November 2010
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Hudack On Hulu →
mikehudack:
“Hulu is facing competition from the likes of Google TV and a new streaming-only subscription service from Netflix, but one of its bigger challenges may be growing pains felt within its group of owners. “People are getting more defensive,” says Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey. “You’ve got the ad exec who has their quota, and to keep the advertiser, they bad-talk about how...
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Putting A ® On Fauxial Awareness Is A Faux Pas
[update 4:56pm 30 Nov 2010 — Apparently CV meant the ® as a joke. I suggested that she might want to include a footnote for the clueless, like me.]
I read this post, which castigates the MAC Cosmetics company for using the Juarez Mexico landscape as an ‘inspiration’ for a product campaign. Apparently Juarez has unusually high levels of violence against women, and various groups have...
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Forget Flock and RockMelt: We Need Social...
I saw a post by Benn Parr (Flock Social Browser Declares War on RockMelt with Version 3.5) about a new version of Flock, responding to the threat of RockMelt in the rekindled social browser niche.
It’s like a schoolyard brawl, where two kids wind up throwing punches because they like the same girl, not because they have any good reason to fight. It’s theater, not warfare.
There is...
“I see only one move ahead, but it is always the correct one.”
– José Raúl Capablanca, cited by Philip E Ross, The Expert Mind
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Digital Ads Honored
Watching basically zero television, I miss a lot of what goes on TV. I read with interest about these ad campaigns of the past decade:
Stuart Elliott, Digital Ad Campaigns to Be Honored
The campaigns, in alphabetical order, are as follows, along with the agencies of record. The years represent when they were introduced to consumers:
CHALKBOT, 2009, for the Livestrong Foundation and Nike, ...
totallylikeme asked: wow, i'm not going to hire a college kid! i'm so angry at squarespace for lying to me that i could export my photoblog anytime... guess posterous it is, thanks for your answer!
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“Worry about information overload has become one of the drumbeats of our time....”
– - Ann Blair, Information overload, the early years
A very solid and well-researched examination of the attention overload meme, similar to the themes I discussed in The False Question Of Attention Economics.
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OnLive Gaming System Will Stream to TV Sets - Eric... →
Cloud-based games seems inevitable, but we’ll have to see if OnLive can carve out a niche before the other console monsters wise up.
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“The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that only 1 percent of online...”
– Adults Are Not So Inclined to Check In - NYTimes.com
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totallylikeme asked: did you have any luck with importing from squarespace to tumblr? dan's ruby script isn't working for me, maybe coz i'm on a mac... just wondered if you could help me?
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The New New Andreessen - Brad Stone →
I think Andreessen is a billionaire playing at VC. Ning raised $120M and is not worth much, and he invested $20M in Kno when the rest of the investment community saw Apple’s iPad as a killer. And the investment in Foursquare is very very risky. He seems to be gambling.
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Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of the... →
Analysis of Google’s position in the new economics of the world as monopoly based on network value production, for which we are all paying ‘cognitive rent’.
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“Barring the rise of an unexpected new military enemy, the battleground of an...”
– Christopher E. Couples, The National Information Infrastructure Initiative: Space, Discipline, War Machine
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“The movement from existence in analog spaces to existence in digital spaces...”
– Christopher E. Couples, The National Information Infrastructure Initiative: Space, Discipline, War Machine. (via ajnabee)
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“A September 2010 survey conducted in the UK for Intel found almost half (45%) of...”
– - Colin David, via Nic Brisbourne, The main use case for connected TVs has to be open access to content
Nic makes the case that people are already connecting through phones and laptops, so why do TVs have to become social?
Because someone will come up with a better user experience than he had on...
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Music: Another Pillar of Brain Fitness? |... →
A recent Nature Review Neuroscience article shows that music training can benefit the brain beyond music-related abilities. Specifically, musicians may have an advantage for processing speech in challenging listening environments compared with non-musicians.
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The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a... →
Bianchini offers up some fairly straightforward advice to would-be developers of social tools, most of which boils down to ‘narrow focus, be the best, be unique.’
I wonder if she is about to unveil some new product? She’s been gone from Ning for a good while, although she is still positioning herself as Ning founder.
I still think Ning is dead.
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Jolicloud Releases Jolibook
I have been tracking the inventive Jolicloud Operating System — a social Linux — for some time. Now it appears that the company has developed its own netbook. I guess they felt compelled to do it, but I don’t see how they can compete with low cost offerings like Asus, or top quality from Apple.
However, their O/S innovation continues to presage where we will be headed, as Apple...
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Can Anything Stop The Facebook Juggernaut? - Jon... →
I dislike Facebook because they’re mediocre. They have a platform and opportunity unlike anyone else, ever—and what have they done with it? Nothing. None of their so-called innovations are actually even remotely so. Copying Twitter was smart, but hardly new; ditto Foursquare. They called Facebook Groups an innovation; it’s a basic feature they should have implemented years ago. Now they’re...
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“What technology do you use in your daily life?
Currently my relatively new...”
– The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More — Vulture
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“Enable a flow of signals
Every action in the social intranet – every document...”
