May 2013
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Exclamation: Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !! →
yahoo: I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and…
May 20th
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“It is in our nature to need stories. … Any story we tell of our species, any...”
– Jag Bhalla considers the evolutionary basis of storytelling. Also see The Storytelling Animal and complement with Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories.  (via explore-blog)
May 9th
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May 9th
“Why are they not comfortable? Well first, it’s because it’s proven to be...”
– How Corporate Storytelling Blurs Lines of Paid, Earned, Owned Media Welcome to the new world.
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April 2013
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“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
– Virginia Woolf, and other thinkers, on libraries. Complement with Ray Bradbury on libraries. (via explore-blog)
Apr 27th
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“I concluded that the “challenge of the interactive movie” is to make...”
– Gamasutra - Features - The Designer’s Notebook: Three Problems for Interactive Storytellers, Resolved
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“One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the...”
– Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven - Businessweek
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March 2013
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“While any possible disruption in the pay TV model may or may not come, operators...”
– US Pay TV remains resilient in Q4 2012 but challenges await
Mar 26th
“Unfortunately, a lot of people’s experience is in apathy. The largest...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness | Video on TED.com
Mar 26th
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7 Conditions of FLOW
Completely involved in what we are doing - focused, concentrated. A sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality. Great inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done, and how well we are doing. Knowing that the activity is doable - that our skills are adequate to the task. A sense of serenity - no worries about oneself, and a feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of the ego. ...
Mar 26th
“We have the data already. We own it, so we are complementing what we already...”
– Knowing the score: How Facebook’s Graph Search knows what you want | Ars Technica The predictive failure in that approach is this: “doing whatever it takes to encourage our users to do a better job of curating their information”.   Amplify human behavior, and whatever you do,...
Mar 22nd
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Mar 22nd
Facebook hashtags should be called pricetags.
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Mar 15th
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“Why do we work in organizations where natural interactions and instincts are...”
– People, Organization, Technology? | Organizational Knowledge Design
Mar 6th
“It’s hard if you envision a world five years from now with all on-demand:...”
– MediaPost Publications Time Warner Favors Trad TV Over Streaming 03/05/2013
Mar 5th
The Secret Door is presented by Safestyle UK
Mar 4th
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Mar 4th
“Facebook may become dominant enough that its actions vex regulators, then it may...”
– What exactly is “dominant enough”?  On Facebook, Sharing Can Come at a Cost - NYTimes.com
Mar 4th
“My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my...”
– CEO Andrew Mason is out at Groupon — Tech News and Analysis
Mar 1st
February 2013
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Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
Source: mullikinstevens.com via Matt on Pinterest
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“In my belief, branded entertainment evolved as a trainwreck species, a...”
– Pretty much spot on. Brand Integration & Multi-Platform Narrative at the Studio, Publisher & Network Levels #Transmedia #BrandedContent - A Literacy of the Imagination
Feb 16th
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“For now, added Landgraf, awareness of content still “overwhelmingly comes from...”
– Media Execs Divided on Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ Model - The Hollywood Reporter
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“It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior...”
– The surprising secrets of selling your ideas (via explore-blog)
Feb 1st
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January 2013
3 posts
“A digital transaction is generally 20 times cheaper than one by phone, 30 times...”
– The cyber state: Efficiency by transparency | The Economist (via interestingsnippets)
Jan 30th
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“What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could...”
– Reed Hastings on Arrested Development, House of Cards, and the Future of Netflix: Movies TV: GQ
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December 2012
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November 2012
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