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Thursday, 16 June 2011
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Let's Play Word Association With Tech Moguls!
Earlier this year, I moderated a panel of tech leaders from the U.S. and Europe, at the opening of the DLD conference in Munich.
To get things going, I used that old trick of word association, channeling a technique perfected ?aptly, for the location ? by Sigmund Freud.
The panelists ? who included Google?s Nikesh Arora, LinkedIn Chairman and investor Reid Hoffman and Accel Partner?s Jim Breyer ? had to give lightning observations on Facebook, Google, Apple?s Steve Jobs, Nokia, New Corp.?s Rupert Murdoch and smartphones.
The results were very interesting and very different, as you will see here below in a chart of it, posted recently by DLD on its Facebook page (click on the image to make it larger):
And here is a digital version of its whole DLD book that the chart was in:
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20110616/lets-play-word-association-with-tech-moguls/
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The Tom Hanks Magazine
Click the to queue up a list of videos to watch next.Source: http://www.funnyordie.com/slideshows/81ee6b80b3/the-tom-hanks-magazine
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Pandora Pulls a LinkedIn, As Tech-Starved Investors Gorge on IPO
How starved are investors for high-profile, high-growth Internet companies?
Hungry enough to lift the value of Pandora at just under $4 billion in just an hour of trading for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol, ?P.?
That would be close to $24 a share right now, although the music streaming company ? which was once near death ? has risen as high as $26 at one point so far this morning.
In any case, its stock opened at $20 a share, well above the $16 pricing yesterday, which was already a far cry from its $9 price when it first announced its IPO.
Insiders unloaded about nine million shares in its initial public offering of the close to 15 million sold to the public, with the company raising $235 million from its six million shares sold.
The high price echoes the recent IPO of LinkedIn, which priced a lot lower than the prices the stock fetched as soon as it hit the market.
Shares on the social business network jumped 100 percent out of the gate a month ago to above $100.
LinkedIn has now settled in at about $75 a share, which is still high.
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20110615/pandora-pulls-a-linkedin-as-tech-starved-investors-gorge-on-ipo/
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Year-long Moon timelapse
This is a timelapse animation of the surprisingly wobbly Moon over a period of one year.
Note: this is an animation, not a timelapse video...i.e. there's CG involved. More info here.
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Children as young as 10 vomit to lose weight, with highest rates in boys
Public release date: 16-Jun-2011 [ | E-mail | ]
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Wiley-BlackwellChildren as young as ten are making themselves vomit in order to lose weight and the problem is more common in boys than girls, according to a study of nearly 16,000 school pupils published online early, ahead of print publication, by the Journal of Clinical Nursing.
The findings have prompted researchers to issue a warning that self-induced vomiting is an early sign that children could develop eating disorders and serious psychological problems, such as binge eating and anorexia.
They also believe that self-induced vomiting can be tackled by making sure that children get enough sleep, eat breakfast every day, eat less fried food and night-time snacks and spend less time in front of a computer.
Thirteen per cent of the 8,673 girls and 7,043 boys who took part in the research admitted they made themselves sick to lose weight. But the figures were much higher in younger children, with 16% of 10-12 year-olds and 15% of 13-15 year-olds vomiting. The figures fell to 8% in 16-18 year-olds.
The study of 120 schools, carried out for Taiwan's Ministry of Education, also found that 16% of the boys made themselves sick, compared with 10% of the girls.
"Our study, which was part of a wider research project on health and growth, focused on children who said that they had tried to lose weight in the last year" says lead author Dr Yiing Mei Liou, Director of Clinical Practice of the School of Nursing at National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
"It showed that self-induced vomiting was most prevalent in adolescents who had a sedentary lifestyle, slept less and ate unhealthily.
"Obesity is a growing problem in industrialised countries and is an increasingly important medical, psychosocial and economic issue. It's estimated that obesity among children and teenagers has nearly tripled over the last three decades and international studies have revealed worrying trends.
"For example, a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in 2010, found that 4% of students had vomited or taken laxatives in the last 30 days to lose or stop gaining weight. And a South Australian study published in 2008 said that eating disorders had doubled in the last decade."
The Taiwan study found that 18% of the underweight children used vomiting as a weight-loss strategy, compared with 17% of obese children and 14% of overweight children. Normal weight children were least likely to vomit (12%).
A number of factors were associated with high levels of self-induced vomiting. For example, more than 21% of the children who vomited ate fried food every day, 19% ate desserts every day, 18% ate night-time snacks every day and 18% used a computer screen for more than two hours a day.
When the researchers carried out an odds ratio analysis, they found that using a computer screen for more than two hours a day increased the vomiting risk by 55%, eating fried food every day by 110% and having night-time snacks every day by 51%. They also found that children were less likely to make themselves sick if they slept more than eight hours a night and ate breakfast every day.
"Our study found that children as young as ten were aware of the importance of weight control, but used vomiting to control their weight" concludes Dr Liou. "This reinforces the need for public health campaigns that stress the negative impact that vomiting can have on their health and encourage them to tackle any weight issues in a healthy and responsible way.
"The findings also suggest that self-induced vomiting might serve as an early marker for the development of obesity and/or other eating and weight-related problems."
Notes to Editors
Prevalence and correlates of self-induced vomiting as weight-control strategy among adolescents in Taiwan. Liou et al. Journal of Clinical Nursing. Online early ahead of print publication. (June 2011). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03739.x
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