March 2012
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“Google+ solves Google’s big problems, at least in theory. It delivers a...”
– - Mat Honan, The Case Against Google
Google would like to be the next great thing, the bridge into the future, but instead they are failing to deliver breakthrough technology, despite all their edvantages and huge cash reserves. And realizing it, they have become so desperate, and cavalier about a...
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wahwah.fm: Social Radio
wahwah.fm is a new iphone app supporting social radio, using our iPhones as the nodes in the network, and we can all become DJs and listeners, too. Users can follow others, and listen to their ‘broadcasts’.
I found the user experience fairly straightforward, with some exceptions (like I can’t seem to be able to delete items I add to the playlist, just repleace them), and the app...
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RIAA: Consumers are shelling out for subscription... →
infoneer-pulse:
Here’s a message that Spotify and Rhapsody will surely forward to the handlers of Adele, Coldplay, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and especially those guys in The Black Keys: Subscription music services saw revenue increase 13.5 percent last year, while the number of the sector’s paying customers climbed 18 percent.
That’s according to the Recording Industry Association of America,...
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“The lesson here is that a company that disrupts does not necessarily survive....”
– The parable of Nintendo - Horace Dediu and Dirk Schmidt via Asymco
(via paperbits)
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“Of course, the only solution to the problem of human innovation is more...”
– The Cost of Creativity | Wired Science (via curiositycounts)
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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Blip.tv Co-Founder Mike Hudack Is Now A Product... →
Alyson Shontell via SFGate
Thanks to a tip and some LinkedIn stalking, we’ve learned Hudack has joined Facebook.
According to LinkedIn, he’s a product manager there and his Twitter feed is full of fb.me links. It’s not clear what he’s working on, but there’s a good chance fellow NY tech founders and Facebook acqui-hires Sam Lessin or Justin Schaffer recruited...
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Consumed →
alexainslie:
“I think it’s an ugly term when applied to information. When you talk about consuming information you are talking about information as a commodity, rather than information as the substance of our thoughts and our communications with other people. To talk about consuming it, I think you lose a deeper sense of information as a carrier of meaning and emotion – the matter of intimate...
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“I have to admit I’m starting to experience a kind of “favoriting” fatigue —...”
– David Carr, Hashtag Activism, and Its Limits - NYTimes.com
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“@lrainie: Wise, all-seeing @stoweboyd muses about the world after browsers in...”
– March 23, 2012 at 08:07AM via http://bit.ly/GTN9TJ
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“Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer, Erin Egan points out the risks for employers,...”
– Facebook May Take Legal Action Over Employer Password Requests - Matt Brian via thenextweb
So, employers or colleges that are demanding access to private information on Facebook (or other web sites) are entering a legal minefield, and we will have to wait for court case to see how that shakes out....
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The Future Impact of Social Networking - Tom...
Agent Of Change, the future of technology disruption in business, Economist Intelligence Unit
Tom Standage is the digital editor of The Economist and the author of several books on the history of technology. He is currently working on a new book on the history of the idea of social media, from Roman times to the Internet.
Q: What technology do you think will have the biggest impact on...
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The New American Academy: Post-Industrial At Last
Shimon Waronker sounds like a fascinating character. Grew up in South America, became a US Army Intelligence officer, is an observant Jew of the Chabad-Lubavich movement, and then became a NYC school teacher, and studied at the New York City Leadership Academy.
And now he wants to transform American education, based on modern thoughts about human collaboration:
David Brooks, The Relationship...
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“Trying to recreate the scarcity of content that used to exist in print — when...”
– Mathew Ingram, responding to new research from Pew, in If you have news, it will be aggregated and/or curated via GigaOM
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One Million Podio Apps Installed
A great milestone for work media vendor Podio: its users have installed one million Podio apps.
Podio supports the creation of data-oriented ‘apps’, such as a customer database, which can support business processes. Podio also supports an app store where thousands of predefined apps can be reused.
I think this is a sign of the growing maturation of social tools in the enterprise,...
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“@transarchitect: Connecting the dots going forward is nearly impossible. #relax...”
– March 21, 2012 at 10:45AM via http://bit.ly/GIcx1W
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“@thebillp: Dear #DataConf presenters, go through deck and delete “Why Big...”
– March 21, 2012 at 08:36AM via http://bit.ly/GHmtel
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“@moon: #Dataconf Does anybody really know what data is?”
– March 21, 2012 at 08:33AM via http://bit.ly/GCOXll
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Apple, Twitter, And The Social OS
Mathew Ingram wonders — apparently based on some thoughts by Barry Ritholtz — whether Apple should spend $10B and buy Twitter:
Mathew Ingram, Should Apple buy Twitter?
Apple’s best effort by far at adding those kinds of social elements came when the company integrated Twitter at a deep — and for Apple, a fairly radical — level into the operating system on the iPhone and iPad (and...
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Reading-and-sharing: nurturing the ties that bind →
Kate Niederhofer via Social Abacus
I’ve blogged before about Wegner’s notion of the transactive memory, a concept I love about how we get information into our heads (encode), arrange and add context (store), and eventually access when needed (retrieve) *as a group*. In my mind, this is underpinning of the success that Twitter is. It also helps explain this tendency we have to read-and-share as...
