That’s right peeps. Li Zhanyang led a discovery, as The UK pub, The Guardian reports, that begins to fill the fossil gap on human evolution in China and in Human history. At a site in China a Skull and other bones, as well as charred animal bones date from 80,000 - 100,000 years ago. THAT’S SHORTLY AFTER currently established theory that only 150 thousand years ago or so, depending on who you ask, modern anatomical humans came onto the scene. These finds suggest fire use almost def and lends itself to a theory believed by some that modern humans did not all migrate out of africa around 60,000 - 70, 000 years ago, but earlier. It is understood that there was some earlier migrations, but dates are not agreed upon and how far out it wnet is contested. It is also known that Homo Erectus was living for long periods of time in asia. The theory is that various forms of modern humans developed in asia as well and or migrated there far earlier than previously thought and then also interbreed with these new and old populations and perhaps even with Homo Erectus.
What does this mean really? It’s fascinating to have parts of a fossil gap in Humanity’s path discovered. It also supports the case that Humanities ancestry is most likely more vast and diverse than some suppose and think it is. I think we’ll continue to see finds like this over the next 20-30 years that eventually lead to a bigger picture of the complex Human Tree.
Strategy and concept were macked. Lots of logistics, etc. Also inserted into Pointroll tags. ad placements as content. When Press release comes out. Will post.
Clickz has a new article recognizing Gigya’s ad model. I’ve long seen value in their product and ofr the correct widget, their ad network may be a good solution to seeding. It will be interesting to see some of the data from their next generation seedings. They’re def pushing the Advertiser model more, having worked with their product for sometime, the interface has shifted and a call out is present. It is one of the differences in the Clearspring model. Either way, widget tools and platforms have got big props recently, and the difference between the online cms both offer, with Clearsprings being more an automated process and Gigya more hands on Flash AS integration into the shell files themselves and Clearspring “wrapping the assets.” Both differ from one another and other competitors like Widgetbox has a stake in the widget craze as well. It will be very interested to see how clients see differences in the widget “partners”. I think a trend towards the groups who can deliver the most robust content and work with partners to achieve executions will be key. Where do open social and the google gadget fit into this craze? It’s all about content and delivery and who thinks to make it and how many people use it and where they encounter it, well, that’s the prize in some ways, and will the user take a copy for themselves?
could Mammoths preserved in ice shed some light on it? That’s what Japanese scientists think. And a really well preserved carcus will either way provide insight into the species more and it’s diet and the landscape. The fact that an animal from almost 40 thousand years ago is really well preserved is amazing in and of itself. How marvelous. What an amazing project to be involved in.
The flock browser caught me by surprise. I go introduced to it through a yahoo mail sent message large ad. I clicked through and consumed and felt it worth using for work to gadge it’s value. I have since mostly migrated over to it and hooked up a bunch of my social profiles to it. It makes it easier to move from one to another without having to always launch new pages. The post to blog feature is a nice one and so are a slew of others, like the media stream and twitter and facebook friend updates, easy posts to my delicious account; and the clipboard for dragging and dropping content on it. It is pretty great to be able to use my browser the way I thought open social was going to work. Being browser based, Flock has enabled a quick and easy aggregation of online content quicker than converting a wack number of site publishers. It makes me think a new browser war is possible, or that the browser is back in the game.
