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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Starting up: Hiring a ‘gray’ work force can reduce errors, increase efficiency | Starting Up | Idaho Statesman tags: babyboomers, business, entreprenuer, ncb, outsourcing I thought this was a fascinating concept ‘graysourcing’. As more and more babyboomers “retire” they aren’t really going to want to retire. I think we will … Continue reading
Influence: Science and Practice Reading this book gave me the same feeling I hade when I read Anarchist Cookbook; like I was learning something I really shouldn’t. Robert writes the book from the perspective of how to avoid the traps of influence. It doesn’t take long to realize that in … Continue reading
Cockburn Affirms: Use Cases Rule for Agile! | Tyner Blain tags: ncb, scenarios, usecase, user While this article is about software I found it really interesting because I’ve been talking about use cases, scenarious and personas almost interchangably when I talk about using them for marketing campaigns. I need to … Continue reading
Over the course of the last year I have myself with 6 blogs. That doesn’t include Twitter, StumbleUpon, Diigo and MySpace, all of which have some sort of “blog” functionality. In order to keep consistent content flowing to each of these blogs I’ve found a variety of essential tools. In … Continue reading
Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds – ReadWriteWeb tags: amazon, cloud, computing, ncb ReadWriteWeb does a great job of explaining what exactly Cloud Computing is. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock you’ve probably heard the term recently and if you haven’t, get used to it, you’ll hear … Continue reading
In my previous post on Death of an Agency. I pointed out *one* of the major flaws in our business plan is that we were too far ahead of the market (especially for being in Boise). Pretty much all of my life I’ve been ahead of the curve. Usually those … Continue reading
Feature: Run Your Personal Wikipedia from a USB Stick tags: ncb, portable, wiki This is a very cool idea. I’ve been running FireFox off of a U3 drive for a while and I love it. I love the idea of a personal wiki. I wonder if you could do this … Continue reading
How I came to get a copy of Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads is really a great example of the social graph at work. Lance Loveday was looking for some bloggers to read and review the book he co-authored with Sandra Niehaus (apparently … Continue reading
I just got off the phone with Aaron and he’s really excited (and nervous I’m sure). I’m really excited for Aaron and his team for three reasons: It’s a great story and a great adventure. A boy, an idea and the determination to try. He’s a local entrepreneur. Boise doesn’t … Continue reading
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