Temple Run Android版三天下载量超过100万

　　《Temple Run》是App Store一款非常受欢迎的游戏，下载量超过2000万次，每日活跃用户达到700万人。3天前，《Temple Run》正式登录Android应用商店。今天，其下载量已突破100万次,从上面的图上可以看到，其增长曲线几乎就是一条直线。在Android应用商店Google Play上获得4.3的评分（总分为5分），超过4.3万个玩家对这个游戏进行了评论。

　　《Temple Run》的故事背景发生在古老的城堡，玩家所要做的就是不断的奔跑摆脱怪兽的追击和前方的障碍并且收集到足够的金币。听起来简单，但是玩起来很有挑战性并且容易让人上瘾。我之前最好的纪录是跑了2千多米。

Verizon customers start petition for Samsung GALAXY Note

 Last month, before the Samsung GALAXY Note LTE appeared on the Super Bowl telecast and was launched via AT&T, speculation centered on a version on the phablet for Verizon. This model for Big Red was called the Samsung GALAXY Journal. But to the chagrin of Verizon customers, there has been no word since then about the phone with the 5.3 inch screen getting launched on Big Red. So some Verizon customers decided to take matters into their own hands and have started a petition drive.

Those behind the petition are aiming for 5,000 signatures to let Big Red know that its customers really, really want this phone. Currently, there is a long way to go with 350 names signed on to the petition. Need to hear the specs again? The Samsung GALAXY Note has a 5.3 inch Super AMOLED display with resolution of 800 x 1280. Under the hood is a dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8660. 1GB of RAM is aboard with an 8MP rear-facing camera capturing video in 1080p. The 2MP shooter up front takes self-portraits and allows you to video chat. 16GB (or 32GB) of native storage is available. Android 2.3 is installed although an update to Android 4.0 is coming soon. AT&T and Best Buy are asking $299.99 for the phone, with a signed two-year contract.

Bedford Square Protests Tweets Mapped

Tweets from Bedford Square London during a Pro-Life and Pro-Choice demos, mapped with the Happ App.

The map of tweets above was made with the Happ app running on an iPad.  The map shows the two hours of geo-tagged tweets during demonstrations at Bedford Square London where two sides of the abortion issue faced off, a rate event in the UK.

This larger map shows how dense the tweets at Bedford Square was compared to the rest of London. 

This two images map on Google street view gives you an idea where people were tweeting from, and the relative location of the protest.

 

 

Tweets return to Tahrir

We are seeing heavy tweeting in Tahrir Cairo from a protest today.  Twitter, despite the hype, is not very popular in Egypt and few people have mobile smart phones that allow them to tweet from sites like Tahrir, so these many tweets must mean a pretty good sized crowd.

Map made with the Happ app showing twitter activity in Cairo over 2 hours, use the Happ app to map tweets and foursquare anywhere. 

Blackberry-maker RIM plans massive retreat

 

"Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) has said it plans to refocus its business back onto corporate customers. 

The announcement came as RIM reported a quarterly loss, as revenues fell due to sharply lower smartphone sales. 

The Canadian company made a net loss for the three months to 3 March of $125m (£78m), compared with a profit of $934m a year earlier. 

It has lost ground as its traditional business clients have switched staff to iPhones or Android smartphones. 

RIM also announced the resignation of former co-chief executive Jim Balsillie.
Chief technology officer David Yacht will also be standing down. 

Shipments of Blackberry smartphones in the quarter fell to 11.1 million, down 21% from the previous three-month period."

BBC News - Blackberry-maker RIM plans new focus amid $125m loss

What can we add?  Blackberry, which just 5 years ago was still the foremost mobile device maker in the world, is dying.  Proof again that being first is not winning.

For a massive amount of the population, even today, Blackberry was their first real smartphone.  And from about 2003 to 2009 Blackberry was the phone to have.  This was probably as much poor quality of alternatives than anything about Blackberry.  Windows Mobile phones up to 3.5 were trash, and Symbian OS never made a good smart phone.

It is now clear that iOS, and now Android, have defined the mobile experience in the same way the Mac and Windows have defined the PC.  We are still using PC Windows that are essentially unchanged since 1985 Macs!

Bad news also for Windows Phone, which is trying to enter a market were there is already a low cost option: Android.

What happens in an internet minute?

The Revolution was not tweeted!

