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This list offers a look at the apps currently available for Google Glass. I particularly like the news apps.

thisistheverge:

Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now

We test every Google Glass app so you don’t have to

(via futuresagency)

Tumblr Brand Will Remain

“Tumblr Brand Will Remain — With Mostly “Hands-Off” Product Approach by Yahoo’s Mayer – AllThingsD” http://feedly.com/k/11PR04Y

Yahoo’s Board Approves $1.1 Billion Purchase Of Tumblr

“Yahoo’s Board Approves $1.1 Billion Purchase Of Tumblr (YHOO)” http://feedly.com/k/15YZgRv

A day in the life of the internet (By hostgator)

A humorous look at the world prior to social media.

climate-changing:

fun

A look at E-commerce in China today. According to this by 2016 E-comm users in China will spend $457 Billion.

A look at internet usage globally.

futurejournalismproject:

Only A Third of the World’s Population is Online

Via Statista. Select to embiggen.

(via ilovecharts)

An interesting map of the global cabling that makes up the internet.

diplomatic-internet:

The Internet

Today’s largest map image of the submerged Internet cables from 2011 (7099 x 4206 JPG)

A look at how diverse tech tools converge into a few.

brucesterling:

Platform convergence

(via kdnewman)

This report and graph offers interesting insight into the dawn of wearable tech.

futuretechreport:

No One Really Knows How Fast Wearable Tech Will Succeed, Just That It Will

In a new Business Insider Report, they make heads and tails of the above image which suggests that no one really knows where we will end up with Wearable Tech.

Although the projections are all over the map two things to note:

Wearable tech is on the map

Growth is expected as we head into 2017

ABI is the most aggressive outlook with 485 million annual device shipments by 2018. While IMS Research says that this sector will grow from 14 million shipments in 2011 to only 171 million by 2016.

Read more here: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-wearable-computing-market-estimates-are-all-over-the-place-2013-4

(via emergentfutures)