Find: Comcast and Verizon thump AT&T in new YouTube quality rankings

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Find: Tech-sector economics guru proclaims: No tech bubble in 2014

Tech-sector economics guru proclaims: No tech bubble in 2014
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It’s become somewhat of a tradition for the tech sector to stop for an hour every year and listen to what former Morgan Stanley analyst and current Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) investor Mary Meeker sees as the important Internet trends of the moment.

Meeker, who delivered her annual internet report at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on Wednesday (a day before reports emerged that the US economy shrank last quarter), painted a fairly rosy picture of the current health and future prospects of the technology sector, both nationally and globally. This despite lots of chatter in recent months from the peanut gallery (including Fox Business) that we're experiencing a technology bubble.

In her presentation, which included 164 densely packed slides, Meeker acknowledged that some tech company valuations are indeed high, and that Internet growth slowed to less than 10 percent last year (down from near 20 percent in 2007, and nearly 40 percent growth in 2002). Nevertheless, the signs of a bubble that were present in the late 90s, like frequent initial public offerings and unreasonably inflated stock valuations in the technology sector, are not present today, she said.

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Find: Microsoft lays out the future of Internet Explorer

Microsoft lays out the future of Internet Explorer
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As part of its continued quest to be more open and accessible, Microsoft has confirmed some of what it's working on for the next version of Internet Explorer.

Among the features in development are the Media Capture API, that lets Web content manipulate audio and video streams from microphones and webcams, the HTTP/2 protocol, currently being developed by IETF, and Web Audio, an API that lets JavaScript process and synthesize audio. The company also plans to implement a JavaScript feature called Promises that should streamline development of asynchronous scripts.

These features and others are listed on the newly updated status.modern.ie site, on which Microsoft lists a whole bunch of up-and-coming Web standards and its attitude towards them. Many have already been implemented; a handful, such as WebP image support and the WebRTC communications API, are "not currently planned." Still more are vaguely "under consideration."

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Find: Google Fiber teams up with Netflix in fight against Comcast's internet tolls

The battle over the economics of the internet continues. 

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Find: Internet History Podcast

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Find: Driven by necessity, Mozilla to enable HTML5 DRM in Firefox

If browsers are where we view, then they are also where we have copyrighted content. Right now, the high costs of producing video seem to require protection (unlike text). So we have open source viewers of closed source content. 

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Find: The internet will have almost 3 billion users by the end of the year, UN report says

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Find: The internet will have almost 3 billion users by the end of the year, UN report says

Job: HQ Raleigh internship

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From: Braden Rawls <braden@vitalplan.com>
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014
Subject: Re: HQ Raleigh internship question
To: Ben Watson <bwatson@ncsu.edu>

Hi Ben, 

Good call. The programmers will be essential in helping the team to craft the landing pages. Four students will be researching and coming up with content, the designers will lay out the page, and the programmer will work with everyone to build out the pages. Then as a group we will test the page, analyze conversion, tweak and try again until we get to a page that converts at a rate of 4% or higher. Once we find success, we can celebrate as a group. I think at a minimum, we will have a lot of fun and it should be a great learning experience for all working hand-in-hand with our digital advertising agency.  

Please let me know if there are any further questions. Thanks so much!

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Find: This AI tells you if your website is too cluttered

Visual experience as research, product and profit. 

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Find: Yahoo is the latest company ignoring Web users’ requests for privacy

The do not track standard is dying a slow death. 

Lorrie Faith Cranor is faculty at CMU and leader in mobile privacy as well b

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