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Fancy hits 500,000 users with Pinterest-like social shopping service

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Platforms like Fancy are a prime example of what the future of retail looks like. Users Curate what they like and then create a market for the product by the community voting on it and thus forcing a merchant to offer deals.

Well, Fancy is not Pinterest big by any means but it’s seen its user base double in the last two months to 500,000 users, who are fancying or curating more than half a million items a day. I thought this was an interesting idea because it was sort of a…

Creativity tools: The next wave of iOS apps?

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When Snapguide debuted last week it received pretty good reviews in the press. But more importantly, it got a “very warm response,” as founder Daniel Raffel put it, from new users. He’s barely been sleeping, staying up to answer a constant stream of feedback emails about his very slick and good-looking…

FTC Releases Final Report On Protecting Consumer Privacy

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The Federal Trade Commission (“Commission” or “FTC”) released the much-anticipated final version of its report entitled “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change” (“Final Report”), which sets forth legislative recommendations for policymakers concerning privacy and data security and best practices for business for addressing online and offline privacy…

The Future of Apps and Web

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A high-impact cover story in Wired magazine in 2010 asserted in its title: “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.”1 Authors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff argued that the World Wide Web was “in decline” and “apps” were in ascendance. This is not just a debate about technology use…

The Trigger Effect – [video] – James Burke Connections

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This is a long video coming in at just over 49 minutes but highly relevant today given the current state of technology.

Here’s a brief description from the video…

“The Trigger Effect” details the world’s present dependence on complex technological networks…

The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything

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We often don’t think about how much things can change but this graph shows clearly the path we are on. How will the rise of nanodata change your business or your industry? The best question is how do you get ahead of this wave so you can ride it in…

Computing isn’t just getting cheaper. It’s becoming more energy efficient. That means a world populated by ubiquitous sensors and streams of nanodata.

Less energy: The number of computations computers can carry out using the same amount of energy has been increasing by a factor of two every 1.5 years.Jonathan…

The Inevitable Next Economy

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This gives some thought provoking insight, something to consider.

Human civilization has progressed through many stages. Each stage arose from the “integration” of the tools developed in the prior stage. Believe it or not, the next economic paradigm will arise from the integration of the tools being developed in the current stage of human development. Let me explain:

FTC Calls for “Privacy by Design”

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today released a set of recommendations for businesses and Congress about the collection and use of consumers’ personal data.

This framework (PDF) has been in the works for years, and in the meantime there has been considerable progress on many of its final recommendations,…

The Future Is “Privacy by Design”

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I think this is really good advice. If your developing an app or anything that takes user information then “designing” privacy into the system as a default is key.

Any company raising venture capital should learn about “Privacy by Design.”

OK, that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but every company raising venture capital should be aware of the new concept of “Privacy By Design,” as it is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS…

Marketing is the next big money sector in technology

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Businesses can now leverage big data for the benefit of driving marketing insights. According to Ajay Agarwal of Bain Capital Ventures, this fundamental shift will create several multi-billion dollar winners, and new technology companies will emerge as the marketing equivalents of Salesforce and SAP.