December 2009
33 posts
“The Social Web. When Sean Parker and team pitched Mike Moritz at Sequoia,...”
– Silicon Valley: Top 10 of the 2000s « The Real McCrea
“Among the criticisms, a handful of online review sites allege that Google is...”
– Image via Wikipedia
Google’s dominance draws interest of regulators
Rafer sez: As I’ve been saying, Semantic Search Provides No Clicks. However, it never occurred to me that one-box results might qualify as bundling from the DOJ’s trust-busting perspective. That’s awesome.
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“We are so tied up in AppStore mania (one of the great themes of 2009) that we’ve...”
– I Am Tired Of AppStore Mania (via bijan) (via rafer)
“Ad-driven content’s success shows the frailty in Google’s...”
– Twitter / Paul Kedrosky: Ad-driven content’s succes …
This is where Arrington should focus his efforts on The End of Hand Crafted Content article.
I would only exchange Kedrosky’s frailty with Genius/Monopoly and the lack of seperation between it’s AdWords business that...
“So what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content that will surely,...”
– The End Of Hand Crafted Content
Short Answer: Incorrect.
“In her talk “The Economy of Regions,” she argued for regional...”
– davistudio: Jane Jacobs dies at 90
“So I want to twist this around for a moment. When should we be looking? Not...”
– “Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media”
Pretty stoked to see danah boyd quote Jane Jacobs in her research. I’ve taken a deep interest in Jacobs’ work around city architecture, dwellings, and overall bad urban planning and how it can relate to...
“More evidence that AT&T’s data network is head-and-shoulders above Verizon’s...”
– Digital Domain - AT&T Takes the Fall for the iPhone’s Glitches - NYTimes.com
“APIs are Biz Dev 2.0, as Caterina Fake put it, our ability to connect Tweetie 2...”
– http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/
“Randall is like, Okay, I get your point. I’m like, You know what, I don’t think...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
Let’s just say, in 2010, given the innovation in the mobile space, both hardware and software. The Telcos focus on one thing, the pipe that they deliver the experience on. This means fuck the...
“Learn as if you were to live forever, live as if you were to die tomorrow”
– John Wooden
“Many of the great businesses of the next decade will be about making information about our behaviors more visible.” - Evan Williams
“So what does it really take to create a gadget? A smart product design, a...”
– For Hardware Entrepreneurs, Getting From Idea to Reality Isn’t Easy | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
I would like to make a gadget.
“The fact is, the Demand way may be inescapable. A senior executive at a major...”
– The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine
“Plenty of other companies — About.com, Mahalo, Answers.com — have tried to...”
– The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine
“Journalists, the Web is not how our profession ends. The Web is a wonderful...”
– Hey, Demand Media! Get Off My Lawn! « Reinventing the Newsroom
This is a really nice article, not necessarily for the ode to journalists losing out to stupid long tail content creators, but rather he is right in thinking about how Demand and AC’s models will have to shift as pagerank...
“the probability of another steve jobs occurring is vanishingly small. i doubt...”
– Update on the Steve Jobs post from an Apple alum | Andrew Chen (@andrew_chen)
“But Metcalfe’s law presumes that creating more communications pathways...”
– How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Facebook — InformationWeek
For the first time today, this was validated for me. I was asked to name a top 10 list and I thought it would be awkward to answer given the social setting on Facebook. ie. I didn’t feel like answering...
“Around 1970, he became aware that the use of hard-steel pitons made by his...”
– Yvon Chouinard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The point that I am trying to make is that some technological innovations are so...”
– MediaShift Idea Lab . Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years | PBS
Digg and Tweetmeme
This is happening faster than I would have thought.
Digg
TweetMeme
“After a meeting with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong earlier today, Khan came away...”
– JP Morgan: AOL Will Hold Back Its Ad Inventory From Advertising.com | paidContent
I’m really starting to like Tim Armstrong.
