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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