Travel can make you a poet. Travel can be spiritual. You meet people on the road you’d never met otherwise. Travelling rearranges your cultural furniture, challenging truths you assumed were self-evident and God-given. By traveling, you learn not only about the people and places you visit–you learn about yourself.
Rick Steves (via fatfashfem)
Plotting our next adventure.
“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” — Steve Jobs (born February 24, 1955) http://stuf.ly/2lT6ovV
Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.
Sergey Edunov, Carlos Diuk, Ismail Onur Filiz, Smriti Bhagat, and Moira Burke. Research at Facebook. Feb 4, 2016.
To those of you who dream of going to space: Sorry, but that may never happen. However, NASA is once again counting on the public for help understanding what’s beyond our world. All we have to do is look at some photos online. Today marks the launch… http://dlvr.it/NNnlVr
“For Clear Channel Outdoor, the goal is to give advertisers tools to buy and measure the effectiveness of outdoor ads that are similar to those they use for digital and mobile ads. It tested the suite of data and analytics, which it calls Radar, with the shoe company Toms and said it found a rise in brand awareness and purchases. ”
Want to improve your social media marketing? Practice these rules.
In stark contrast to Twitter’s recent woes, Facebook is enjoying what is probably its most successful year-to-date. The social network has reported that it made $6.44 billion in revenue and $2.05 billion in profit this past quarter, which is 59 perce… http://dlvr.it/LvC6V4
The 3 R’s of Habit Formation: Reminder. Routine. Reward.
How to built habits that last?
The IBM is making space at SXSW from March 10–14 showcased dozens of projects in AI, robotics, VR, AR, and other emerging technology fields. My team and I had the fortunate opportunity to demo our AR project, Immersive Insights.
Immersive Insights aims to be a tool that provides data scientists with insights to large-scale data through a spatial visualization experience. While the demo is still in an early stage, we have real-time data streaming to the headset and displayed in 3D, fully manipulable and scalable. It is also our way to begin exploring, creating and refining the next generation of enterprise applications for data analysis.
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