November 2011
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“Our culture has encouraged me to only feel valuable if I’m barely hanging...”
– All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup | Mother Jones
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“Just counting work that’s on the books (never mind those 11 p.m. emails),...”
– What’s the Matter With the Start-Up Industry?
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“In a tally of potential global bogeymen, erosion of personal privacy ranks...”
– Web Data: Startups Bank on Consumers Controlling Their Data | AdAge
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“We’ll also see the emergence of something new—a “corollary of caring”—which...”
– Sheryl Sandberg | Sharing to the power of 2012 | The Economist
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“The strength of social media is that it empowers individuals to amplify and...”
– Sheryl Sandberg | Sharing to the power of 2012 | The Economist
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“Coding is the new Latin. We need to give kids a proper understanding of...”
– Alex Hope | BBC News
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The Tech Bubble Just Popped →
“The 41 tech companies that went public this year are down 13 percent collectively, according to the New York Times, and the biggest IPOs are no exceptions. Groupon, Pandora, Demand Media, Yandex and Renren are all below their offering price, with only LinkedIn in positive territory, up 53 percent.”
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The newsonomics of Amazon’s Prime moves →
For Amazon, giving me “free” shipping for a capped annual price is certainly about volume of sales. Estimates are that Prime members — about 10 million in total — up about 40 percent of Amazon’s U.S. sales, each member buying around $1,500 worth of stuff a year.
Bezos took a retail business without much loyalty and is turning it into a loyalty business.
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“Facebook is acting like malware.”
– Why Facebook’s Seamless Sharing is Wrong
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“Sharing and recommendation shouldn’t be passive. It should be conscious,...”
– How Facebook is ruining sharing | Molly Rants - CNET
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“In search of “frictionless” sharing, Facebook is putting up a...”
– How Facebook is ruining sharing | Molly Rants - CNET
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I Believe In The Internet - The Content Industry... →
bradburnham:
The Internet is not just a series of pipes. It’s core architecture embeds an assumption about human nature. The Internet is designed to empower individuals not control them. It assumes that the if individuals are empowered, they will do the right thing the vast majority of the time.
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“The more realistic we make the relationships in the social graph, the more...”
– Will Facebook Be the Next CompuServe?
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“Dorsey touches on something here that’s complex but profound: how do you...”
– Can ‘Serendipity’ Be a Business Model? Consider Twitter
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“72% of Americans think the economy is doing poorly. 31% think it will do even...”
– Americans Trust Tech Companies Most, But Hate Their Exec Bonuses
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“Vogue is a prime example of the power of advertising: if, as an advertiser, you...”
– Felix Salmon: The Future of Online Advertising
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“It’s a known fact in advertising circles that only idiots click on ads — and yet...”
– Felix Salmon: The Future of Online Advertising
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Ashton Kutcher: How Not to Do Social Media →
“Translation: I’ll let “my people” manage my Twitter account because I’m not sure I can keep myself from putting my foot in my mouth.”
Let’s hope this doesn’t set the trend for other celebrities and famous people on Twitter. The authenticity is key.
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Why The Collaborative Consumption Revolution Might... →
“Collaborative consumption represents a shift from the ‘me’ to the ‘we.’
It’s about the fact that we were consumed with the idea of individual ownership and the fact that when we purchased things, it would add up to who we were as a person. And I think we’re slowly moving away from that idea and seeing that what we have can actually be beneficial to a...
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“And yet it’s strange that, despite lessons learned about the logic of the web,...”
– Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed
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At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the... →
In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined.
It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take...
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“The key to Square’s rapid growth in Dorsey’s mind is the same thing that propels...”
– Processing $11 Million A Day, Jack Dorsey Says: “We Don’t Want To Make Square All About Taxi Cabs”
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“Facebook execs explain that while the previous profile was like a five-minute...”
– With Timeline, Facebook Bids To Reinvent The Social Biography
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Google Pages: The power of search is the... →
You see, this is no longer just about “social.” This is the face of the new interactive Internet, a one-up over the traditional Web site. These Google pages are powered by search, share and followers. This isn’t a static place where companies host their corporate blogs or post their news releases. This is a dynamic environment where companies host live video “hangout” sessions and engage in...
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55% of Kids Don't Post Some Things Because They... →
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Married couples run Sugar, other tech firms →
Silicon Valley is rich in such tandems: married couples in technology who are able to balance the demands of matrimony with the pressure-cooker demands of running a start-up. It isn’t easy, as any of them will attest, but their life partnerships do offer some advantages.
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“Without a big picture we are very small people.”
– Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack, The New Universe and the Human Future
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“Just yesterday, Instagram’s main site received 6.2 million uniques, which is...”
– Instagram’s hosting bill? About two really nice cars per month
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“If you project forward 10 years each person will share about 1,000 times more...”
– Mark Zuckerberg | Dropout Mark Zuckerberg Welcomed Back To Harvard
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“Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating...”
– The 6 Pillars Of Steve Jobs’s Design Philosophy
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“What the CIA failed to do in 60 years, Zuck has done in seven: knowing what 800...”
– Mark Zuckerberg is the ninth most powerful person in the world, says Forbes
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“The tech industry actually has the smallest income gap between men and women,...”
– Women In Tech: Why Is There No Female Steve Jobs?
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Why you don’t need a Silicon Valley zip code to be... →
That technology companies and hotbeds are spreading across America is beneficial to not only startups but to American innovation and economics. According to the Kauffman Index, which ranked the U.S.’s top 15 states with high entrepreneurial activity, New York City was listed as number one, Chicago was not far behind in third place, Dallas came in fourth, and Atlanta listed as number nine (San...
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“After seeing screen captures of Facebook users angrily responding to an Onion...”
– Tumblr Tuesday: The Onion inspired, Literally Unbelievable
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