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January 17, 2013
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Here’s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro) | Mobtest blog
It’s the week of the Facebook IPO, and a lot of talk in the Facebook roadshow is about its mobile strategy. Out of the 900 million monthly active users, 500 million use Facebook on mobile . Mobile is booming and will so the next few years as these numbers are showing, so rightfully so a lot of…
January 16, 2013
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Opinions are non-contemporary | booktwo.org
I gave a quick lunchtime talk at Lighthouse today, as part of a Happenstance open day. It was essentially a quotedump of what’s in my head at the moment, but several people asked for the links mentioned, so here goes. The collective false memory syndrome that the UK is being implanted with, in…
January 15, 2013
January 14, 2013
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Hack the Cover — by Craig Mod
Hack th e Cover Covers, covers — everywhere — Craig Mod , May 2012 The covers are dead! Dead! Dead like the record jacket! Dead like the laser disc sleeve! Dead like the 8-track cartridge sticker! Dead like the squishy Disney VHS container! Dead like the cassette tape insert! Dead like those damned…
January 13, 2013
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Warren Buffett’s Newspaper Purchase « Clay Shirky
Last week, Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, purchased two dozen small newspapers and their related online properties from Media General, a conglomerate with holdings mainly concentrated in the southeast Unites States. After finalizing the deal, Buffett issued a memo on his view of the…
January 12, 2013
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Bill Drummond: ‘The creative urge is in us all’ | Music | The Guardian
Bill Drummond standing in the Penkiln Burn, Minnigaff, Dumfries and Galloway, 2009. Photograph: Tracey Moberly H ow do you go about interviewing someone when you have only got four questions to play with? Especially someone like Bill Drummond, whose life is hardly uneventful. From managing Echo and…
January 11, 2013
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Studying the Brain Can Help Us Understand Our Unscientific Beliefs : The New Yorker
Editors’ Note: Portions of this post appeared in similar form in a December, 2009, piece by Jonah Lehrer for Wired magazine. We regret the duplication of material. Last week, Gallup announced the results of their latest survey on Americans and evolution. The numbers were a stark blow to high-school…
January 10, 2013
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Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing — HBS Working Knowledge
When planning new products, companies often start by segmenting their markets and positioning their merchandise accordingly. This segmentation involves either dividing the market into product categories, such as function or price, or dividing the customer base into target demographics, such as age,…
January 9, 2013
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German Credit Agency Plans to Analyze Individual Facebook Pages – SPIEGEL ONLINE
DPA A leading German credit agency wants to mine Facebook for information on people’s creditworthiness. A leading German credit agency plans to mine Facebook and other social networking sites in search of information that could have a bearing on a person’s creditworthiness, according to media…
January 8, 2013
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Long-distance running and evolution: Why humans can outrun horses but can’t jump higher than cats. – Slate Magazine
The women’s marathon at the 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships on Aug. 27, 2011, in Daegu, South Korea. By Chris McGrath/Getty Images. At first glance the annual Man vs. Horse Marathon , set for June 9 in Wales, seems like a joke sport brought to us by the same brilliant minds behind dwarf…
January 7, 2013
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THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Role Reversal: Why TV Is Replacing Movies As Elite Entertainment
Once upon a time, over a generation ago, The television set was commonly called the “boob tube” and looked down on by elites as a purveyors of mind-numbing entertainment. Movie theaters, on the other hand, were considered a venue for, if not art, more sophisticated dramas and comedies. Not any more.…
January 6, 2013
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Ray Bradbury, Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 91 – NYTimes.com
Ray Bradbury at a book signing in California in 1997. Steve Castillo/Associated Press Ray Bradbury , a master of science fiction whose imaginative and lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 91.…
January 5, 2013
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Don’t Make Us Treat Our Customers Like Criminals! – Blacknight Blog
This post is probably a little longer than my normal ones and is probably best classified as a “rant”. You have been warned. Now please read on. Online Crime Is A Serious Issue Crime, fraud, scams etc., they’re all very bad things. They’re also not going to go away anytime soon. As a domain name…
January 4, 2013
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Google Places Is Over, Company Makes Google+ The Center Of Gravity For Local Search
When Google+ and Google+ Pages for business were introduced a little less than a year ago many people in the local search arena began anticipating the day when Google would merge or integrate Google Places and Google+ Pages. Well, today is that day. Google Places pages have been entirely replaced by…
January 3, 2013
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Joho the Blog » Distribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right?
