All I Can Do Is Be Me, Whoever That Is.

"If you want to learn about one of history’s most fascinating minds and uncover some of his secrets of imagination—secrets that enabled him to invent machines light years ahead of his time and literally bring light to the world—then you want to read this book.” 

NowThis made a bold statement earlier this year when the video publisher shut down its desktop homepage to focus on social media distribution. While the publisher still maintains a mobile website and an app, it distributes its content mainly on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat, among others. “What we drive home is the concept of producing platform appropriate content and that means that it’s custom and built for that platform specifically,” said Athan Stephanopoulos, svp strategy and partnerships. We talked to him about what a successful story looks like across platforms.

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Statistics in the digital age.

I answered 11 of 12 questions correctly!  What’s your score? 

What does “URL” stand for? What was the first widely popular graphical Web browser? Which university was the first on Facebook?

Test your knowledge of technology and the web by taking our short 12-question quiz. When you finish, you will be able to compare your “Web IQ” with the average online American based on the results of our nationally representative survey of 1,066 adult internet users. 

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you can't do big things if you're distracted by small things

Ever see lightning at 7000 frames per second? From Florida Institute of Technology.