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"Appcessories" like this one were big at this years CES. Things like Nike Fuelband- that function as a physical item linked to a smartphone app, or even integrated throughout the phone platform- will be huge in coming years..

#Internet of Things

#Reviews

Turning physical fitness into a game with a universal scoring

#Gamification

Twine is a kickstarter project making a "puck filled with sensors" that detects anything from moisture to magnetism to connect things to the internet. It'll tweet/text you status updates based on commands. No coding skills required.

#Internet of Things

For there is a paradox of virtue, a cousin to Keynes’s paradox of thrift (where spending less and saving more is individually a good thing but bad for general economic health). Refusing to spend money on any product unless it is ethically manufactured is indisputably right. However, refusing to spend money—or feeling guilty for doing so—traps us both backward and forward. The backward trap comes from wishing that the Foxconn factories did not exist. In 1980, China’s GDP per capita was near the bottom of any country in the world—half the level of Sudan, for instance. By 2010, China’s GDP per capita had increased thirteen times and is now three times higher than Sudan’s. The teenagers coming to Foxconn factories to be dehumanized into machine parts often started their lives in rural villages where life is arguably worse. China’s suicide rate is the highest in the world, 287,000 people each year. But the rate in rural areas is three times higher than in urban ones. However ugly and unforgivable the conditions of factories in China, however frightening and potentially fatal China’s environmental and foreign policies, basic economic development there—and the increased human happiness—is hard to wish away.

n 1: Outsourcing Jobs

#Apple #Antitrust

#Attention Economics

#Gamification

#Gamification #Digital Labor

Ambient Retail

#Ambient Retail

#Digital Labor

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth [laughter]. LinkedIn is greed. With Facebook, it's vanity, and how people choose to present themselves to their friends. It's the feeling of being connected. I like to emphasize the importance of the deep universal, psychological structure in people's minds. Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity. With LinkedIn it's taking control of your economic destiny and improving how you operate as a professional and how you can develop a competitive advantage. These are fundamentals for having a fulfilling quality of life.

Venture Capitalist Reid Hoffman - WSJ.com

#Social networks

#Open education

#Retail

#All brands are media

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