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    pewinternet:
    New Twitter stats: 15% of online adults use Twitter, 8% do so on a typical day

    We’ve got brand spanking new Twitter numbers out today! As of February 2012, overall Twitter adoption by online adults is at 15%, which has remained steady since May 2011, when overall Twitter adoption by Internet users was 13%. Notably, though, the % of online adults who use Twitter on a typical day has doubled since May 2011 and has quadrupled since late 2010—at that point just 2% of online adults used Twitter on a typical day. Now, 8% of online adults use Twitter on a typical day.

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    More key findings:

    • African-Americans continue to use Twitter at very high rates—28% of online African-Americans are Twitter adopters, and 13% use the service on a typical day.
    • Usage by young internet users (those 18-24 years old) increased dramatically over the last year, with nearly one in three now using Twitter.
    • Our data also suggests that these trends are deeply intertwined with mobile Twitter usage on smartphones. Fully 20% of smartphone owners use Twitter overall, and 16% use the service specifically on their cell phones.
    Read the full report
    Source: pewinternet.org
    #Twitter #stats
     
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    thenextweb reblogged dbreunig:

    dbreunig:

    With a $4.61 battery and a 64GB compact flash card, one can turn a dead iPod Mini into a cheap music box for throwing in a gym bag or backpack.

    iFixit’s instructions worked perfectly.

     
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    nypl:
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
    — Dr. Seuss
    #Lit #quote #Dr. Seuss
     
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    pewinternet:
    New report out today: Teens & Online Video

    When we asked teens about a number of online behaviors in our July 2011 Teens and Online Behavior survey, we found that when it comes to video:

    • 37% of internet users ages 12-17 participate in video chats with others using applications such as Skype, Googletalk or iChat. Girls are more likely than boys to have such chats.
    • 27% of internet-using teens 12-17 record and upload video to the internet. One major difference between now and 2006 is that online girls are just as likely these days to upload video as online boys.
    • 13% of internet-using teens stream video live to the internet for other people to watch.
    • Social media users are much more likely than those who do not use social media to engage in all three video behaviors studied.

    Read the full report …

    Source: pewinternet.org
    #teens #video
     
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    smarterplanet reblogged emergentfutures:
    What happens when you give Kindles to kids in Ghana? Results:
    • Kids learned to use e-readers quickly even though 43 percent of them had never used a computer before. Also, not surprisingly, they were quick to discover “the multimedia aspects of the e-reader, such as music and Internet features.”
    • Near-zero theft. Only two e-readers (out of 600) were lost in the whole study, partly because “community involvement was encouraged through e-reader pledges, community outreach programs, and support from community leaders.”
    • Kids got access to way more books. Before the study, primary-school students had access to an average of 3.6 books at home. Junior-high students had access to an average of 8.6 books at home and high-school students access to an average of 11 books. With the e-reader program, kids had access to an average of 107 book.
    • Primary school students’ test scores improved, but effects on older kids were less clear. The reading scores of primary-school students who received e-readers increased from 12.9 percent to 15.7 percent. But results for older kids were mixed.
    • Students sought out access to international news. “Amazon data revealed that students were downloading The New York Times, USA Today, and El País etc., demonstrating that students want to access a wide range of reading materials that were previously inaccessible.”
    • Kindles break too easily. Worldreader had not predicted how many Kindles would break: 243 out of 600, or 40.5 percent. 
    • The program appears cost-effective. Worldreader estimates that “for the years 2014-2018, using a calculation focused strictly on the provisioning of textbooks, the e-reader system would cost only $8.93-$11.40 more per student over a 4 year period [$0.19 to $0.24 per month] than the traditional paper book system.”

    via courtenaybird:

    Source: courtenaybird
    #education #ebooks #Kindle #e-reader
     
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    digithoughts:
    The fastest growing consumer technologies

    Source: Asymco

    #tech #mobile #smartphones
     
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    pewinternet reblogged pewresearch:

    pewresearch:

    A new report finds that mobile devices are adding to people’s news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. 

    #news #media #mobile #journalism
     
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    smarterplanet reblogged saveplanetearth:

    Global Water Supplies Threatened by Climate Change, Increased Demand @ TreeHugger

    Our world’s freshwater supplies are threatened by rapid urbanization, a huge increase in the demand for food, and the diverse effects of climate change on water supplies, and a “radical new approach” is called for, according to a new United Nations report. (…)

    Increasing demand and climate change threaten global water supplies – UN report @ UN News Centre

    saveplanetearth:

    #water #United Nations #Water Development Report #cities #food
     
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    thenextweb:
    #Tech #IBM #quotes
     
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    agencycreative reblogged adwriter:

    escapekit:

    It’s what you answer to 

    Source: fiveless.deviantart.com