January 2012
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If you had to start over today, what would you do?
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GE Study Proves Consumers Respond More to Shared... →
Ge’s been everywhere lately and doing a really great job. They’ve been experimenting in social areas with tenuous ROI, and it’s great to see it paying off.
Overall, the “brand lift,” which measured the extent to which consumers said they saw GE as “creative,” was 138% higher for consumers exposed to via sharing through Buzzfeed than those who...
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Check-In With a Hip Thrust With the 'LikeBelt'... →
Worst NFC idea ever.
Get Your Ideas Out of Your Head and On Paper to... →
yes, yes, yes. can’t emphasize this enough.
Ten #Fails in Professional Twitter Profile... →
I may be at risk of violating #10.
But overall I totally agree.
Twitter changes its policy on global censorship →
A little bit more of my Twitter love died today.
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Watch(via Customizing WordPress) by @kegill
A good primer for WordPress n00bs
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Netflix Bounces Back With a Q4 Beat, but Says... →
I never lost faith. I also love that Reed’s watching the horizon still and not getting complacent. Amazon isn’t a replacement yet, but between Hulu, YouTube (with their new content deals) and Amazon, I could see people questioning the need for their Netflix subscription.
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Any tips or advice for rooting android and...
Looking for some tips or advice from my geek friends on rooting android:
I have an old MyTouch 3g and an HTC Wildfire S, I am going to root these and install CyanogenMod on them. I’ll start with the MyTouch as I don’t use that one and if I bungle it up, it’s no big deal. I’ve read the CyanogenMod forums and I’m hoping it’s easier than it seems. Any...
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HP to complete webOS open sourcing by September →
Please, please, please let me put WebOS on my Galaxy Tab. If HP does this right they could put a serious dent in Android growth.
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Publishers are selling drinks on the Titanic →
Publishers thrive on creating scarcity. The go hunting for big game with a shotgun and the only people who are upset are the people who believe this is a good business model.
“Publishers are selling drinks on the Titanic,” says Joe Konrath. “They are doing so much to protect their paper industry that they are disregarding the needs of customers and are treating authors poorly.” Konrath was once...
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Rhapsody buys Napster’s Euro assets, targets... →
Two sinking ships just sink faster.
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Resumes and Irrelevance →
I love this. I’ve often thought if I ever was applying for a job again, I’d just send them this link.
andrewdumont:
We live in a digital world. Yet, most still evaluate people on a piece of paper.
Not Union Square Ventures, as the Journal notes:
Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology...
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Facebook gaining edge with journalists using... →
I know some people don’t like the Facebook timeline feature (some people just don’t like any changes), but I think it’s brilliant. I especially think the subscribe feature was a smart move as it allows the non-asymmetric following capability that Twitter has, but still allows users to keep their posts, or certain posts, from being public (if they’ll actually realize that is...
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Blogging Is Making A Comeback For Marketers →
Despite the recent moves to integrate social media into search, social media is fleeting. Status updates flow like the river and are gone. To me, blogging (even on sites like Tumblr) gives more permanence to your thoughts and words. A blog allows you to build a platform and establish a presence in a way that status updates can’t. Of course the converse is also true. Blogging without social...
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The real way to build a social network - according... →
Of all the members of the PayPal Mafia that I’m most impressed with, it’s David Sacks and Reid Hoffman.
Reid’s obviously very smart and this book, while not revolutionary, seems like it could be really valuable to a lot of people trying to find their way in this new world.
Reid’s rules
In the next day: Look at your calendar for the past six months and identify the...
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Facebook's Sandberg Gently Warns Europe About... →
I wonder if we can measure yet GDP or economic growth against privacy laws? Probably hard to do since privacy laws are so new (at least in their current form).
Concerned about privacy? Maybe you should be concernedabout the economy instead. That was the subtext of a keynote speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, at a technology conference in the heart of Europe on...
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Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW,... →
This will be a true test of Larry’s leadership. Either he’s brilliant and right, even when everyone thinks he’s right, or he’s so wrong and so stubborn, he’s going to take his company down with him. Kind of reminds me of Steve Jobs before the board ousted him and then brought him back.
Now, a source tells us that CEO Larry Page, who seems to be hell-bent on...
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Please, Spare Me Any More Of This Obnoxious... →
I think I disagree with and role my eyes at almost anything a court of law has to say about technology, because generally they are totally clueless, but in this case I totally see the point. And Paul Carr, nails why:
Over on Ars Technica, Peter Bright considered what the contempt ruling means for jurors. Put simply, said Bright’s headline, jurors must “leave the information age—or go to jail”.
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“They likened him to a terrorist, they threatened to assassinate him, they tried...”
– Julian Assange Gets His Own Talk Show, Poor Guy | PandoDaily
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Well, Here’s How Amazon Publishing Will Get Its... →
Of all the tech companies out there I would hate to be competing with right now, it’d be Amazon. They will just slowly chew you up. Google, kills you quickly. Apple just makes you irrelevant and Microsoft will either buy you or partner with you (while still competing with you), but Amazon is like playing college football against an SEC team. They just run straight at you slowly eating up the...
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SOPA Champion, Chris Dodd Calls Defeat a... →
This is pretty impressive comments coming from the people who just got their asses handed to them. Of course, people who are basing public reaction on that of the last 30 years was bound to get a rude awakening.
“It’s a watershed event, what happened,” Dodd admitted, noting that opponents’ “ability to organize and communicate directly with consumers” was a...
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The White House use of Quora makes it the first... →
Yes this is a cool use of Quora, and a big coup for the Q&A startup but I find it more interesting that this is the first brand use of Quora. Up until now (and I imagine still) brands aren’t allowed on Quora. Is this a sign of things to come? Are other brands going to start getting a shot at the service?
