November 2009
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Live Events: Power to the People
I went to Webster Hall last night to see Röyksopp. The show was great, it sold out and then some. Since you couldn’t move (or see) from the floor, I chose the view from the balcony. There, I noticed something rather peculiar. At any given moment there was a minimum of 30 people on the floor with their phones or cameras in the air, taking photographs and filming. No exaggeration, 30+...
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WatchNeil Young sings The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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“The funny thing about contextual search like that in Google is that it benefits...”
– Mark Suster - The Case for In-Stream Advertising
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Policy, portfolios and the investor lawmaker →
Here’s something I haven’t really given much thought: should members of Congress be permitted to invest in publicly traded companies?
“Some of the most popular stocks in Congress are also widely held across the country, including General Electric, Microsoft, Bank of America, Procter & Gamble and other blue-chip names. Some of these companies are also government contractors...
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WatchGeo Streams: We Know Where You Are, Right Now
Great panel from Real-Time CrunchUp featuring Twitter, SimpleGeo, Foursquare, Google Latitude, and Hot Potato. Well worth the watch.
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Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
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Hot Potato
The mobile service Hot Potato launched at the RealTime Crunchup earlier today. My first impression is that it’s a local and mobile version of Facebook Connect. This is a good thing. Similar to the way Facebook lets friends and strangers communicate around live events on major networks (e.g. Presidential Inauguration on CNN), Hot Potato enables people to communicate in real-time around...
The race for location and the parallels of social...
expostfacto:
Today, there were four key announcements related to location:
Twitter released geotagging of tweets a feature to users and as an API for developers
Facebook released ad targeting by location
FourSquare opened up 50 more cities (competing with GoWalla)
SimpleGeo launched a Platform-as-a-Service to build location aware apps (competing with TownMe)
Location is the next layer...
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Que Pasa?
Two big things happened today in Twitter land: the Retweet feature was implemented across the site, and their call to action was downsized from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” Here’s my take on the matter…
The new Retweet feature needs some work. People don’t like changing something they’re comfortable with, and the Retweet...
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Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
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“PC makers are lacking in neither financial resources nor opportunity. What...”
– John Gruber - The OS Opportunity
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Google Analytics Intelligence
Google recently introduced an expanded feature set for Google Analytics with enhanced goal and customization abilities as well as mobile tracking. I’m finding the new Intelligence feature to be most useful.
It’s perfect for instantly detecting spikes and anomalies in traffic patterns and visitor behavior. Intelligence lets me identify fluctuations in traffic and pinpoint exactly...
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Sufjan Stevens - The Tallest Man / I like It...
We heard you like APIs
foursquare:
We’re super excited to announce that our API is now live. It’s something that’s been in testing with a small group of developers for the last few months. Even during this phase, we’ve seen you guys make all sorts of interesting applications using our data: - an Android app - a venue popularity tracker: SocialGreat - a foursquare layer on Layar - a location-based game: MobZombies - an...
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“The principals that will protect the open internet are an essential step to...”
– FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Improving Broadband and Mobile Communications
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Franz Listz - Un Sospiro
“Viral loops expand according to what’s known as a Power Law Curve, which,...”
– Ning’s Infinite Ambition - Fast Company
Viral loops and social network startups.
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Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
If you were a character in Fight Club... →
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen done with Facebook Connect. I’ve never trusted it (seen too much spam hit people’s walls), nor had any reason to use FC until now. It’s worth it.
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Freelance Whales - Hannah
Glad to see these guys...
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above...”
– James Cameron
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TV On the Radio - Family Tree
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Wilco - Handshake Drugs
Monday is Funday
This has to be one of the most action-packed Mondays in a long while. So much excitement and the news keeps trickling in.
Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million
EA Buys Playfish For $300 Million, Plus a $100 Million Earnout.
Google Acquires Gizmo5
Murdoch wants to block Google, Mark Cuban likes the idea, and Jason Calacanis gets “gangster” about it
Chris Dixon and co. announce...
The ABC's of Local Advertising: From Glengarry...
joevc:
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster recently released Always Be Closing: The ABC’s of Local Online Lead Generation. On top of the classic Glengarry Glen Ross reference, the report offers a wealth of revealing statistics on the evolution of local advertising online. Quality leads are still gold, but the methods by which they’re mined are changing. Piper Jaffray projects online local ad...
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Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch - Lua
This is what...
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The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (feat. Ezra...
“Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for...”
– Virtual Goods hit the front page of the New York Times.
Saving independent bookstores
chrishughes:
I buy books on Amazon all the time. I can always find exactly what I’m looking for. It takes five minutes. And because I have Amazon Prime, it means I don’t pay any shipping and the books arrive two days later, at the latest.
But the problem is I love bookstores. Independent bookstores. Small ones, big ones, and all the ones in between. I’m obsessed with the way physical...
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Myspace: "What People Are Into"
I’m beginning to feel sorry for MySpace. I once had a profile on it. So did most of my friends. It was customized with shitty HTML that took forever to load. I had my top friends and it felt good when I made it into other people’s top friends list. I read people’s comments and checked out their personalized songs. Not anymore. Those days are over, and I’m not the...
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My Morning Jacket - El Caporal
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