Pinterest's Uber Growth, Theories, & Digital Self-Actualization
Pinterest is the hot new “it” in social media. Everyone’s talking/posting about it…with reason.
This morning the smart & wonderful Sarah Evans (@prsarahevans) tweeted:
If you click through to the article by Janet Aronica you’ll see that Pinterest was the 5th largest referrer…
App Economy has created almost half a million jobs
The report says that many of these jobs could be “jobs not lost” I imagine a lot of these jobs, especially if you factor in the individual app developers, are due to latency in the market, i.e. the guy with a day job who builds an app in his spare time. Even if it doesn’t factor in those developers, most of this market was build off those developers.
This is why I want a helmet like Magneto's: Report on neuroscience and the military.
When they start getting into neurological devices that could be used by the police or military, you have me worried about the next #Occupy movement. You thought pepper spray was bad?
“the legal and ethical implications of biophysical degradation technologies (such as directed energy weapons) targeted at the central nervous system”.
If you publish online get ready for a lesson in humility
I’ve actually given up trying to figure out which posts will be big and which ones won’t because most of the time, I’m wrong and it only seems to be getting harder to gauge. It might not even have anything to do with the content either, everyone’s so busy that you have nanoseconds to catch their attention and if you miss it, the moments gone.
Gaming is still the Wild West, according to this ex Zynga programmer
Ever wonder what a tech startup built by an MBA as opposed to an engineer would be like? This might be an extreme example but it’s interesting:
“Zynga is a marketing company, not a games company.”
60 Changes Made to Gingrich's Wikipedia
I normally don’t post about politics but this is also social media related:
Joe DeSantis, Newt Gingrich’s communications director, has removed or asked to remove references to Gingrich’s three marriages and ethics charges from Wikipedia.
Facebook Second Largest Deal: Patents
Speaking of Facebook acquisition gold, Kim-Mai Cutler of Inside Facebook has a great run-down of the various deals listed in the S-1 and which companies they likely line up with.
Amazon Is Thinking About Real-World Stores
Totally saw this one coming. Everyone wants the physical, direct to customer connection that Apple has and opening a store in Washington lets them still avoid the sales tax issue for now. But as the article points out Amazon will lose the tax battle in the long run and once they start paying state taxes, they might as well open physical stores (assuming their Seattle experiment proves profitable).
Joshua Gans claims in this article that Mark Zuckerberg has yet to fail. That’s not really true. I suppose it may depend on your definition of failure but Facebook has rolled out many unpopular products (beacon) that they’ve had to roll back. Every little change Facebook makes is met with giant protests and thousands of users threatening to leave. And we know that he’s been sued more times than any pre-IPO CEO that I know of. Granted Facebook is still a huge success, but to imply that Zuck doesn’t know how to deal with failure is just wrong.
Pinterest is What YOU Want it to Be
The interest in Pintrest is growing and I have yet to try it yet. I get why it’s big; same reason Tumblr is. It’s that sharing community with a slick design. Makes everyone feel like they’re a graphic designer. I may have to breakdown but I really don’t want one more site to manage.
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Want to try a fun exercise? Want to stay ahead of potential competition? On the plane ride home last week I began wondering how many businesses could be replaced with an ad supported model. Obviously there are all the online businesses, that’s easy. Try and imagine your business or some … Continue reading
Between work, family and my MBA program I have one guilty pleasure. The Office . The TV show The Office is by far my favorite TV show ever. I don’t watch much TV. I know everyone says that but seriously I don’t watch any TV. I don’t have time. I … Continue reading
Here are some random thoughts and links from the Web 2.0 Summit: Video highlights of the speakers and interviews – http://web2summit.blip.tv/ Context will be the killer app for advertising.
I’ll blog more in detail on some expanded thoughts but I thought I would give some quick highlights from the first day: Tabblo: I haven’t heard Antonio Rodriguez, the founder of Tabblo speak before (Tabblo was acquired by HP six months ago). I was much more impressed with his product … Continue reading
This post is long overdue. In my defence, I’ve been waiting for the videos from all of the sessions to be made available, that and I’m a slacker. Many of my regular readers know that I went to Federated Media’s Conversational Marketing Summit last month. It was a great event, … Continue reading
I’m pretty excited about getting to go to the Web 2.0 Summit. First I got an email two weeks ago apologizing that the summit was full, then I got an email last week from my friend Jared, saying that he scored me a ticket. HP is one of the sponsors … Continue reading
Mike Manuel pinged me about their new hire over at Voce Communications: Josh Hallett. If you’re familiar with Josh you realize what a great move this is for Voce. This move got me thinking though. Smart PR and Marketing companies seem to be gobbling up respected communication experts who are … Continue reading
Today is Blog Action Day so I decided to jump in and talk a little bit about Green Marketing. At HP we’ve been working on the issue of Green (like most tech companies these days). The problem I am anticipating is the over-hype of being Green. If you haven’t heard … Continue reading
When microbloggers fight It’s called a Twitter Battle When microbloggers fight with a person they follow It’s called a Twitter Buddy Battle When microbloggers who are also bloggers fight with a person they follow It’s called a Twitter Buddy Blogger Battle When microbloggers who are also bloggers blog about their … Continue reading
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