Pingdom released a new study showing the ratio between men and women on top 19 social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Imeem, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com and Bebo.
The research reveals that women rules the social networking space with a higher proportion of users in most of the sites.
Aging is one of the most striking mega trends changing our society in the next decade. Over the next ten years, aging and how we respond to it will increasingly affect society. The number of 65+ year olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020.
An aging population will have several implications to the society, workforce market and new technologies that will emerge.
But is also interesting to notice that elderly of tomorrow will behave different as elderly of today. Fresher, more technologically savvy, better educated seniors and a big need for elderly involvement in employment and society in general, could change the way will look aging.
Social media is already mainstream media and Singapore is at the forefront. The most wired country in the world with more broadband connections than homes is leading the way on time spent on social networks. With 4.8 broadband connections in total and highly advanced digital pattern, Singaporeans spend in average 1.300 minutes on internet every month according to Comscore.
Is also fascinating to see that Social media is chaging consumer norms and value. For instance, 51% of all Singaporeans trust more in blogs than traditional media, and Blogger is the 6th most visited site in the country. On the 20 top most visited sites in Singapore, 80% are related to social media or user generated content.
About 71% of all Singaporeans belong to a social networking site according to brand republic and they visit social networking site in average 17 times a month . continue reading »
The controversial site wikileaks has released 500.000 text pager intercepts covering a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
The messages were broadcasted “live” to the global community — synchronized to the time of day they were sent. The first message was from 3AM September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, and the last, 24 hours later.
2020 workplace won’t look the same as today. We will see a more flexible, freelance based, highly collaborative and far less secure work world. It will be run by a generation with new values — and women will increasingly be at the control
Technology and the ageing population will be the main drivers of change for bringing opportunities and new ways of work like more flexible career paths and nomadic working environments. Future worker will be highly specialized and the lack of personal contact might change the culture of organizations as an important of their jobs will be teleworking. Finally will seeing a blurfed division between home, work, retail, information, entertainment.
Let me share the top 10 likely truths for the future workplace in this post.
DNA sequencing technology could help us detect genetic predispositions to illnesses and customize treatments accordingly. Today we are just in the midst of a genetic revolution where DNA sequencing is mainly used to either do long read of hundreds of bases on genomes that have yet to be sequenced, or shorter reads that only align with a genome we have already sequenced.
Researchers from IBM were able to simulate the cerebral cortex of a cat (the most advanced part of a mammal’s brain) trough a massive supercomputer power.
The supercomputer has 147.456 CPUs and 144 terrabytes of main memory which simulates up to 1.6 billion neurons and 8.87 trillion synapses. The simulations, which incorporate phenomenological spiking neurons, individual learning synapses, axonal delays, and dynamic synaptic channels, exceed the scale of the cat cortex creates the dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations.
Generation 2020 (by some analysts a segment born around 2000 and graduating from high school by 2020) is the latest generation made up of today’s kids and youth. Gen 2020 will face a very complex world but they are more conscious about it than any other generation before
Social researchers have studied and debate deeply about gen Y or digital natives (segment between 15-30 years) and their rapid embrace of digital technology. Neverthless, generation 2020 is the first group born into a full digital world. It’s like comparing learning a language in school with being a native speaker.
This generation is not currently part of the workforce but within a decade they will comprise 10%-15% of the workforce and and by 2025 they will be the largest generation at work.
Some few weeks back my mother, which is 70 years old, started her own Facebook account. As a new social media user it took her sometime before she really understood the concept of social networks, but after three weeks she started uploading pictures, tagging people, commenting on walls (sometimes without distinguishing between walls and direct messages) and increasing her network by adding all our extended family.
Maybe this is good reflection on how Social media sites are becoming a mainstream channel for communication. And in the case of Facebook, it looks like its attracting a bigger amount of old users meanwhile younger users are focusing more on microblogging.
The world has achieved 4 Billion mobile phone users according to latest report from WCIS. With more than 60% mobile penetration, service providers are looking on how to onboard the next billion subscribers that will come mainly from emerging markets like China and India. According to UND studies, this segment lives on less than $2USD a day.
Therefore, operators wanting to seize this opportunity must find ways to reach less affluent markets in cost-effective and profitable ways. Doing business with the world’s 2 billion poorest people – 1/3rds of the world’s population – will require radical innovations in technology and business models.
But for companies with the resources and persistence to compete at for these customer segments, the prospective rewards include growth, profits and incalculable contributions to mankind.
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