January 2012
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“The top-level goal for most people is to convince others they are the...”
– Mark Hendrickson on social networks | The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
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“If Amazon is able to get studios and content producers on board with a...”
– Amazon contemplates competing with Netflix
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“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
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“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and...”
– Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - NYTimes.com
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“An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of...”
– Obama calls for reforms to support the “next Steve Jobs”
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“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay now lets you download physical objects
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“The problem with Twitter in Germany is that just one word will eat up most of...”
– From the comments | DLD 2012 – @Jack Dorsey: “Twitter Has A Business Model That Works” | TechCrunch
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“Facebook’s Smart Lists and Google+ Circles have popularized the idea that...”
– Pinterest Works Better Than Google
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“The idea of challenging the status quo isn’t marketable enough, so we continue...”
– Start Educating Entrepreneurs, Not Employees
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“The shocking lack of interest in doing things that are truly innovative is a...”
– Start Educating Entrepreneurs, Not Employees
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“I have been trained to see the world in terms of what I can post to the...”
– The Facebook Eye
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“A 2011 Pew Internet and American Life Project study revealed that 30% of all...”
– Teens Fall In Love, Share Their Passwords
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“To pivot is, essentially, to fail gracefully.”
– For Some Internet Start-Ups, a Failure Is Just the Beginning
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“I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded...”
– Steve Jobs | 1996 interview with Wired.com
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Internet 2011 in numbers - Social Media →
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
100 million – Number of active Twitter users in 2011.
70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
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“In the future, ‘everything that can be routinized, codified, and dissected...”
– The Career Of The Future Doesn’t Include A 20-Year Plan. It’s More Like Four.
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“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their...”
– Steve Wozniak | The Rise of the New Groupthink
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“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
– Pablo Picasso (via underpaidgenius)
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“Introverts are comfortable working alone — and solitude is a catalyst to...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink
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“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources...”
– Howard Stevenson, HBS professor, Breakthrough Entrepreneurship | What’s an Entrepreneur? The Best Answer Ever
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“Social networks are made to dissolve. It’s one of the services that social...”
– Is Facebook really doomed to die?
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“As a woman who writes about technology, I find booth babes insulting,...”
– Olivia Solon | It’s time to ditch the booth babes - Wired UK
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“Amazon Prime gives you the joy of consumption without the pain of acquisition.”
– The Cult of Amazon Prime
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“When using its algorithmic wizardry to deeply integrate social information into...”
– Steven Levy | Has Google broken its promise to users? — Tech News and Analysis
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Dirty Little Secrets: The Trouble With Social... →
“This potentially marks a real transformation to the way we have looked for information on the web, one with real winners and losers. It also signals a real danger to the balance of power between users and megacompanies. We are increasingly moving from a bottom-up web, where users vote with their links, keyboards and their clicks to show what’s relevant to them, to a top-down web where...
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“Remember: only you can prevent viral media from spreading.”
– Ending the Infographic Plague - The Atlantic
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“San Francisco: the city where twenty-somethings go to retire.”
– Thirty Year Itch - The Bold Italic
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“We are becoming helpless collateral casualties in the war between Google and...”
– John Perry Barlow, Co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation | Google’s Social Move Attracts Critics
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“Ageism in the entrepreneurial community is a fairly recent development. Vivek...”
– Boomers Who Start Businesses: The Next Great Generation Of Entrepreneurs
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You Are What You Like (And Not What Your Friends... →
“The study tracked the Facebook friendships of 1,640 students at an unidentified college over four years and found that students were more likely to friend other students with similar musical tastes, as opposed to having their musical tastes influenced by what their friends on Facebook listened to; the lone exceptions were classical and jazz music, which the researchers said were...
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“If we put a number on it, people will try to make the number go up.”
– Seth Godin | The trap of social media noise
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“This is another step in Facebook owning your identity in the physical world....”
– Noah Brier on Facebook Cards takes networking back offline
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“People who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly.”
– Steven Johnson | Anatomy Of An Idea
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“Most social communication products - from Facebook to Twitter to Path are...”
– Hunter Walk | Elapsed Time: Sorry Mike, Facebook could reboot and we’d mess it up again