June 2011
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AppleInsider | Suppliers indicate Apple will ship... →
Apple is set to dramatically boost shipments of the iPad 2 next quarter, with overseas suppliers indicating the total number of units shipped will be between 12 million and 14 million.
If Apple were to ship 14 million iPad 2 units in the next quarter, it would be a number nearly three times greater than the 4.69 million units sold by Apple in its March quarter. That number was considered by...
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Life As A Mosaic, Not A Monolith: What Google+...
My recent brief experience with Google+ (or plus.google, as the URL says in reverse polish) has led me to some observations about how we might be shifting our personal and collective use of tools, and thereby our sense of self in the increasingly media-augmented world we inhabit.
Google+ is a suite of social tools sharing a common core. At the heart of that core is the user’s profile, which...
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Google+ Threatens The End Of WebEx
Google+ Hangouts are on-the-fly video chatrooms. Bradley Horowitz says there is no reason that they couldn’t be scaled up to support webinar-style presentations, with one (or a few) people talking and hundreds or more watching/listening.
So, one answer to a question that Steve Rubel posed on Google+ today is that Google+ threatens the end of Webex, and other for fee conferencing services.
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“Centuries ago, we wore uniforms and worked in factories. We clocked in, clocked...”
– Material — Do great work. (p.s. We’re hiring!)
(via Rafer)
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Fooling With plus.google (Google+): What Does...
I got invited to the plus.google beta (I begged my way in and Bradley Horowitz caved).
I am calling it ‘plus.google’ because that’s the URL, and avoids the problems with searching for a name with a plus sign in it.
It’s too early for more definitive thoughts, but here’s something I posted there:
‘Share’ in plus.google doesn’t have the same...
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“This is what I just emailed to the advisory board I was asked to join for a...”
– Jeff Jarvis, OTR is BS
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“News Corp. is about to sell Myspace for $20 million-$30 million, Kara Swisher at...”
– Jay Yarrow, Myspace Is About To Be Sold For $30 Million
Wow. Sam Wick, SVP Strategy at MySpace, was called away last night after the LA Future Of Work talk he participated in. I bet it had something to do with this deal.
A drop from $580M, to way below the $100M being shopped. I wonder what the...
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Simon Mainwaring Interviews Merrill MacDonald
SM: What would your definition of a leader be? MM: My definition [of a leader is] simply someone who has followers. It could be an assembly man on a plant floor, it could be the CEO, head of marketing, someone trying to drive innovation in an R&D land. They are people with a mission, vision, passion and cause, and who want to engage others behind them. SM: So this Let Go and Lead project is...
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Twitter's Guide for Newsrooms →
steverubel:
The most important part to read is their guide for reporting and how journos are using Twitter to find sources.
Jake Tapper from ABC News:
The way [Twitter has] been most useful is in terms of following people. I’ve been able to use it for reporting and to find sources. Last year when a health insurance company raised its premiums in California and it affected thousands of people,...
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“Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with...”
– Gary Hamel
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The Collapse Of The Complex: Why Facebook Will...
Clay Shirky offers up a precis of Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse Of Complex Societies, as the staging for an argument about media disruption:
Clay Shirky, The Collapse of Complex Business Models
In 1988, Joseph Tainter wrote a chilling book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. Tainter looked at several societies that gradually arrived at a level of remarkable sophistication then...
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Work Media Going Mainstream: Work Media 2011...
Work Media is becoming mainstream enough to be covered in the NY Times, although Kopytoff starts with Facebook, and then provides only a piece dominated by security issues and spotty usage, but his intro is not bad.
Verne Kopytoff, Companies Erect In-House Social Networks
As social networks increasingly dominate communications in private lives, businesses of all sizes — from tiny start-ups...
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Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score -... →
Stephanie Rosenblum via NY Times
How does one become an influencer?
After analyzing 22 million tweets last year, researchers at Hewlett-Packard found that it’s not enough to attract Twitter followers — you must inspire those followers to take action. That could mean persuading them to try Bikram yoga, donate to the Sierra Club or share a recipe for apple pie. In other words, influence is...
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“Yet strangely, for all of the brilliant creation, orchestration and curation...”
– The iPhone, the Angry Bird and the Pink Elephant - O’Reilly Radar (via johnallsopp)
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“Here in the United States we have been debating how many of the 100,000 U.S....”
– - Roger Cohen, Positive Disruption
I can’t find a citation of “The Age Of Behavior” anywhere, so Cohen must have heard it in private conversation. However, it sounds like he just means connectivity. I am pushing for the full vision of a liquid world: mobile, social, connected and webbed.
(via...
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“Certainly, a lot of writing about globalization takes economic development to be...”
– - Nicholas Lemann, Get Out Of Town
Well, at least not yet.
(via underpaidgenius)
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High technology, not low taxes, may drive US... →
via ScienceDaily
High-tech training may trump tax breaks for creating more jobs and improving a state’s economy, according to a team of economists.
“We found that lower state taxes were not statistically associated with a state’s economic performance,” said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural economics and regional economics, Penn State. “The tax climate...
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“As companies commit to greater connection with the world, paradoxically, they...”
