May 2011
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github I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
mobocracy:
In roughly 2003 I was working on the Linux kernel for a research project at Purdue. I didn’t have internet access at home at the time and wanted to be able to take work between my lab on campus and my office. The USB card reader I had didn’t work on Linux at the time so I created a small patch for the kernel to support it. Then I submitted it, and waited, and waited, and waited. The...
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Apple's iCloud, Steve Jobs Set To Star At Next... →
We’ve long suspected Apple would use the June event to reveal its plans to embrace cloud tech, which will presumably leverage its data center in North Carolina for the first time. The idea was given an extra spin over the last several weeks as first Amazon then Google revealed their cloud music locker systems and even made some early moves in the coming battle for consumers. We knew Apple...
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Social as a design principle, not a silo - Rick... →
Social starts as soon as you start your design
Open architectures, service orientation and cloud are things you keep in mind while designing your solution and or your applications. However social is most often forgotten, it is added afterwards or it is introduced as a separate silo. Thinking of social beyond the implementation and treating it is a design principle will help you in designing...
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Bre.ad: A URL Shortener With Interstitial Ads
Somehow I stumbled across Bre.ad, a URL shortening services that allows the user to insert ads into the URL resolution process, along with various analytics as well. I think this is halfway between cool and ugh. On one hand, if you have some cause to promote, why not put it in front of people who want to click on your URLs? On the other, it is going to be just a source of annoyance to those...
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Audi Urban Future Initiative
THE AUDI URBAN FUTURE INITIATIVE IN NEW YORK, 6TH TO 9TH MAY 2011
The results of the Audi Urban Future Award 2010 were first presented parallel to the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2010 in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia within a walk-through architectural environment created for the exhibition by Raumlaborberlin, a collective of architects and artists. An international...
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What About The Weak Ties?
Once again, people are missing the most important aspect of Twitter community in their endless confirmation of Dunbar’s constant:
KFC, Human Brain Limits Twitter Friends To 150
[…] it’s easy to imagine that social networking technology finally allows humans to surpass the Dunbar number.
Not so say Bruno Goncalves and buddies at Indiana University. They studied the network of...
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Don Tapscott on What We Can Learn From Millennials →
I look at some smart recommendation and observations from Tapscott, and agree that Millennials are going to change the world of work profoundly.
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What Tumblr Should Do: #1 Follow Outsiders
I am inaugurating a new series here: What Tumblr Should Do. I am simply going to offer suggestions of things that the folks behind Tumblr should implement or change.
#1 Follow Outsiders
Tumblr has a large and growing community of users, but it doesn’t include everybody, and probably never will. There are many folks out there that I would like to follow, but since they aren’t using...
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Our Time Is Not Our Own: Time Is The New Space
Jolie O’Dell cites another study showing the obvious: that tuning into the world outside the piecework on your desk takes time. It you add up all the time that we spend reading things, communicating with people we known, and looking at websites, and then multiply it by the dollars per hour we are paid, it’s a big number.
Yawn.
It’s preposterous to have to counter this...
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Blade Runner Was Right: They Are Implanting False...
Jonah Lehrer vividly remembers drinking coke from a glass bottle at a high school football game, vividly. However, the school prohibited glass from the stadium, so it couldn’t have happened. But Coke works hard to make you act as if it did.
Jonah Lehrer, Ads Implant False Memories
A new study, published in The Journal of Consumer Research, helps explain both the success of this marketing...
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Google pulls the rug out from under web service... →
Two on this list of Google APIs that are ‘deprecated’ — meaning that they will be shut off in the not-too-distant-future — caught my eye: Feedburner API and Wave API.
Wave has proven to be such a one-eyed goat that Google announced its shutdown back in December 2010.
But this series of events in the history of Feedburner is the sort of thing that makes me scratch my head...
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Remembrance of Links Past -- Maciej Ceglowski →
Since Pinboard has collected a lot of bookmarks at this point, I thought it would be interesting to actually run the numbers on link rot - the depressing phenomenon in which perfectly healthy URLs stop working just a few years after appearing online.
Link rot in my own bookmarks is what first inspired me to create Pinboard, a personal archive disguised as a social bookmarking site. As...
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“Don’t underestimate the power of Tribes.”
– — Amber Karnes, Anatomy of a trending topic: How Twitter & the crafting community put the smackdown on Urban Outfitters
How Amber Karnes — pissed off that Urban Outfitters had stolen an indie jeweler’s necklace design, once again — pushed out one tweet that led to a...
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“Customer data is the new currency.”
– - Bob Egan, cited by Biance Bosker in Google’s Digital Wallet: Why Google Wants To Reinvent How You Pay
(via Rome Viharo)
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“I’m a big believer in human curators. Algorithms alone do a terrible job of...”
– Instapaper founder Marco Arment at Studiomates lunch (via curiositycounts)
If you replace “readers” with “listeners”… it’s the same dynamic. Humans matter.
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Most definitely yes.
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Yay. (via brysmi)
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Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 "lion's... →
John Perry Barlow bitchslaps oligarchs confabulating about how to strengthen copyright protections so they can own our entire culture:
“Trying to optimize towards scarcity, as you are by all of your methods, is not going to be in the benefit of creation, I promise you,” he said. “It’s not IP enforcement that gets you guys properly paid.” In his view, payment...
