Stunning Vintage Photos of Australian Bike Culture in the Early 1900s | Brain Pickings. Isn’t it surprising to read and look at things from the past? Like this photo from the article above that says “Ice cream the health food of a nation” They probably believed it back then. Makes you want to be more critical with advertising messages now doesn’t it?
Study: iOS Beats Mac OS X In Web Market Share | WebProNews – StumbleUpon. I wrote the following comment on this post.
I think this is from Mac people who were formerly using a PC to browse using ios devices. I have seen also friends who prefer to surf on the iPad rather than use their aging mac laptops. I think that it is easier for people to justify buying an iPad rather than a $1000+ mac laptop.
Here are other articles about Mac marketshare.
http://chimac.net/?s=marketshare
Sprint Lost A Lot Of Money Selling Lots Of iPhones | TechCrunch – StumbleUpon. Interesting situation. I tried Sprint once with a company I worked with and it was a disaster. The phones broke, the service was terrible. Companies really do it to themselves. They don’t innovate, they don’t consider pricing, and they don’t do service, and then wonder why they are loosing customers.
Study: Online Dating Makes People \. This is an interesting meta-analysis of over 400 studies. I have seen this as true with my experience of dating sites. It is especially funny that the pickiest people tend to be the most undesirable and average.
Internet censorship by country – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – StumbleUpon. This is interesting. I never realized all the countries and where they stood on internet freedom.
[Case Study] Your Slow Shopping Cart Pages Are Killing Conversions. Here\’s What You Can Do about It. | Unbounce – StumbleUpon. Nice details and marketing info. This is great for anyone who wants to make money off their website.
Apple – A Greener Apple – StumbleUpon. This was Steve Job’s response to critics. It’s a little dated but still interesting.
Infographic: Worst Web Outages In 2011 | Teknophilia – StumbleUpon. It is no surprise that Bank of America was out for so long. I once banked there and they were terrible. Better than Citibank, which is the worst (most expensive) bank with all kinds of fees. I have rather been impressed with Chase. they haven’t had lots of weird fees.
