November 2011
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Andy Weissman: Golden Age of Internet Marketing →
I’m not even going to quote the piece. Andy absolutely nails what advertising, marketing and product are on today’s internet. People should refer back to this post in about 4 years. Prediction city.
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YouTube's Monetization Gap with Hulu - via Digiday →
fredericguarino:
When it comes to sheer revenue, YouTube is blowing the doors off of Hulu. Analysts peg YouTube’s 2011 haul at anywhere between $1.2 billion and $1.6 billion, while Hulu has said it expects to pull in $500 million this year — a number that includes revenue from its subscription service Hulu Plus.
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IF THIS THEN THAT: Social Web's Duct Tape &... →
ifttt is quietly building an arsenal of powerful small tools that are making them the duct tape of the social web. Just as specific tools like hammers, chisels, saws and APIs are great in the hands of a skilled craftsman/developer, duct tape can fit the bill for connecting anything to anything for the numerous unskilled. The ifttt repository for Tumblr might be where David & the Tumblr Crew...
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WatchIntroducing the Alphashere instrument. I want to play with one of these. Looks like a ton of fun!
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The Vision Behind Klout (Needs Lasik) →
Klout has decided to respond to the criticism they received within and in response to the NYT’s recent expose. After @tedr posted a link to @tomcoates incredible comment on the Klout blog’s explanation (both of which you should read in full here), I left a rambling comment of my own, pasted below:
Before a company can define themselves as the gold standard for influence, we...
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“There has been an ongoing tug-of-war between journalists and publishers over who...”
– Can A Twitter Account Be A Trade Secret?
Fascinating case. I can see this ushering in a new set of clauses for at-will employment contracts. The password is a trade secret, the content and customer list are corporate assets, the channel name is branded and we can reclaim it whenever we want. The...
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Some Thoughts About A/B Testing
bijan:
At lunch today, Andrew reminded me of a story that I had long forgotten.
When he was at USV, he attended a board mtg for a portfolio company that we have in common.
It was the early days of that company and their initial product hadn’t been out that long.
The topic of A/B testing came up and Andrew reminded me that I came out against A/B testing in that meeting.
The sad but true...
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“Funny how trickle up economics never fails to work.”
– Yet-another-self-quote.
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“I HAVE a solution for the problem of bankers who take risks that threaten the...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s NYT OpEd piece on abolishing the bonus system for banks. Talk about disruptive thinking.
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The Roots ft. Roy Ayers - “Proceed II”...
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poorsquare.us →
falicon:
maddynovich:
In the last 24 hours, my husband jeff (tech entrepreneur-extraordinaire) and his college friend Pinzler, hacked a site called Poorsquare.us. Based on where you are going, it scans Foursquare freebies and puts them into a single organized list (which you can automatically add to your Google calender!). It’s brilliant - next time we go out, we are totally using it to...
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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please...”
– Bill Cosby (via adamrafferty)
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“I love Chicken McNuggets!”
– Momofuku wunderkid chef, David Chang, speaks about his guilty pleasure to Anthony Bourdain.
I do too. Guilty.
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caterpillarcowboy:
khuyi:
why does tumblr not let you reply to replies?
design fail.
They have always believed threaded comments is bad design because it leads to trolling and flame wars. That’s why they developed reblogs instead (if you’re gonna troll, only people who follow you will see it). The common adoption of Disqus comments + the later addition of replies (& ask + private...
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“The problem in Silicon Valley is pattern matching. I was lucky: I went to a...”
– Black entrepreneur Kurt Collins, dropping some truth regarding pattern matching and investor bias in Silicon Valley.
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When big companies kill internal products
bijan:
Most big companies kill internal projects and products.
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And google seems to be doing a lot of this. In recent memory google has nuked google wave, buzz, health, jaiku, dodgeball, sidewiki. and I’m sure I’m forgetting stuff.
Some of these things make sense. And I applaud google’s attempts to try lots of things.
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The reason why a big company can and will nuke an internal...
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