July 2008
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“Brain globalisation is simply the recognition that international mobility of...”
– Business.view | Beyond brain drain | Economist.com
Hacking The Facebook Platform For Data Portability →
“In today’s age where everyone can publish and Twit anything at anytime I...”
– New Rules Blogger Etiquette … What’s OK to Publish?
Erin also wrote about this in May.
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WatchLooking forward to future episodes.
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“I.B.M. uses a Facebook-like site called Beehive and a personalized internal...”
– Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip - NYTimes.com
“Organize something. Why does Google insist that it’s goal is to “organize the...”
– A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution - Umair Haque
Six Social Media Lists to Watch →
Young Adults Influenced by Mobile Ads - eMarketer →
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“Mobile is the Internet for an increasingly large and attractive consumer...”
– 1.2 Billion Mobile Subscribers! - eMarketer
“If America does not act, says Robert Yaro of the Regional Plan Association...”
– Infrastructure | The cracks are showing | Economist.com
WatchSilicon Alley?
Geek Love: Only millenials get Random Play on... →
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The world is a very small place →
bjornstar:
Betina told me the most amazing story this morning. She said she was sitting in the Canadian embassy in Taiwan yesterday waiting to apply for her Canadian visa. As she was sitting there a young Taiwanese man walked up to her and asked her, “Do you know Bjorn?” It turns out that my Taiwanese cousin, Kirby, was also applying for a Canadian visa the same day and recognized Betina from...
Technology Review: Social Networking Is Not a... →
Twellow.com :: Twitter users organized into... →
Find folks via their “Bio” information.
Goodbye New York Pseudo Intellectual Hipster...
jimrock:
Enjoy taking party pictures of yourself and your unnattractive hanger ons.
Enjoy being amazed at things that were on Boing Boing last week.
Enjoy talking about things you don’t understand.
Enjoy boring someone else.
I just unfollowed like 30 people. A lot of them were the gawker/ny idiocracy that have overshared their awful personalities and are watering down my brain.
I am looking...
Twitter
caro:
brianvan:
bijan:
Today Twitter announced a new round of investment.
Cool! Put some more quarters into the webserver.
HA. Perfect, Brian.
Shopping via Cellphone Slowed by Security Fears -... →
Security remains a concern, however: 41 percent of the consumers who transmit data said security was the reason they didnât buy things via their mobile phone. And 21 percent said they did not trust…
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Official Gmail Blog: Evolution of Gmail chat →
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Beyond the Dollar Sign: You.
I hope rising juniors and seniors at colleges across the country read this article in today’s NYT, “Big Paycheck or Service? Students Are Put to Test”. Harvard University acts as the test case where upperclassmen are lured into Investment Banking or Consulting, forgoing public service in lieu of the venerable paycheck. The only problem is the fact that the majority of students at Harvard (and I...
Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital... →
Social networks build beneficial technological, creative, and communication skills, the study says, leading the researchers to actually describe social networks with the adjective “educational.” Who…
Internet addiction is a 'clinical disorder' -... →
They suffer four symptoms: They forget to eat and sleep; they need more advanced technology or more hours online as they develop ‘resistance’ to the pleasure given by their current system; if they…
MediaPost Publications - OMG! UM Finds Web 2.0... →
This is good news, but I don’t know if it’s necessarily and entirely accurate.
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They Get Letters: Dave Navarro's Knock-Off Guitar... →
A truly confusing strategy on the part of Louis Vuitton against brand, even faux-brand ambassadors.
Commission on Growth and Development - The Growth... →
Apple's iPhone marketing plan →
riordan:
thx rana
Great find and read.
“While the rest of the world expects growth, the U.S. newspaper segment is...”
– Research Recap » Blog Archive » Digital and Mobile Media Spending to Double Share by 2012
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No Man’s Blog - Brands presence on SNS is a bit... →
Brands activities on SNS are naturally riding on hype waves. Two years ago we saw the golden rush to create MySpace pages, then the property-boom-turn-desert(ed)-islands on Second Life and recently…
No Man’s Blog - Dude, everything is not sharable →
Asi’s right. What ever happend to private pleasure reading or Interwebing?
Idea: A Bar in Silicon Valley →
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“A system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary is provided....”
– United States Patent Application: 0080046976 aka Mark Zuckerberg’s Patent
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How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate... →
But Nielsen’s idea is that people will read (and maybe even pay) for expertise that they can’t find anywhere else. If you want to beat the Internet, you’re not going to do it by blogging (since even…
“To the user, the interface is the product”
– (via deplorableword)
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“The site immediately took off. After 4,000 people signed up in the first two...”
– The Battle For Facebook : Rolling Stone