– - Lars Plougmann, Your social intranet is where work gets done
A great set of insights about the way that flow-based social tools are changing the nature of work, and how they foster social cognition (although Lars doesn’t use that term).
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Student protests: national walkout live
Today, thousands of students are expected to take to the streets for the second time in a fortnight in protest at plans to raise tuition fees and scrap the education maintenance allowance.
More than 25,000 college and university students across the UK have signed up to a Facebook page organising a co-ordinated walkout from classes at 11am.
Scores more...
Anonymous asked: Hey Stowe. What theme are you using for your blog? I really love it but can't seem to find one like it..
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“On the great timeline of television history, Google TV takes an enormous step in...”
– David Pogue, Google TV’s Chaotic Interface
“The technology has created on campuses a new set of social types — not the...”
– Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com
(via gracemcdunnough)
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Facebook Warns Debt Collectors About Using Its... →
A debt collection firm has a policy on how to use Facebook to track people down.
The world wags on…
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Hell, Yes, Google Should Buy Groupon. And Twitter.... →
All those billions should be used to buy up promising tech companies, and these people would definitely add the needed social DNA to Google.
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“As for digital, I am with the utopians – fully aware that some see that as a...”
– - Alan Rusbridger, The splintering of the fourth estate
The editor of the Guardian stuck an allusion of mine into the Andrew Olle lecture 2010 in Sydney, Australia on 19 November. Too bad I am just ‘one blogger’, but I am heartened to think that I am influencing folks like Rusbridger.
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#defragcon @dweinberger on Knowing - storify.com →
A stream of comments from David Weinberger’s talk today at Defrag.
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Don’t Blow It! New York Tech’s Top Investors Have... →
NYC and SF are looking bubblicious, according to Fred Wilson and Roger Ehrenberg.
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Social Cognition: An Introduction
[These are the notes I used to prepare for a talk at Defrag, November 17 2010, formerly titled Social Cognition, From Defrag. Now heavily modified and extended.]
It probably is no surprise to you that all known human cultures have language, music, and dance. And yes, puns. Even deaf people have puns. These are human universals, along with a bunch of others. If you leave a child alone...
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How to Find a Technical Co-Founder | Jet Cooper →
Sensible advice for business folk looking for the elusive tech founder genius.
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Wandering Mind Is a Sign of Unhappiness - John... →
Our minds wander about half the time, and it doesn’t make us happy. Happiness is linked to flow, where we are intently wrapped up in what is going on.
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SlideRocket Goes Mobile, Because We Are
SlideRocket, the web presentation tool, has announced that the company has made its presentations work with HTML5 so they can be shared on the iPhone, and other mobile browsers.
The motivation is simple: more presentations are being shown on mobile devices. And in bars, it seems.
Ben Kepes, SlideRocket Goes Mobile with HTML5
SlideRocket are also timing this release with the release of a survey...
More Colleges Are Using Hand-Held Devices as... →
Handheld devices to participate in college classes, instead of snoozing.
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“What I learned from writing this book is that I want to minimize the amount of...”
– Kevin Kelly (via azspot)
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Calling the Oracle
ekstasis:
notational:
“We’re going to see scientific results that are correct, that are predictive, but are without explanation. We may be able to do science without insight, and we may have to learn to live without it. Science will still progress, but computers will tell us things that are true, and we won’t understand them.
[…]
For centuries, scientists have solved problems with flashes of...
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Start-Ups Follow Twitter, and Become Neighbors -... →
Gives ‘elevator pitch’ a whole new meaning: companies are trying to pitch their tents in the same building as Twitter.
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A Note On Tumblr Tags and Search
Tumblr — the platform this blog is hosted on — has so-so search capabilities. Often Tumblr’s built in search fails to find things in my blog that I know are there. So I often resport to using Google’s site search. For example, if I were looking for references to McLuhan, I might type this in my browser search box:
mcluhan site:www.stoweboyd.com
I haven’t...
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Net Net Net, All Cognition Is Social
People are social animals. That is widely understood, at least at a superficial level. But the degree to which social interaction influences us is an intense area of research, constantly yielding new insights. And some of those findings counter deep-seated beliefs and cultural norms.
There was quite a stir recently when new research emerged that shows that IQ is less important in group...
“We found that for many people identity is faceted across areas of their lives,...”
– Faceted Identity, Faceted Lives: Social and Technical Issues in Being Yourself Online
(via gracemcdunnough)
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nickolasnikolic asked: Hello, I would like you to review my ideas if you have a moment and mention it on your twitter feed if - and only if - you think it is of some value.
I follow your twitter feed and think that you would be interested in seeing mine: it is a repository of ideas for google by facebook users and it is at @thoughts4google on twitter.
In spite of the fact that it was to...
I follow your twitter feed and think that you would be interested in seeing mine: it is a repository of ideas for google by facebook users and it is at @thoughts4google on twitter.
In spite of the fact that it was to...
parallellelijnen asked: Hello Stowe,
What's the tumblr theme you are using for this blog? I really like it.
cheers,
Xander
What's the tumblr theme you are using for this blog? I really like it.
cheers,
Xander