GigaOm: Why we are buying paidContent
GigaOm has quickly become my favorite tech news blog. I used to be a big fan of PaidContent but I quit reading after a while because they seemed to lose some of the quality they had in the early days. Hopefully being part of GigaOm will restore that.
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.
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There are 2 things that have kept my Blackberry from completely replacing my laptop and I think these problems represent a threat for Blackberry. I can’t blog easily from Blackberry. Opera min is enabling that but it still lacks all the browser capability I’ve become used to in from FireFox. … Continue reading
Understanding the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks tags: blogs, forums, ncb, socialnetworks I’ve often used similar examples as Jeremiah when explaining the differences between various types of tools. I’m still amazed at how many managers (especially at the CXO level) still don’t understand the difference. I was recently … Continue reading
MetzMash: There Is No Secret Sauce Adam Metz of LaunchSquad just released an eBook entitled: There is No Secret Sauce a.k.a. You Want Your Social Media, Go Make It. The eBook is broken into 7 parts (8 if you count the intro) and is a relatively short 75 pages. My … Continue reading
I just came across the Nielsen Company’s 2008 Guide to the Super Bowl and I thought I’d give my take on the numbers that were provided. My commentary will be sarcastic italicized. Among the key findings from Nielsen: I have nothing against Nielsen. I think they do the best with … Continue reading
462 Million Mobile TV Subscribers By 2012: Report | mocoNews.net tags: mobile, ncb, video I still remember back a few years ago when nay-sayers said no one would want to watch video on a 3×5 inch screen. Of course those screens are getting bigger thanks to Apple. 462 Million people … Continue reading
Can competing business models co-exist? Some people have argued that open source will only flourish at the expense of traditional software models. From Seeking Alpha: I came across this article praising IBM for their Open Source initiatives which seem to be working for them. Microsoft Be Warned: IBM Boards the Open Source … Continue reading
Best Engaging Communities: Where the new gigs are? How to deal with recession? tags: china, india, ncb, recession This is something that every business owner or manager (especially US ones) needs to be thinking about. Recessions are only bad for those companies (and people) not prepared. For businesses that are … Continue reading
Maybe that’s a bit melodramatic but if you’re one of my local readers and a blogger (or a blogger groupie spouse/significant other of a blogger) we’ve finally scheduled our long awaited Boise Blogger Meetup. This does of course include those within driving/flying distance to Boise. January 29th around 5:30 or … Continue reading
As I’ve said before I’m a huge fan of The Office. For me it has been the biggest casualty of the writers strike. Fortunatley I have all three seasons on DVD. So on my last visit to Amazon I was delighted to see Turbo Tax using some of our beloved … Continue reading
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