Sweden’s decision to hand its Twitter account over to different citizens for a week each has attracted its fair share of controversy, but none more so than 27-year old Sonja Abrahamsson.
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Following leads is an important component for marketing departments. Knowing which leads are interested in your business after receiving an email from you – even months later – is critical in converting each lead at just the right time. To provide exactly this solution, Seattle-based Optify is today announcing the expansion of its inbound marketing suite with Closed Loop Email Marketing Software. read »
Actors Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Costner are nearing the end of their court fight over proceeds from the sale of oil-spill-cleaning devices that Costner's company sold to BP in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. After hearing a week of testimony in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, the jury is set to deliberate. read »
Two recent studies presented at the SLEEP Medicine Conference in Boston this week suggest that sleep deprivation may lead to poor or unhealthy food choices. It seems that a loss of sleep can lead to dysfunction in appetite signaling in specific areas of the frontal lobe, which are responsible for making smart and informed decisions regarding food selection. This further adds to the ongoing link between sleep deprivation and obesity, suggesting that lack of sleep prevents people from making smart[...] read »
If you typically get less than 6 hours of sleep, you may have up to a fourfold increase risk for stroke compared with those who get 7 to 8 hours of sleep and more, according to a recent study presented at the SLEEP 2012 conference in Boston this week. In the study, the elevated risk applied to those who were middle age and older, but who also were not obese, (had a normal BMI) or had a history of more traditional risk factors for stroke (obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, inactivity,[...] read »
Apple is getting ready to kill off Ping, the music-oriented social networking service introduced as part of iTunes in September 2010. read »
Note: The following is a 10-minute talk I gave at Personal Democracy Forum on Tuesday morning, where speakers were asked to comment on the conference's theme of "The Internet's New Political Power." Personal Democracy is an incredible community of political technology thinkers, developers and implementers, and I'm proud to be a part of their network. read »
I'm traveling in Belgium, in fact on my way to Germany and Spain and picking up on some of the local viewpoints. This morning, sat on a train headed into Brussels, the Metro headline reads: "Euro has less than 3 months". The claim is made by Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, in an interview with CNN. CNN headed it "Three months to save the euro." read »
This April, a 3-dimensional “hologram” of Tupac Shakur astounded the audience at Coachella and spread through the internet like wildfire. It wasn’t the first time such a trick had been used – read »
If someone were to describe Overgrowth they might have a hard time getting people to take them seriously. read »
Written by Mark Scott, CEO of Northern Pixels. read »
