May 2012
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Plum Perfect Uses A Picture Of Your Face For... →
Simply brilliant. Facecake is another startup with incredible technology that enables a virtual fitting room.
May 31st
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Pixar’s Ed Catmull on... →
Amazing video - makes Larry Ellison almost human.
May 31st
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6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them... →
May 31st
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Mary Meeker's 98-slide deck on Internet Trends at... →
Mary Meeker is simply brilliant. The information density and volume here are mind boggling.
May 30th
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May 30th
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I'm a backer of Roominate: Make It Yours! A... →
May 30th
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Designer's, you've won. Let's move on to business... →
May 30th
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May 30th
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2012 NCAA lacrosse tournament: Unseeded Maryland... →
It looks like my home state’s year. Two Maryland teams in the lacrosse finals and the Orioles at the top of the AL East. How cool is that?
May 27th
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curiosity counts: Welcome To The Multiverse  →
The Daily Beast has a long article by Brian Greene on the Multiverse - the concept of many parallel universes. It’s fascinating and I am surprised that it’s in The Daily Beast. curiositycounts: The latest developments in cosmology point toward the possibility that our universe is merely one of billions. In Einstein’s day, the possibility that our universe could have turned out...
May 24th
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May 24th
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon - Finally a PC Laptop... →
May 24th
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73% of CEOs say marketers lack credibility →
This is an older article, but it’s still pretty damning.
May 23rd
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Brain Tapeworms Are Real, And They’re Disgusting -... →
May 23rd
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How to Design Technology So It Becomes Natural →
Very cool talk by Steve Clayton on Natural User Interfaces (NUI) being designed at Microsoft.
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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WatchWatch
fastcompany: Leap Motion, a San Francisco startup has created a device (“the Leap”) that lets you control your computer just my moving your fingers over it, as if you were using a touchscreen in the air. Read more-> Leap Motion is now taking pre-orders for the $69.99 device but won’t begin shipping it until the end of this year or early 2013. The company is also opening up its developer...
May 22nd
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Nokia uses Lumia 900 as a hammer in a torture... →
May 22nd
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Big Data Saved My Company (and Gave Me a Second... →
May 21st
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David Karp: Tumblr’s Revenue Model Is All About... →
Telling stories is what brands want to be doing (or that is what they ought to be doing). It’s very difficult to tell stories, at scale, with digital advertising. I hope Tumblr pulls it off.
May 21st
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This INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously... →
Man, it’s a wonder that the digital advertising industry hasn’t collapsed under it’s own weight and complexity.
May 21st
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“I really respect Steve Blank, but that seems a bit extreme. Venture capital is...”
– Steve Blank, a professor at Berkeley and Stanford (and serial entrepreneur), on social media’s effect on Silicon Valley. (via theatlantic)
May 19th
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We All Hate Advertising, But We Can't Live Without... →
This is exactly what brands and the advertising industry want. The way there is not so easy. Companies like Microsoft are spending a lot of time and money on this effort.
May 18th
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It's Official! Facebook Raises $16 Billion in... →
May 18th
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Roominate: The toy that makes every young girl an... →
Three Stanford Graduate students (women), feel that they can impact the lack of women in technology have designed a toy for girls that will encourage math and science thinking. We know that girls are great at solving, deducing, and experimenting. Yet… Only 15% of female first-year college students intend to major in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Less than 11% of...
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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Siri Says That the Nokia Lumia 900 is The Best... →
I was tickled by this. Apparently, the average score of the review of the Nokia is higher than any other phone. Therefore, Wolfram (the power behind Siri) declares it the best phone ever. Game, set and match!
