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April 17, 2013
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The Customer Buying Cycle | Rocket Watcher Startup Marketing
Modelling the Customer Buying Process http://t.co/rqt2vDI2
April 16, 2013
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How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations With Four Trappist Monks | The Awl
The Awl Be less stupid. The Awl Be less stupid.
April 15, 2013
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The Epidemiology of an Internet Business
Imagine life as a bacterial plague. Your world is pretty simple. You aren’t motivated by fancy cars, attention from attractive people, or the respect of your peers. All that matters is the propagation and survival of your species. But being good at both propagation and survival is tougher than it…
April 14, 2013
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Stanford researchers discover the ‘anternet’
Stanford Report, August 24, 2012 A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet. Katherine Decktar Harvester ant foragers waiting inside the…
April 13, 2013
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A speech by the late David Foster Wallace | Books | The Guardian
T here are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how’s the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is…
April 12, 2013
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Why Do Programmers Hate Internet Advertising So Much? – Forbes
Facebook ad question (Photo credit: renaissancechambara) Another week, another pontificating programmer slamming online advertising. What is it with these guys? The latest example is a steaming heap of linkbait from software developer and entrepreneur Patrick Dobson entitled Facebook Should Fire…
April 11, 2013
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Ting MVNO starts selling LTE smartphones for Sprint’s network – FierceWireless
The Samsung Galaxy S III is one of a number of LTE phones now available from Ting. Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) MVNO Ting has started selling a handful of smartphones that run on Sprint’s growing LTE network, becoming the first U.S. MVNO to offer LTE service. Ting has started selling the Samsung Galaxy S…
April 10, 2013
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Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life – ScienceNOW
An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a 50,000 year-old Siberian girl using a new technique: http://t.co/EYWQgMy2
April 9, 2013
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How Long Do You Want to Live? – NYTimes.com
SINCE 1900, the life expectancy of Americans has jumped to just shy of 80 from 47 years. This surge comes mostly from improved hygiene and nutrition, but also from new discoveries and interventions: everything from antibiotics and heart bypass surgery to cancer drugs that target and neutralize the…
April 8, 2013
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The Fallacy of Funnels | The Intercom Blog
The funnel is a lousy metaphor for measuring conversion. In real life, funnels let everything pass through–a 100% conversion rate if you will. A better metaphor would be a sieve, or buckets with holes in them. But my problem with funnels isn’t the metaphor. It’s the mindset. The funnel ignores how…
April 7, 2013
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The Case vs Ad-Supported Platforms | Digiday
Dalton Caldwell isn’t your typical Silicon Valley programmer. For one, he’s run an advertising business, ad-supported music service iMeem. The dual experiences of being a Silicon Valley technologist and knowing the ad business make Caldwell an interesting critic of the emergence of…
April 6, 2013
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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown – Harvard Business Review
Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases: Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success. Phase 2: When we have…
April 5, 2013
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A Verdict That Alters an Industry – NYTimes.com
The federal court jury’s decision Friday in a smartphone patent lawsuit between Apple and Samsung is expected to alter the dynamics of the highly competitive mobile phone industry. For Samsung, which lost on almost every count in the closely watched trial in San Jose, Calif., and was ordered to pay…
April 4, 2013
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Ting isn’t just supporting Sprint phones, it’s hinting at a much freer device market — Mobile Technology News
Ting , the innovative mobile virtual network operator that offers pay-for-what-you-use shared plans , is expanding it mobile phone options. Instead of buying a device directly from Ting, the company will roll out a BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, phone option in the last quarter of this year.…
April 3, 2013
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Six Steps to Put Christensen’s Jobs-to-be-Done Theory into Practice – Forbes
Nine of the ten most valuable companies in America can trace their greatness to reconceiving a market’s boundaries. From ExxonMobil XOM -0.59% to Apple AAPL +0.75% to Wal-Mart, these firms expanded markets that others saw as static. How can companies in today’s economy – seemingly hemmed in on all…
April 2, 2013
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The universe isn’t a fractal, study finds – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – NBCNews.com
Stars crowd together into galaxies, galaxies assemble into clusters, and clusters amass to form superclusters. Astronomers, probing ever-larger volumes of the cosmos, have been surprised again and again to find matter clustering on ever-larger scales. This Russian-nesting-doll-like distribution of…
April 1, 2013
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The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win – Reason.com
The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Ourcountry faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins. MORE ARTICLES BY A. Barton Hinkle Pipeline Brings a Property Rights Fight to Virginia 10.03.16 12:00 pm The NCAA and the ACC Oppose Discrimination, Sometimes 9.21.16 12:00 pm…
March 31, 2013
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BBC News – Robot learns to recognise itself in mirror
Hey a robot just passed the classic test of self-awareness. No biggee. http://t.co/0AQK29Sh via @SaraLerner
March 30, 2013
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Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? – James Allworth – Harvard Business Review
The web has been alight these past few weeks with the details of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit . It’s been a unique opportunity to peer behind the curtain of how these two companies operate, as the trial seeks to answer the question: did Samsung copy Apple? But there’s actually another question that…
March 29, 2013
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Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy | A Designer Life
We’ve all seen the joke . Those of us in app development love to talk about how ridiculous it is that people will drop $4 every other day on a cup of coffee but will not “waste” 99 cents on our hot new app. I hope by now we’ve learned something: This comparison doesn’t work. Why haven’t we seen…
March 28, 2013
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Your Product Chooses Your Community, Marketing Scales It
Brad Hargreaves | Building Things Brad Hargreaves on entrepreneurship, community and life Great businesses are known and grown by the communities that use their products. Apple’s brand was reinforced by the hip designers and musicians that used it through the company’s worst days. Facebook’s initial…
March 27, 2013
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Joho the Blog » Authors don’t scale. Topics do.
Joho the BlogAuthors don’t scale. Topics do. – Joho the Blog Hard to Read? Style 1 Style 2 Default Toggle Sidebar Authors don’t scale. Topics do. Posted on:: August 16th, 2012 I suspect there’s a lot of truth in Richard MacManus’ post at ReadWriteWeb about where Web publishing is going . In…
March 26, 2013
March 25, 2013
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The Power of Defaults
One of the seminal moments in the early days of the Web 2.0 era, was a simple default setting. At launch, a new photo service called Flickr set the default on images shared to “public”. This was a stark contrast to the rest of their competitors at the time who all defaulted to private. This default…
March 24, 2013
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Writing Wednesdays: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
What It Takes How NOT to Tell a Story By Shawn Coyne Published : September 30, 2016 I’m re-running an article I wrote fifteen months ago about a full page advertisement in The New York Times . The reason why is this article from Bloomberg Businessweek, How Hampton Creek Sold Silicon Valley on a…
March 23, 2013
March 22, 2013
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Stop Publishing Web Pages – Anil Dash
Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused on a single, simple stream that offers a river of news which users can easily scroll through, skim over, and click on to read in more depth.…
March 21, 2013
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The Pretty New Web and the Future of “Native” Advertising | The Awl
Choire Sicha Co-founder, The Awl. The Awl Be less stupid.
March 20, 2013
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Daring Fireball: Pixel Perfect
I’ve spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the screen was a matrix of dots, like animated graph paper. I loved graph paper. The first font I ever…
March 19, 2013
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HEARD ON THE STREET: Bruised Mobile Carriers Fight Back at Apple – WSJ.com
The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and made Apple AAPL 0.43 % the world’s most valuable company. But it hasn’t been all good news for the mobile carriers. The biggest benefit of the iPhone, and the touch-screen devices that followed, has been a rise in average revenue generated from…