February 2012
1 post
“…if you want to exploit network effects, forget about Influentials.
A Workable...”
– Greg Satell “Exploding the Influentials Myth”
bit.ly/z6KVm1 (via wanderingwanderingstar)
December 2011
2 posts
The Aporeticus: A Problem with Path →
mills:
Path is an impossibly beautiful social-network and app for the iPhone and Android; it’s the sort of software one daydreams about creating, replete with delightful surprises and deeply-considered design. Quite apart from its many visual flourishes, some of its nicest touches reflect enormous…
November 2011
8 posts
Thanks to Poynter, and Some Notes
markcoatney:
Thanks to everyone who stopped by today’s Poynter chat about Tumblr for journalists (and more thanks to Mallary and Joe for having me!)
BEST PRACTICES The Tumblr community very much rewards authenticity, originality and social graces. I always reduce this to:
Be Engaging: Have interesting things to say, and don’t talk simply about yourself. Respond to other Tumblr users, ask...
“Twine is the simplest possible way to get the objects in your life texting,...”
– Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter (via slantback)
28 low-budget new media initiatives for cultural... →
jenlindblad:
(Today’s required reading.)
Ministry of Truth: Jobs usually had little... →
theministryoftruth:
Jobs usually had little interest in public self-analysis, but every so often he’d drop a clue to what made him tick. Once he recalled for me some of the long summers of his youth. I’m a big believer in boredom,” he told me. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, he explained, and “out of…
“If two people buy the same product for the same reason but have no way they...”
– Why Geoffrey Moore believed in monolithic markets - Term Sheet
Emphasis mine, for what are probably obvious reasons. (via pieratt)
October 2011
2 posts
on the demise of Myspace
guardian:
We found that regardless of how much we improved the product or the marketing message consumers’ memories about the brand were too strong to allow them to view Myspace with fresh eyes and an open mind,” he added. “We could not escape their images of animated GIFs… I don’t think a large consumer campaign would have significantly changed the outcome for Myspace,” he said. “In the...
September 2011
6 posts
“There’s one massive problem in the social space: everyone is competing for the...”
– Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again. | TechCrunch
““That’s it. Screw the internet. What is this Google+ shit? I’m done. Fuck all...”
– The Hermit Photographer | LPV Magazine (via standardgrey)
“What you have now is a system in which the Internet user becomes the product...”
– The Local-global Flip, Or, “the Lanier Effect” | Conversation | Edge (via standardgrey)
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“A new generation, one that grew up with a data surplus, is coming along. To this...”
– Seth Godin - The Shower of Data (via aaronwhite)
August 2011
5 posts
On Pseudonymity, Privacy and Responsibility on... →
shadowfirebird:
‘Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren’t ways to hide who you are. They provide a way to be who you are. You can finally talk about what you really believe; your real politics, your real problems, your real sexuality, your real family, your real self. Much of the support for “real names” comes from people who don’t want to hear about controversy,...
“The idea is this: You put on a mask and uniform before leaving for work. You put...”
– The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight « You Are Not So Smart (via notemily)
July 2011
6 posts
“Somewhere between the Hell of HDR photos of sunsets (on beaches (with babies...”
– this is aaronland: meat grinder prisms
Another thoughtful post from a Flickr insider (former Flickr engineer Aaron Straup) considering the reasons the once-dominant photo site has stumbled a bit in the wake of the post-iPhone photo sharing boom (see Flickr designer Timoni West’s excellent post...
“The most common response to Google+ that I’ve heard is, “Good, I hate Facebook.”...”
– Alt Text: Google Is the New GeoCities | Underwire | Wired.com
Oh, yeah- apparentlythisisnews. Follow. (via standardgrey)
June 2011
3 posts
“A top-level domain name of up to 63 characters of just about any string of...”
– Internet body opens way for new domain names - MarketWatch (via pieratt)
May 2011
1 post
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a... →
April 2011
10 posts
“Sasha Grey is my spirit animal.”
– There were zero search results for this phrase so I thought it needed to be out there. (via kenyatta)
“The first step in determining the Art Space Tokyo Kickstarter tiers was to learn...”
– — Craig Mod, Kickstartup: Successful fundraising with Kickstarter.com
& (re)making Art Space Tokyo
I really like Craig’s data-driven approach to figuring out what price points are most attractive to potential online donors. And the fact that he added a $2,500 price point with a personal tour...
“Project A will eventually cost about a million dollars and produce value of...”
– Tom DeMarco: “strict control is something that matters a lot on relatively useless projects”
via m. migurski / snippets (via kenyatta)
we added a "like" button for "facebook" on our...
referenceartgallery:
“so” you “know” - art
Reblogging that
What it's like to share an article from one of...
mrgan:
Hey Dan, I was just reading an interesting piece in that new iPad magazine. I think you’d really dig it.
Isn’t it amazing how it’s 2011 and we can just share these things quickly? Remember when you first used email and you were like, whoa dude, did you just send a letter to a possibly hot possibly girl in Cambodia? And you mean to tell me that she is going to be able to read it before...
“To me, The Daily is a near perfect realization of exactly the idea that occurs...”
– Khoi Vinh (via marco)
March 2011
20 posts
“Since Google’s business is advertising, shifting industries away from paying...”
– Kyle Baxter (via marco)
“If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the...”
– ~ Joe Bageant (Via)
“Do you have too little to do all day? Do you have poor social skills, problems...”
– Jonathan Rauch in his opinion article, “Comments are a Net Loss: Sure, pollute a website with your views on things — go ahead” (via thedailyfeed)
“The real message of new NYTimes digital pricing: “For the love of Christ, just...”
– Scott Simpson on the New York Times’ new, way-too-complicated pay wall.
For 150 years the NY Times has been selling their content for a price. It’s always been very simple: buy an issue or a subscription, get the content. The incredibly hard time they’re having transferring this model to their...