The first law of mass media (80)
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Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter. Radio ads used to be live, personal and spoken by an individual.TV ads used to feature actual people, demonstrating something, usually live.Phone calls involved a live speaker, talking, with permission, to another person.Email used to be honest interactions between consenting adults.Facebook pages (and Wikipedia, too) were built by people, not staffs.Twits came from real people, and so did instant messages. One by one, the ...
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Ullash said:
Interesting Observation..
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Josh Bancroft said:
They make the fatal mistake of editing the human out of the conversation. And then what are you left with?
The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation (29)
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We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 new web startups a year, possibly more. And the founding teams of all of these startups are young and inexperienced, mostly by design. That youth and inexperience is an asset to many of these startups. ...
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Boris Mann said:
I'm also very interested in seeing where these startup companies go....an excellent post.
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Pejman said:
experienced CEO or first time CEO?
The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation (11)
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We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 new web startups a year, possibly more. And the founding teams of all of these startups are young and inexperienced, mostly by design. That youth and inexperience is an asset to many of these startups. ...
Fears rise that Australia’s resources boom ending (1)
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Fears are growing that the commodities boom is ending as investors who have fled the oil market desert gold, copper and other metals. Oil prices have slumped 23 per cent in four weeks, while gold and copper have fallen by similar amounts and last week lead plunged 15 per cent. The falls follow a fundamental shift in financial flows as investors prepare for a global slowdown, News Ltd reports.
Look! If Facebook Were Real Life (2)
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Have you ever poked someone? Given a gift of a jeweled tiara? If you know what we are talking about, then you will appreciate this video by the comedy crew 'Idiots of Ants'. Love it or hate it, Facebook is a big part of a lot of peoples lives. While we have only recently started using Facebook, we have also quickly realized why so many of our friends are addicted. We just hope that social ...
Is There Less Funding Or Are Startups Just Cheaper? (23)
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By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed) As an early adopter, I have an interest in startups. As a software developer and a developer of Web sites and services, I have additional interest in funding and the whole entrepreneur idea. Because of this, I tend to read a few "business" blogs as well as the usual technical fare. One of these blogs is A VC. Recently, Fred Wilson started writing a series of posts on ...
10 New Superheroes (1)
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Inspired by Hellboy2, The Incredible Hulk, Ironman, and of course the Dark Knight, I thought it was time to brainstorm a few comicbook hero ideas. Using the patented 10in10™ technique, I rattled off the first 10 new superheroes that came to mind over a 10 minute span. Now I just need to hire an illustrator and get 10 minutes with Stan Lee… 1. Glassman - He can walk on glass, walk through glass, absorb glass ...
14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely by Maggie Mason (9)
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Maggie Mason wrote a great article on Twitter Etiquette for The Morning News. With the usual exceptions, people on Twitter tend to fall into two main camps. There are responders, who use Twitter as a channel to interact heavily with other users, and broadcasters, who use it primarily as a micro-blogging platform. These groups don’t necessarily get along. Responders will tell you that broadcasters are condescending talking heads who think they’re too good for the ...
Why We're Failing in Math and Science (36)
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Norman Mailer's brilliant novel Why Are We in Vietnam? doesn't talk explicitly about the Vietnam war; it tells a story about American culture and the American psyche, thereby producing a devastating critique of the war with the title and last line alone. In a similar way, it may be easier to understand why America is falling behind at math and science with a few simple stories. Last week, Robert Bruce Thompson, author of An Illustrated ...
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Brett L. said:
Reading stuff like this makes me sad. I don't think it is pervasive, but the fact that attitudes like this exist in the mainstream is not good.
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Ez said:
Mulling about sending a copy of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! so they can understand curiosity is what made this country the scientific powerhouse it is today. Stifling it despite no illegal activity will make us a Third World country.
Yahoo's Fire Eagle geolocation service now open to all (4)
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Fire Eagle, Yahoo's formerly experimental geolocation platform, is officially opening up to all users, and several companies are announcing products that work with it. A refresher: Fire Eagle is a storehouse for personal location information. If you tell Fire Eagle where you are, or have applications or devices that can do so on your behalf, then other applications can grab that info (with your permission) and provide you geo-related services or social network features. Tom ...
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Tim said:
I am still not sure I see the whole picture here...but man am I interested.
Smart Air Conditioner (2)
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Luckily we don't work in an office anymore, so we get full climate control of our workspace, but we do remember the office politics around the A/C thermostat. What always happens in large offices with central air is that some people have to work directly under a vent, while others work directly next to a hot window causing a climate controlled civil war. That's where Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee come in. The ...
Japan’s super-advanced mobile web: Too unique to serve as a global blueprint? (41)
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Over one billion cell phones have been sold worldwide in the last year, but in the US or Europe, the mobile Internet is still catching on relatively slowly. There even was a heated debate in the blogosphere just recently whether the mobile web has a future at all. However, this has never been a question in one specific region of the world: In Japan, since 2006 more people have been accessing the web through cell ...
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Falk said:
"By way of comparison: In 2000 and 2001, the 3G licences in the UK and Germany were given out for $58 billion and $78 billion, respectively. In Japan, government policy was aimed at kick-starting a market, not to filling its own coffers. And it worked." With the result that German carriers exhausted themselves and have to limit access to the 3G infrastructure today with artificial regulation in order to keep the load at a relatively low level.
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Darnell Clayton said:
Japan is definately geek heaven.
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Ed said:
I've only been saying this for 6 years... I should get a blog or something.
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Carl Fyffe said:
I wish I had a better understanding of the Japanese culture. It truly fascinates me.
25 Sites to Experience the Beijing Summer Olympics (35)
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Once every four years athletes from around the world come together to compete in the summer Olympics. This year they have traveled to Beijing, China, and with the games about to begin, we’ve gathered 25 sites to help you experience them and learn more. Discover the various sports and athletes, create activities for the kids, and maybe even feed those that come over to watch the festivities with you. What sports will you be watching ...
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Jeff said:
Fired up about the Olympics? Wanna dig in digitally? Visit these sites compiled by Mashable.
SIMable makes your mobile think it’s unlocked (2)
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This looks rather smart, eh? Have you come across this before? It launched in April this year and they’ve been shipping to 37 countries since launch. Here’s the SIMable overview: SIMable is an ultra thin chip, that when attached to a SIM card, immediately fools most mobile phones into thinking that they have been unlocked. It is compatible with the majority of mobile handsets, including all Nokia BB5 phones, which are becoming more and more ...
Jajah Babel Offers English to Mandarin Translations Just in Time for Olympics (3)
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Jajah has had a pretty serious year, and the new features it’s releasing just won’t stop coming. The latest on the scene may not be so huge as a new telephony platform, but it will impact users all the same. What is it? A speech-activated translation tool that lets you speak in English and translate into Mandarin (and vice versa). If you’re wondering why Jajah Babel went with Mandarin as its first language released through ...
Complicit by Seth Godin (30)
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Are consumers responsible for the behavior of marketers? Why does spam exist? Because (some) people respond to it. Why are ineffective pharmaceuticals so heavily marketed? Because (some) people demand that doctors prescribe them. Why are so many local stores struggling? Because so many customers cross the street to the big box stores. I've maintained for years that marketing is so powerful that marketers have to take responsibility for the choices they make. And they do. ...
