February 2012
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“Netflix’s streaming model — which Amazon, the rumor goes, might soon...”
– The Future of the Book Is the Stream - The Atlantic
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The Future of the Book Is the Stream - The... →
“What if you could re-define books’ value proposition? What if book-buying became less about one-off salesmanship, and more about ongoing membership? What if you didn’t buy books so much as join them?”
My hesitation with ebooks is the price. For what they cost, I want something physical in return. This subscription model would be an appealing compromise.
January 2012
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“Android owners are more likely than owners of other phones to use them on the...”
– The Rise of the Toilet Texter
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“If we don’t learn to program, we risk being programmed ourselves.”
– Douglass Rushkoff | On (Not) Learning to Code
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“At first glance, it would seem that the new generation of product-bookmarking...”
– Can Pinterest and Svpply Help You *Reduce* Your Consumption? - The Atlantic
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“Pick one thing and do that one thing — and only that one thing — better than...”
– Jason Goldberg, CEO, Fab.com | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
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“Only reinvent the wheels you need to get rolling.”
– Matt Mullenweg, CEO, Automattic | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
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“The result of this consolidation that gives me cause for concern is the...”
– Use Google? Time to Get Real About Protecting Your Digital Self - The Atlantic
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Twitter Announces Micro-Censorship Policy →
Via NYTimes.com: So much for the free-wheeling, libertarian reputation of Twitter. The company announced Thursday that it could start censoring certain content in certain countries, a sort of micro-censorship widget that would pop up up in a grey box on the Twitter feed.
“Tweet withheld,” it would read “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country.”
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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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