February 2012
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“@stoweboyd: Google at Work on an ‘Entertainment Device’ http://t.co/ThTTI8v3 I...”
– February 10, 2012 at 05:56AM via http://bit.ly/wEazw6
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“@stoweboyd: Greece’s debt is 142% of GDP, unemployment hit 21% in Nov, while...”
– February 10, 2012 at 05:49AM via http://bit.ly/AsLIt3
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“@stoweboyd: just 1/10 of 1% of municipal wastewater nationally was recycled into...”
– February 10, 2012 at 03:47AM via http://bit.ly/zN0X6a
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“@stoweboyd: India, Iran’s #1 customer for oil, is sidestepping Western...”
– February 10, 2012 at 05:19AM via http://bit.ly/AAPBWz
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“@stoweboyd: #140conf NYC 2011: Stowe Boyd, “Social Cognition: How Twitter Is...”
– February 10, 2012 at 03:42AM via http://bit.ly/xBN4TS
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People using pseudonyms post the highest-quality... →
untanglingtheweb:
two interesting things in this article from Poynter:
1) “real identity” is described as “verified by Facebook”
2) “many news sites have been using [Facebook’s plugin] to verify identity… and raise the level of discourse”
I’m ISO any research that correlates “raising the level of discourse” and “real identity”. It’s for #hate.
HT the magnificent Meg Pickard.
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“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds … to forget the painful one...”
– Umberto Eco, Baudolino
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Online dating services don't work, scientists say... →
In case you have suspicions about the ‘algorithms’ used by dating services, they are phony:
via CBS
Scientists worry that dating sites claim to use exclusive “matching algorithms,” which may be nothing more than a guessing game.
“To date, there is no compelling evidence that any online dating matching algorithm actually works,” Finkel said in a press release. [Finkel is the lead author in a...
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“@stoweboyd: We depersonalise business so it doesn’t get messy. Instead it gets...”
– February 09, 2012 at 05:37AM via http://bit.ly/xDxf3W
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“@stoweboyd: Car chargers a $1B industry in 5 years and >5M elecctric cars in...”
– February 09, 2012 at 05:32AM via http://bit.ly/wh1apo
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“@stoweboyd: Google insider says heads-up display goggles could be here soon...”
– February 09, 2012 at 03:33AM via http://bit.ly/wNxfx0
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“The number of ™ and © marks that appear in a product’s description tends to be...”
– Dustin Curtis (via chartier)
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Google Close To Launching "Drive" →
parislemon:
Amir Efrati reports that Google is close to launching a new product called “Drive”, a would-be Dropbox/Box/iCloud/etc competitor.
Before I left TechCrunch full time, I was hot on the trail of this project. Yes, Google had a Google Drive project that will killed off years ago, but a new one emerged last year and was being extensively used internally once again.
Last I heard, this...
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AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch... →
AOL hires Rachel Fishman Feddersen as Chief Content Officer for failing Patch, whihc was acquires for $150M, and which is estimated to have lost $150M more:
Peter Lauria via Reuters
AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its ...
tart-pastry asked: I had a question about "liquid media." Curious to know how you define it?
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Sky News joins the anti-social media brigade —... →
Mathew Ingram builds on the Sky News Twitter Policy story, injecting some much needed cool-headedness:
Mathew Ingram via GigaOM
Although it doesn’t link to an actual document, the Guardian story quotes from the Sky News guidelines, which tell reporters not to tweet about stories if they are not “a story to which you have been assigned or a beat which you work,” and says that anything...
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“@pewresearch: Just 20% get presidential campaign news from local newspaper, down...”
– February 08, 2012 at 06:41AM via http://bit.ly/ycpRxa
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“@stoweboyd: Might be some serious misrepresentation of ‘active...”
– February 07, 2012 at 06:03AM via http://bit.ly/wyJXGQ
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“@TheNextWeb: Apple bucks PC sales decline in the UK, sees Mac shipments grow by...”
– February 07, 2012 at 02:49AM via http://bit.ly/w4E0e4
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“@stoweboyd: I completely disagree with Scoble saying that tech disruption is...”
– February 06, 2012 at 07:48AM via http://bit.ly/zif5eK
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“Tech coverage these days tends to be fluffy, if not outright cheerleader-y, and...”
– - Elizabeth Spiers, Hiring! Betabeat, social reporters, commercial mortgages via spiersblr
I have to agree with Spiers, the editor of the New York Observer and BetaBeat: there is a decided tendency in the tech world to pull punches, or to never punch at all. Just consider the lovefest over the...
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Remember AOL Time Warner?
Junddep Junnarkar and Jim Hu, AOL to buy Time Warner in historic merger - CNET News, 2000
In a stunning announcement, America Online said today that it will acquire Time Warner to create the world’s largest media company.
