only Cost
According to Leap Motion, the new technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market, capable of imaging all ten of your fingers, over a 150-degree field of view, at 290 frames per second. Supposedly accurate to around a hundredth of a millimeter, the device monitors a space four cubic feet in size, and can deftly track individual finger tips, the whole hand, or inanimate objects. The video above shows how impressive it's set to be.
See the full story here: http://gizmodo.com/5987240/this-sick-3d-gesture-control-hardware-will-only-cost-80
Dijit and Watchwith Announce Partnership for Second Screen TV
Dijit Media, the company responsible for the NextGuide Dijit Remote has teamed up with Watchwith, a content syndication company, to offer users a solution to synchronize their viewing patterns with a range of new second screen experiences.
Read the full story here: http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2013/02/27/dijit-and-watchwith-announce-partnership-for-second-screen-tv
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