September 2011
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“I clicked through the Featured Tags section of the site, then clicked on Web 2.0...”
– New Delicious is a Bitter Disappointment
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“Half of fans say that they really aren’t even fans as they don’t...”
– Social Media’s Impending Flood of Customer Unlikes - Harvard Business Review
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“When it comes to families, parents are much more influenced by the kids’ and...”
– The Next Great American Consumer: Infants to 3-Year-Olds | Adweek
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“Facebook’s version of autobiography is very specific. It is data-driven....”
– Alexis Madrigal | Facebook Timeline: Putting the Auto in Autobiography
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“For as much as he’s invested in sharing, though, Zuckerberg seems clueless...”
– Farhad Manjoo | Facebook Ticker: Mark Zuckerberg’s terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web.
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A Web Tool That Lets You Automate the Internet →
“The phrase “if this, then that” is a bit of programming-speak: you tell the computer that if this happens, it should perform this action.
Now, a simple new Web service called ifttt… provides a way for people to easily automate interactions between Web services, like Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist and Tumblr.
For example, the service lets you program a task that will call you
if the...
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“Design is such an influential part of Facebook’s strategy that Cox and 64 other...”
– A Visit With Facebook’s VP Of Product, And His Redesign Team | Co. Design
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“More than one in four college students globally (27 percent) said staying...”
– Social media, multi-tasking & ending billable hours
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“One of every three college students and employees surveyed globally believes the...”
– Social media, multi-tasking & ending billable hours
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“Every time you “like” a friend’s Facebook status, sign up for a Nordstrom credit...”
– The Information Arms Race - Politics - GOOD (via taylorlorenz)
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Facebook is about to feature-creep itself into a... →
“On Twitter people are following celebrities and the asymmetrical relationship makes sense. On Facebook — which already has Facebook Pages for celebrities and brands — the subscribe feature makes no sense at all.”
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“Americans spend 22.5 percent of their time online visiting social networks and...”
– With WSJ Social, the Wall Street Journal is rethinking distribution of its content…on Facebook
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“Web 2.0 CEOs are the new Julia Roberts of the world.”
– Silicon Valley’s Seal of Approval | Adweek
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“[O]ne of the reasons e-books won’t destroy the book world is because...”
– Will Children Save Printed Books?
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Which Generation Has The Recession Hurt The Most? ... →
The Great Recession has done terrible things to people of all ages and walks of life, but which generation of Americans have had their futures the more irreparably damaged?
Here’s a gross oversimplification of this very interesting article:
Millennials: A higher percentage of this age group are unemployed than any other, and studies from past periods of joblessness show that people...
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46 Million Americans Now Living In Poverty,... →
“Overall, median income has changed very little compared to rising consumer prices over the last 30 years. Adjusted for inflation, the middle-income family only earns 11% more than they did in 1980, while consumer prices have risen roughly 155%.”
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Why the idea of a Netflix for e-books makes sense... →
When the news of Amazon’s plan hit the web on Monday, a number of observers quickly noted that paying a monthly fee for access to a collection of books sounds a lot like something we already have — namely, a public library. So why wouldn’t people just go to the library instead of signing up with Amazon? The most obvious answer is: For the same reason millions of people have signed up for Netflix...
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“The AOL address is nothing more than a digital AARP card.”
– Is an AOL Email Address a ‘Status Symbol?
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“I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: “If...”
– Eric Ries | Are You Building The Right Product?
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US Child Mortality Rates Rank 41st in the World →
Even though the United States posted a 26 percent decrease in neonatal deaths over the 20 years, it has slipped in lowest risk rankings from 28th in the world to 41st. At 4.3 neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births the US shares the 41st spot with Qatar, Croatia, and the United Arab Emirates.
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Your attention please. →
There’s something even more limited than time. It’s your attention. Attention is a subset of time, therefore it’s more limited. How you spend your attention is more important than how you spend your time.
Attention is about focus and careful, thoughtful consideration. Unlike time – which can be broken into convenient chunks of 15 minutes – attention doesn’t divide quite so neatly or easily.
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The books business: Great digital expectations |... →
“Another problem is Amazon’s market dominance. The firm accounts for less than a quarter of physical book sales. But Amazon sells 60-70% of e-books in America and perhaps 90% in Britain… In America, Barnes & Noble’s Nook is the main competitor. Surprisingly, given the success of the iPad, Apple’s iBookstore has lagged… Only half of iPad owners read e-books—and two-thirds of them own or plan to...
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The books business: Great digital expectations |... →
“Perhaps the biggest problem, though, is the gradual disappearance of the shop window. Brian Murray, chief executive of HarperCollins, points out that a film may be released with more than $100m of marketing behind it. Music singles often receive radio promotion. Publishers, on the other hand, rely heavily on bookstores to bring new releases to customers’ attention and to steer them to books...
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“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of...”
– John Naisbitt (via memento—mori)
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The End Of Books: Ikea Is Changing Shelves To... →
If you needed any more proof that the age of dead-tree books is over take a look at these alarming style changes at Ikea: the furniture manufacturer’s iconic BILLY bookcase – the bookcase that everyone put together when they got their first apartment and, inevitably, pounded the nails wrong into – is becoming deeper and more of a curio cabinet.
Why? Because Ikea is noticing that customers no...
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How Tumblr Created A Design Culture With No Design... →
Another design goal for Tumblr is the idea of taking away the intimidation of blogging — you know, the dreaded confrontation of an empty page. This is achieved with with smaller text fields and even a range of non-text options. “We don’t want to make you feel like you need to write three paragraphs and post a photo,” he says. “You can just post a photo.”
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“There are 6.8 billion people on the planet. 5.1 billion of them own a cell...”
– 9 Amazing Mobile Marketing Statistics Every Marketer Should Know
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“It takes 26 hours for the average person to report a lost wallet. It takes 68...”
– 9 Amazing Mobile Marketing Statistics Every Marketer Should Know
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Arrington's TechCrunch Moves Even Startle Trade... →
Many websites are functioning largely as trade magazines that occasionally commit acts of journalism. TechCrunch, and Mashable to an even greater extent, are more like the new American Thresherman and Farm Power or Stone World or Successful Farming than they are the new New York Times. But it’s hard to know when they’re acting like the Times and when they are acting like Plumbing and...
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“Arrington, you are the man! Not even Tolstoy could have up with a more...”
– A TechCrunch commenter on the latest cannon blast in TechCrunch’s war with its corporate master. We admire Silicon Valley’s sense of its own epicness. (via cnnmoneytech) 