Tumblr replaces Instagram as the fastest growing social platform

Tumblr replaces Instagram as the fastest growing social platform, Snapchat the leading mobile end

The Global WEB Index survey shows that over the past 6 months, the number of active users in Tumblr has increased by 120%, surpassing Instagram as the fastest growing social platform. During the same period Instagram's active user growth rate was only 64%, or even below Pinterest's 111%, ranked third in social products.

In terms of total user growth, the number one is Pinterest, whose user base has expanded 57%,TUMBLR to 45% in the past 6 months, and Facebook has grown by only about 6%.

Looking at the moving end, Snapchat is leading all apps with a 56% annual growth rate.

Statistics show that iphone 6 Plus users consume up to 65% of the content than 55S users

Reading tool pocket later, through data mining for 2 million of articles and video readings, and a comparison of the behavior of users who hold the iphone 55S and iphone Plus, found that large-screen handsets can significantly increase user content consumption.

The statistics found that the replacement of a large-screen cell phone for the iphone and the ipad also led to a 55% increase in the total reading time of the user's mobile phone to 72% (iphone 6) and 80% (iphone 6 Plus), This is basically consistent with what has been observed on Android before.

Correspondingly, the amount of content consumed by the user on the mobile side will also increase significantly. Consumer content consumption has risen by 65% per cent, compared with 6 of 55s,iphone users who have grown 33% in pocket articles and video, while the IPhone 6 Plus has been more effective.

Twitter will try to track users ' app holdings

According to Recode, Twitter will start a tracking program for users ' mobile apps to better understand user behavior and preferences from more dimensions to improve their advertising push and content push algorithms.

The report shows that Twitter's plan is "Opt-out", that is, if users do not actively block, Twitter will default to collect your mobile app downloads.

Twitter has been experimenting with a lot of personalized referrals over time, such as showing people you don't care about in the flow of information and their tweets, based on Twitter's insight into users ' data. Twitter's knowledge of users is slightly thinner than Facebook's extensive and comprehensive data, which is why it is daring to push users ' "monitoring" programs on their mobile apps.

Amazon Fire mobile phone price dive, bare metal 649 to 199

Trapped in a sluggish backlog, the 32GB Fire Phone bare-metal (GSM version) is currently priced Amazon down to 199 U.S. dollars, and before its price of up to 649 U.S. dollars.

Amazon released the fire phone,7 Month in June this year, when the bare metal price of about 649 U.S. dollars, and At&t's two-year contract price of 199 U.S. dollars. But sales were less than expected after the launch and only about 30,000 units were sold within one months.

Amazon said in October that as of the end of the third quarter, not yet sold the Fire phone total price of 83 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to 207,000 mobile phones. To that end, Amazon counted 170 million dollars in the third quarter.

British Professor invents intelligent electronic scalpel Iknife

Iknife is an electronic scalpel that can use electric charge to burn through the body tissue. The electronic scalpel has been in use since the 1920s, but unlike the electronic scalpel of the past, Iknife has found a way to extract useful information from the vapors emitted by the burning human tissue.

In the past, a large number of preoperative surgical procedures have been used to collect information, which means that it is difficult for a physician to know exactly what he is removing and whether it has been omitted. Data suggest that nearly one-third of all surgeries are unable to completely erase tumor traces.

Iknife the body's steam into a mass spectrometer to analyze its chemical constituents. By comparing the chemical characteristics of steam with the characteristics of thousands of of cancerous and non cancerous tissues, Iknife allows surgeons to know what type of tissue they are cutting off. The product was invented by Zoltan Takats, a professor at Imperial College, UK.