May 2011
71 posts
Hey Hollywood Moguls, Are You Following The First...
You might want to start. At only 23 years old, Eric Kuhn has trail-blazed many media empires into the social space—now he’s eyeing nothing less than the future of entertainment. Eric Kuhn isn’t old enough to rent a car, but as the former head of social media for CNN, and the digital architect of @KatieCouric’s viral interview with Sarah Palin, he’s ..read more.. ...
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As RIM Struggles, Talk of a Change at Top Surfaces →
OUCH !
the only way to help RIM’s stock is to deliver a smartphone capable of challenging the iPhone and premier Android devices.
That is a proposition easier identified than fixed.
“I expect to see the Maple Leafs win a Stanley Cup before RIM builds a number one phone,” said Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture firm that helped launch Google.
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Roses for the world: An Indian success story in... →
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Holeta (Ethiopia): The world’s largest exporter of roses is an Indian who grows and ships hundreds of varieties of the prized flowers not just out of India but mostly out of farms in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Just 45 km out of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, a drive across rolling grasslands at the foothills of the Entoto range brings you to a large encampment, spread over 100...
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Robert Reich: The Truth About the American Economy →
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The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down.
It’s vital that we understand the truth about the American economy.
How did we go from the Great Depression to 30 years of Great Prosperity? And from there, to 30 years of stagnant incomes and widening inequality, culminating in the Great...
Migration: The future of mobility
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future. By Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan. Princeton University Press; 352 pages; $35 and £24.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN a Bangladeshi man goes to work on a construction site in the Middle East, his wife typically moves in with her husband’s f ..read more.. See what your friends are reading...
Stowe Boyd: Blade Runner Was Right: They Are... →
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Jonah Lehrer vividly remembers drinking coke from a glass bottle at a high school football game, vividly. However, the school prohibited glass from the stadium, so it couldn’t have happened. But Coke works hard to make you act as if it did.
Jonah Lehrer, Ads Implant False Memories
A…
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London’s BERG: Reinventing the Concept of a... →
BERG CEO Webb says the starting place for those stories has changed radically.
“If you look 50 years ago, or 100 years ago, the technology in our homes was the offcuts of the military, or of factories, of industry. Look at computers, which came in equal parts from the need to calculate ballistics in the world wars, and from Silicon Valley, which was at the heart of Cold War investment into...
@jpbarlow tries to speak 21st century reality to...
Why Are We Still Consuming News Like It’s 1899?
We’ve witness a torrent of nature- and man-made news in 2011. And if I were a betting man, the range and impact of the events to come will make news even more essential to all of us. But reading all this news started to bother me, not only because of what was happening in the world, but because the experience of consuming news sucks. For the past ..read more.. See what your friends are reading...
Can Data Save the Studios in the Age of Social...
Warner’s acquisition of Flixster is Hollywood’s savviest move yet to survive a wrenching transition into the age of social media. It’s not just that Flixster is the leading social movie site on the iOS, Android and Blackberry mobile platforms with 35 million downloads to date. Or that its sister site, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, attract ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on...
Razorfish's Jeff Dachis Has Designs on TV's Ad...
Jeff Dachis is on a long riff about the business value of two guys sharing information about their sandwiches — one with mustard, one mayo — when he utters The Word. Jeff Dachis thinks social can do for brands what display advertising has not: get major marketers to really buy into the web and start to loosen TV’s grip on the big bucks. “This shar ..read more.. See what...
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Vince Cable: People do not understand how bad the... →
Vince Cable: People do not understand how bad the economy is | Politics | The Guardian
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Business secretary says politicians have not…
Democracy Now!: As Congress Slashes EPA, Climate... →
climateadaptation:
I like Mark Hertsgaard. He’s a pretty sober journalist.
mohandasgandhi:
Guest: Mark Hertsgaard, investigative reporter who has worked for more than 20 years on climate change. He is the environmental correspondent for The Nation magazine. His new book is Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.
Excerpt from the discussion:
JUAN GONZALEZ: All the extreme...
“The four biggest U.S. television networks are introducing the most shows in...”
– TV Networks Fueled by Netflix Effect Introduce Most New Shows Since 2004 - Bloomberg (via nickdouglas)
More bad news for Hulu.
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NetFlix is clever as Hell. (via sectionfive)
Netflix isn't swamping the Internet; ISPs are...
May 19, 2011, 6:02 PM — A report issued Tuesday showing Netflix makes up a third of total Internet traffic is inaccurate enough – or at least the reports about it are inaccurate enough – to show not very many people in either the press or vendor marketing understand the network they base their business on.
There are two important points her ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on...
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Vince Cable, UK biz minister speaks hard truths... →
I’m waiting for a US politician to have the guts to present the economic debate this way….
“It is a challenge to us to communicate it better. I don’t think it is understood that the British economy declined 6 or 7% – [that is] 10% below trend,” Cable said. “We are actually a poorer country, mainly because of the banking crash, the recession that followed...
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The Opulence Bubble as seen by Umair Haque →
The biggest unintended consequence and hidden cost of the pursuit of opulence might not be outside us, but inside us; might not be poisoning the skies, emptying the seas, or even fracturing societies, but withering and blighting human potential itself, what an economist with a heart might call a negative consumption externality of the soul: that it rots a society from the inside out by imploding...
Connecting the dots with @umairh - the Opulence...
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How financial plutocrats are constantly repeating... →
Ever since the financial crisis, investment bankers have been constantly questioned about whether they have any larger social purpose besides making money. What they invariably say is that they play a critical role in capital formation, meaning that they help companies raise the money they need to grow and prosper.
The LinkedIn deal suggests something darker. The crisis hasn’t changed them a...
