Over two-thirds of the images contained detailed EXIF information, providing wealth of info about the device used, location, even cardinal orientation and direction of travel from your handy iPhone.  A small number of files also revealed the photographer’s name.  Summary findings and a link to the scripts are available on his blog.

Hardware manufacturers for a subset of the TwitPic dataset.

Hat tip to @Mona.

Not surprisingly, television still anchors our daily information budget (41 percent of hours) but the overall consumption is diversified across many sources – both electronic and not.  What blows my mind is that the amount of DATA consumed via TV, games, and movies completely dwarfs all other sources.  Music, print, voice, radio, email and all other computer use combined equal less than one percent of our intake.

There are a ton of fascinating tidbits  in the report, check it out (PDF).

H/T to ASteele.

Seattle 2.0 Awards – Glenn Kelman’s inspiring speech from Seattle20 on Vimeo.

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

Bikes are the same.  Give me an old Motobecane rather than that sweet ride pictured above. With the IF-Mode folding bike (below), Mark Sanders makes the pendulum swing the other way.  I want the things we touch every day to be beautiful, as well as handy. At 32 lbs it still weighs less than my little babies.  Look out, I might just start wearing clothes from Swrve, then you’ll see me riding around town like a dandy.

I’m looking forward to a robust result in future iterations.  Hopefully the team can also incentivize enough participants to make the findings meaningful.   As of this writing only 35 of the 9000+ devs joined the party.  If you’re a developer, please take a few minutes to answer the 8 questions.

This survey’s singular focus on ‘promotion’ also got me thinking about the need to spend more time on user value creation.  Only 6 percent of respondents tied their App into a website or service to serve as a monitization engine (think Jott or RTM).  To get a feel for just how high churn is within the app marketplace, check out the Pinch Media deck below.

Early iPhone Adopter (Apple Newton)

I was asked recently if I was interested in participating in a networking/ movie-making event.  The idea is to gather entrepreneurs to share the keys to their success both on camera in a quick-interview format, as well as with your peers.

My immediate response was:  “I’d rather talk about failure.”

At the most base level, failure feeds a fire that already burns white hot for most entrepreneurs – the need to crush it.  In the words of Brad Feld “the dude that just came off a failure and is ready to go again is super-extraordinary-amazingly hungry for a success.”

More importantly, we should draw energy and inspiration from anyone willing to talk openly about how to learn from failure. I’m finding this thread compelling in reading Founders at Work, and in the Mark PIncus interview below, which came by way of Feld.

No word yet about whether the movie concept has morphed from the original, but I’d be happy to share my lessons-learned… just ping me.