Map of the mornings tweets in Bradford and Leeds UK made with the Happ Clima.Me tool.  It shows no sign of high tweeting from Bradford.

 Yesterday a very significant and perhaps revolutionary event happened in the democracy of the United Kingdom.  Former Labour Left wing George Galloway won a massive victory in Bradford West running in the Respect Party.  This is the second time he has done this, riding the votes of leftist not happy with new Labour and Muslims to a resounding victory against the British establishment.

What is interesting of the map above showing the mornings tweets from Bradford and Leeds is the fact that there is no evidence of any heavy tweeting in Bradford.  And tracking twitter it is pretty clear most of the people posting are not from Bradford and do not like Galloway.  

And yet still Galloway was able to stage a massive victory, almost a coupe against Labour.  This is evidence (in a small scale) that not only is technology like Facebook and Twitter not necessary for 'revolts' to take place, in many areas the lack of such high cost gadgets may mean an area is ripe for revolution.  Libya and Syria, the most violent revolts of the Arab Spring happened in a void of Social Media.  

For a long time we have been seeing social networks being more dominated by reactionary concerned about the nature of change.  There is also a issue that tweeting and blogging may weaken movements for change by giving participants an illusion of participation the takes the place of real engagement that might do something.  But in Bradford West the key element must be that a lot of people who can't afford Blackberries or iPhones came out to vote for a more radical candidate. 


In fact there is something very alienating about all the twitter obsession with George Galloway today, he has been trending along with Bradford West all day on twitter, but the tweets are not coming from Bradford West, as the map above shows.  People from other parts of the UK are talking about Bradford and Galloway, while not many people are speaking from Bradford.   Perhaps this is also what happened in Egypt, with people talking about Tahrir on Twitter more than people talking with Twitter inside of Tahrir.  The danger is social media makes politics in to a spectator's sport, thus extending on the alienation from democratic processes that advanced so much under TV.  Information simply distances people from events as the people impacted are turned in to objects of media examination than subjects demanding their rights.

Today on Twitter everyone seems to have an opinion about Galloway, but no one seems interested in hearing from people who may have voted for him. 

Samsung Ships 5 Million Galaxy Notes in 5 Months

Samsung announced on Wednesday that it has shipped more than 5 million units of its part-phone, part-tablet device, the Galaxy Note.
Samsung revealed on the company’s Korean site that more than 5 million Galaxy Note devices have been shipped to retailers and other partners since its October launch. However, Samsung didn’t reveal how many of those shipped products have been purchased.



In October, Samsung unveiled its 5.3-inch, Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” smartphone, which doubles as a tablet. It also comes with a stylus pen for drawing and note-taking. It originally debuted in Europe and has since become available for purchase in the U.S from AT&T, one of the few phones that can run on the carrier’s high-speed LTE network. It’s expected to receive an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the near future.

The device had many scratching their heads as to whether consumers would want to carry around a device that serves as both smartphone and tablet, but these numbers appear to indicate there is a demand.

However, looking at Samsung’s flagship device, the Galaxy S, it achieved the same amount of shipments in just 85 days.
Samsung has previously said sales of Galaxy Note are on the rise in Europe and Asia, particularly in France, Germany, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
“The rapid global sales of Galaxy Note are notable since it is creating a new market for something between smartphone and tablet PC,” the company said in December. “The speed of the global sales is expected to accelerate further next year when it will be available in the US.”
In December, Samsung said it shipped more than one million Notes worldwide nearly two months after its debut.
“One million global shipping of Galaxy Note means it has well positioned itself as a market creator,” Samsung said at the time. “Samsung will continuously strengthen its leadership in the global smartphone market as well as create new markets with innovative devices.”

from http://mashable.com/2012/03/28/samsung-5-million-galaxy-note/

Nokia launches China smartphone, hopes for rebound

Nokia said its Lumia 800C will be supported by China Telecom Ltd., one of the country's three major state-owned carriers.

 

 

The Finnish company, once the global industry leader, launched a corporate turnaround effort after falling behind Apple and other competitors in tapping into the popularity of smartphones.

China is the world's biggest mobile phone market with about 900 million accounts, and is Nokia's biggest market. Nokia is one of China's most prominent brands but its market share has slipped amid intense competition from Apple's iPhone and phones made by South Korea's Samsung and other rivals.

