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Why the Tablet Changes Everything
For Strauss Zelnick, the tablet computer represents a kind of Singularity - a convergence of media and productivity into a single, highly portable, optimally viewable platform.
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The Impact of Tablets on Search
More than other devices, the tablet can know enough about you to understand the context around your queries and give you better answers when you search.
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Welcome to The Floating University: Big Think Launches E-Learning Platform
It is the premise of the course that there are precious few important ideas relevant beyond their specific disciplines, but that it is these very ideas that are the foundation of a modern education.
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What Makes Something Go Viral? Babies and Biebers, Not Ballyhoos
Viral content is defined by authenticity, humor and controversy; NYU Stern Business School professor Scott Galloway wrote an email to a student that hit the trifecta. He now uses the experience as a digital media strategy lesson.
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The Future of Innovation at Apple
3 days ago
What's the Latest Development? As many mourn the passing of Steve Jobs, investor confidence in Apple remains unshaken. Industry insiders say the world's strongest consumer technology company is run by a management team that Jobs personally groomed. This includes its new C.E.O. Tim Cook who has ... Read More
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Farewell to the Man who Reframed IT's Frontiers
4 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Apple founder Steve Jobs' death after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer has many reflecting on the mastermind's legacy and his singularity as a tech trailblazer. Apple's board of directors issued a statement saying his brilliance, passion and energy were the ... Read More
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Penn Jillette: Reconciling Atheism with Libertarianism
1 day ago
Penn Jillette answers Big Thinker Adam Lee's question about how he reconciles two world views: his atheism with his libertarianism. Read More
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Farewell to the Man who Reframed IT's Frontiers
4 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Apple founder Steve Jobs' death after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer has many reflecting on the mastermind's legacy and his singularity as a tech trailblazer. Apple's board of directors issued a statement saying his brilliance, passion and energy were the ... Read More
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Why not a Chinese-Owned Yahoo?
6 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Jack Ma, the founder and CEO at Alibaba-Taobao, the successful Chinese e-commerce company, has expressed interest in taking over a distressed Yahoo, prompting some U.S. journalists to predict privacy issues for Yahoo e-mail users, or even national security issues for ... Read More
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Why Richard Branson Blogs, & Tweets, etc.
6 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Richard Branson’s Twitter, Facebook and Google+ profiles are all equally personal and active. Much of what he posts is related to his many philanthropic efforts. But other times, he’s just tweeting his thoughts or writing about his active globe-trotting lifestyle. His ... Read More
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AI Goes Mainstream, Thanks to iPhone
6 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Ben Parr says that iPhones are about to become a lot smarter with today's launch of the new artificial intelligence-powered Assistant. The successor to Siri, the iPhone app that helped users with their daily tasks with natural language voice commands, Assistant allows ... Read More
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New Furore over Facebook Cookies
6 days ago
What's the Latest Development? In May, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook like buttons and other website widgets were setting cookies on visiting browsers that could then be read later and used to track the user across different web properties and back to the Facebook site. As a result ... Read More
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New Ways to Drive your Web Behavior
27 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Start-up Badgeville, which adds gamification features to websites in ecommerce and web publishing, is launching a new product called Social Fabric that aims to move beyond gamification to provide a broad layer of social networking features on websites. CEO Kris Duggan ... Read More
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The Impact of Tablets on Search
27 days ago
What's the Latest Development? The tablet, more so than other devices, can know enough about you to understand the context around your queries and give you better answers, says Norman Winarsky, longtime search expert. "Search becomes a unified experience on a tablet; a unified experience between ... Read More
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Free Content, Not Machines, Writers' Biggest Threat
27 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Will the Pulitzer Prize for 2016 be awarded to a computer program? There is a case that computer-human journalism could improve the product. But the big issue for reporters, editors, and publishers isn't automated text generation. It's the explosion of free human ... Read More
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Amazon & 'Netflix for Books'
27 days ago
What's the Latest Development? As the company prepares to launch its long-rumored Android-powered tablet, Amazon is developing content initiatives to ensure the device is well-suited to delivering ample digital content to consumers and, in turn, more revenue back to the company's bottom line. In ... Read More
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