January 2011
79 posts
“We do not believe that society is relentlessly demassifying and disaggregating....”
– ACM: Ubiquity - The Social Life of Information
[This excerpt has been reproduced by permission of Harvard Business School Press. Excerpt of The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. Copyright 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; All Rights Reserved.]
“All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services in...”
– Press - Vodafone
“But then Petland’s research team took that data and dissected it further....”
– What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer - Jeff Stibel - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
Ill-fated comparisons: Farmville vs Kiva
What are the wages of relationship inflation? Three cancers eating away at the vitality of today’s web.
First, attention isn’t allocated efficiently; people discover less what they value than what everyone else likes, right this second.
Second, people invest in low-quality content. Farmville ain’t exactly Casablanca.
Third, and most damaging, is the ongoing weakening of the...
(5) Pivoting (business strategy): How do you... →
Facebook Clamps Down On Canvas
Facebook Credits is a virtual currency that enables fast and easy transactions across games on Facebook. With Facebook Credits, people enter their payment information once and can buy, earn and spend safely across lots of different games. Facebook Credits is currently used in more than 350 applications from 150 developers, representing more than 70% of virtual goods transactions volume on...
You Are the Product
Facebook sells your stories as ads http://bit.ly/fXMbwI Don’t forget if you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.
Phase Shift
Liquid modernity is Bauman’s term for the present condition of the world as contrasted with the “solid” modernity that preceded it. According to Bauman, the passage from “solid” to “liquid” modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered....
What - me, worry?
Via: Online Schools
Pivot
“I thought I was making serious woodworking tools,” he continued. “To see them used in the kitchen, that was frankly a personal disappointment.”
Grace Manufacturing, which now employs more than 300 people at a manufacturing plant here and an assembly plant in Querétaro, Mexico, has in the years since helped establish a new segment of the housewares industry.
PIVOT: Something a whole batch of...
“Free” is the museum show of our times, presaging the whole Wikileaks dustup, and...”
– From Free - “How to be Free: Proustian Memory and the Palest Link”, essay by Caterina Fake on newmuseum,org
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com) →
“Unsurprisingly, status updates with more positive emotional words receive more...”
– Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind? (1)
WatchDouglas Rushkoff - Me, Losing It
I gave a talk last year at a conference that turned out to be less about social media than social marketing. I got really tired of listening to brand managers talk about their “Twitter strategies,” and by the time my closing keynote came around, it felt like I had watched the corporatization the net recapitulated over the course of the afternoon. Thus, this...
“We build websites that are easy-to-use and accomplish specific goals by first...”
– Simple and effective | Simande
Makers of We Are NY TECH
The strength of New York’s start-up community can be attributed to its diversity of talent and the strong collaboration between those involved. This is where you can meet the people who are making it happen.
Five Emotions Invented By The Internet « Thought... →
Quite brilliant must read - although I suppose that endorsement acts simultaneously as a complement and confession.
Machiavelli 2.0 : The Fundamentals of Network...
It is not technological determinism, but the interplay between new social practices and enabling technologies that have transformative potential. So, in a nutshell, there are four main principles and several corollaries that describe network society: the territoriality principle, the complexity principle, the technology principle, and the choice principle.
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Networked forms of societies...
Quora - Selected Comments from the BBH Post "The...
To clarify, it’s not that I don’t like Quora. It’s that I hate it and want it wiped off the face of the earth.
Quora is subsidizing its SEO strategy with its users’ ego and insecurity.
As an alternative, we built a similar utility for Twitter called Plnrs.
Quora is solving the problem that Google’s been trying to solve forever – creating the database of intentions.
Quora takes a huge leap...
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to...”
– Phasing Grace | Social Architectures and Virtual Worlds: The Creative Destruction of Second Life
“The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers said that 81 per cent of its members...”
– Facebook named as third party in post-christmas divorce rush | The Australian
Tearing Down the Walls: How social media is...
Aaron Strout, CMO of Powered, a social media agency in Austin, Texas, says the general outline of social media has been drawn but that social media will develop a more open architecture. Instead of having your profile locked into Facebook, an open system would act more like e-mail, where users own their profiles in the way they own their e-mail addresses and can use them in whatever networks...