Joho the BlogDistribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right? – Joho the Blog Hard to Read? Style 1 Style 2 Default Toggle Sidebar Distribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right? Posted on:: June 2nd, 2012 Is it just me, or are we in a period when new…
January 2, 2013
January 1, 2013
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Privacy is personal | Customer Commons
Privacy is personal. http://t.co/prtwB681 A new essay at the new @CustomerCommons. #VRM
October 10, 2012
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Why Facebook Has Not Already Peaked — New York Magazine
I magine for a moment that no one ever joins Facebook again. Whether this year or five years from now, it has to occur: You can’t grow beyond the number of Internet users on Earth. Past that point, what happens? What’s to keep a rival like Google Plus, or an as-yet-unhatched idea residing in the…
October 9, 2012
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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business
We have access to more data than God wants anyone to have. Thus it is not surprising that we feel overwhelmed, and rather than being data driven we just get paralyzed. Life does not have to be that scary. In fact a data driven life is sexiest digital life you can imagine. In this blog post we are…
October 8, 2012
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The White Savior Industrial Complex – International – The Atlantic
If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement. Left, Invisible Children’s Jason Russell. Right, a protest leader in Lagos, Nigeria / Facebook, AP A week and a half ago, I watched the Kony2012 video . Afterward, I wrote a brief seven-part…
October 7, 2012
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Who Has The Right To Our Facebook Accounts Once We Die? : All Tech Considered : NPR
NPR: Who Has The Right To Our Facebook Accounts Once We Die?-More at http://t.co/fFQfN47M
October 6, 2012
October 5, 2012
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How to Budget Megabytes Becomes More Urgent for Users – NYTimes.com
An iPad may consume many megabytes of data, particularly when streaming movies. J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times Everyone knows how long a minute is. And your cellphone carrier keeps close tabs on how many you have used this month. Now, in the smartphone era, more people are being forced to…
October 4, 2012
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Personal Data Connector Singly Raises $7M – Liz Gannes – Social – AllThingsD
Singly , which aims to smooth the process of respectfully including personal data in new applications, has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Foundry Group. Transmitting personal data between applications doesn’t have to be for nefarious purposes . In fact, it’s often something that we…
October 3, 2012
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Shift Happens – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
If you’ve seen that bumper sticker, you’ve seen what our culture has made of one of the central ideas in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published 50 years and 1.4 million copies ago. For the marketers and boosters of personal transformation who casually talk about paradigm…
October 2, 2012
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Boston Review — Claude S. Fischer: The Loneliness Scare
Claude Fischer masterfully debunks all this recent "Internet=loneliness" nonsense in @BostonReview http://t.co/9tCJBoRo
October 1, 2012
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Is Facebook making us lonely? No, the Atlantic cover story is wrong.
For all our talk of self-reliance and rugged individualism, Americans are actually far less likely to live alone and enjoy key forms of personal autonomy than people in other countries Photograph by Cathy Yeulet/Hemera. Americans devour books that say we’ve never been lonelier or more disconnected.…
September 30, 2012
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Social Media’s Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships – Technology – The Atlantic
It’s just one factor in modern life that can increase connection in a world divided by the vagaries of capitalism, the disengagement of television, and the isolation of suburban sprawl. YouTube/Prometheus6812 A few years ago I had an interview for a job at one of the leading academic departments in…
September 29, 2012
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What Now: Freemium or Paid? // Peter Levine
What Now: Freemium or Paid? Your company, SpiderNet, is in the final stages of defining the go-to-market model and pricing for the product. The company has spent a great deal of time debating the benefits of doing a freemium model versus paid. The product has the capability to be split along a…
September 28, 2012
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Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing | Andrew Chen (@andrewchen)
The rise of the Growth Hacker The new job title of “ Growth Hacker ” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the…