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Smallpdf reaches 10 million monthly users

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PDFs are lovely, aren’t they? They give your documents a proper, professional feel. They’re like the digital version of a...

Technology

Want to provide a better service to your users? Get rid of your old feedback button

Cathrine Andersen8 years ago

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European start-up CanvasDropr wanted to provide a better level of service to its users, so it got rid of its old feedback button. And so should you.

Social Media

Meet Twitter’s 500 millionth registered user

Darren McCarra9 years ago

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Twitter passed the 500 million registered users mark yesterday, February 22, and is currently adding new accounts at a rate of about 10.7 per second. Twitter user number 500,000,000 is...@JanickiPiotr.

Social Media

Facebook by the numbers: 845 million users sharing 100 billion friendships

Darren McCarra9 years ago

As anticipated, Facebook filed its initial public offering late last night seeking $5 billion in funding. Inside its filed prospectus, Facebook revealed some great statistics; like how the company had reached 845 million monthly active users by December 2011 and how they shared 100 billion friendships.

Social Media

Google+ adoption rate accelerating, reaches 62 million users

Darren McCarra9 years ago

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Google+ user adoption rate has accelerated to 625,000 new sign-ups each day, with the social network reaching 62 million users in total by December 27th, according to unofficial Google+ statistician Paul Allen and his team.

Web

Why don’t we tweet what we Google? Can end-of-year lists tell us about the year?

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Can Twitter's yearly trends and Google Zeitgeist really tell us about the past year?

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

According to data from the UN, in 2018 55% of the world’s population lived in urban areas, and that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. With an increasing number of people living in densely populated, urban areas, our cities will be forced to adapt. From transportation to sustainability, cities will need to harness technology to tackle these challenges that come with a larger population.

In this episode of Brains Byte Back, we explore what these smart cities might look like, how they will function, and how they stand to change our quality of life.

To discuss this, we are joined by Jonathan Reichental, the CEO of Human Future, a global business and technology education, advisory, and investment firm. He is also the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Palo Alto and the author of Smart Cities for Dummies.

Alongside Reichental, we are also joined by Sumeet Puri, the Chief Technology and Solutions Officer of Solace, a company that specializes in the smart movement of data.

We discuss what transportation will look like in an ideal smart city, how smart cities will be better equipped to deal with accidents and emergencies, and how smart cities will be better equipped to handle and monitor crime.

In addition to the above, we will also look at how drones will facilitate deliveries, how cities can be redesigned based on AI observations, and what an increased number of sensors and cameras means for our privacy.