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Android Has Nearly 54 Percent Mobile Market Share -- comScore
Earlier today comScore released November mobile market share numbers for the US. Android and iOS continued their gains, with Android picking up some momentum over Apple. Some version of the Android OS is now installed on 53.7 percent of US smartphones.
Meanwhile the other smartphone operating systems continued their long slow declines, including Microsoft’s. ComScore’s data suggest no traction for Windows Phones in the US, although there is some evidence of adoption in Europe and elsewhere.
via Android Has Nearly 54 Percent Mobile Market Share -- comScore.
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Starting my Monday feeling 1000x better than Friday. #slayedwintercold
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“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” — Ken Robinson #quotes
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Make Perfect, Light and Fluffy Scrambled Eggs with a Double Boiler
Alton Brown showed us how to do this years ago but props to this video for demonstrating it again. Great way to make scrambled eggs!
Make Perfect, Light and Fluffy Scrambled Eggs with a Double Boiler.
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Wordpress Custom Post Formats Guide
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Facebook terms and conditions: why you don't own your online life - Telegraph
I’ve mentioned a few times to a few people why I chose to post to my blog then cross post to social networks. It boils down to keeping the content I create, however inane under my control.
There is an article about this in the Telegraph which, in part, summarizes the terms and conditions for some of the top sites on the Internet.
What the terms of service say
Facebook
via Facebook terms and conditions: why you don’t own your online life - Telegraph.With over a billion users, Facebook is the definitive homepage for many web users. Its terms of service, data use and cookie use policy span more than 14,000 words over eight separate pages and would take even the quickest reader more than two hours to dig through. But what rights have you handed over to Facebook?
Specifically for photos and video uploaded to the site, Facebook has a license to use your content in any way it sees fit, with a license that goes beyond merely covering the operation of the service in its current form. Facebook can transfer or sub-license its rights over a user’s content to another company or organisation if needed. Facebook’s license does not end upon the deactivation or deletion of a user’s account, content is only released from this license once all other users that have interacted with the content have also broken their ties with it (for example, a photo or video shared or tagged with a group of friends).
Twitter
Fast becoming the second social network behind Facebook, Twitter’s model for monetising the service has yet to be established, a fact clearly seen in its terms of service. Twitter’s terms give it broad scope to use, change and distribute any photos, writing or video posted through Twitter’s service, to any other forms of media or distribution method it wishes, including those which Twitter has not yet thought of or developed. Similarly to Facebook, Twitter’s license also allows it to pass any of your content to any partner organisations for any reason.
Google
Making only small waves in the field of social networking, Google+ is probably not the place where most users first agreed to Google’s terms of service. Most users probably signed up through one of Google’s many online services like Gmail, Google Maps or Google Drive. Luckily Google has a modest set of terms when it comes to user’s content, restricting its use of such content only for “the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.”
Dropbox
The free file storage service that promises to ‘simplify your life’ takes only the smallest liberties with its user’s content and rights. Dropbox limits their use of your data “solely to provide the services… no matter how the services change, we won’t share your content with others…” These permissions do extend to allowing Dropbox to share user’s data with “trusted third parties” but again, only in order to provide their existing services.
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“We are what we do repeatedly” - Aristotle
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Open wine bottle without corkscrew.
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Platforms and Networks: Managing Startups: Best Posts of 2012
I’m starting 2013 with a pretty big reading list.
Platforms and Networks: Managing Startups: Best Posts of 2012.
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Lovely. Looks like I am starting 2013 with a head cold.
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Joe Cotellese Sr. - Mummer
- Joe Cotellese Sr. Mummer Circa 1950
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Handy Laundry Guide
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Foursquare updates privacy policy to show users’ full names publicly and share more data with venues - The Next Web
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Alice
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Light
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Here are the most pirated movies and TV shows of 2012 | VentureBeat
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Gonna be here a while.
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P2 Didn't Quite Cut It
I’ve thought a lot about where I’m posting content and don’t like the fact that where my inane posts end up are in locations that I don’t control.
I’m likely not going to stop posting content but I’d like to at least own it and be able to move it from place to place. So, I decided to dust off my blog and give it a face lift.
I really like the Tumblr model and set out to find something similar. I started with the P2 theme from Automattic but it was ugly as hell and I didn’t have time to tweak it.
Instead, I settled on what you see here. It is the Mindstream (aff) theme from Studiopress. I’m pretty pleased with both the framework and the look of the theme and think it was worth the money.
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Bodymedia System Wishlist
I bought myself a Body Media On Body Monitoring System. It seems to work really well and I got a good deal on Amazon. It was under a hundred bucks.
This is less about what is great about Body Media and more about what they need to improve.
- My confidence in the step counter. I switched the iOS app to workout mode and walked around my house while it the app and armband were communicating. The updates weren't realtime, instead it looks like they were batched. It wasn't clear to me whether it was working properly. You should provide some notification in the UI that explains this. Not something overt like a pop up message but instead integrate the behavior in the UI elements.
- The calorie intake. No one does this well, your setup is especially bad. If I can't easily log what I've eaten I'm not likely to use the tool.
- In an ideal world, I'd like to be able to take a picture of a nutrition label and the software would OCR the data. These labels are standardized so this doesn't seem like a hard problem.
- In a less than ideal world, take a picture of the label, upload it to you and display your form and label side by side to make data entry easier.
- Do you store items that are manually entered by users in your database for public use? It feels like this should be shared pain. It will help improve the database.
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Spicy
Spicy
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Congress Almost Certain To Blow Unemployment Deadline
Happy Holidays from +John Boehner
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As Swing Districts Dwindle, Can a Divided House Stand?
It may not be GOP congressman are irrational after all. #link
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Use the "Layoff Test" to Build Your Professional Network
If you were laid off today, who would be the first ten people you'd reach out to for advice, or to catch up with? When is the last time you spoke with them? If you can't even list ten people, much less remember the last time you caught up with some of the people you would normally call references, it's time to start reaching out now, while you're comfortably employed and don't need anything in particular.
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Blech I ended up going back to Zoneedit...
Blech, I ended up going back to Zoneedit because I couldn’t get setup SPF and DKIM DNS entries through Dreamhost.
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Blech I ended up going back to Zoneedit...
Blech, I ended up going back to Zoneedit because I couldn’t get setup SPF and DKIM DNS entries through Dreamhost.
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