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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.

Walking in Memphis

Last week I had the opportunity to attend a charity barbecue cook-off in Memphis.

Turns out I was there the night B.B. King died. Here is a picture at his bar that night.

 

 

The group I was with was relatively small ... but accounts for a large portion of the daily ag trading volume on the exchange. As a technical trader, it was interesting to listen to them discuss fundamental trading techniques (like crop forecasts and weather forecasts). But I wasn't ready for what I found when I visited one of their offices.

 

 

 

via YouTube.

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)

Bill Gates: 40 Years in 83 Seconds

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft, becoming the world's richest man.

For his second act, he is becoming world's greatest philanthropist.

Here is the letter he wrote to his employees on the 40th anniversary of Microsoft, last week.

 

Tomorrow is a special day: Microsoft's 40th anniversary.

Early on, Paul Allen and I set the goal of a computer on every desk and in every home. It was a bold idea and a lot of people thought we were out of our minds to imagine it was possible. It is amazing to think about how far computing has come since then, and we can all be proud of the role Microsoft played in that revolution.

Today though, I am thinking much more about Microsoft's future than its past. I believe computing will evolve faster in the next 10 years than it ever has before. We already live in a multi-platform world, and computing will become even more pervasive. We are nearing the point where computers and robots will be able to see, move, and interact naturally, unlocking many new applications and empowering people even more.

Under Satya's leadership, Microsoft is better positioned than ever to lead these advances. We have the resources to drive and solve tough problems. We are engaged in every facet of modern computing and have the deepest commitment to research in the industry. In my role as technical advisor to Satya, I get to join product reviews and am impressed by the vision and talent I see. The result is evident in products like Cortana, Skype Translator, and HoloLens -- and those are just a few of the many innovations that are on the way.

In the coming years, Microsoft has the opportunity to reach even more people and organizations around the world. Technology is still out of reach for many people, because it is complex or expensive, or they simply do not have access. So I hope you will think about what you can do to make the power of technology accessible to everyone, to connect people to each other, and make personal computing available everywhere even as the very notion of what a PC delivers makes its way into all devices.

We have accomplished a lot together during our first 40 years and empowered countless businesses and people to realize their full potential. But what matters most now is what we do next. Thank you for helping make Microsoft a fantastic company now and for decades to come.

 

via Twitter.

Here is a quick video that shows 40 years of Bill Gates and Microsoft (in 83 seconds).

 

 

via CNN/Money.