May 2013
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“We live in a bubble, and I don’t mean a tech bubble or a valuation bubble. I...”
– Eric Schmidt | America’s New Oligarchs
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“The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and...”
– Eric Schmidt
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“Humphreys said one of the early conclusions from her research is the possibility...”
– Back to the future: What if the ‘mass media’ era was just an accident of history?
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“Tumblr isn’t a blog platform like WordPress; it’s a social network that has a...”
– Neil Patel, KISSmetrics | 7 Things Marketers Should Know About Tumblr (via Union Metrics)
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“People want their television to work like a TV. Sending tweets on Twitter,...”
– The Smart TV Is Dead. Long Live The Second Screen – ReadWrite (via shaneguiter)
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“[Astronauts] have the strength to walk, but it takes more concentration, as they...”
– Fascinating answer on Quora: What’s it like experiencing gravity after being in space for 6 months?
April 2013
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“Editorial has won in a sense: the idea that advertising, like editorial content,...”
– How Tumblr Forces Advertisers to Get Creative | MIT Technology Review
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“Comscore confirms that Tumblr is the No. 2 social platform — right behind...”
– How Your Branded Content Can Thrive on Tumblr
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“Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO...”
– David Karp | Users Stay Longer on Tumblr Than Facebook, Says David Karp
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“It seems to me that this is native advertising as it should be. … The content is...”
– MediaPost: Tumblr Brings Its Native Ad Format To Mobile (via david)
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“In a post-Internet, post-mobile world of one click access, the distribution of...”
– The Store Is Media And Media Is The Store (via Emergent Futures Tumblelog, futuristgerd)
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WhatsApp is bigger than Twitter →
According to WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum, the service now has more than 200-million users, making it a larger overall network than Twitter. Moreover, it is being employed heavily by those users, with 8 billion inbound and 12 billion outbound messages every day and no reported drop off since its decision to charge $0.99 a year. With competition growing from Chinese rival WeChat and its 300 million...
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“This mobile advertising opportunity is native to how our consumers experience...”
– Tumblr Launches Mobile Ads for Native App Users | AdAge
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“Twitter has a more distinct model because of the celebrity and publishing model....”
– Eric Schmidt on the future of Twitter and Facebook
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“There’s a lot of discussion in the world about the two billion that are...”
– Eric Schmidt | The future according to Mr Google (via ParisLemon)
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“People don’t read ads. People read what interests them – sometimes...”
– The 5Cs of Really Great Content Marketing (h/t om)
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“… Why aren’t we engaging the public more directly? I don’t mean engagement like...”
– Best quote from Andy Carvin’s talk this week at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin (via sasquatchmedia)
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“Our heavy investments in Prime, AWS, Kindle, digital media, and customer...”
– Jeff Bezos | Amazon’s Letter To Shareholders Should Inspire Every Company In America
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“All in all, it’s been a tough week. But we’ve seen the character of our country...”
– President Obama (via usatoday)
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“On paper, literally everything about Google Fiber makes standard digital-cable...”
– Google Fiber Set to Challenge Data/TV Providers | Adweek
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“Remove all the space within the atoms making up the human body, and every person...”
– Brian Greene (via parislemon)
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15 Stats Brands Should Know About Tumblr →
There are currently 102 million Tumblr blogs. (Tumblr)
The total number of Tumblr posts to date is 44.6 billion. (Tumblr)
Tumblr had 29.2 million unique visitors in March 2013. (ComScore)
Tumblr had 6.6 billion pageviews per month in March 2013. (Quantcast)
The average usage days per visitor in March 2013 was 4.8. (ComScore)
Users spent 154.1 minutes on average on Tumblr (per user) in March...
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“It’s sad for Tumblr’s hard-working editorial team that Storyboard has met an...”
– The trouble with Tumblr’s journalism experiment
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“The Web is your CV and social networks are your references.”
– The New Résumé: It’s 140 Characters
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“The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People...”
– Marc Andreessen | How the internet is making us poor – Quartz
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“What will it take to build emotive-and-empathic data experiences? Less data...”
– Om Malik | Coffee & Empathy: Why data without a soul is meaningless
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“We have never seen a social space that actually works for everybody. People...”
– danah boyd | Is Facebook Losing Its Edge? | TIME.com
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“This is Tumblr’s moment. It’s almost equivalent to when Truman realized that he...”
– Gregory Galant, as quoted in For pols, Tumblr is trending - POLITICO.com (via rachelfershleiser)
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“12% of people have black and white dreams. Before color television the number...”
– What are some mind-blowing facts about sleep? - Quora
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“When you think about it, Twitter is something like a casual conversation among...”
– Roger Ebert | When cancer stole Roger Ebert’s voice, Twitter gave him a new one
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“Anyone with a Tumblr, Twitter or YouTube account is practicing journalism in its...”
– Terry Tang of The New York Times delivers 2013 Hosokawa Journalism Lecture (via unionmetrics, sparkerpants) 