May 17th
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myNoSQL: The Grand Picture of Big Data and the... →
nosql: In a recent interview for AllThingsD, Mike Rhodin, the senior vice president of IBM’s Software Solutions Group gave a very realistic description of what the future of data looks like: […] it comes out of the digitization of the physical world, the instrumentation of physical processes…
May 16th
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Apple Can't Have it Both Ways - If They Run Ads... →
May 16th
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LinkedIn Windows Phone App Better Than iOS,... →
This shows what can happen when the app designers understand the strength and constraints of the platform and leverage the platform’s strengths. [N]ow Windows Phone users are getting an especially slick and easy way to access all of their professional information on the site. LinkedIn’s Windows Phone app takes advantage of the platform’s Metro UI and Live Tiles, creating a very different...
May 16th
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Power Postures Can Make You Feel More Powerful -... →
May 16th
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Will Samsung, Acer, or Dell Ever be Able to Match... →
I have a Samsung Series 9 laptop and though it’s sleek, it simply doesn’t stand up to a MacBook Air. The PC manufacturers really have to step it up. The weird thing is that, if I’m not mistaken, Samsung manufactures the retina displays for Apple.
May 16th
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Marriage Equality And Humanist... →
Jay-Z backing Obama’s stance on marriage equality. theatlantic: jerkameleon: It’s always wild seeing rappers come out against homophobia. I’ve got more than my share of songs I can’t really enjoy like I once did.  But it’s good to see, and I can’t even say I live outside of it. I can remember coming out of Baltimore and viewing every interaction with someone who was gay with a kind of...
May 16th
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Don’t Believe the Like – How Entrepreneurs Can... →
This is a brilliant blog post by Erik Larson who digs into advertising on Facebook from an entrepreneurs perspective. He uncovers “booklicants” - profiles that click the “Like” button way too many times. Not sure if they are bots or real profiles - either way, their clicks are useless. Fascinating reading. Thanks to Steven Webster for sending this my way.
May 15th
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May 15th
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“My last piece of advice is this simple… Persevere. Because nothing worthwhile is...”
– This truth gets stronger as I get older. President Obama, in his commencement address at Barnard College today (via barackobama)
May 15th
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May 15th
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Advertising is Hated — and Failing →
The puck is going to be where: “Advertising becomes content; content becomes ads”. That’s because your going to be drawn to content because you want it or like it. Of course, the full quote is “Advertising becomes content; content becomes ads — no one likes anything and everyone makes money, (or maybe not).” That is a bit bleak.
May 15th
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Dieter Rams, the best designer ever, on the... →
May 13th
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May 12th
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Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To... →
This is pretty disgusting. The user is will lose control over what updates they see. Ugh! The only explanation is that Facebook is trying to spend as much political capital during the IPO process, because afterwards, they’ll be under even more scrutiny than they already are.
May 12th
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May 11th
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Pinterest Deconstructed →
There have been a few of these pieces about Pinterest, but this is the best one that I’ve seen so far. Pinterest is giving marketers the opportunity to match the creative capabilities of a magazine ad digitally. Display ads never did this. My prediction: The traditional display advertising business is going to be toast in 2 years.
May 11th
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Bing Unveils Redesign, Aimed At Cracking... →
I tried it out when it was in internal beta. It’s actually pretty cool. It’s still early days, but we’ll keep working on it.
May 11th
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May 11th
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Apple By The Numbers →
I’m no Apple Fan Boi. I work for a competitor, but this is simply incredible. Of course, this only delineates the opportunity very clearly for the competition. :-)
May 10th
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What's an ethical football fan to do after Junior... →
It is clear that football is damaging the players. As a dyed in the wool Washington fan, I simply can’t see giving it up. It’s almost a part of who I am. However, it is also clear that changes are necessary as Megan Greenwell points out. It’s time to tilt the balance towards long-term player safety.
May 10th
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May 9th
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Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in... →
nslayton: futurejournalismproject: dbreunig: Nate St. Pierre writes: Lincoln was requesting a patent for “The Gazette,” a system to “keep People aware of Others in the Town.” He laid out a plan where every town would have its own Gazette, named after the town itself. He listed the Springfield Gazette as his Visual Appendix, an example of the system he was talking about. Lincoln was...
May 9th
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