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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

In early 2012, Pinterest became an overnight sensation and is now a major source of traffic for women-focused sites. Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 Channel instability. The creation and destruction of channels is a common occurrence today. 05 percent CTR on Facebook in 2011.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. It’s a wonderfully compelling idea, but it’s a little like video streaming in 1994: the hardware simply isn’t there yet.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. This is my recap of what stood out to me this year and what I’m looking forward to in 2012 — we are only in the beginning of many revolutions.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. tech industry since 1994, when he started as an engineer at video game company Activision. © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. has been under the radar, and its finally elevating itself."

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Update March 2012: See also my expanded critique of Colin Wheildon’s legibility research. Legibility is concerned with the very fine details of typeface design, and in an operational context this usually means the ability to recognise individual letters or words.