attitudes
Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results
searchengineland.com
Earlier this month market research tool provider Ask Your Target Market surveyed 400 US adults about their attitudes toward personalized search on Google. The results were reported today in eMarketer’s email newsletter. We went back to the source to check out the survey and discovered that... Please visit Search Engine Land...
The Girl Who Cried Sexism
techcrunch.com
A long time ago a friend of mine and I were discussing another female tech blogger. “You know what?” he said. “The truth is — please don’t kill me — the truth is that men just don’t care what women think about tech.” Hmmm… Whether or not you or I...
80% of advertisers: Facebook not as important as the rest of the web
venturebeat.com
Facebook better hurry up and re-send that friend request to GM. Other advertisers are starting to catch on that there is more to the advertising world than the world’s largest social network. In fact, according to a June study by 33Across, almost three quarters of advertisers said that “they focus...
[GRAPHIC] Most Don't Feel Comfortable Sharing Credit Card Info On Social Networks
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Most of us still don't like giving our credit card information on social networking sites, according to a poll of 2,630 adults by Harris Interactive for Digitas. And that could mean trouble - at least for now - for Facebook and other social networks hoping to make good on predictions...
Twitter reaction to Ched Evans case shows rape culture is alive and kicking | Amanda Bancroft
www.guardian.co.uk
Some tweets directed at the woman raped by Evans may be punishable, but the attitudes that led to them are deeply embeddedOn Friday afternoon, the Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans was sentenced to five years in jail for raping a 19-year-old woman. His co-accused, Port Vale footballer Clayton McDonald, was...
Acer: $799 ultrabooks make no profit, aiming for $499 price nonetheless
www.theverge.com
Acer Global President Jianren Weng has been quoted at CeBIT today reiterating something he said at the beginning of December: ultrabooks will drop to the crazy-low price of $499 in 2013 and compete directly against Apple's iPad. This consistent (and aggressive) proclamation prompted us to go and speak with...
French court rules Google isn't liable for YouTube bootlegs of TF1 TV shows
www.engadget.com
France typically hasn't been kind to Google. Today, though, it's cutting some important slack. A court has ruled that the search firm can't be held liable when YouTube members upload clips of their favorite football matches or movies from local network TF1. As in a case involving Dailymotion last...
Sony & NBC Interfere With Fan-Funded Web Series, Accomplish Nothing
www.techdirt.com
ChurchHatesTucker points us to yet another example of how the strictures of the legacy entertainment industry are at odds with modern attitudes towards culture and creativity, and the hypocrisy of those who rely on fair use but seek to limit it for others. First, a bit of background: The NBC...
Sony to set minimum prices, cut model lines in half
www.electronista.com
Sony at uncharacteristic event Tuesday planned a major rethink of its attitudes towards retailers. In an attempt to reclaim its premium image, it was instituting a minimum advertised price for 140 of its product ranges that would prevent retailers from cutting prices too heavily on Sony products. The company's COO...
Before naming your startup, read this.
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I’ve learned a lot from the development of NameLayer, and I’m ready to divulge every trick in my arsenal. In this guide, I provide realistic solutions to the frustrations encountered when naming a company. Plus, I’ll have some fun analyzing both good and bad company names. This guide is divided...
Ask Stack: How to mentor a junior developer?
arstechnica.com
This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites. Josh Johnson asks: Recently, my company has hired a few new developers whose attitudes toward programming are different...
Cindy Gallop of Make Love Not Porn: “People get all weird around sex”
thenextweb.com
Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn. She created the site when she realised what happens when porn replaces sex education in the absence of a healthy approach in society. She’s turned the site into a business venture and in a few weeks time Gallop will...
Pirate Bay Takes Survey About Sharing
www.pcworld.com
The notorious file-sharing site polls Internet users on their file-sharing habits, attitudes, and perceptions of laws....
Seattle: Leave Our Amazon Alone!
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As leading tech firms grow ever more prominent and pervasive, questions are increasingly being asked about their labor practices, attitudes toward customers' data, unyielding competitive streaks and other aspects of their corporate DNA. Is creating jobs and wealth for stockholders enough? When Amazon was in the cross hairs, Seattle said,...
Interview with RIAA CEO: Adjustments in attitudes, laws will mold music's future -- http://bit.ly/be3fE3
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Interview with RIAA CEO: Adjustments in attitudes, laws will mold music's future -- http://bit.ly/be3fE3
Net a “Fundamental Right,” Four Out of Five Say
gigaom.com
Do you feel that Internet access is a fundamental right? Four in five adults in more than 26 different countries agree with you, according to a new poll sponsored by the BBC World Service. The poll asked more than 27,000 adults about their attitudes towards the Internet, and found...
National Center for Public Policy survey of Hi-Ed trends & attitudes http://su.pr/2lTwNZ (via @mylearningspace)
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National Center for Public Policy survey of Hi-Ed trends & attitudes http://su.pr/2lTwNZ (via @mylearningspace)
New University of Washington survey explores attitudes of tea party supporters
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The survey found that those who are racially resentful, who believe the U.S. government has done too much to support blacks, are 36 percent more likely to support the tea party than those who are not....
Online Reputation Management Now a Full-time Job
gigaom.com
Managing what’s being said about them online has become “a defining feature of online life” for many Internet users, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “especially the young.” The center surveyed 2,253 users over the age of 18 about their attitudes and...
Beth Comstock: The Patient-Doctor Disconnect Needs Treatment
www.huffingtonpost.com
In the past year, the health care debate has been all about treating illness and how to pay for it. Missing from the conversation is a simply powerful idea: living healthy everyday. Certainly there's room in the conversation to explore how we can make living healthy as routine as commuting...
Are Incubators and Angels Gaining Leverage On Larger VC Firms?
www.readwriteweb.com
Being a resident of the Phoenix area, which is a significant distance from Silicon Valley, I wasn't able to attend the Demo Day show-and-tell pitch-fest at the end of Y Combinator (YC), but luckily, other reporters were there and have been slowly releasing stories about the companies and the event....
The Perfect Fit: How Startups Can Avoid Hiring The Wrong Execs
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Earlier in the week we mentioned a preview of a presentation Steve Blank is giving this Friday at the Startup Lessons Learned conference in which he describes how startups and larger companies are unique and have differing needs. One the ways they distinguish themselves from one another is that the...
Job instability the new normal and Americans are getting use to it
www.inquisitr.com
At one time, and really not that long ago, job stability was something that we could look forward to as we headed to the job market. I remember when getting a job at the GM factory in Oshawa (Canada) was the ticket to having all the good things in...
3 Tools to Analyze the Sentiment of Your Brand Social Mentions
www.searchenginejournal.com
Sentiment analysis is something very new and immature. Sentiment analysis allows you to identify general attitudes towards your brand (or a product). The goal of sentiment analysis is to assign a given social media comment with a degree of association to three basic categories: positive, negative or neutral. 1. Social Mention...
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