Interesting case of the
pot calling the kettle black? Has Zuckerberg (Facebook) matured? Is
this a ploy to make their privacy violations look like the work of an
evil secret government agency?
Mark
Zuckerberg's Advice to the NSA: Communicate
(Related) What Mr.
Communication did to his customers.
The App Store will be
packed with updates today as developers roll out new designs and
features to take advantage of Apple's new iOS 7. Facebook is no
exception, but alongside the expected visual tweaking and trimming,
the company is introducing a radically simplified navigation
paradigm. Other developers sweat bullets when they make a big change
like this, but Facebook isn't. It believes users will like the
update because it's already tested it — with 8 million unsuspecting
people.
Perspective We
suspected some confusion as to “cause and effect,” perhaps now
it's time for a little “re-think?”
… Since last year
Ofcom has surveyed the download habits of tens of thousands of Brits.
The latest
data wave shows that between March and May of this year about 9%
of the people in the UK pirated music, with Ofcom signaling a clear
downward trend compared to last year.
The estimated number of
downloaded tracks in the UK dropped from 301 million last year to
199 million in the latest measurement. In other words, according
to Ofcom’s findings a third of all music piracy evaporated in a
year.
The number of people
who admitted to pirating music during the same period dropped as
well, approximately 10% during the same time frame.
This is great news for
the music industry, but neither the BPI or IFPI have cheered on the
findings in a press release. It might be that they are not convinced
by the data, or perhaps they too might have noticed that the
unprecedented drop in piracy had virtually no effect on music sales.
Perspective
Pew:
Mobile Cell Phone Activities 2013
Report: Mobile
Cell Phone Activities 2013 by Maeve
Duggan. September 19, 2013
“Fully 91% of
American adults own a cell phone and many use the devices for much
more than phone calls. In our most recent nationally representative
survey, we checked in on some of the most popular activities people
perform on their cell phones and found:
- 81% of cell phone owners send or receive text messages
- 60% of cell phone owners access the internet
- 52% send or receive email
- 50% download apps
- 49% get directions, recommendations, or other location-based information
- 48% listen to music
- 21% participate in a video call or video chat
- 8% “check in” or share their location”
Perhaps my
students will actually use this...
A
Snappy Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus
Snappy
Words is a free visual dictionary and thesaurus. Enter any word
or phrase into the Snappy Words search box and it will create a web
of related words, phrases, and definitions. Hover your cursor over
any word or phrase in the web to read its definition. Click and drag
any node to explore other branches of the web. Double click on a
node and it will generate new web branches.
Snappy
Words could be a good resource for students that are stuck in the
rut of using the same words and phrases repeatedly in their writing.
Snappy Words will give those students access to alternative words and
their definitions much faster than thumbing through a thesaurus.
For my
students...
Google
makes Quickoffice mobile app free for everyone
… The company on
Thursday announced
that its Quickoffice mobile app, for viewing and editing Microsoft
Office files, is now free to anyone with a Google account.
… As a bonus,
Google is offering an extra 10GB of Google Drive storage for the next
two years to anyone who signs
up their Google account for the new Quickoffice app by
September 26.
Quickoffice for iOS
and Android
lets users create, view, and edit Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and
PowerPoint files on their mobile devices. The app is also integrated
with Google Drive so files can be stored and accessed across devices.
Since we
don't have a football stadium, students are looking for other sports.
This may work.
'Star
Wars' lightsaber thumb-wrestling goes to the digit side
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