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Are the New York Times’ reports of the Death of Blogging greatly exaggerated?
“Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter” claims a recent article in the New York Times, based on some statistics gather by Pew Center research that appear to show a percentage decline in...
View ArticleGartner Research study predicts all-out Tablet Wars, but…
…could things go a lot more quietly, the way of the MP3 player market and total Apple / iPod dominance instead? GigaOM was quick to point out 5 Problems With Gartner’s Tablet Forecast, among them:...
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Think you can afford to not understand Gamification? Good luck…
Why did Seth Priebatsch garner so much attention with his keynote speech on Gamification at SXSWi in Austin this year? At a conference where everyone agrees it is becoming increasingly difficult to...
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Blog Is Back In Action
As I’ve mentioned previously, I had been doing a lot of Curation over at Amplify.com, but the community there due to various issues is now nearly defunct (the arrival of Google+ for Interest Graph...
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From Kevin Kelly’s The Satisfaction Paradox: On why Curation will be the only...
Brilliant stuff from Kevin Kelly on the situation were are increasingly finding ourselves in with regard to Content Overabundance: There is more than you will ever be able to consume. (Compare: The...
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Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Scenario
BusinessInsider recently published “STEVE BALLMER’S NIGHTMARE: How Microsoft’s Business Actually Could Collapse”. And while you may think that this is an extreme scenario used as linkbait (and by all...
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REQUIRED READING: The Freight Train That Is Android – by Bill Gurley
If you care about #mobile and smartphones at all, it is crucial that you fully appreciate the depth of what is going on with Google’s Android strategy (which is why I’ve clipped a lot of key excerpts...
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Freeconomics New Generatives + Impulse-Purchase Pricing = Kickstarter. Better...
Kickstarter project crowd-funding is a fantastic example of how you can still sell, even when everything (at least in the digital/content realm) is trending toward $0/FREE. 1) Notice the way that the...
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Jeff Jarvis on what I’ve been beginning to call “The Content Creator’s Dilemma”
[From a previous Amplify curation post.] Jeff Jarvis is pointing out several excellent recent examples of changing journalism practices in the age of the Real-Time Web, and ever more rapid Content...
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The State Of Online Advertising Revisited
[From a previous Amplify curation post “Very perceptive post about the potential for a new kind of Search on Facebook”, with UPDATES added below.] [Screencap from profitboostonline.com/fb/ under “Fair...
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Thoughts On Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Strategy
[I first wrote this post on Google+ over here. Click through for more discussion and Curation there as well.] I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the Microsoft “Surface” “tablet” since it was announced...
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No two ways about it: Microsoft hasn’t gone anywhere in Mobile so far
While we are witnessing and analyzing what I at least take to be the slow-motion trainwreck that will be Windows 8/RT and the Surface RT tablet, it is worth bringing back to mind for a moment another...
View ArticleNassim Taleb’s brief explanation of his Fragility concept
Amazing short video of Nassim Taleb of “Black Swan” fame explaining is Fragility concept from his current book “Antifragile” at +DLD Conference in Munich a few weeks ago. Much to ponder here. Just...
View ArticleTech Bubble or nah…?
Worthwhile read: Why the global tech startups bubble isn’t likely to burst “…Likewise, the technological building blocks for digital firms have now become so evolved, cheap, and ubiquitous that they...
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Stats hound Tuesday: Box’ storage financial internals
A stats hound Tuesday (or any day…) item – A Look Inside Box: Competition, Product Plans, And Unit Economics | TechCrunch Interesting look into the financial internals of Box’ (mostly storage) cost...
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Mobile App Install Ads & Facebook’s Earnings Report
Very interesting tidbit for the #stats hound in Facebook beats the street and Wall Street yawns: Facebook earnings report for Q2/2014 reveals that their App Install Ads may be driving significant...
View ArticleHas Google already capitulated in the Chat App wars?
Two brief items: Messaging Apps are now bigger than social networks x Googles mobile search just got a boost from Facebook = Google capitulation to the Chat App economy? The latter deal especially...
View ArticleSo the Microsoft Surface is still D.O.A. (as predicted a long time ago…)
Quoth DailyFinance: Microsoft Doubles Surface Sales, Lifting it All the Way to ‘Not Even Close’ “…One of the bright spots in Microsoft’s (MSFT) quarterly report last week was that Surface sales more...
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“The Holy Grail of Self Improvement”– found…?
In his excellent Ribbonfarm guest post “The Holy Grail of Self Improvement”, Tiago Forté of Forté Labs wrestles earnestly and at times brilliantly with the deeper questions of human motivation,...
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