"China is critically important for Nokia," CEO Stephen Elop said at a product debut held in an aircraft hangar-size tent with pop music and dancers. He was joined on stage by the China Telecom chairman, Wang Xiaochu.

Colin Giles, Nokia's executive vice president for global sales, pointed to the rollout of four Lumia models over the past year as evidence of the company's revival.

"We've been demonstrating innovation and some leadership as well," Giles told reporters after the event. "We are changing and transforming ourselves as we go."

Chinese consumers are increasingly important to global electronics and other brands as their spending rises at a time of economic malaise in the United States, Japan and Europe.

Free-spending Chinese gadget lovers bought 70 million smartphones last year and sales are forecast to rise by 45% this year, according to Analysys International, a research firm in Beijing.

"Even a part of that would make a substantial market for any of these players," said David Wolf, a technology marketing consultant in Beijing. "It could be the one factor that ensures survival."

Globally, Nokia also has been squeezed by phones running Google's Android system and by lower-end Asian manufacturers. Its market share plummeted to below 30% last year from 40% in 2008.

Nokia announced this year it would stop assembling phones in Europe by year-end and shift production to Asia. It announced 4,000 job cuts on top of nearly 10,000 layoffs last year.

In China, the Lumia 800C will go on sale in early April for 3,599 yuan ($570), according to Elop.

Nokia and China Telecom plan to release a lower-priced model, the 610C, aimed at students and other budget users, according to Elop. He said the Lumia 900C and the 710C sold in other markets also will be brought to China over time.

Nokia also will roll out Lumia models for the networks of China's two other major carriers, China Mobile Ltd. and China Unicom Ltd., said Colin Giles, Nokia's executive vice president for global sales and manager of its China unit until 2010.

The Lumia 800C will run on Microsoft's Windows Phone, giving that system its first major exposure in a Chinese market dominated by iPhones and Android.

In the United States, AT&T announced Monday it will sell the Lumia 900 running Windows Phone for $100 with a two-year contract.

Giles expressed confidence Nokia can make up for its late entry into China's smartphone market on the strength of an extensive retail presence and close ties with local developers of services that form a large part of the appeal of smartphones.

Nokia has formed partnerships with leading Chinese Web companies such as search engine Baidu and portals Sina, Sohu and Tencent to create services. The company says it and Microsoft will provide financing for entrepreneurs to develop Windows Phone-based applications.

"We're creating innovation in China for China, which some of our competitors are not doing," Giles said.

Nokia phones are sold in some 200,000 retail outlets in China including the company's own stores and other distributors, according to Anna Shipley, its communications director for China, Japan and Korea.

Giles said the company plans an extensive marketing campaign on television and online.

Nokia has a stronger brand in China than it does in the United States but will need to revitalize sales and relations with retailers who have seen demand for its products falter, said Wolf, chairman of Wolf Group Asia.

"They've got a lot of work ahead of them," he said.

source from http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-28/nokia-smartphone-china/53822888/1

Twitter analysis shows large crowd in Plaza Del Sol

Map of current tweets over 2 hours in the evening of 29 of March during a General Strike in Madrid, map shows a huge crowd forming in Plaza Del Sol, site of last years sit in protest.  Map create with the HAPP app from Clima.me. 

Analysis of twitter shows a large crowd forming in Plaza Del Sol.  This was the site of last years large protests.  It seems a huge crowd is forming in this area this evening, perhaps to stay the night?

El análisis de Twitter muestra una gran multitud se forma en Plaza Del Sol. Este fue el lugar de los últimos años las protestas de gran tamaño. Al parecer, una gran multitud se está formando en esta área esta tarde, tal vez para pasar la noche? 

Twitter tells a sad story in Iraq by being silent

Map made with clima.me tracking tool for mapping twitter map shows 2 hours of mobile tweets from the city, just two were registered.

 This maps sums of the tragedy of Iraq.  Today in Baghdad a Arab Union summit started to discuss the future of Syria.  This morning a series of terrorist attacks hit the city.  In any open democratic society twitter would be going nuts as journalists and concerned people tried to communicate and get in touch.

But in all of Iraq we find evidence of maybe 5 tweets. The map of the Baghdad shows only two mobile tweets coming from the Green Zone.  The US invasion, which was suppose to bring democracy and economic prosperity has left a nation primitive and isolated by global standards. 

