June 2011
55 posts
What’s your influence score?
Companies with names like Klout, PeerIndex and Twitter Grader are in the process of scoring millions, eventually billions, of people on their level of influence — or in the lingo, rating “influencers.” This number would help determine whether you receive a job, a hotel-room upgrade or free samples at the supermarket. If your influence score is low, you don’t get...
“Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling...”
– Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing
“A Mountain View start-up is promising that its camera, due later this year, will...”
– Start-Up Lytro Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry - Ina Fried - News - AllThingsD (via soxiam)
“Nearly all financial transactions arising from spam operations are handled by...”
– Spam Banks
Humans Become ‘Pets’ in Rise of the Machines →
Machines have won the war and the human race is destined to become little more than house pets. That’s the future according to one of the smartest geeks on the planet, Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computers and is convinced that in his lifetime he will see computer intelligence equal that of humans.
