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Curated News - Wearable devices track people via wireless network – USATODAY.com

May 03, 2012

“Wireless carriers, looking for ways to make money beyond transmitting data along their networks for smartphones and tablets, are fueling the boom. “We think this is the single-biggest growth opportunity — that every device is connected,” says Glenn Lurie, head of AT&T’s emerging devices team.”

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Curated News - ‘Be the CEO of Everything You Do’ | Inc.com

May 02, 2012

“be the CEO of everything you do. Approach established processes with a skeptical eye, be the leader of solutions, set ambitious goals for yourself and measure your progress. Take risks, learn from failure, share ideas, and have high expectations of those you work with. Proactively add to your job description if you see a gap that needs to be filled. Lead your domain. No task is too small or unimportant to see it as an opportunity to be the boss.”

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Curated News - The Library of Utopia - Technology Review

May 01, 2012

“Innovation is often being restricted today for legal reasons, not technological ones,” says David K. Levine, an economist at Washington University in St. Louis and coauthor of Against Intellectual Monopoly. In many areas, he says, “people aren’t creating new products because they fear a nightmare of copyright litigation.”

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Curated News - The Library of Utopia - Technology Review

April 29, 2012

“In his 1938 book World Brain, H.G. Wells imagined a time—not very distant, he believed—when every person on the planet would have easy access to “all that is thought or known.”

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Curated News - A $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company

April 28, 2012

“So, the total payout from one unassuming asteroid? $20,000,000,000,000.”

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Curated News - ExtremeTech » Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind

April 26, 2012

“The true power of IPS, though, would come from linking your real life analytics to other streams of data, such as social graphs and payment systems. IPS could track where and when you are most likely to use Facebook or Twitter, and tell you which locations are conducive to happy (or sad) status updates. IPS could be used to create beautiful heatmaps of where you spend money”

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Curated News - ExtremeTech » Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind

April 26, 2012

“Starting out in the shallow end, IPS (Indoor Positioning System) would enable a whole new range of “real life analytics” apps. If you love how that Nike+ GPS app tracks your running speed and distance, an IPS version would blow your mind. IPS could track exactly how many steps you take and how many stairs you climb — and calculate, quite precisely, how many calories you burnt in the process. IPS could keep a perfect record of how many minutes you spend in the gym (and on which machines).”

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Curated News - Are You Ready for Smarter “Personal” Analytics? « A Smarter Planet Blog

April 25, 2012

“this growing demand for devices is driven by “information seekers” — people who will increasingly turn to technology to help manage health-related challenges to reach their wellness goals.”

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Curated News - All APIs are not created equal. | SmartData Collective

April 25, 2012

“Not only are APIs certainly not like Lego, they are not equal. Talk to a developer and you’ll find out pretty quickly that they range from the well-formed and functional to the fiendishly complex and arcane. Then ask about the documentation. Then probably buy them a beer to recover from having to relive personal nightmares.”

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Curated News - Thinking About Side Effects of Personal Informatics Systems | Quantified Self

April 25, 2012

“Personal Informatics systems often deal in domains and utilize data that are just that: personal. These systems use data that we create through our daily activities (such as going for a run with Nike+) and help us review it in a way that encourages reflection and self-knowledge.”

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