– Stowe Boyd, from Inventing The Future Is Everyone’s Job
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Inventing The Future Is Everyone’s Job →
The world is too complex to plan business direction from ‘a blank sheet of paper and sheer brilliance’, says Polly LaBarre, so inventing the future is everyone’s job [via the Podio blog, part of the Future Of Work series]
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“40% of European smartphone buyers plan to purchase an iPhone as their next...”
– Todd Haselton, 40% of European smartphone buyers intend to buy an iPhone next
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Local Media Isn't What People Want: They Want...
The truth is that the numbers for AOL’s Patch efforts look bad, based on the southern California numbers leaked to Business Insider. It’s especially bad when you contrast them with traffic generated by Huffington Post, with is topical, not local.
The reality is people don’t want ‘reportage’ on a local level: they may want better search, and the ability to complain...
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The Social Revolution - ARTnews →
Barbara Pollack, The Social Revolution
How many friends does an artist need? Facebook sets a limit of 5,000, but that hasn’t stopped many artists from tweeting, blogging, posting to well past that number. Today, there are artists who are fully engaged with the world of Web 2.0, the term for an interconnective Internet with sites that encourage user participation. With more and more people ...
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“There’s only so much you can devote in any one day to reading. But you...”
– Gay Talese, What I Read
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Generation Facebook - NYTimes.com →
Katrin Bennhold via NY Times
Privacy concerns divide the generations almost as much as technology. “They have a very casual attitude to privacy,” says Wehleit. But that’s just it: The flipside of this attitude is that teens like Eva, Johannes, Leo and Arne are much less selfish with their knowledge than we were. They share their study notes not just among friends or in their class, but across...
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“Unlike blogging, where you spend time thinking carefully about what you say in...”
– Retention, self-expression, Tumblr (via obliteratedheart)
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“We are in the midst of a huge paradigm shift from a mechanistic ideal of...”
– - Deb Lavoy, my E2Conf Keynote
Deb Lavoy was one of the best things about the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference.
I might quibble a bit with terminology, because I find that what is really needed for groups to succeed is meaning: the significance of an activity, and its import for others. Purpose...
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“We should have picked 5 to 10 key features that we totally focused on and let...”
– Chris DeWolfe, MySpace founder. (via joshuanguyen)
The Woman Who Gave It to Bill Keller About... →
Alexis Madrigal via
Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc) is a University of North Carolina sociologist of technology who occasionally writes for this website. Bill Keller (@nytkeller) is the outgoing executive editor of the New York Times. About an hour ago on Twitter, after Tufekci said research didn’t support Keller’s view that social media hurt real-world sociality, Keller shot back,...
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A proposal for the community to work on spam on...
emergentfutures:
Paul Higgins:
Michael Cote from Climate Adaptation Tumblr (http://climateadaptation.tumblr.com/) asked a question the other day about whether we were getting spam on Tumblr.
I am certainly getting followed by,posts liked by, and re-blogged by other Tumblr sites that are advertising farms or other types of spam such as SEO optimisation sites.
This devalues my experience of...
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Our data, ourselves - The Boston Globe →
Leon Neyfakh via
Taken together, the information that millions of us are generating about ourselves amounts to a data set of unimaginable size and growing complexity: a vast, swirling cloud of information about all of us and none of us at once, covering everything from the kind of car we drive to the movies we’ve rented on Netflix to the prescription drugs we take.
Who owns the data in...
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“Systems that digitize books, like Amazon and Google, transform books into...”
– Bernhard Rieder, via 81,498 Words: the Book as Data Object :: The Unbound Book
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“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, futurist, civil libertarian (1932-2007)
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DailyTech - Source: Apple to Enter TV Display... →
According to source Apple plans to “blow Netflix and all those other guys away” by bundling Apple TV iTunes inside physical television sets. According to the source Apple is teaming up with a major supplier (our guess would be Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEO:005930)), to provide the physical televisions, which will be rebranded as Apple television sets.
Looks like my...
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Gannett To Lay off 700 →
futurejournalismproject:
Jim Hopkins of the independent Gannett Blog reports that the media giant is letting 700 people go and asking others to take unpaid furloughs to prevent further layoffs.
Today’s disclosure of 700 newspaper layoffs is the single largest round since July 2009, when the U.S. newspaper division eliminated about 1,400 jobs, mostly through layoffs. This is the fourth mass...
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“There is no collaboration without a shared goal.”
– Eugene Eric Kim
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Work Media and Work Talk: The Federation Of Work
I have been throwing around the term Work Media a lot recently, so here’s the working definition:
Stowe Boyd, Enterprise 2.0, Social Business, And Work Media
Work Media: social tools designed for the enterprise but based on the patterns of interaction, influence, and communication from social networks of the open web. Work media tools share a number of characteristics, most centrally the...
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Stakes Higher in 2011 as Enterprise 2.0 Kicks off... →
Haydn Shaughnessy via
The enterprise platform has been in constant transition for a decade, so much so that Microsoft’s three year refresh cycle looks very old school. The transition is understandable. Technology and user requirements both evolve.
The challenge though seems to lie in understanding what the enterprise actually needs. I still can’t help feeling that this space lacks a...
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“The principal barrier to work media adoption is not old fashioned bosses who...”
– Stowe Boyd 