Explore the data behind this animation and read the script [Via Datablog]

It’s been a week, and I still feel a big hole inside of me. Here’s to the Crazy One:

Narration by Steve Jobs

Apple.com’s Main Page:



Wired.com’s Cover Page:

Articles around the web:

• How to Live Before You Die
• Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died
• Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies : CNN
• The Spiritual Side of Steve Jobs : CNN
• Steve Jobs in His Own Words : Engadget
• Time.com : Technology’s Great Reinventor: Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
• Steve Jobs, Cancer Survivor : Forbes
• Postrel: How Steve Jobs Made Business Cool Again :: Bloomberg
• Google Founders :: Steve Jobs was an inspiration
• Steve Jobs’ Legacy: 10 of the Best Apple Ads

Other Related Posts:
• Tribute to Steve Jobs [Infographic]
• 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs [Infographics]

My tweet for today: Everytime I’ll touch the keys of my mac, the screen of my iPhone and listen to my iPod I will remember you #SteveJobs | http://ow.ly/6OQ7X

And one more thing…. THANK YOU!

Great work by Jonathan Mak.

• Part 1 here
• Part 2 here

Education is every child’s right. Attend the La Salle Centennial Congress and learn how to protect it.

In 2010:

• 6.9 Billion – Total World Population
• 2.0 Billion – Internet Users (29% Reach)
• 500 Million- Facebook Users (25% of total are friends to Zuck)
• 150 Million- Twitter Users (30% of FB users share what they’re having for lunch)
• 2.0 Billion – You Tube video views a day
• 7.9 Billion – Apps were downloaded in 2010
• 71% share – of downloaded Apps were from iTunes (free and paid, I guess)
• 5.0 Billion – Mobile Phone service subscribers
• 600 Million – Paid TV Subscribers
• 550 Million – Broadband Connection Subscribers
• 470 Million – Smartphone users, 15M iPad users, 8M Kinect XB0x 360 (in >a year)
• 16% of day – Spent online doing Social Networking
• 9.2% of day – Spent sending Instant messages – (work or otherwise)
• 6.6% of day – Spent sending email – (Again, work or otherwise)
• 6.2% of day – Spent multimedia (music, movies, TV)
• 38% of day – Total Time Spent in front of the PC, Phone or Tablet?????
• 1:24 ratio – Smartphone to Basic Mobile Phone ratio, in our home it is 3:1
• 1:212 ratio – Tablet to Basic Mobile Phone ratio, in our home 0:1
• 1:515 ratio – Laptop to Basic Mobile Phone ratio, in our home 5:1
• 8:00 AM and 11:00 PM – Smartphone and Tablets are king
• 1:00 PM – its the Computer – and 16% of us do Social Networking

and other important facts you will discover yourself…my 16% (3 hrs and 50 mins) is about to end, time to go send emails for the next 6% (1 hr 26 minutes) of my day. Bye!

Source: Fastcodesign’s Infographic of the Day

Tell me if it works.

Watch this first, and let’s see if you have more questions…

Let me see if I got it right:

• It is Hardware-as-a-Service. Google will require a $28 (over heard that it is $20 if you are a student) per month “subscription” for a Chromebook
• Either you pay for the subscription or buy your own. Google announced Samsung Chromebooks at $429 and $499 price points.
• So there’s a question whether you want to acquire one or you subscribe
• Hardware or Software failure? You’re covered.
• What happens if the cloud goes down? But of course, that could never happen – Heh!
• Offline support – not so fast! Google did promise offline support for Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs by this summer. So til then, you can’t edit your spreadsheet or prezo til you get a connection
• I want one- is it available already? Not too fast, it will be launched by June 15
• Dang, I really need one. But Canada will not have it til a later date.
• For now, play Angry Birds all you like on your desktop or laptop – for free, only from Chrome

From Google, to Facebook, what if Social Media and current technology (news online, Yahoo Answers, Skype Chat, etc) were present in Moses’ time.

This is close to an animated movie as the images now almost resemble human figures. Fascinating with content that is easy to understand but you may classify as “something you’ve heard from others in the past.”

