March 2009
119 posts
“The new technology will allow Google’s search engine to identify...”
– Google Rolls out Semantic Search Capabilities - Business Center - PC World
“Using a standard eight-inch silicon wafer, the researchers recreate the neurons...”
– Technology Review: Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip
“the nanogenerator could allow people to power personal electronic devices, such...”
– So Long, Energizer Bunny — Berardelli 2009 (326): 2 — ScienceNOW
Experiments in Social Media Marketing: A Recap →
PSFK readers - thank you for participating in our social media experiment! Between February 9th and March 8th, we engaged in some social media activity to see how it would affect PSFK’s…
How Walkable is Your Neighborhood? →
Walk Score is a handy web-service that approximates the walkability of addresses and neighborhoods in the 40 largest cities in the US using an alogrithm - you can read about their…
Health tracker provides comprehensive view of... →
Technology has already been used for some time now to help consumers keep track of wellness factors from diet to sexual activity, but a new application from California-based Health…
“Am fost un rechin pe vremuri, acum vreau sa ofer ceva celor care sunt la inceput...”
– M A N A F U *: Online: Vlad Stan lanseaza Arka Nuova
Stop counting impressions, and start making them →
Not much about the future of advertising looks certain right now. Will newspapers become a niche medium? Will advertisers stop footing the bill for network TV if they don’t get more control…
“What makes for great advertising on the Web is no different from what makes for...”
– Stop counting impressions, and start making them » VentureBeat
“In a nutshell, Steve proposes that companies need a Customer Development process...”
– How to develop your customers like you develop your product - Venture Hacks
“But too often when it’s time to think about customers, marketing,...”
– Lessons Learned: What is customer development?
“How does your garden grow? In these low-fire ceramic, egg-shaped containers!”
– Egg Plant - Inhabitat Shop
“Immediate gratification has become an obsession for marketers, preventing brands...”
– MEDIA ARTS MONDAYS: Measure What Matters - PSFK.com
“Economists say that when the economy takes a dive, it is common for people to...”
– Tired of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own - NYTimes.com
DATAFLUX 0.1: Shape-Shifting Art →
DATAFLUX 0.1 from Kit Webster on Vimeo
Kit Webster has created a nice light and sound installation titled DATAFLUX 0.1. Sililar to Pablo Valbuena’s architectural shape-shifting…
Want to make money online? Go for iTunes not ads. →
The top digital media companies increased their revenues by more than 20 percent in 2008. How? Well it wasn’t online ads. Instead, it was largely thanks to a pay-for-media approach, according…
Eol’eau Collects Both Water and Electricity for... →
Tuvie points us to an potentially useful concept design by Julien Bergiginat. His Eol’eau tower is a duel purpose resource collector. The unit captures up to 600 liters of rainwater and…
“In American newspapers’ sites, as few as 20% of users in a day come...”
– Can newspapers charge for the online versions of their work? - Los Angeles Times
Nickel-and-dimed to death →
Alan Mutter, advocate of charging for content, debates me on the point in the LA Times. I made my arguments about why pay won’t work; Alan responded; and then, over objections from the paper that…
The Great Restructuring II: The next ism →
I continue to muse on the great restructuring I wrote about recently: more than a crisis, a recession, or a depression, what we’re enduring is a millennial shift in the economy and society, the…
Web cinema: the next generation →
After several false starts in recent years, films made specifically for the Web are finally making it to the must-see list. This is thanks to both technical advances (eg, streaming HD via
What’s a medium? →
At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism we just told the students that they no longer need to commit to a media track - print, broadcast, or interactive. We believe this is the next step in…
MEDIA ARTS MONDAYS: The Spontaneity Strategy →
In today’s dynamic media landscape, people are living their lives at the speed of real time. News is expected
to be up to the second, friends keep up with each others’ lives online, step…
Newspapers Are Dead, Long Live the News →
The Future Media Landscape: Steven Berlin Johnson
While many entrenched in the media industry are trying to find ways to prop up the traditional model of print - micropayments,…
Papal infallibility and Cochrane reviews →
Pic c/o nomad4ever
Been a long time since I found myself shouting at the radio but this morning the silly ol’ fella who sits in St Peter’s chair really got me going (almost as much as…
NPD: Recession changing how we buy music →
A report from research firm NPD puts a new spin on the rise of digital music purchases. The survey found CD sales continuing their downward spiral in 2008, while the number of digital…
Are Mainstream Newspapers Selling to the Wrong... →
Though pundits everywhere are touting the death of the newspapers everywhere, it surprised us to learn that some are actually thriving, we just might not recognize their names. Despite…
“That’s why the ecosystem of technology news is so crucial. It is the old-growth...”
– stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
Bonuses →
It’s not you, it’s them that are wrong Tell ‘em to take out their tongues And bring on the backlash! Arctic Monkeys - Who The F***k Are The Arctic Monkeys
There was a piece in the New York…
Free car for the weekend, no strings attached:... →
It’s the car-buying equivalent of being handed a cute puppy, knowing you can give it back if you don’t want it: Renault is hoping that once consumers spend a weekend with its new Mégane Hatch,…
What Would God Do? →
Coming full circle, I’ve seen a fair number of religious folk responding to What Would Google Do? and wondering what its laws and lessons mean for their churches. What would, uh, Jesus do?
Ron…
Helping others do journalism →
My Guardian column this week is on the New York Times’ hyperlocal experiment with mentions of CUNY’s involvement, Patch, and Barisatnet. Snippets:
The New York Times is embarking on a test of…
True Ventures: The VC Startup (RWW Interview) →
This is the first in a weekly series of interviews with venture capitalists. We chose True Ventures to kick off the series because it closed a Series A deal for Syncplicity in the dark days of…
Study: Americans Want To Customize Their Phones,... →
Do most people view their phones as portable computers? According to a recent international survey conducted by Zogby and Skype that looks at how people perceive their mobile phones, the…
“The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy...”
– The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions — PNAS
Is There a Reverse Network Effect with Scale? →
The Internet economy has been built on the network effect (i.e. the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product for other people). Investors and entrepreneurs…
“Statul trebuie să-şi mute centrul de greutate de la centru spre comunităţi.”
– România obiectivă: Anarhism şi Darwinism
“Puteţi formula observaţii, aveţi chiar un avantaj, pe care noi nu-l avem: să...”
– Codul Civil marca Predoiu deschide calea abuzurilor împotriva presei - Gandul
“Many musicians have understood that all they need to make a (very good) living...”
– Seth’s Blog: Music lessons
Radar Roundup: Sensors →
Guest blogger Dylan Field is an intern at O’Reilly and Senior at Technology High School in Rohnert Park, CA, where he is a member of the FIRST Robotics team, Dylan is especially interested in…
Search monetization as a model for social media... →
Peter Hershberg, co-founder of leading search engine marketing firm Reprise and a longtime veteran of the search marketing business, wrote a great post on Business Insider (fka Alley Insider)…
“The British Proof Test was created to ensure soldiers would only be issued...”
– The British Proof Test for Swords - Sword HQ
Search monetization as a model for social media... →
Peter Hershberg, co-founder of leading search engine marketing firm Reprise and a longtime veteran of the search marketing business, wrote a great post on Business Insider (fka Alley Insider)…
Developers: The Future of Micro-Blogging is in... →
We knew it was coming; we just didn’t know when. Google yesterday announced that it is releasing its Jaiku code under the open source Apache license 2.0 after finalizing the move of the…
Communism 2.0, On the Idea Of →
*Round up the usual philosophers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/12/philosophy Move over Jacko, Idea of Communism is hottest ticket in town this weekend
Duncan Campbell
guardian.co.uk,…
Grant McCracken, A Job In Trends & Ideas &... →
If you’re interested in trends and ideas and how to use them in your work then you have to add the writing of anthropologist Grant McCracken to your must-read list. The previous PSFK…
That’s Not Cool: Digital Postcards Against... →
ThatsNotCool.com seems like a straight up humorous site at first. They have a selection of funny e-cards that can be sent to give a hint to the stalkers, over-sharers and…
The Semantic Web: A Treasure Trove for Marketers →
Editor’s note:This guest post was written by Aaron Strout and John Cass, two marketing professionals who are monitoring how the semantic web will help companies and marketers help consumers. …
Painting on the floor...with a car →
If Jackson Pollack had driven a BMW Z4 Roadster, perhaps he might have first conceived of the project devised by artist Robin Rhode: Rhode used an all-new 2009 BMW Z4 Roadster as his paintbrush to…
Designworks' new gaming computer brings... →
BMW Group Designworks USA has branched out into gaming computers, and their new “Level 10” PC tower concept for Thermaltake is a doozy. And like most Designworks project, beyond the eye-candy…