Facebook Paper
The Facebook Paper, an iOS app launching Feb. 3, wants to reimagine the way we read news(papers); http://eicker.at/FacebookPaper
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Breakers Prefer Real Life
2% of Facebook breakers prefer other ways to communicate: “real life” in particular; http://eicker.at/FacebookBreak
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Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Breakers: Too Busy!
21% of Facebook breakers are too busy with other demands, don’t have time to spend on the site; http://eicker.at/FacebookBreak
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Gerrit Eicker
Cell Owners: Not Responding Quickly Enough
Most cell owners are getting complaints that they are not responding quickly enough; http://eicker.at/MobileConnectivity
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Gerrit Eicker
Mobile: Staying in Touch
65% of cell owners say that mobiles have made it a lot easier to stay in touch with people; http://eicker.at/MobileConnectivity
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Gerrit Eicker
Cell Phoners: Some Still Calling and Talking
12% of cell phone owners like the ability to call or talk with others at any time; http://eicker.at/MobileConnectivity
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Gerrit Eicker
The Internet: Supposed Negative Impacts
Society’s concern with supposed negative impacts of the net will seem old-fashioned soon; http://eicker.at/Hyperconnectivity
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Gerrit Eicker
Human Brain and Hyperconnectivity
Can the human brain adapt to the new pattern in stimuli and compensate for the problems? http://eicker.at/Hyperconnectivity
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Gerrit Eicker
AOADD (Always-On Attention Deficit Disorder)
Hello! Yes, you! AOADD (Always-On Attention Deficit Disorder) is age-defying; http://eicker.at/Hyperconnectivity
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Gerrit Eicker
Web Index 2012
The Web Index: measuring the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations; http://eicker.at/WebIndex2012
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Gerrit Eicker
The Web Index: “Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure. – This is the first edition of the Web Index, which will be published annually. It will eventually allow for comparisons of trends over time and the benchmarking of performance across countries, continuously improving our understanding of the Web’s value for humanity. … Web Readiness: The Index examines the quality and extent of Communications Infrastructure (facilitating connectivity to the Web] and Institutional Infrastructure [policies regulating Web access and skill and educational levels enabling the full benefit of the Web). – Web Use: The Index looks both at Web usage within countries (such as the percentage of individuals who use the Internet) and the content available to these Web users. – The Impact of the Web: The Index uses social, economic and political indicators to evaluate the impact of the Web on these dimensions. This includes measures of social networks, business internet use and e-participation.”
World Wide Web Foundation: “Established by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to achieving a world in which all people can use the Web to communicate, collaborate and innovate freely, building bridges across the divides that threaten our shared future. … However, only a small minority of people – mainly urban, male, and affluent – are part of the Web’s global conversation. Despite the recent surge in mobile internet access, nearly two-thirds of the world’s people [mostly in the developing world] are still not connected at all. And once connected, what people are able to do on and with the Web is increasingly threatened by government controls, as well as by certain commercial practices. We seek to establish the open Web as a global public good and a basic right, ensuring that everyone can access and use it freely.”
The Web Index 2012 “covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure”. The Top 10 nations of 2012 are Sweden, USA, UK, Canada, Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, and Ireland. France (14), Germany (16), and Japan (20) have essential problems with their Web readiness, use, and impact. The Web Index offers great visual insights to its aggregated and segmented data.
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Gerrit Eicker 14:48 on 31. January 2014 Permalink |
FB: “Facebook Paper, explore and share stories from friends and the world around you. Available February 3. – Browse your Paper with simple, natural movements. Stories appear fullscreen and distraction free. Tilt to explore vivid high-resolution photos. Tell visual stories with gorgeous photo albums. Immerse yourself in videos that come to life and fill the screen. Unfold stories and news from the world’s best sources. Choose from sections about a range of themes and interests. Drag in your favorite sections to make Paper your own. Browse through sections to see what catches your eye. Each section includes photos, videos, articles, essays and other insights. Share your stories with friends and the world. Beautiful storytelling from friends and the world. Available in the US February 3 on the App Store.”
RW: “Facebook “Paper” App Attempts To Reimagine How You Read The News – Paper is not a launcher. It is an app, on iOS but not yet Android. It is attractive and makes Facebook more pleasant to read and to share. Whether it will be a hit is anyone’s guess. The app economy has no shortage of news apps available, from Flipboard to Zite, News360, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth. Facebook may find it difficult to dislodge the incumbents in the news app space.”
TC: “Facebook Announces Paper, A Curated Visual News Reader Launching Feb. 3 On iOS. – If Paper succeeds, it could get more people sharing publicly. Who wouldn’t want the chance to be surfaced in Paper and accrue legions of Likes and new followers? This incentive could sway content creators from ditching Facebook for Twitter, and is just one more way the social network is trying to steal thunder from the micro-blogging service. – The web’s a big place, but Paper could use big data and big-brained editors to make it feel small enough to comprehend, just a like a newspaper.”
TC: “Facebook’s New “Creative Labs” Lets The 6,000-Employee Giant Move Fast Like A Startup – It might not be as sexy as Google X with its self-driving cars and smart contact lens moonshots, but Facebook Creative Labs could make its employees feel like they’re the ones in a Harvard dorm room doing it the Hacker Way.”
GO: “Facebook heard you like newspapers, so it decided to make a newspaper app out of your Facebook – Of course, not every standalone app that Facebook launches is a success – after all, it tried to get users interested in Poke, an app that was designed to compete with the viral success of Snapchat, but went down in flames. The multimillion-dollar question is whether Paper will be something that people want to spend more time with, or whether it will just feel like a tabloid stapled together from items they’ve already seen in their news feed, or a pale imitation of Flipboard.”
VB: “Facebook to launch standalone news app ‘Paper’ – It seems almost like Facebook, in realizing the potential of its news feed, set out to create an app that would replace the morning and evening ritual of reading the local newspaper.”
AF: “Facebook To Debut Paper App For IPhone Feb. 3 – Re/code reported earlier this week that Facebook has been hiring contract editors to work on Paper, and those editors are responsible for curating the content that appears in the app’s sections, adding that only content that has already been shared on Facebook by publishers will appear in Paper.”
IF: “Facebook announces Paper – iPhone app available Feb. 3 – Much like Flipboard [or Pinterest], users can also curate “sections,” for categories of news they like and want to read. For instance, a user can have a special section for sports news, or news about a specific topic or country, and Paper will provide stories fit for that interest.”