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Google And Square Square Off
Now I know why Jack Dorsey, in his Square CEO incarnation, was dismissing wireless payment systems that force users to ‘wave their cell phones near registers’ when he was announcing the Square payment system at Techcrunch Disrupt yesterday: Google is about to release such a payment system this week.
Tara Siegel Bernard and Claire Cain Miller, Google Is Said to Have a Wireless Payment...
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Publicy - Schott's Vocab →
Publicy
When the public, not the private, is the default. (Publi[c] + [Priva]cy)
Writing for TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld described how the advent of social networking and Web 2.0 tools have brought about a shift in social norms:
It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives public. Now that is being turned on its head. We live in public, like the movie says...
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This is our story →
This is our story
Hello,
Every day, I have things to share with friends, family and the world. A new idea, an interesting find, a quick message, and plenty of other things that don’t fit on my blog.
And it seems I’m not the only one.
A musician friend with a big fanbase called a while back to ask how to share his latest music video and some info on a nice background. ...
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bijan sabet: Inside rounds →
bijan:
Historically it’s always been a weak signal when a VC backed startup needs to raise money from the inside investors, aka as the inside round. But I never understood why. If the current investors love the company, they should keep investing as the company grows. Why do they need outside validation?
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Future Of Work, NYC: Jennifer Magnolfi, Marcia... →
I am excited to announce that Valeria Maltoni, Marcia Conner, and Jennifer Magnolfi will be joining me in New York next week, on June 2nd, for the inaugural session of the Future Of Work series.
read the full post over at the Podio blog.
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The Problem With News
Ben Huh makes some prescient observations about what’s wrong with our outmoded notions about news creation, delivery, and use:
Ben Huh, Why Are We Still Consuming News Like It’s 1899?
1) Editors Don’t Know What We Already Know Having read the last 10 updates on the efforts to cool Japanese spent fuel storage pools, I’ve noticed a very annoying problem. After the initial 3 paragraphs...
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Twitter reportedly buying TweetDeck for more than... →
Tweetdeck acquisition by Twitter has been consumated, it is reported.
Looks like Twitter is continueing to buy up the missing ‘holes’ in the Twitter product line, and with Tweetdeck they grab the leading multi-column client for superusers.
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Tracking Tumblr Dashboard Activity: "No Can Do"
gbattle:
brianvan:
(FYI: If you embed Javascript in an anchor HREF on Tumblr, it’ll work on the front-end of your site but they attach “denied:” for display on the dashboard. That distinction makes no sense to me. I guess someone at Tumblr is worried about someone running a bookmarklet or something that ruins their pretty, pretty dashboard. All I can ask is that whoever makes “missing e” adds...
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How Long Before Apple Buys Square?
I am betting sometime in the next few months.
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Bill Keller Throws Rocks At The Social Web
Bill Keller continues to expose his anger that the web is changing the world in unexpected ways, this time going after Twitter and social media in general:
Bill Keller, The Twitter Trap
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions. Unlike the virtual fireplace or that nesting pair of red-tailed hawks we have been live-streaming on nytimes.com, Twitter...
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“Transparency is the new objectivity.”
– Jeff Jarvis
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Huffington: Disconnect Now, Connection Makes You... →
Huffington: I think we will become more obsessed with being disconnected || Absolutely wrong. #disrupt
In a world with increasing opportunities to connect, the most connected connect even more (see It’s Not About Making Things Easier, It’s About Connection), and those at the bottom of the economic heap are being connected for the first time on web-connected phones.
Huffington is...
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via Twitter →
Rosen: NYC has the intersection of the creative arts with technology, but overstating to say we’re the next Silicon Valley. #disrupt
I disagree with Jay. There is almost nothing standing in the way of NYC becoming the leading tech center of the world.
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via Twitter →
Wilson: Don’t be a Facebook bitch, a Google bitch, or a Twitter bitch: be your own bitch. #disrupt
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It's Not About Making Things Easier, It's About...
The authors of this AdAge piece start with the wrong premise — that people are buying more media gadgets to make their lives ‘easier’, whatever that is supposed to mean — and then they wind up scratching their heads when it turns out to not be the case.
Bob Shullman and Stephen Kraus, Affluency: E-readers, Tablets Prove Taxing for Affluent | Ad Age Stat - Advertising Age
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“China has by far the strongest interest in purchasing tablets, with consumers...”
– A whole generation of Chinese consumers who have only known computing as mobile phones are going straight to tablets. Imagine how free they will be to reimagine computing never having used a keyboard or mouse.
The post-PC world is shaping up to be a very interesting one.
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Watchsoupsoup:
Mike Hudack, CEO of Blip.tv talks to Erick Schonfeld of Techcrunch on becoming a video destination hub with 1 billion views per quarter.
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“In this multichannel universe that continues to fragment at a dizzying pace with...”
– MediaCom: Note to Content Companies: Unbundling is Inevitable - Vik Kathuria (via mediafuturist)
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This is amazing when I really think about it, and...
evangotlib:
I NEVER tune in to breaking news (or even regular news) on TV anymore. I follow breaking news stories on Twitter and Tumblr and keep whatever game is on TV on mute. The TV is no longer a source of news in any way for our household.
The ONLY time I can remember in the last 8 - 12 months that we used TV for news was the Obama announcement re: Osama.
I don’t have cable any...
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“It was there, 10 years ago Thursday, that Apple opened its first retail store,...”
– On Apple Stores’ 10th anniversary, a fan of theirs finds fans of his own - The Washington Post (via christopherdwhite) 