15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy

Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering – and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy – we cling on to them. Not anymore. Starting today we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change. Ready? Here we go:

1. Give up your need to always be right.There are so many of us who can’t stand the idea of being wrong – wanting to always be right – even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and for others. It’s just not worth it. Whenever you feel the ‘urgent’ need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question: “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?” Wayne Dyer. What difference will that make? Is your ego really that big?

2. Give up your need for control. Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you – situations, events, people, etc. Whether they are loved ones, coworkers, or just strangers you meet on the street – just allow them to be. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel.

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” Lao Tzu

3. Give up on blame. Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don’t have, for what you feel or don’t feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.

4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk. Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mindset? Don’t believe everything that your mind is telling you – especially if it’s negative and self-defeating. You are better than that.

“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.” Eckhart Tolle

5. Give up your limiting beliefs about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!

“A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind” Elly Roselle

6. Give up complaining. Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, maaany things – people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It’s not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

7. Give up the luxury of criticism. Give up your need to criticize things, events or people that are different than you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.

8. Give up your need to impress others. Stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not just to make others like you. It doesn’t work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not, the moment you take of all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

9. Give up your resistance to change. Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you. Follow your bliss, embrace change – don’t resist it.
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” Joseph Campbell

10. Give up labels. Stop labeling those things, people or events that you don’t understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, little by little. Minds only work when open. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” Wayne Dyer

11. Give up on your fears. Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist – you created it. It’s all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place.
“The only fear we have to fear, is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. Give up your excuses. Send them packing and tell them they’re fired. You no longer need them. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck, lying to ourselves, using all kind of excuses – excuses that 99.9% of the time are not even real.

13. Give up the past. I know, I know. It’s hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. The past you are now longing for – the past that you are now dreaming about – was ignored by you when it was present. Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all life is a journey not a destination. Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.

14. Give up attachment. This is a concept that, for most of us is so hard to grasp and I have to tell you that it was for me too, (it still is) but it’s not something impossible. You get better and better at with time and practice. The moment you detach yourself from all things, (and that doesn’t mean you give up your love for them – because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another,  attachment comes from a place of fear, while love… well, real love is pure, kind, and self less, where there is love there can’t be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot coexist) you become so peaceful, so tolerant, so kind, and so serene. You will get to a place where you will be able to understand all things without even trying. A state beyond words.

15. Give up living your life to other people’s expectations. Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live. They live their lives according to what others think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them, to what their friends, their enemies and their teachers, their government and the media think is best for them. They ignore their inner voice, that inner calling. They are so busy with pleasing everybody, with living up to other people’s expectations, that they lose control over their lives. They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need….and eventually they forget about themselves.  You have one life – this one right now – you must live it, own it, and especially don’t let other people’s opinions distract you from your path.

#SMWF before and after

We have been tracking Social Media Web Forum in London this week with the Happ App from Clima.me, which maps tweets and foursquare trends in real time. #SMWF produced a large amount of tweets we mapped with our tool, and an interesting before and after image showing how much web traffic can be generated by certain events. 

Before, the Social Media Web Forum have a crowd of tweets and checkins.

After,  one day later and only a few tweets from a single user all morning. 

Crowds mapped by Twitter and Foursquare

FRIDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2011 Occupy Protest moves towards Brooklyn Bridge

In a world of mobile Internet and social networks Twitter and Foursquare give us the ability to map large crowds and events.  These images are taken from some of the largest crowds and events we have tracked over the past six months.  These images were made with clima.me Happ tool.  

WEDNESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2012 One Year Anniversary of Tahrir revolt in Cairo

FRIDAY, 20 JANUARY 2012 San Francisco Occupy Protest

MONDAY, 19 MARCH 2012 London Web Summit

MONDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2012 Barcelona Mobile World Conference

SUNDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2012 The Super Bowl!

SATURDAY, 17 MARCH 2012 Saint Patrick's Day in Dublin

THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012 Toulouse France just after  Mohamed Merah's death

WEDNESDAY, 14 MARCH 2012 #SXSW

Mapping tweets and foursquare from London Social Media World Forum

The maps of tweets and foursquare for the hour up till noon at Social Media World Forum London made with the clima.me happ tool. 

We are using our Happ app to map tweets and foursquare trends as #SMWF in real time today.   