Peter Thiel Shuns Hot Idea for Bigger Picture
Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist, says not enough energy is spent tackling big problems. Instead, people chase short-term gains.
As investors clamor for shares of social media darlings, Peter Thiel is avoiding the frenzy.
“Is Twitter worth $7 billion?” the venture capitalist said.
“The broader question is, Is it going to help people have a mu ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on...
This Is the Golden Age of Advertising
We are in our Golden Age. Sorry, it wasn’t the age of Mad Men. Those were the Dark Ages. I, like most, worship those days. It had its appeal. There were brilliant people creating at that time. But looking back, they had so few tools the effort were the equivalent of beating a log drum compared to conducting a symphony orchestra. Today we have the op ..read more.. See what your friends are...
La « social TV » existe déjà !
1 – Déjà vu all over again ! Les principaux défis pour le monde de la télévision vont beaucoup ressembler à ceux rencontrés avant lui par la musique et la presse :
2 – Broadcast vs. unicast : nous ne sommes qu’au tout début de l’aventure et, maintenant que les moyens de délivrer les contenus sont à peu près en place, chacun ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on...
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“Amazon has expanded its trade-in program to allow customers to send in their...”
– Amazon Will Now Pay You For Your Old Electronics (via interestingsnippets)
HBO Lets iPad Users Watch Game of Thrones A Week...
Good news for fans of HBO’s new fantasy series Game of Thrones: This weekend, subscribers to the premium cable network will be able to watch the seventh episode of the show a whole week early. The only catch is that they won’t be able to watch it on their TVs that early, but the show will be available on PCs and mobile apps on the iPad, iPhone a ..read more.. See what your friends are reading...
Picture of the Day: The Bi-Continental Urban...
Istanbul is one of the world’s great cities with a population of 15 million spread out over 700 square miles of land. While that’s no Los Angeles-level of sprawl (L.A.’s metro area is pegged at 4,800 square miles), the Turkish city has been growing and spreading rapidly over the past few decades. The city has tripled in area over the last 35 years. ..read more.. See what your...
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merci à Renaud Edouard-Baraud pour...
Filmmakers bet on BitTorrent for a hit
Thank you.Video settingsThe Tunnel - TrailerAn investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. An Australian film that is challenging conventions on how to fund and distribute movies could be seen by tens of millions of people under a bold internet deal. Through a partnership t ..read more.. See what your friends are...
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The Future of Media: It’s Not Piracy, It’s... →
Great example of what the record labels never understood…..
That the book began as a viral joke on Facebook no doubt helped build the buzz about it on social networks, and gradually, pirated copies started to emerge and circulate to fill that demand.
The publisher says it tried everything it could to stamp out these unauthorized copies, but it was unable to stop the flood — and it’s a...
Making Brands Sticky With GetGlue
Alex Iskold, CEO of GetGlue, is one of the most enjoyable entrepreneurs to talk to. Not just because he’s full of information, statistics and random anecdotes, but because he’s brimming with joy over what he’s working on. As he recounts the story of two thousand of his users demanding official Doctor Who stickers, he grins and gestures wildly ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
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Maybe There is Hope for Silicon Valley (and the...
Living in Silicon Valley, one gets used to meeting people who are optimistic and who talk about changing the world. But as I lamented in this piece about the Valley’s obsession with Facebook and Twitter apps, most of its entrepreneurs either think too small or are focused on the wrong things. So, even though I am enthusiastic about its ability to ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
The Extraordinary, Underground Museum of Soviet... →
Back in 2007 I read an article on BoingBoing about a small “museum” of Soviet-era video games that had been opened by a couple of students in the basement of a small technical university about 30 minutes outside the center of Moscow.
Is the internet going to be the death of...
In August 2010, the end of the age of television as we know it was widely predicted. The US pay TV market had suffered its first ever drop in subscribers. In the end the economy was roundly found to blame, with cable packages being sacrificed as families were forced to tighten their belts. But some commentators pointed to this as the inevitable resu ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
3 Things To Expect From Hulu’s New Content Deals:...
Hulu is close to signing new rights agreements with its content partners, according to a report at AllThingsD. The deals with ABC, Fox and NBC could be completed within the next week, giving Hulu several more years of streaming rights for broadcast shows online. However, given how the industry has changed over the past few years since Hulu’s launc ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away,...
This guy is Sean Power, a Canadian author and tech consultant. His laptop got stolen, along with a lot of other stuff. But he’s using Prey, free software that can track your computer. As Sean shares this info, Twitter users are helping out in various ways. Some urged caution. One woman showed up on site to see what was going on. Others doing quick r ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
Operation Crossbow: How 3D glasses helped defeat...
Newly released photographs show how a team of World War II experts disrupted Nazi plans to bombard Britain - with the help of 3D glasses like those in modern cinemas. Hitler’s deadly V-1 and V-2 rockets were early but effective weapons of mass destruction - unmanned flying bombs which brought terror to southern England. But their impact could have b ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
A Huge Facebook Flash-Mob is Amassing Right Now in...
In the past 24 hours, more than forty thousand people have signed up on Facebook to attend a flash mob barbecue this weekend in Higienopolis, a wealthy neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Sao Paulo state government conceded yesterday to demands from the Neighborhood Association to block construction of a subway station. The neighbors objected tha ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Olloclip three-in-one lens for iPhone 4 (video) --...
In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please We typically prefer to mount our macro, wide-angle, and fisheye lenses directly on a DSLR, but lugging around a pro-level kit isn’t always an option. The olloclip adds some flexibility to your iPhone 4’ ..read more.. via #smartr -...
“Every time some big clumsy corporate behemoth buys a popular consumer-tech...”
– The Future of Skype (via azspot)
