As we near the end of 2014, we take the usual look at what next year will bring us.
IDC (International data Corp), has published a list of 10 emerging technologies that they predict will be big in 2015.
In September 2014, Facebook has 864 million daily active users on average.
Given those numbers, is there really a need for another social network? Meet Ello – the simple, beautiful, and ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers. It’s already one of the hottest up & coming start-ups on the net!
Currently invite-only, Ello is beta and has a manifesto not to sell adverts or member data.
Check out Ello here
If you’re looking for an invite – let me know and I will send the invite code over.
Cheers!
Well, you must have heard about the Sony hacks by now. As if that weren’t enough troubles for Sony already, Network World just reported that Sony used Amazon Web Services to counter-DDOS websites hosting leaked content from Sony. Amazon is definitely not happy with Sony. Looks like Sony plans to fight fire with fire.
Sony – naughty naughty…
Google recently launched an experiment which allows web users an opportunity to skip ads and fund websites through a subscription model known as Contributor
Summary of the service – as a contributor, you get to skip ads and will see a nice ‘Thank you’ message in place of annoying adverts.
Check out their website and see how it works, content sites such as my favourite Mashable are already on board.
CNBC reported this here
Looks like Microsoft sees it coming, Powerpoint decks are getting kinda boring and students in universities are using alternative presentation tools such as Prezi more and more.
A couple of weeks back Microsoft gave an update on Sway, their new presentation app. Check it out below:
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