Morning of Wednesday 28 March 2012 at the London Social Media World Forum.  Map made with the happ app tool from clima.me.  Map current twitter and foursquare levels anywhere in the world.

Over the morning of March 28 a large cluster of tweets and foursquare checkins are forming around Olympia for the London Social Media World Forum.  The tweets next to the Olympia are from people getting off the train for the conference.  People like to tweet in train stations.  

An interesting pattern as the conference moves in to the second day of people tweeting in a neat line, perhaps where seating is arranged?

 

BlackBerry 10 Superphone Release Date

The BlackBerry 10 Superphone Release Date in UK is reported to be later this year that is most probably at the annual RIM Blackberry Event in the second half of 2012.


There are rumours that RIM is pretty soon going to make a big announcement and that would be about the unveiling of its Smartphone Superphone, Blackberry 10 release. This smartphone which is also called the Blackberry ‘London’ Superphone is going to be based on the QNX platform and its release seems to have been planned after reports of a change in leadership in the company.

Update (27-March-2012): Latest report suggest that RIM may unveil BlackBerry 10 Superphone in May-2012. Read More.
BlackBerry-10-Smartphone

Image Credit: CrackBerry.com

Crackberry has also released a picture of what seems the RIM Blackberry 10 Superphone having rounded corners and looking more like a “phonified Blackberry Playbook”. It shows an iPhone 4S like touchscreen handset with 16:10 screen ratio and a rear flushed camera.

The slide also reads “hardware and platform, fused into one polished experience”, with a dramatic shift in user interface. RIM will reportedly use both TI OMAP5 processors and Qualcomm Snapdragon ones. Besides these features there is its exceptional power and efficiency, quality apps and its capacity of multiple CPUs.

BlackBerry 10 Release Date and Price

The Blackberry Superphone launch date is still unspecified at this time and so is its price. However, there’s a big possibility that RIM fans and patrons are in for a big surprise later this year

Temple Run on Android - As Good As on an iPhone/iPad

I just downloaded Temple Run on my Samsung galaxy Note and it runs as smooth and great as it does on an iPhone or an iPad.

I frankly did not expect it to have such a fast and smooth interface. But one of the most happening games Temple Run works beautifully. Im sure it'll make you addictive to playing it again and again.


To keep you addicted & occupied, the game has some really cool objectives which you have to accomplish and all these are possible when you take the coins. Grab as many as you can and keep going.

                         

You can buy powers which are available for time while you play the game. One of them make you invisible, there is a magnet which attracts all the coins even when you cant take them, increase your running speed for some meters and a couple of em'.

Maybe in between or after your done with buying all the powers, get some useful utilities.. Well, I haven't bought them yet so I dunno how exactly they work, but make sure you give them a try..

Bored with your current YOURSELF who keeps running?? Upgrade your character.. Keep collecting coins and upgrading your character with special features. ;)






















Click below to download
Take a look at "Temple Run"

Temple Run on Android - As Good As on an iPhone/iPad

I just downloaded Temple Run on my Samsung galaxy Note and it runs as smooth and great as it does on an iPhone or an iPad.

I frankly did not expect it to have such a fast and smooth interface. But one of the most happening games Temple Run works beautifully. Im sure it'll make you addictive to playing it again and again.


To keep you addicted & occupied, the game has some really cool objectives which you have to accomplish and all these are possible when you take the coins. Grab as many as you can and keep going.

                         

You can buy powers which are available for time while you play the game. One of them make you invisible, there is a magnet which attracts all the coins even when you cant take them, increase your running speed for some meters and a couple of em'.

Maybe in between or after your done with buying all the powers, get some useful utilities.. Well, I haven't bought them yet so I dunno how exactly they work, but make sure you give them a try..

Bored with your current YOURSELF who keeps running?? Upgrade your character.. Keep collecting coins and upgrading your character with special features. ;)






















Click below to download
Take a look at "Temple Run"

Heavy tweeting mapped from #SMWF

The twitter position maps below were made using the clima.me HAP application in iPhone.  This application can be used on Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone and iPad as well as PC.  The map shows a heavy concentration of tweets at Social Media World Forum in London, follow #SMWF.

The twitter map below, also made with the Clima.me HAPP twitter map app, shows how #SMWF accounts for most of the tweets in this part of London.

The augmented reality view before shows you that a massive crowd of tweeps are inside the conference right now.