The new company will be called AOL Time Warner and will combine AOL’s online services with Time Warner’s vast media and cable assets. In a world where...
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“To me Facebook already feels over. I really don’t feel like I’m...”
– - Dave Winer, Scoble: I’ll go down with the ship via Scripting News
Facebook is the new AOL, despite the market cap. But it’s headed for a hard landing for other reasons than Winer is pushing. Facebook will fail because of the imminent rise of social operating systems — future...
“Weblining describes the practice of denying people opportunities based on their...”
– Lori Andrews, Facebook Is Using You via NYTimes.com
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“@stoweboyd: More people live alone than at any other time in history...”
– February 05, 2012 at 06:42AM via http://bit.ly/zaD4Bw
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“The content creators with the broadest reach will be the ones who care the least...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com
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“Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com
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“There is less mobility in the work force because the computers are not simply...”
– Rick Bookstaber, The Bifurcated Society (via courtenaybird)
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“@tomforemski: Wow. I can’t believe Autodesk CEO Carl Bass said innovation...”
– February 04, 2012 at 10:49AM via http://bit.ly/zPKoxE
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“Silicon Valley’s dirty little secret is that the startup boom is mostly a...”
– Tom Foremski, The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley’s Startup Boom… via SVW
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“@stoweboyd: Yammer is raising a $40M round after a year in which...”
– February 03, 2012 at 06:02AM via http://bit.ly/yfEj4u
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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal →
I explain a little of my plans as chief curator for The Futures Agency:
Stowe Boyd via futuresagency:
The curators work is something like that of a poet, then. We all return to the same themes, and we build upon the thoughts of others, trying to bring some added value, helping others to gain some new insight, or finding distant analogies to underscore another’s thoughts.
So, I will be offering...
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“@BorowitzReport: The only way Facebook is worth $100 billion is if all of those...”
– February 01, 2012 at 06:33AM via http://bit.ly/wj5RhO
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The Point Of Social Leverage Is Mobile?
I see that my old friend, Keith Teare, has written a guest post at Techcrunch, making the case that Facebook and Google have inherent ‘structural’ problems in the way they manage information sharing which have become starkly apparent with Google’s new privacy policy and Facebook’s endless privacy issues.
Keith Teare, Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You
There is a big...
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“@nytimesbits: On Facebook’s big day, Fred Wilson explains how social media...”
– February 01, 2012 at 01:50PM via http://bit.ly/z3B8fc
January 2012
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“Finnish mobile giant Nokia today released its fourth quarter financial results,...”
– Matt Brian, Microsoft Paid Nokia $250m for Windows Phone Use via TNW
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Form Letter Template For Acquired Startups
By panicsteve via Github
Dear soon-to-be-former user, We’ve got some fantastic news! Well, it’s great news for us anyway. You, on the other hand, are fucked. We’ve just been acquired by: [ ] Facebook [ ] Google [ ] Twitter [ ] Other: _________________ As you are aware, we’ve always provided a free service, and have never even tried offering a for-pay option. This means...
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“@sandymaxey: Anil Gupta defining grassroots: “Minds on the margins are not...”
– January 21, 2012 at 04:45AM via http://bit.ly/yokhHr
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“@stoweboyd: Doree Shafrir of Rolling Stone to oversee culture coverage at...”
– January 21, 2012 at 03:07AM via http://bit.ly/zJkoS6
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A Momentary Flow: Study shows that kids, unlike... →
wildcat2030:
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future Growing up with the Internet gives today’s children a very unique view on the way the world works — one that is vastly different from that of older generations. These kids, the ‘digital natives,” are raised with modern technology deeply…
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“The unwillingness of Facebook and Google to share a public commons when it comes...”
– - John Battelle, Search, Plus Your World, As Long As It’s Our World
Once again, Google steps in a pile of doodoo with its maladroit efforts in trying to absorb the social web. Unwilling to simply index things and offer them up as search results, Google wants to ‘socialize’ search. What...
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“@ballardian: Swedish cities could connect via bike superhighway:...”
– January 17, 2012 at 08:47AM via http://bit.ly/Ae0NOQ
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“To pivot is, essentially, to fail gracefully. While the term has been in the...”
– - Jenna Wortham, For Some Internet Start-Ups, a Failure Is Just the Beginning - NYTimes.com
The use of the term ‘pivot’ in startupland is the corollary to the now commonplace notion that you may have to fail in order to learn a life lesson. While this has become conventional wisdom, startup...
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“@joshsternberg: RT @hueypriest: “Hollywood’s right to make bad business...”
– January 18, 2012 at 05:31AM via http://bit.ly/y2EJi0