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“@livingarchitect: Very cool laser space battle from 1979 Moonraker film - worth...”
– March 20, 2012 at 03:24AM via http://bit.ly/GARZIu
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“Big companies don’t react to potential threats. They only react to real threats....”
– Ben Horowitz
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Freemium Is Growing In Games
The counterintuitive move of giving away apps — or games — for free seems to be gaining ground. The trick is to charge power users for more features or goods:
Game Makers Give Away ‘Freemium’ Products - Brian X Chen via NYTimes.com
Natalia Luckyanova and Keith Shepherd, a husband-and-wife team in North Carolina, learned this lesson when, in August, they released a 99-cent iPhone...
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CEOs and Creativity
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“@stoweboyd: 60% of CEOs rank creativity as the most important leadership skill”
– March 18, 2012 at 07:45AM via http://bit.ly/xuo2vk
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Power
I had a few moments at SxSW where I had to plug in my phone in a coffee shop or the back of a hotel ballroom because little provision is made for our energy consumption needs at most conferences, and certainly not at SxSW. In one case, I was several hundred feet from a friend doing a talk, so I could barely hear, because I needed to stay on line to try to connect with other friends.
But the...
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The Second Screen Gets Most Of The Attention
In a study published last year, S. Adam Brasel and James Gips studied the behavior of TV use when a computer was also present:
Media Multitasking Behavior: Concurrent Television and Computer Usage - Brasel and Gips, published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Changes in the media landscape have made simultaneous usage of the computer and television increasingly commonplace,...
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Your Best Content Strategy is Thought Leadership →
Geoffrey Colon makes the case for thought leadership as a social media strategy:
Your Best Content Strategy is Thought Leadership - Geoffrey Colon via futuristlab:
So many people I have spoken to as of late complain about the term “thought leadership.” They are always asking, “what does it really mean and where does it get you?” B2B companies have known about this terminology for almost two...
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“SXSW Interactive is, in a way, one big conflicted mishmash of openness and...”
– NYT @ SXSW (via susanmernit)
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Why Ditching The Office Could Help You Be More... →
Ariel Schwartz reports on new research, suggesting that working in a moderately noisy environment — like a coworking space or a café— can lead to a low level of distraction, a state that prompts abstract thinking. So, if you want to do some creative thinking, move to a slightly noisier corner of the office.
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McGonigal Is Broken, And Homeless Hotspots Are...
Jane McGonigal has become a rockstar of the TED crowd, but she has gone off the rails with her notion that ‘life is too easy’ as a rationale for the rise of online gaming. Steven Poole contrasts her love of World Of Warcraft with the more quotidian lives of two characters in Cart Life, who have to struggle to make ends meet:
Devastating humanism - Steven Poole via Edge Magazine
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Data is the New Oil: The Journey from Privacy to... →
I will be speaking with Gerd Leonhard, Andreas Wiegand, and (hopefully) Jamais Cascio at an event in San Francisco, 10 April 2012, sponsored by Swissex.
The theme is Data is the New Oil: The Journey from Privacy to Publicy. As every web page we visit is logged, and every comment and tweet analyzed for sentiment and intention, more data is being logged weekly than existed on earth a few years ago,...
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I’m not a “curator” – Marco.org →
I wrote recently about Maria Popova’s promoting some very hard-to-use microsyntax for curation, called Curator’s Code. The skinny? In principle, I’m down with making a distinction between via and h/t (hat tip), but I don’t think that her symbology, ᔥ and ↬, respectively, will catch on: Too hard to use, and they don’t add anything to the well-established via and h/t.
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Well, Of Course He Would Say That
The president of Encyclopedia Britannica is living in a parallel dimension. After announcing that the company would cease printing of the EB, he still has to suggest that Wikipedia is an inferior product:
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses - Julie Bosman via NYTimes.com
Since it was started 11 years ago, Wikipedia has moved a long way toward replacing the authority of...
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“We now know enough to know that we will never know everything. This is why we...”
– Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was A Neuroscientist
↬via Maria Popova
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Hotels Are Tired, Need More 'Isolated...
I was cursing at the piss-poor wifi in my hotel this morning at SxSW, and promising myself I’d never stay in a Doubletree again. Why are hotels so behind the times, I wondered. Of course I have stayed at more upscale and wired hotels, but I am astonished how stuck in the past the industry seems to be. Apparently, some hoteliers are trying to change that, based on looking at younger users:
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Twitter Acquires Posterous
Saw the announcement that Posterous has been acquired by Twitter (↬ h/t infoneert)— which doesn’t have very much other information, aside from the ominous statement that directions for moving to other services will be posted soon — and I immediately thought Twitter’s weakest link: direct messaging. DMing in Twitter is pathological, it’s so bad. And especially the...
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The Curator's Code →
I totally support the idea of a Curator’s Code, which is basically the use of microsyntax to represent different kinds of attribution in posts and or tweets:
ᔥ Maria Popova
The system is based on two basic types of attribution, each connoted by a special unicode character, much like ™ for “trademark” and for © “copyright”:
ᔥ stands for “via” and...
