November 2010
October 2010
“For now, the service has the tinge of an early-adopter hit, as reflected by the...”
– Instagram: Already Over a Million Pics?
“In America, there is New York, San Francisco and New Orleans and everywhere else...”
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Mark Twain (via laureninneworleans)
So that’s why Spinal Tap was so confused…
(via markcoatney)
“Only 83 companies, or 16.6%, of Fortune 500 companies have a blog that talks...”
– The Fortune 500’s Tepid Embrace of Blogging « Sysomos Blog
Not that surprising — it’s difficult to find available employees with any talent for blogging. Most the “blog posts” are just copied & pasted press releases.
“A funny little side note, before we begin: We, like all other tech press,...”
– MySpace’s Last Gasp: We’re All New! (We’re Still a Social Network)
“I love it. It’s like when two people in a nursing home start dating. They...”
– SNL Mocks Rumored AOL-Yahoo Purchase
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Good Ideas Department?: Teaching Robots to Deceive... →
Doesn’t this violate one of Asimov’s rules or something?
There are many situations in which the best ethical decision might be to deceive a human. For example, in search-and-rescue environments it might be necessary to deceive someone in order to calm them down in order to get them rescued. It also might be necessary to deceive people in order to get them to take medicine necessary for their...
“It’s the dawn of a new day – the sun having now arisen on a world of continuous...”
– Five Years Later, Ray Ozzie Pens Another Great Memo: “Dawn Of A New Day”
15 Coolest Vintage Tech Ads →
“Digg’s collapse has become a cautionary tale for so-called Web 2.0 companies in...”
– Digg: A Cautionary Tale for Web 2.0 Companies
“UberCab is a first to market, cutting edge transportation technology and it must...”
– The Uber Blog: Uber has been served.
Technology will continue to move faster than our ability to set public policy within our current processes. How do we evolve the process to support innovation?
(via davemorin)
WatchDolphins in the wild are teaching themselves to “walk”
They’re going to take over the world.
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I told you Detroit sucks →
“Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they’re afraid to come to the city,” Vogel said. “There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear.”
You know your city sucks when even the dead people are leaving.
(via joestump)
Marketer of the Decade: Apple →
We decided to take Apple out of the running for Marketer of the Year and instead crown the tech whiz as Ad Age’s first Marketer of the Decade.
It seems fitting: Apple kicked off the aughts in 2001 with the iPod, an electronic device that went on to disrupt and forever change the music industry; then mid-decade it dropped the iPhone, a mobile device that changed the mobile-phone industry and...
For, you know, the rest of the world.... Happy...
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“The Machines won’t need to engage in some titanic struggle to take over...”
– If You Lose Your iPhone You Will Have A Baby (via jennydeluxe)
“The iPhone artists are executing a nearly identical operation to the...”
– Hipstamatic and the Time When Photographs Looked Like Paintings - The Atlantic
“Open versus closed is a smokescreen,” he argues. “Google likes to characterize...”
– Steve Jobs: “Open Systems Don’t Always Win”
