BMW i: A Window Into The Near Future

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A nice example of Retail 2.0

6 Reasons Why APIs Are Reshaping Your Business

6 Reasons Why APIs Are Reshaping Your Business from faberNovel

A great study from Fabernovel on APIs to demonstrate the advantages of APIs for businesses in terms of scalability, flexibility, business development, product development, supply chain management...

2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update

2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Twine, Your Gateway To The Internet Of Things.....

A year ago, two MIT Media Lab graduates raised half a million dollars on Kickstarter to create Twine, a cigarette-pack-sized chunk of Internet magic that promised to turn any object in your home into a web-connected, interactive "smart product." Want your basement pipes to send you a text message when they’re in danger of freezing up, or your garage door to ping you if you forget to close it? No problem: With Twine, building your own personal "Internet of things" is supposed to be easier than programming a VCR. And now that the product is available for purchase, it looks like creators John Kestner and David Carr have very nearly delivered on that ambitious promise. (..)
But you can get much more creative than that. Twine’s forums are already filling up with clever ideas from other users. My favorite: A parent who uses Twine’s magnetic switch to send him an alert if the kids break into the closet where their Christmas presents are hidden.

Read more : http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671312/on-sale-at-last-twine-your-gateway-to-the...

CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft's Windows App Store Is Already Smoking Apple's Mac App Store

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One of the many big changes for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is the addition of an app store, just like what Apple has for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Microsoft is hoping that making an app store for Windows, will carry over to the tablet, and then the phone. One of the biggest problems for Microsoft, in competing with Apple, is a lack of apps.
Here's an encouraging early sign. The Windows app store already has almost twice as many apps as the Apple Mac app store, according to data from app analytics company Distmo. Yes, the iPhone and iPad app stores are blowing away the Windows store, but Windows 8 is a month old. It's in good position to get apps.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-app-stores-2012-11#ixzz2DYZpK0lG

“What If Money Didn’t Matter”: Great Tip To All Creative People Out There

As Brands Get More Facebook Fans, They Reach A Smaller Percentage Of Their Base

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PageLever, a Facebook analytics company, which gave Mashable some data that shows that the bigger fanbase your Facebook page has, the lower reach any individual post has. Brands with small fanbases of fewer than 10,000 people can get nearly 20 percent of them to see any individual post. But brands like Coca-Cola and Walmart, who have more than 1 million fans, can only get about 6 percent of them to see any given post -- unless they pay.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-fan-posts-2012-11#ix...