February 2012
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“Virality — users inviting their friends to try an app — is less important (and...”
– Stowe Boyd: Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts - Nir Eyal via TechCrunch
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At $500 Billion, Apple Is Worth as Much as Toyota,... →
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“The idea that young women serve as incubators of vocal trends for the culture at...”
– Young Women Often Trendsetters in Vocal Patterns - NYTimes.com
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For a Growing Number of College Students,... →
Wikipedia doesn’t have a stellar reputation for scholarly accuracy, but its staggering collection of 20 million articles in 283 languages has nonetheless made it the go-to reference for the world’s students—it’s even the most plagiarized source on college campuses. Now, a growing number of professors are bucking the anti-Wikipedia trend and assigning a new kind of homework:...
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“9% are paying via smartphone — but 71% are interested in paying via smartphone.”
– Shop til you drop (calls): How iPhone users shop in stores
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“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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“Pinterest isn’t just for saving things. It’s curating things....”
– Damien Basile
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“This is the renaissance! This is the great time of the cloud! We’ve all changed...”
– Marc Benioff | Marc Benioff Is Thinking Bigger
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“Slowness, in this age of constant connectivity, is its own kind of value. Most...”
– ‘The Future of Email’ … Looks a Lot Like Twitter
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Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong... →
“There seems to be a growing obsession with defining what journalism is, and who deserves (or doesn’t deserve) to be called a journalist. Is the man who live-blogged the Osama bin Laden assassination a journalist? Is National Public Radio’s Andy Carvin, who has been using Twitter as a one-man newswire during the Arab Spring, a journalist? Some mainstream journalists would answer no to both...
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“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward....”
– Marshall McLuhan (via Folkert Gorter)
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“User Experience is the establishment of a philosophy about how to treat people....”
– Whitney Hess quoted in User Experience The Don Draper Way
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“A good hockey player skates to where the puck is. A great hockey player skates...”
– Wayne Gretzky | 5 things that destroy a company’s value
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Is Twitter a newspaper, or is it the phone... →
Is Twitter a publisher and distributor of information like a newspaper, or is it just a dumb pipe like a telephone network? Lawyers in Australia seem to believe that a case could be made that Twitter is a publisher, like a newspaper, and therefore it can be sued for defamation as a result of a single tweet. That may be a stretch… but it highlights the difficulties that Twitter could have as...
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“Nearly every start-up working in payments is simply creating a new front end for...”
– Don’t mess with credit: Why the future of payments is already in your pocket.
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“If Pinterest can keep enough eyeballs on people’s boards, those pins can...”
– Why Pinterest Is So Addictive
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“Pinterest is a place where we can demonstrate: ‘If it weren’t for all those...”
– Why Pinterest Is So Addictive (via fastcompany)
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“[Tim Berners-Lee] told me about his proposed system called the ‘World Wide Web.’...”
– Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee (video) via kk.org
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Two Of President John Tyler's Grandchildren Are... →
Our tenth president, John Tyler, he of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” has two living grandchildren.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. and Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who are still out there today, have a grandparent who was born in 1790, who was president from 1841-1845.
The next president who has a still living grandchild is James Garfield the 20th president, who took office forty years after Tyler....
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“The average person looks at their phone 150 times a day, or once every...”
– The next 10 years in mobile
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“Mobile phones are the most widely used technology in the world. At the end of...”
– The next 10 years in mobile
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“Whether it’s us, Pinterest, or Flipboard, you’re seeing a change in...”
– Jason Goldberg, CEO Fab.com | Fab Blasts Through The Commerce-Media Divide With Five New Verticals
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“Fab doesn’t want to necessarily emulate the Amazon style of providing a huge...”
– Fab.com takes big step toward becoming Amazon of design
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Fab Isn’t an Ecommerce Company; It’s a Content... →
“Fab didn’t scale like an ecommerce company, because it isn’t one. Sure, ecommerce is how they make money, but what drives the love for Fab is the content. Co-founders Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer are essentially magazine editors masquerading as etailers. Day-after-day, they are designing a gorgeous, aspirational life for you one item at a time.
…What’s more: This is a...
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“If Facebook is the social network for online identification and authentication,...”
– Tumbling on success: How Tumblr’s David Karp built a £500 million empire
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California Housing Market Braces for Facebook... →
When Ken DeLeon, a Silicon Valley real estate agent, recently sold an 8,000-square-foot house to a Facebook employee, he said, the movers showed up at the client’s old 1,000-square-foot home and asked, “Did you win the lottery?”
…Mr. DeLeon said he already had plans to market to Facebook employees. One strategy: he intends to buy ads on Facebook. “It’s amazing how you can target them,” he...
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“Pinterest already is driving buyers to some websites. In the last six months,...”
– How Pinterest Is Becoming the Next Big Thing in Social Media for Business — Entrepreneur.com
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In the New York Times, Sheryl Sandberg Is Lucky,... →
“Luck, after all, is what too many women chalk up their success to, Sandberg has argued. Their male peers, in contrast, believe themselves to be ‘awesome’ — fully deserving of their success.
The problem with the way the Times framed Sandberg’s success begins with the use of the word ‘but’: She’s smart, but she’s lucky, as though this somehow...
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“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads....”
– Jeff Hammerbacher | This Tech Bubble Is Different
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“There’s no denying that Pinterest is fun, looks great, and a lot of people love...”
– Pinterest is over-hyped — Forrester Blogs
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Pinterest: How does Pinterest generate revenue? -... →
Pinterest is already working with Skimlinks to convert all e-commerce outbound links to affiliate links.
So exactly what Polyvore et al have been doing for years. I’ve played around with Pinterest and find it useful visually for comparing new decor ideas and bookmarking cute outfits. But it’s a lot of work to find new content to add to the site, especially since browsing and searching...
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“There is less mobility in the work force because the computers are not simply...”
– The Bifurcated Society
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“Facebook and Google have become two of the biggest media companies in the world...”
– How Sharing Disrupts Media | Wired.com
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