May 2012
5 posts
“There’s a difference between a missed opportunity and a complete fuck-up....”
– How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
““By the time we were looking at Flickr, Yahoo was getting the shit kicked...”
– How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
“How dare they go after 57,000 dedicated women whose median age is well over 70...”
– Catholic theologian Mary E. Hunt, responding to a Papal directive that, as Nicholas Kristoff puts it, “accused the nuns of worrying too much about the poor and not enough about abortion and gay marriage.” (via ericmortensen)
April 2012
11 posts
Design studio marketing
cacioppo:
MARKETING
Most clients, when they hire a design studio, take the attitude that the studio is lucky to work with them, that they selected them from a plentiful pool of design companies bidding on their business. To many clients, design studios are, in a sense, interchangeable. So if you don’t want to do something the client’s way, if you don’t want to let them integrate their staff on...
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Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey,... →
infoneer-pulse:
Perhaps it should be called Spamazon.
Until recently, if you had typed “Steve Jobs Isaac” into the online retailer’s search box, the first choice that popped up wasn’t the best selling book by Walter Isaacson, but instead one with the same name and a similarly sounding author, Isaac Worthington. The book appears to be selling, even though Amazon’s one reviewer gives the book a...
“I’m sick of hearing about him. I’m sick of seeing weeping victims in...”
– Norway awaits Anders Breivik trial with mixture of fascination and revulsion | World news | guardian.co.uk
Nice. Newspapers with a hide function.
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Antitrust Vs. Antitrust →
parislemon:
Good rundown by Nilay Patel of the Department of Justice’s antitrust complaint against Apple and seven of the major book publishers.
The high-level idea, that the publishers wanted to move to the agency model (where they could set prices that retailers charge for their books) and that Apple was willing to give them this model shouldn’t be surprising. The question is if they colluded...
March 2012
9 posts
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Stop Calling it Curation →
langer:
Now the “hat-tip” has long been a simple courtesy, not some kind of moral commandment; its omission from any citation is in no way the sort of punishable offense that failing to attribute any borrowed content would be. That’s because usually the greatest sin of omitting a “via” is denying someone else the moment of flattery that comes with the recognition that some other follows whatever...
“The value of authorship is much more clear. But regardless of how much time it...”
– I’m not a “curator” – Marco.org
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Microsoft unveils universal translator that... →
Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual voice.
Mp3 version of the keynote, the demo starts at around the 12-minute marker.
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Has Hashtag Marketing Arrived? →
joshsternberg:
My colleague Giselle Abramovich has this great piece about a new American Express social marketing tactic.
American Express’ launch of a new experience for card members using Twitter may be a sign of what is in store for the future of hashtag marketing. Up until now, hashtag marketing was nothing more than lame incentives to get people to tweet hashtags. This new development...
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“The subjects who tested positive for the parasite had significantly delayed...”
– Ou seja, esse protozoário pode até ter me deixado um pouco cega, mas também me tornou muito mais queridona e fashion.
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic
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“(This post is part of News.me’s ongoing series, “Getting the News.” In our...”
– News.me: Getting the News — Evan Williams
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
3 posts
“We are a broadband service provider. Everything else—from voice to IPTV to...”
– Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited voice, text, and 3G data
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December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
4 posts
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Desire - Under Your Spell
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September 2011
11 posts
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“Given that the company already gets about 250 million photos uploaded every day,...”
– Facebook gets a big infrastructure boost for Timeline — Cloud Computing News
This is what’s interesting to me. By subverting the emphasis on recency to shine a light on history, it means their infrastructure needs to change. Hope there’s more around this. (via joshuanguyen)
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“That new Brazilian fertility rate is below the level at which a population...”
– Brazil’s Girl Power - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine (via iamdanw)
(via caterpillarcowboy)
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“…if you look at the most successful sites which link out — Fark, Reddit,...”
– Felix Salmon and Ryan McCarthy, my favorite Odd Couple of Reuters, discuss “Counterparties” with Megan Garber at Nieman Lab (via soupsoup)
Remember to make things
fascinated:
A reminder, in reverse order:
Caterina Fake on Making Things
Anil Dash & Dave Winer on getting away from the crowd
Tim O’Reilly on working on stuff that matters
These are great.
August 2011
7 posts
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“SoundCloud is to Berlin what location-based social network Foursquare is to New...”
– sister cities and sister companies?
still waiting for the audio checkin
Berlin: Europe’s hottest startup hub - Aug. 9, 2011
(via fred-wilson)