July 2008
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“Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research said Generation Y is the...”
– Gen Y Is Setting the Tech Agenda
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“With the arrival of fast full-text indexes, email search sucks a little bit less...”
– Gabor’s Blog: Five Open Questions in Email
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“We won’t get to that entirely social web, he added, until we find ways to...”
– ‘Not a Site, but a Concept’: Tapping the Power of Social Networking - Knowledge@Wharton
“AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move...”
– Tim Wu (via azspot) (via riordan)
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“Why didn’t we? Part of the reason is surely deregulation. But a larger part is...”
– America’s Addiction and the New Economics of Strategy - Umair Haque
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Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective... →
“Hey, have you ever noticed there are a lot of angry people on the internets?”
– The Dude Abides: They Were Nazis, Dude?
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“On Wednesday, July 30th at 11:00am there will be a briefing from the Mayor’s...”
– isoc-ny.org - Internet Society - New York chapter
Inside Facebook » Tracking Facebook’s 2008... →
So where are the new users coming from? Inside Facebook has been gathering per-country data periodically from Facebookâs advertising tools over the last year (note: this data is self-reported by…
“the best company is one in which the employees are so engaged in their work that...”
– Don’t ask employees to be passionate about the company! (via danw)
MobileTechNews - Mobile Map use growing in U.S.... →
the use of mobile maps is increasingly popular in the United States and Europe, with 8 percent of American mobile subscribers and 3 percent of European subscribers accessing maps from the mobile…
Web 2.5 →
topherchris:
(via catbird)
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“If you think Tumblr is just a content aggregator, perhaps you’re not doing it...”
– Marc LaFountain on this.
Agreed. Tumblr does offer an intentionally basic feed-import feature that can aggregate your content from other sources. But that’s not what Tumblr is for — it’s just one feature. Most good tumblelogs don’t even use it. (If we really intended for Tumblr to just be an...
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“Or perhaps, like Gates, you just find Facebook a little…creepy. Businesspeople...”
– Facebooks Impact on CEOs - Portfolio.com
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Note to John McCain: Technology Matters →
(via azspot)
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Why The Establishment Needs Change or We All Purge
Before I left for San Francisco en route to Facebook f8 this past week, I caught an interesting article about the lack of men in the public relations industry (see my disclaimer) and the corresponding recruiting strategy agencies need to begin thinking about. I have attached the full text of the article here as it’s locked behind the subscription wall:
With a lack of men entering PR, we...
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“The nonprofits get a break on InnoCentive fees, Mr. Spradlin said, and Ms. Blair...”
– If You Have a Problem, Use Innocentive to Ask Everyone - NYTimes.com
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marco:
The Facebook redesign seems to have missed two points:
Whitespace is good, but adding whitespace around a billion tiny things doesn’t really solve the problem of having a billion tiny things on screen.
There’s a difference between activity and content. Content is activity, but activity is not content. Showing me the fine details of how my high-school classmates change their Facebook...
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“In the last four weeks, South America and Central America / Caribbean have been...”
– Digital Perspective Blog » Blog Archive » Facebook and LATAM are in love…
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“The common denominator in all of these types of venture investing is that the...”
– National Venture Capital Association
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“Many music executives were reluctant to take advantage of file-sharing...”
– Internet piracy | Thanks, me hearties | Economist.com
“There are a lot of people out there who say the US is way behind the rest of the...”
– CTIA - The Wireless Association® Blog: U.S. Wireless Internet Access Tops the Charts
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“Google is a data-driven, analytic company. When an issue arises or a decision...”
– Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
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“Ms. L., it was clear to me, had never been on the Internet. She quite possibly...”
– In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
Evaluating a VC
johncarney:
mikehudack:
I’ve found that the best VCs — the ones I want to work with — understand that the dating process is mutual. That is to say that they understand that as they’re evaluating the company the company is evaluating them. The best VCs know this instinctually and help the company evaluate them. The worst VCs never say anything about their fund or how they view the world. ...
ThisIsSand.com →
yourdp:
tylerriewer:
Well, there went 20 minutes…
Yup.
Jesus Phone has risen. (It has risen indeed.)
(via whatthefuckdoineedtoknow)
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PSA: New York City*
If you live or are interested in living in New York City, do yourself a favor and read this post first followed by this captivating discussion here.*
On money in NYC:
“Maybe its not all about money, but its definitely more about money. Coming from Wisconsin and working in Manhattan, I find my midwestern frugalness is completely alien to people. Time is money here, there is no doubt about...
“Because that to me is what blogging is all about – the new art of the...”
– Why I blog (via feedly)
Would Social Media Ad Models Kill Your Motivation... →
smalltime:
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about social media sites and how they’ll end up making money from advertising, if that’s the direction they choose to go.
I’ve read about Google’s Network Node…
next step in open innovation - The McKinsey... →
Companies have three ways to win by adopting distributed cocreation. First, they can capture value from the cocreated product or service itself, as LEGO and Threadless have, by merchandising good…
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“Every senior executive knows that business decisions are seldom better than the...”
– The promise of prediction markets - The McKinsey Quarterly - prediction markets crowd intelligence - Strategy - Strategy in Practice
Worldwide Study Indicates Strong Consumer Demand... →
The survey findings indicated a strong consumer desire for practical mobile content on phones. Rather than basic entertainment and ringtones, consumers stated that their most-wanted mobile activities…
Successful Advertising in China - International... →
This is best exemplified with the phenomenal growth of mobile phones as a means of communication â and a prime advertising opportunity. China Mobile, the world’s largest cellular provider, has 530…
YouTube has a 24/7 team filtering out all the... →
nickdouglas:
Melissa Gira corrects New York Times Internet reporter Virginia Hefferman, who claimed that YouTube uses a computer algorithm. (A commenter corroborates Melissa’s report.)