September 2009
43 posts
“Here it is. Here’s the #1 lesson you learn working in advertising (and this has...”
– “Writing Wednesdays” #2: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
“If you have to choose between fame and fortune, choose fortune.”
– Philadelphia Magazine:
“Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to...”
– Caterina.net: Working hard is overrated
“The Sarasota Memorial Hospital is using Twitter to actively answer patient...”
– How Hospitals Are Quietly Leading The Way With Social Media
“Their new product, launching today at DEMO, will lay the foundation for true...”
– Machine Vision on the Horizon: Vitamin D Launches Object Recognition for Video - ReadWriteStart
Now There's Even an App That Lets You Pay for... →
Starbucks just launched two iPhone apps. One app, myStarbucks, allows users to find stores, build drinks, and browse the coffee chain’s menu and find nutritional information. While this is…
Report: The Future of RFID Smart Cards Looks... →
This post is sponsored by IBM’s A Smarter Planet blog, where it has also been cross-posted.
In recent posts we’ve looked at three of the world’s leading RFID-powered Smart Cards: Japan’s…
The Sparta of World War II →
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939, three months after the German invasion of Poland and…
“They found that “contrary to common marketing knowledge, test results...”
– Dell Optimizes Its Email And Sales Increase 7X
“The Wharton researchers find that the Long Tail effect holds true in some cases,...”
– Rethinking the Long Tail Theory: How to Define ‘Hits’ and ‘Niches’ - Knowledge@Wharton
“Utility fog is a term suggested by Dr. John Storrs Hall to describe a...”
– Utility fog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“We can’t see how the street is immersed in a twitching, pulsing cloud of...”
– The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future - Future metro - io9
“The key to copying Y Combinator is to figure out how you can be just as good,...”
– blog.jedchristiansen.com » Blog Archive » Copying Y Combinator – WHY and HOW
“So here’s the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this...”
– Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this. - Jason Kolb re: the Future of the Internet
“Good business development allows businesses to profit by doing something that is...”
– Seth’s Blog: Understanding business development
“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise...”
– Entuziasm . Pasiune . Strategie . Viata - Ciprian Gavriliu » Lucrurile care contează într-un business
What Have VCs Really Done for Innovation? →
This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at…
The Real-Time Web Has Gone to the Dogs →
The steady flow and increased volume of information made available by new real-time web technologies will require new technology for consumption and different thinking for users. That’s the thesis…
Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus? →
Real-time computing is not new. This is the third generation of real-time: • First generation: was done on a single processor, usually for process control in military systems. • Second…
Memo to Start-ups: You’re Supposed to Be Changing... →
I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not…
The Dirty Little Secret About the "Wisdom of the... →
Recent research by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professor Vassilis Kostakos pokes a big hole in the prevailing wisdom that the “wisdom of crowds” is a trustworthy force on today’s web. His…
How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology →
Guest blogger John Graham-Cumming initiated and led the successful petition drive to procure an apology to Alan Turing from the UK government. John is the author of The Geek Atlas, CTO of a…
Will Apple be interested in ARM’s newest gadget... →
If I were an Apple chip engineer, I’d be interested in an announcement today by ARM, the company that designs processors which are used by licensees in all sorts of gadgets.
Today, ARM is…
Singapore Ghost Fleet →
The Daily Mail has a sensational piece on what it calls the “biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history.” Off the coast of Singapore, the bulk shipping capital of the world,…
Consumers, confidence and the corporation →
Any corporation can be forgiven being a little anxious these days. Everyone’s confidence is being tested. I interviewed Debbie Millman over the weekend, and she helped me see an…
On Complements and Showdowns and TweetSense →
SAI points to an interesting piece by Chris Dixon, founder of Hunch, in which he argues that Twitter will inevitably be competing with its core developers (complements to Twitter) at some point….
Surrealism makes your brain learn better →
A research article published in the September issue of Psychological Science reports that the unexpected exposure to “senseless” content, like a short story by Kafka, primes the brain to perform more…
Mapping America’s sinners →
Via Wired, maps correlating statistical analysis with three of the Seven Cardinal Sins (all seven behind the previous link.) Interestingly the single sin in which the entire country…
Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice - They... →
Speculation about the demise of the news business and advice about what they should do about it is everywhere. It makes for great, self-congratulatory sport but it won’t help the news industry. …
RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social... →
Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and
LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were
mysteriously dropped for days at a time,
have led many people to…
“Make something that is faster, more efficient, cheaper (in this case free), and...”
– The Value of TechCrunch50: Mint Acquired by Intuit for $170m Two Years After Winning TC40.
Marco Polo’s advice for young travellers →
In The Travels Marco Polo makes it to a land he calls “Tebet”, which includes modern-day Tibet as well as parts of Szechuan and Yunnan provinces. Here in this land “terribly devastated” by…
Retrofitted Hotel Revives Past For Eco-Friendly... →
Recover, restore, and reuse. That was the mantra employed by Portugal-based architecture team Ezzo, led by César Machado Moreira, in designing Paço De Pombeiro, a twentieth-century…
Shelter No 2: An Affordable Prefab Pod →
Pod living is becoming a new trend in prefab design — small houses carefully designed to contain everything you need to sustain yourself in a small space. Broisson Architects of…
Why I Love FM's Ad Stamp →
Today my company Federated Media announced a new ad format for a group of our publishing partners. We call this beta program “Ad Stamp”, and those of you who’ve been watching the space closely,…
Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The... →
I had an extraordinary day yesterday, in terms of who I got to talk with. Not only did I meet with several of FM’s partners - two Fortune 500 marketers, a major platform partner, and a major…
Blog's 52 recipe contests to spawn... →
There are a multitude of foodie websites and blogs catering to most every culinary whim, but food52 is one with an especially clear premise: 52 weeks, 52 recipe contests, and a crowdsourced…
Customised cookies, baked to order in 2 minutes →
Mix-ins have been a staple in many ice cream shops for years already, allowing customers near infinite possibilities in designing their own creamy confection. Now bringing comparable potential…
Customised cookies, baked to order in 2 minutes →
Mix-ins have been a staple in many ice cream shops for years already, allowing customers near infinite possibilities in designing their own creamy confection. Now bringing comparable potential…
Blog's 52 recipe contests to spawn... →
There are a multitude of foodie websites and blogs catering to most every culinary whim, but food52 is one with an especially clear premise: 52 weeks, 52 recipe contests, and a crowdsourced…
US Government To Embrace OpenID, Courtesy Of... →
During the video interview with OpenID evangelist Chris Messina I recorded earlier this year at a German conference about the state of OpenID, he expressed his wish that the Obama…
Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie? →
At each of the lean startup master classes, we’ve turned to a special expert on entrepreneurship to provide us with
special insight; Ali G teaches us
about two enduring kinds of failed products:…
Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie? →
At each of the lean startup master classes, we’ve turned to a special expert on entrepreneurship to provide us with
special insight; Ali G teaches us
about two enduring kinds of failed products:…