December 2008
43 posts
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November 2008
51 posts
“Facebook and Twitter Social Graphs and Search Contextualization
In many ways,...”
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Tim O’Reilly.
And:
“There’s a real lesson to Facebook here about giving other services (like Twitter) access to their social graph. They have the best one going, but because they try to keep users coming back to their interface, and even the applications built on their service have to live in...
Watchmsg:
YouTube Generation Offers Free Hugs During Bad Economy on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
I was driving on 96th and Madison in NY and I saw these two kids walking around with a sign that read FREE HUGS and a laptop. I decided to pull over and see what they were up to.
Turns out Michael (kid with shades) and William (kid with laptop) have a motto
“Even though the economy is sunk doesnt mean our hearts...
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“We publish books and give them away for free.
We’re dedicated to a different...”
– Concord Free Press (via betaworks)
No matter who published them or how good they are, most books go on a familiar trajectory—new, used, shelved permanently, dusty.
Absolutely true. I like what these guys are doing, but I think there’s a lot more to be done in this space with all of the...
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Don't Skimp...
Talk about a great headline—ha!
Excellent article, though. It lived up to the headline.
A McGraw-Hill Research study looking at 600 companies from 1980 to 1985 found that those businesses which chose to maintain or raise their level of advertising expenditures during the 1981 and 1982 recession had significantly higher sales after the economy recovered. Specifically, companies that...
“I don’t think that we can design a system that BCM will agree to to get...”
– Interesting parallels between smoking and environmental policy from Sam Lessin.
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“Dell said it has used Twitter to sell $500,000 worth of refurbished PCs.”
– Reuters (via twittertise)
Also worthy of mention, Twitter ‘ads’ cost 0. Just need a person to post them.
This makes me realize an interesting point.
B2C sales/marketing/advertising is starting to look more like B2B. In B2B, to get me to buy your product, you need more than...
“In the 21st century, every moral imperative is also a strategic imperative:...”
– Umair Haque is so quotable!
His tone toward Detroit is so apt:
That’s 20th century self-interest at its finest - not authentic interest for one’s own long-run outcomes, but simply a childlike selfishness, both myopic and narrow, where cutting off the nose to spite the face is as...
Bobby Sanabria - Nuyorican Son
Reading Homer on the iPhone
Stanza is a fantastic ebook reader iphone app that I recently got. The app has a large corpus of books freely available, and you can use their desktop app (available here) to load ebooks you’ve purchased elsewhere into it.
Stanza is great for the subway, and while I’m sure it’s not as good a reading experience as a Kindle, it works when you’re not in bright sunlight and...
Barenaked Ladies - Break Your Heart Live
Rock...
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Good ideas from gbattle on Twitter UI
I want ACTION of CONTENTTYPE from TARGET Action: less, more, fewer, etc.. ContentType: posts, videos, links, audio, retweets, @ replies, etc. Target: current user, my friends/followers, people “like” user, etc. Twitter controls what those actions really mean, and can tweak them over time. It would be interesting to have a little volume control knob to turn up, down, and off users or...
“But added to historical tradition is another obvious but rarely noted reason for...”
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Stowe Boyd. If anything could be described as our raison d’etre, it’s the last phrase above from Stowe. For we believe that in the “collapse” of the distance between producers and consumers lies the future of media growth. So, we focus on business that enable that intersection of...
Social Engineering with Facebook Photos
Sam posted some interesting observations about how people are hacking Facebook photos.
To be clear, the key here is that the people the cause promoter is ‘tagging’ in the image are not actually in the image, and have not actively lent their support to the message. Rather, the individual supporting the given cause with the image is hijacking their ‘friend’ to broadcast a...
WatchUsing ubiquity to translate a music blog. Hotness.
Dylan & Rolling Thunder Review in ‘75 -...
Change.gov
continuations:
In a heartening display of speed and preparedness, the Obama transition team rolled out Change.gov a day after the election. This is the kind of foresight that we need and was sorely missing over the last 8 years.
Nate sent me a link to change.gov yesterday, and after reading Albert’s post excerpted above, I thought I should post the idea that I’ve been sharing with...
Hmmm - On the Video Medium
I watched the video I just recorded to youtube and have some reflections on video blogging medium:
- Good for off the top of the head stuff, trying to work through an idea live - Seems more personal but less refined than an essay - Tough not to ramble / repeat - Tough not to say “uhm” - Good for physical demos - I need this on my iphone. I think I would use something like Qik all the...
“Bigness of purpose is what separates 20th century and 21st century...”
– People probably think I have some sort of auto-bot setup to reblog everything Umair says, but seriously, this guy is awesome. If I could subscribe to one blog only, it would probably be Umair’s.
The 21st century is about changing the world. What does “yes we can” really mean?...
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
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Vote! ( plus, a poll )
Go vote.
If you voted for Obama, click this link: http://bit.ly/votedObama
If you voted McCain, click this link: http://bit.ly/votedMccain
Results: Obama: http://bit.ly/info/votedObama McCain: http://bit.ly/info/votedMccain
(This is a simple way to run a poll and example of A/B testing with bit.ly)
Understanding Direct Traffic, re:Bit.ly
Bijan asked about what “Direct Traffic” in referral data means. Here’s a quick summary:
Direct Traffic includes people clicking your link from: * Desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook or Apple mail * AIR applications like Tweetdeck or Twirhl * Mobile apps like Twitterific or Blackberry Mail * Chat apps like AIM * SMS/MMS messages Also includes people who saw your...
Election Day Crossfit Workout
This looks really fun:
In honor of the presidential election, today’s Rest Day WOD:
Tuesday 081104
“Give It the Old (Electoral) College Try”
For time, complete a total of 270 reps of your choosing from the following states/exercises:
Alabama 9—air squats Alaska 3—L-pullups Arizona 10—jumping squats with barbell (45# men, 22# women) Arkansas...
Philadelphia Real Estate Market Report
philadelphianews:
Philly Living has just released their quarterly report.
Advice for buyers: If you are thinking about purchasing, do it now. Interest rates haven’t been lower for 30 years. Move quickly and keep an eye on new listings as good homes sell in days. One good way to keep track of what’s new is to sign up for our daily email from our website.
Advice for sellers: The market is...
Orbital - Bath Time
