July 2010
25 posts
HYPE WILLIAMS PLAYLIST | YouTube - craig mack ft... →
Prior to YouTube how would you ever have been able to see all the videos by one of the greatest music video directors of all time?
That’s right, you wouldn’t have.
Roadmap for Learning Rails | techiferous →
Solitude and Leadership: an article by William... →
Spend more time alone & be a better leader for it.
Great advice.
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Starcraft 2 released today! →
dizzygee:
It’s about time!
Some fathers played cricket, baseball, rugby etc with their sons. Living in Hong Kong the football field was an asphalt slab on the top floor of Bradbury School - and the computer revolution was just starting.
So - we played computer games! Both sons contacted me today and went “Dad, guess what? To which I answered - “Starcraft 2 and the graphics are amazing”!...
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Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales - New... →
davemorin:
Books are now artwork.
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I was saying to someone recently with the demise of physical media, surely along side that goes the demise of the furniture we’ve needed to store it.
Call me overly optimistic, but I feel like it is a fantastic opportunity for installation art and sculpture to make a long overdue return to our homes instead of existing solely within galleries....
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On the way to nowhere in particular
Runner #1: You know that campaign to run yourself ugly?
Runner #2: Yeah?
Runner #1: Well you can stop now.
“A quality that I find hugely important but increasingly rare in people is the...”
– Continuations: Admitting Mistakes
excellent.
(via bijan)
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Cuban on a swift boat to...God only knows.
Mark Cuban announced on his blog yesterday he had invested in a company that had created software able to capture instantly the exact number of people in a scene, and went on to ruminate it heralded the death of location-based services, “checking-in”, and a certain kind of mobile app. His argument is…
So rather than someone checking in to a specific application, we would...
Goollery - A collection of awesome Google-related... →
A case study of what happens when you create an awesome platform and invite others to build on it. Yes the iPhone is the same, but this is open to anyone, and limited only by your imagination.
How to test your decision-making instincts -... →
Some simple tests to run through when you find yourself facing a crucial decision about your business.
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Unlocking the elusive potential of social networks... →
How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA →
Four Hour Work Week’s Tim Ferris on investing and following the smart rules you make for yourself.
Why strategists should make stuff | Life. Then... →
A fantastic note from McCann’s Mark Pollard on the value of doing. More on this shortly…
Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use... →
We're moving at the same speed. And we're doing it...
…(the internet) is allowing a more rapid pace of change in society not by enlarging our brains but by circumventing the natural world’s way of keeping us from mental overload – physical distance from one another. In a world where I can be as aware of the craze of the week among Brooklyn hipsters as I am of the latest fashion trends inHarajuku, what we’ve lost is the ability for an idea to...
4 Proven Steps to Facebook Page Success | Social... →
Why Intelligent People Fail →
Most of us have probably wrestled with many of these at some point.
spiers:
(via @aaronhicklin)
“In 2008, Microsoft acquired a start-up, Danger, that had built popular mobile...”
– maybe the team is more important than the product, brand, or technology when you buy a company
A Youthful Market Spurns the Wares of Microsoft - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
“I used to have students who bragged to me about how fast they wrote their...”
– Solitude and Leadership | The American Scholar (via Instapaper) (via superamit)
Ethics in business – They must be a priority from... →
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Intent and the record industry
In a recent interview with the BBC, Mick Jagger said he’d made peace with the idea of people downloading music, largely because it was the label’s lament rather than his own:
…people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you!...
June 2010
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Someone kiss Mr Arauz →
I remember seeing this. No idea why I didn’t post it at the time. Thankfully your friend and mine Sean has reminded me.
See below. Then go do it.
(P.S. This is much better than the Fallon deck I posted yesterday and much more concise.)
craphammer:
Hand offs don’t work.
Period.
Enough said.
I give you Mike’s Digital Strategy Manifesto (of sorts).
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Foursquare's Ecosystem of Value
Image via Wikipedia
When looking at emerging web services, I ask myself a very simple question: does this create more value than it captures? It’s a pretty quick gut-check for figuring out if service has legs, and if you really think it is going to grow.
I loved Foursquare from the moment I saw it. Simple and focused, mobile, it brought people together in a physical space around a common...
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WatchThis is magic.
Just read.
tomgibsonsimages:
Great presentation by @akispicer
**Update** Actually the first half is quite good, but I posted it too quickly as it subsequently tails off and tells me things I’ve known for years. But, it is just me, and I’ve always worked within a digital context as far as advertising is concerned, so this is likely new to some. I need to go think...
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WatchI’m seeing a lot of projection-mapping videos flying about at the moment, this is definitely one of the more impressive ones.
My task management system with Things, iCal, Mail,... →
Reading Getting Things Done at the moment, trying desperately to do just that.
For those on Macs that don’t know Cultured Code’s Things, Google it; it is well worth your (increasingly productive)…
Ditch Performance Reviews? How About Learn to do... →
XML.com: The Politics of Schemas: Part 1 →
In this dense but fascinating essay, the author argues the Semantic Web is inherently political, which brings with it its own agenda and its own desires. It’s also a decade old but bang on the money;…
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WatchI’m late to the party on this campaign, brilliant and simple use of technology and rewarding the fans of your brand. The only thing I’ll add is it’s a fantastic example of looking at the opportunities enabled by technology which exists outside the realm of traditional media, let alone a media buy.
I’m not saying one is better than the other, I’m saying take the...
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WatchNow that everyone from CNN to McKinsey to Disney and beyond have drunk the social media Kool-Aid, attention is increasingly turning to the next step, what people call Web 3.0, or “Semantic Web”.
The semantic web defines itself as a form of the internet where our identities are distributed in such a way that our experience is tailored, on the fly, to be only things we want to see....
SoundCloud →
An online music distribution service that removes the need for middlemen distributors and takes artists direct to their public.
Foursquare SME Marketing Examples →
A nice collection of ideas on how businesses can utilise Foursquare for their own marketing and promotion.
Twitter / 99% →
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.” -Nietzsche
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Being Present
One of the things I like most about Fred Wilson’s AVC is his willingness to mix the business and personal and write from the heart. Long time readers will know I’ve swung back and forth on that and finally settled on just putting everything I do under one banner, which may cost readers, but feels right.
Fred recently wrote about being in the moment, and not being distracted and...
Mega Collection Of Cheatsheets for Designers And... →
A collection of cheat sheets for developers, designers, SEO and just about anything else online you can think of. Magic in a can*.
(*Note: no actual cans are used)
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From "the audience" to "the audienceS"
29th April 1970, FA Cup final replay against Leeds at Old Trafford is the 5th highest most viewed one-off event in British television history with an audience of 28.49 million. Coming in ahead of Charles and Di’s wedding in 1981 – which is the latest event in the top ten, nearly 30 years ago.
Our media choices have gradually increased over time both in terms of content and how and when we choose...
What is the Difference Between Innovation and... →
“f you have a brainstorm meeting and dream up dozens of new ideas then you have displayed creativity but there is no innovation until something gets implemented. Somebody has to take a risk and…
Designing the Design Problem →
A lovely concise deck from Frog Design on problem solving and where design can actually play a part.
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Designing the Design Problem
Nice deck from Frog Design’s David Sherwin. He takes the time to identify the kinds of problems design can help solve, and provides a tangible example from some of their work in Africa dealing with AIDS/HIV.
How To Successfully Pitch Angel Investors →
Filed under “rainy day”.
Hmmm…clouds on the horizon…