Explaining the need for Government to embrace Cloud Computing through Animation in 150 seconds.

Are you watching this video from your smartphone? or from your tablet? If so, you’re part of the 2/3 who get their news from their mobile devices. Consider this data:

• Since 2008 mobile data traffic has ballooned 3000%
• Mobile data traffic is expected to grow 40 fold over the next 5 years
• 90% of the world population has access to mobile networks
• 2/3 of Americans get news on a mobile device
• Mobile web is now more popular than reading books, magazines, and newspapers combined
• Say goodbye to digital cameras & video players
• 76% use their phone to take pictures
• Over 100 million YouTube videos are played on mobile devices every day
• In just 2 years mobile ready sites have grown from 150,000 to 3 million… thats 2000%
• 10.9 billion apps were downloaded in 2010… expected to grow to 76.9 billion apps in 2014
• How much does an Iphone user spend on apps? $80
• Consumers spent 6.2 billion on apps last year – 2014 prediction: $35 billion
• In 2013 more people will use phones than PC’s when surfing the web
• In 2014 over half a billion people will use mobile money transfer services
• Mobile ad revenues hit 3.5 billion last year – 2015 estimate: $24 billion

Our 2.5 yr-old boy is growing up so fast in front of our eyes. Deadlines are creeping at work. Wrinkles and father time has taken its toll to our bodies. Wouldn’t you want at least a timeout or at best, slowing down of everything happening around us?

Tom Guilmette was able to do that over the course of a stay in a Las Vegas hotel – over night. Here is the astounding, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, glass-breaking result. (ok, it is that awesome!)

So you have the Nativity in Social Media, a look back at the year 2010 and now a Valentine’s day story in social media. Well, this just goes to show that we can do a lot of things with the plethora of social apps around.

Enjoy February, tho short as it is, there’s something to look forward to in the middle of the month!

Times have changed indeed. Would the story of the Nativity been different if they had Gmail for communication, Google Maps to tell where to go, Foursquare to inform friends of their location, Twitter or Facebook, to broadcast what they plan to do? I guess it will still be the same and Jesus will continue to reign in our hearts, with or without You Tube.

This may be the last Social Media post and the most meaningful – have a socially happy new year and an equally meaningful Christmas.

Enjoy eating rice with your spoon and fork!

Video: from You Tube

A look back at 2010 and which search keywords were most used. Here’s a great video to summarize them all.

You? what were your most searched keyword? Let me guess, your name?

Quoted from Mashable

The search giant analyzed billions of searches performed in 2010 and compared them with searches from 2009 to surface emerging trends. Chatroulette, the iPad and Justin Bieber were the three fastest-rising search terms in 2010; Twitter and Facebook also made the list, at numbers eight and 10, respectively.

Among the items of interest that lost the world’s attention in 2010 were swine flu, Stephanie Meyer’s novel (and the accompanying movie) Twilight: New Moon, Susan Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire, “MySpace layouts” and Michael Jackson.

The iPad was the emergent search winner in the consumer electronics category, followed by the iPhone 4, Nokia 5530, HTC EVO 4G and Nokia N900.

In terms of news searches, Haiti proved the most popular, followed by Turkish sports club Besiktas, Chile, “earthquake,” Lady Gaga and the iPhone 4. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill ranked 10th.

Accenture came up with a compelling and cute video that defines Cloud Computing from the minds of a 10-year old, or a 5th grader. Something like the show.

Coached or not, their definitions are even better than most of us can imagine. The future is secure with these kids. I just love it! From ReadWriteWeb.

Updated! With a lot of new factoids and interesting data that you can quote to your boss to start a Social Media policy in the office or to your spouse to justify your number of hours on Twitter and Facebook

This blog is so new that it will take so much to even be called a Cloud Computing blog.

But we are all learning. Besides, 5 years ago no one could claim stake that they were writing pure Cloud stories or analyzing the Cloud computing industry. These guys are institutions and like sports personalities, we look up to them and cheer every post that they proffer. They are the Top 50 Cloud bloggers of today.

The video mentions some of them and more. Enjoy the weekend watching clouds and stars.

What is this new buzzword? Cloud Computing you say?