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Turning Twitter Spam Reporting Into A Game →
This is interesting. It’s so easy to report spammers, I wonder if this would really motivate new people to report spammers or if this will just attract people who already take the time to report spammers.
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“Every year the camera manufacturers set up huge booths at C.E.S., where they...”
– A Camera Phone, Sans Phone - NYTimes.com (via everythingisdisrupted)
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Analogue Ideation →
“I find it interesting that one the things clients are really asking for are these very personal, offline, technology free training sessions. It just goes to show that no matter how digital we get, face time and analogue will always have a place. In fact many would argue they’re more important than ever.”
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What are the occupational hazards of working in... →
“To use a crude analogy from my time in Vegas, I’m like a gynecologist at a strip club. When I’m not at work, and I should be having fun I still view the whole experience clinically.”
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Julian Assange to Host His Own TV Show to Reveal... →
Oh, great, Assange is no longer content revealing everyone’s past secrets, he now wants to disclose our future secrets?
I’m going to have to advise my clients *NOT* to go “off the record” with Assange.
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Soundcloud turns Instagram pics into retro slide... →
I love this idea. I could totally use this for business presentations.
Storywheel.cc allows Instagram users to import their favorite photos and then simply record an audio narrative via Flash in their browser while clicking through their slides. The mashup is the newest product out of Soundcloud Labs, and it was produced by two Soundcloud employees at a hackathon last year. Ljung told me via...
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Mitt Chomsky
I woke up with the most random blog idea: A group blog - point counterpoint style - written by BYU, Mitt Romney supporters and MIT, Noam Chomsky students.
If anyone wants to run with the idea, please go for it.
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This article will make you want to cover up your... →
My boss keeps a sticker over his webcam, because he’s paranoid of accidentally turning it on. After reading this article, I may start doing the same thing.
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The "Don't Be Evil" Tool is brilliant →
I love this. I’m installing now.
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Facebook aps for timeline. →
What percentage of people’s timeline will become pests from third party apps? I’m guessing a lot.
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Types of Innovation: Dealing with Darwin →
A really give write up of a book I find more and more relevant. Dealing with Darwin is a must read business book IMO.
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One third of online display ads don't have a... →
I think this was a big reason Ggogle’s ad performance is dropping. They’ve tied banner ads to PPC and those cookies aren’t helping as much as they used to in a Facebook world.
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Book Review: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m sad to say that I had never really read any Sherlock Holmes ( I think I read one or two in school but that doesn’t really count). And while this is really a collection of short stories it doesn’t seem like it because it’s just one adventure after another. It’s a great read. Perfect for reading while...
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Book Review: The New Capitalist Manifesto by Umair...
The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a good book in that the premise is an important one but I really feel this would have been a better essay than an actual book. In order to make it into a book Umair Haque had to use a lot of examples that aren’t really a good fit and at best were cliche. It’s hard to be one of...
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Doctor Who vs. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Just finished Doctor Who, season 3. I have to say, I liked ‘The Master’ in Doctor Who better than ‘The Master’ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
(That could be the geekiest thing, I’ve ever said in my life.)
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Some wild speculation about UX in 2012... →
I understand where the author is coming from here. There is a lot of hype right now around gamification, and it’s only going to get worse. But saying all the good parts of gamification are just good UX Design is like saying all the good parts of social media came from “Interactive” (which is what web development was calledin the 90-00’s).
Gamification will lose favour...
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Want to know what Anthropology Students talk about... →
Pretty entertaining. Anthropology geeks meet Internet geeks.
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Internet 2011 in numbers - Social Media →
If I looked at this right, a little less that 1/3 of the World’s population (~30%) is online and a little more than 1/3 of that (~39%) is on Facebook. And it actually works out to about 11% or the World is on Facebook. But for a non-mathematical Marketeer, saying 1/3 & 1/3 is a lot easier for clients to remember.
courtenaybird:
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
800+ million...
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How to Network Across Cultures →
Some very telling examples. This is why people with backgrounds in anthropology are at an advantage. They already know how to do these things.
Learn from those around you: Watch carefully how others operate in networking situations, and learn what behaviors work and don’t work in that setting. Customize your own approach from what you observe to develop a style that feels authentic to...
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World's Time Keepers Will Decide The Fate Of The... →
npr:
The International Telecommunication Union’s Radiocommunication Assembly, otherwise known as the international authority that keeps close tabs on time, will debate a philosophical question this week: They will decide whether to eliminate the leap second and in doing so break its tie to astronomical time.
A leap second is a lot like a leap year, reports the Financial Times, except that...
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For those that work in social media, what are the occupational hazards?
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Crowdsourcing Management Reviews for Better... →
I love that they point out if management doesn’t embrace this, employees will do this anyway. It wouldn’t be a stretch for sites like Glassdoor to add specific manager reviews to their company reviews.
We believe employees are increasingly likely to set up such review sites themselves. Why? In general, because of people’s obvious interest in their bosses — look at all...
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To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion →
An interesting take from a Millennial.
“We don’t find happiness by looking within. We go outside and immerse in the world. We are called to a higher purpose by the inescapable circumstances that are laid out on our path. It’s our daily struggles that define us and bring out the best in us, and this lays down the foundation to continuously find fulfillment in what we do even...
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The commoditisation of the entrepreneur →
Good article from the Kernel. It’s very thoughtful and while I understand his point I think it’s a bit much to compare today’s entrepreneurs with former soviet engineers. I don’t think today’s entrepreneurs are lacking in creativity.
I also think we’re getting closer to the true meaning of entrepreneur, which simply means someone who takes ownership.
If we...
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood... →
- Winston Churchill