ANN ARBOR — What started as a politically liberal Facebook meme in support of health care reform morphed as it spread across the social network into hundreds of thousands of variations—some just a few words from the original, but others centered on taxes, beer, or Star Wars’ villain Jabba the Hutt.
The twists on the original text over time in many ways mirrored the evolution of biological genes, researchers from the University of Michigan and Facebook have found. (more…)
Bundestagsabgeordnete, die mit ihren Smartphones im Plenarsaal sitzen und ihre Meinung zu dem Gesagten noch während der Sitzung twittern, sind zum Alltag geworden in der deutschen Politik. Im Gespräch mit dem Politik- und Digitalberater Martin Fuchs wird deutlich, wie dieser Trend die politische Debatte beeinflusst und wie die demokratische Meinungsbildung durch soziale Medien profitieren kann – wenn sie ernst genommen werden.
politik-digital.de:Social Media sind im politischen Alltag der Bundesrepublik angekommen. Wie sind die Entwicklungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit zu bewerten?
Martin Fuchs: Diese Entwicklung steht eng im Zusammenhang mit der sich verbessernden Verbreitung des Internetzugangs. Auf dieser Grundlage haben soziale Netzwerke eine größere Reichweite erhalten. Darin sehen die Politiker ein großes Potential, ihr Metier wieder attraktiv zu machen. Zum einen nutzen sie diese Plattformen dafür, um ihre Meinungen zu verbreiten. So tritt der Abgeordnete in direkten Kontakt zu den Bürgern, was den politischen Diskurs positiv beeinflusst. Zum anderen sind diese aber auch eine Möglichkeit, um Meinungsforschung zu betreiben. Allerdings ist es zeit- und auch kostenintensiv, zum Beispiel wenn Personal für diese Aufgaben eingestellt werden muss. (more…)
Builds a Massive Network of Local Cloud Hubs for Businesses Worldwide with 40 Data Centers Across Five Continents
ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Jan 2014: IBM today announced plans to commit over $1.2 billion to significantly expand its global cloud footprint. This investment includes a network of cloud centers designed to bring clients greater flexibility, transparency and control over how they manage their data, run their business and deploy their IT operations locally in the cloud.
This year IBM plans to deliver cloud services from 40 data centers worldwide in 15 countries and five continents globally, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. IBM will open 15 new centers worldwide adding to the existing global footprint of 13 global data centers from SoftLayer and 12 from IBM. Among the newest data centers to launch are China, Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, London, Japan, India, Canada, Mexico City and Dallas. With this announcement, IBM plans to have data centers in all major geographies and financial centers with plans to expand in the Middle East and Africa in 2015. (more…)
In our life, technology is an essential part in our life, which we will never ignore it. Nevertheless, one thing is sure that sometimes technology comes as a wall in our relationship. Therefore, we fall on it and make our life more miserable as well. Particularly, it is felt very much in our sex relationship as well. The reason is that the technology comes as an intruder in our privacy time. Therefore, that, if we could not immediately avoid it during our privacy time, then our relationship will be suffered also. When we are in any kind of sexual activity, then we should be careful about it. Therefore, that it can hamper our high time in our personal physical journey as well.
Phone call
When you are engaged in sexual activity, then if you get the phone call, you should immediately ignore it. Otherwise, your exploration in the sexual world will be incomplete. Therefore, you should make yourself stubborn in your conviction that you will never receive any phone call during your sexual journey as well. Actually, what happens is that when you will receive the phone call during sexual activity, your partner will be upset most. Therefore, you should be careful in this matter. Otherwise, your relationship with your partner will never see the reality as well. (more…)
New subsidiary will focus on open innovation and collaboration with open source and open standards communities in China.
SHANGHAI — Jan. 16, 2014 — Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech), a subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. dedicated to bridging Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies, on Thursday announced the opening of a subsidiary in China, Microsoft Open Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (MS Open Tech Shanghai).
MS Open Tech Shanghai will have a robust team of engineers, standards professionals and technical evangelists with roots in open source and open standards. The Chinese subsidiary will focus on facilitating interactions between Microsoft proprietary development processes and the company’s open innovation efforts on services and devices by advancing the investments in interoperability, open standards and open source. (more…)
TORONTO, ON — While print media continue to suffer at the hands of their online counterparts, new research from the University of Toronto Scarborough finds that print magazines with companion websites are able to attract more advertising dollars.
“Targeting is as important as ever,” says Ambarish Chandra, Assistant Professor at UTSC’s Department of Management. In a study of magazines in Germany, Prof. Chandra and Prof. Ulrich Kaiser of the University of Zurich found that magazines offering targeted advertising both in print and on the web can charge more from advertisers. (more…)
Im Koalitionsvertrag zwischen Union und SPD wurde ein ständiger Internet-Ausschuss vereinbart, doch dann wurde die Einrichtung erst einmal auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Zuletzt hieß es, der Ausschuss soll im Februar kommen. Erst seit wenigen Tagen hat die Diskussion wieder an Fahrt gewonnen. politik-digital.de fragt bei Netzpolitikern der Koalition nach dem Stand der Verhandlungen.
Für die Bundestagsabgeordnete Nadine Schön (CDU) sollte der Internet-Ausschuss die Funktion von “Schnittstelle, Anker und Motor der Umsetzung der Digitalen Agenda” übernehmen. Er muss die “vielen verschiedenen netzpolitischen Themen zu einem großen Projekt zusammenzuführen”. Aktuell wird über die Zusammensetzung des Ausschusses in Berlin verhandelt. Laut heute.de ist Schön auch als stellvertretendes Mitglied im “Ausschuss für Internet und Digitale Agenda” (AIDA) vorgesehen. (more…)
Gaming companies flock to IBM SoftLayer’s cloud, adding to 130 million players worldwide
ARMONK, N.Y. and AMSTERDAM – 15 Jan 2014: SoftLayer, an IBM Company, today announced that game development studio KUULUU and world’s largest online game servers provider Multiplay are using IBM SoftLayer’s cloud capabilities to power widely popular games such as Battlefield 4 and RECHARGE. KUULUU tapped into SoftLayer’s cloud for higher performance and scale for their newest game created with Linkin Park, the most popular band on Facebook with 55 million followers, called RECHARGE, while Multiplay utilizes SoftLayer cloud to support the mega title Battlefield 4. (more…)
