July 2011
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“Good ideas don’t get stolen, they get funded.”
– The 5 Questions Entrepreneurs Need To Ask In Order To Get Funded
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“Congratulations Steve Jobs — you’re now more powerful than one of the largest...”
– Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government
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“Disruptors get disrupted.”
– Wise words via If Amazon Out-Walmarts Walmart, Can Anyone Out-Amazon Amazon?
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“Women start two out of every three new businesses every year yet we receive only...”
– Women Who Seek Capital for Their Businesses Can Save the American Economy
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“I don’t believe Privacy is a real issue to most people, but most people think it...”
– Tom Anderson | Five Things I Learned At MySpace That Could Help Google — TechCrunch
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“Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
– Sawyer Rosenstein – Boing Boing
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“Out of 1000 people surveyed after being cut off from the Internet for 24 hours,...”
– Technology Is The New Smoking | TechCrunch
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Why Do Viral Videos Go Viral? | Wired.com →
Decades of research in social psychology have shown that people often share strong emotions as a means of fostering connection and solidarity.
“If I’m angry, and then you get angry, we can bond over what we’re feeling.”
The Internet reflects this ancient social instinct. The only difference is that, when online, we often can’t express our emotions directly. (It’s not easy expressing...
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“Nerds make technology. Geeks make culture. Everyone else is just a Consumer.”
– Photos: Comic-Con’s Myriad Moments of Geekery | Wired.com
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“To help understand the customer service process, every Amazon.com employee...”
– Amazon.com Facts: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Web Retailer
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“The biggest difference between Google and Facebook right now is that thanks to...”
– How Google Will Transform Search and Search Marketing | AdAge
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“The 140-character limit is one of the most brilliant things Twitter has ever...”
– Why changing Twitter’s 140-character limit is a dumb idea
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“100 years after his birth and nearly 50 after he gave us language that made...”
– Webs and whirligigs: Marshall McLuhan in his time and ours
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I'm OK, They're Not: Trying to unravel what... →
From the full report of things that haven’t changed:
The number of internet users in the United States has not budged from the summer of 2008. It bounces back and forth in our polls from 75%-79%, but never outside that band.
The number of those with broadband at home has not changed since the summer of 2009. It ranges between 61%-66%.
The proportion of internet users who say they get news...
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“The survey of 70,000 US consumers found Facebook to be the least satisfying of...”
– Survey Says: US Consumers Most Unhappy With Facebook
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“iPhones are killing our discipline, killing our ability for solitude, and...”
– James Victore: Don’t Be A Design Zombie
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“Like curiosity, beauty is a motivational force, an emotional reaction not to the...”
– Why Does Beauty Exist? | Wired Science
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Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends? →
parislemon:
…My initial thoughts are that grouping seems to work well for mobile, ephemeral states. This is why group messaging works, and why I think something like Color, while poorly executed, is interesting.
Trying to create explicit groups for you entire social graph and being forced to maintain them just doesn’t seem tenable to me. Some people may think it is now because something...
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Evidence Suggests that the Internet Changes How We... →
Wegner proposed the idea of “transactive memory” as a collective social memory of sorts. For example, if a friend has an exhaustive knowledge of Greek history, you can simply remember that The Iliad is Greek and that your friend knows about Greek things, rather than remembering who wrote the epic poem. Sparrow and Wegner say that the Internet may serve a similar function, acting as an...
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Is Google Ruining Your Memory? -- Wired Science →
Although we’ve been romanticizing human memory ever since Socrates, our recall is profoundly flawed… Every time we recall a memory we also remake it, subtly tweaking the neuronal details. (This is why the more we remember something, the less accurate the memory becomes.) Although we like to think of our memories as being immutable impressions, somehow separate from the act of remembering...
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“Google is like a kind of Troll-Borg. You think they put out something that...”
– Google : One Hell Of A Trojan Horse
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The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View →
From the comments:
I’ve noticed that most futurists (and doomsday prophets) seem to favor timetables which place the amazing world-changing events within their own lifetimes, especially when the prophets in question seem obsessed with their own mortality. Anyone know if there is a name for this kind of predictive bias?
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“People are really concerned with categorizing other people online — with being...”
– James Fowler, author of Connected, political science professor | Organizing My Online Friends - NYTimes.com
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“The definition of groups is … everyone inside the group knows who else is...”
– Mark Zuckerberg | Zuckerberg’s Not So Subtle Dig At Google Circles — TechCrunch 