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This Happens In an Internet Minute: The Astounding Growth of Web Content

To put some perspective on this explosion of content and web traffic here are the facts on the growth of content and the internet.

Compared to 2008 here is what's happened with social networks:

• The number of people online has more than doubled from 1.4 billion to over 3 billion
• Facebook has gone from 80 million users to more than 1.4 billion
• Twitter had 2 million accounts and now it is 300 million and counting.
• The number of smartphones was 250 million in 2008 and today there are more than 2 billion. That is an 800% increase!

Today this is what happens every minute on the web.

• 4 million search queries on Google
• Facebook users share 2.46 million pieces of content
• Email users send 204 million messages

 

Source: Aci.info via Jeff Bullas.

And this is just the beginning.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

The best new science skill is ...

 

 

via The New Yorker.

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Invent the Future. (HBR)
• Transformation: The Imperative to Change. (BCG Perspectives)
• 100 Years of Change. (Daily Infographic)
• The Quest to Measure Machine Intelligence. (MIT Technology Review)
• Why Scientists Believe Dogs Are Smarter Than We Give Them Credit For. (Vox)

 

Trading Links:

• Billionaires 2015: The Richest People on the Planet. (Forbes)
• Where Do the World’s Wealthiest People Live? (WSJ Blogs)
• Why Americans Are Giving Up Their Passports. (NYTimes)
• Quantum Computers Will Change The World, Business, and Trading. (BizInsider)
• Should Mutual Funds Be Illegal? (Bloomberg View)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Attracting the Faithful isn't as easy as it used to be.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Disruption Machine. (New Yorker)
• How Watson Changed IBM. (Harvard Business Review)
• Download the 'Conversational Geek' e-book. (Infoworld)
• 25 of Oscar Wilde's Wittiest Quotes. (Mental Floss)
• What Democrats can learn from Republicans. (Vox)

 

Trading Links:

• Michael Lewis Reflects on Flash Boys. (Vanity Fair)
• High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Rise. (Businessweek)
• The 20 Fastest-Growing Economies This Year Business. (Bloomberg)
• Feds’ Crystal Ball Shows Oil Comeback. (Investing Daily)
• Presenting De-Dollarization in One Simple Map. (ZeroHedge)

The Dangers of Selfie Sticks - PSA Parody

This PSA parody warns people to stop abusing their selfie sticks.

Apparently, self-obsessed people will go to any lengths to top other selfie addicts. This results in longer selfie sticks, and increasingly dangerous situations. 

 

 

via YouTube.

The video ends by asking viewers to “please selfie responsibly,” an aptly-timed message considering Disney World’s recent ban on selfie sticks at the theme park.

This social commentary is a cleverly disguised Pizza Hut ad.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Do you know what this is a picture of?

 

 

 

While, it isn't a Mother's Day present ... it does represent my hope that you had a fun Cinco de Mayo.

 

Living in Texas, it wasn't hard to find a place to celebrate.  At this time of year, the State motto might as well be:

 

 

 

 via someecards.

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• What Research Tells Us About Making Accurate Predictions? (HBR)
• Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015. (Forbes)
• Why Scientists Believe Dogs Are Smarter Than We Give Them Credit For. (Vox)
• Healthy in a Falling Apart Sort of Way. (Well)
• Most Exclusive Golf Clubs in the U.S. (Business Insider)

 

Trading Links:

• China Has Overtaken the U.S. as the World’s Largest Economy. (Vanity Fair)
• The Outlook for Global Growth in 2015. (McKinsey)
• For Hedge Fund Managers, The Only Thing Worse Than Divorce Is Marriage. (BI)
• Technology’s Evolving Role in Wealth Management.  (Performance)
• 5 Things We Learned About Amazon’s Cloud from Its First Earnings Report. (NetworkWorld)

Are Battery Power and Wifi the New Food and Shelter?

I went to NYC, last week, for a conference and meetings. 

Everything seemed fine till I got there, and realized that I forgot the little bag that holds all my cables and chargers.

Funny how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs changes without electronics.

 

 

I didn't realize how dependent I am on my little electronic companions.

What about you?

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

You probably heard that Russians hacked into President Obama's e-mail.  Here's what it might have looked like.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Problem with Positive Thinking. (NYTimes)
• How to Invent the Future. (HBR)
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2015. (MIT Technology Review)
• Lutheran Insulter:  List of Insults. (ErgoFabulous)
• The Death of Textbooks?  A.I. software is reshaping traditional teaching materials.  (The Atlantic)

 

Trading Links:

• How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero. (NYTimes)
• These Will Be the World's 20 Largest Economies in 2030. (Bloomberg)
• A Sign of the Times? Austria to No Longer Guarantee Bank Deposits. (Goldcore)
• A Look Back at Dallas Fed Fisher’s Flashiest Quotes. (WSJ)
• Santelli Stunned As Janet Yellen Admits "Cash Is Not A Store Of Value". (ZeroHedge)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Are we evolving ... or getting dumber?

 

via Scott Adams.

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Ultimate List of 20 Motivational Tools for Every Entrepreneur. (Read)
• Gartner Predicts Three Big Data Trends for Business Intelligence. (Forbes)
• 6 Google Flights Tricks That Are Better Than Any Travel Agent. (Huffington Post)
• How Terrible In-Flight Wi-Fi Will Finally Become A Thing Of The Past. (FastCompany)
• The Speech President Nixon Would Have Given If Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Had Died on the Moon. (Vox)

 

Trading Links:

• How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market?  Zero. (NYTimes)
• These Will Be the World's 20 Largest Economies in 2030. (Bloomberg)
• A Sign of the Times? Austria to No Longer Guarantee Bank Deposits. (Goldcore)
• A Look Back at Dallas Fed Fisher’s Flashiest Quotes. (WSJ)
• Santelli Stunned as Janet Yellen Admits "Cash Is Not A Store Of Value". (ZeroHedge)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Did you have fun filling out your taxes?

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Expansive Qualities of Genius. (Evoking Genius)
• The Art of Performance Management and KPIs. (BCG Perspectives)
• Scientists Discovered How Much Sex Happy Couples Have Every Month. (Insider)
• Why We Love Back Rubs, Chili Peppers, and the Sex from “50 Shades”. (Salon)
• 20 of Steven Wright's Funniest Jokes. (MentalFloss)

 

Trading Links:

• Bull Session: How to De-Risk in a Bull Market. (Institutional Investor)
• AT&T dumped by Dow. Time to buy?  History suggests it's worth a look. (A.M.)
• Why American Airlines Just Landed In The S&P 500 Index. (ValueWalk)
• Hotels Near Record Occupancy Levels.  Is that a Good Sign for the Economy? (CalculatedRisk)
• Wall Street's Biggest Banks May Have To Make Good On $26 Billion In Oil Hedges. (ZeroHedge)

A Different Look at Things

This video was taken at the SXSW conference.  While it seems a little silly, the video illustrates an interesting point.

 

 

via TimeSlice Films, pioneers in multi-camera array imaging.

 

Perspective is important. 

Being able to see the 'invisible' makes the 'impossible' possible

 

via Flug.

New technology seems like magic until you understand how it is done.