June 2012
Scott Rafer's Blog: I'm loving and hating the Pins... →
gregcohn:
tedr:
Love: Conceptually I love the new $5 pinning option. It a very natural, native method of monetizing a very popular free service.
Hate: Even though pins only stay atop a dashboard for a day, I probably go to my dashboard 10x a day. Today by my 3rd visit I’m thinking…
The trials and joys of a totally undocumented/unannounced new product introduction. Just click on the...
“Rush would cut a new version of the song for her 1977 eponymous album release....”
– Angel of the Morning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woah. The composer of Angel of the Morning is Angelina Jolie’s uncle.
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YES.
“That raises the possibility of a single vaccination, introduced to a person once...”
– With New Nicotine Vaccine, Cigarettes Give You No Pleasure | Popular Science
YES PLEASE.
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Supreme Court Decision
Just finished reading all 190+ pages of the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare. It’s pretty fascinating.
Robert’s findings on the Commerce Clause and the mandate as a tax are amazing. Just… supremely compelling, amazing citing of sources, bordering on brilliant. I love his careful approach, his ability to parse things out and stay fair. Honestly, it’s really...
richmondnewsnetwork asked: Check this study out: Hsieh, Y.-C., et al. Retain viewer’s attention on banner ad by manipulating information type of the content. Computers in Human Behavior (2012). I just finished a report on digital advertising for a final school project and you're right there is little research on the topic. And it's much easier to test attention to advertising for digital ads than for a...
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richmondnewsnetwork asked: I enjoyed your interview with Digiday and I agree with you on almost everything. Except, I believe most people never see digital ads--banner blindness. As soon as a reader learns where the content will be he never sees an ad until the page layout changes. A better design that respects this phenomenon will solve this and new web technologies will make it easier for publishers to do that. What do...
Quotidian Ventures: Quotidian Ventures and Its... →
qventures:
Is Pedro Torres Picón the biggest Latin American investor in New York’s tech scene?
via BetaBeat by Adrianne Jeffries
Pedro Torres Picón is an angel investor of the new breed: Young, hip, and handy with an Instagram, it’s suddenly clear how he managed to make his way into a…
“I don’t know anyone in the ad-supported Web business who isn’t engaged in a...”
– The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
Rafer sez: @MichaelWolffNYC then it’s time to retire.
(via rafer)
Tying this to your reblog of my post, it’s like he’s missed the entire content industry. Crazy.
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“At the same time, network technology allows advertisers to more precisely locate...”
– The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
“The Recent Grad Media Buyer
This 22-year-old kid is now in charge of a...”
– 10 Bad Apples of Digital Media | Digiday
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My friend Diana did a post recently musing on the streaming nature of social media and how sometimes important news can get missed as the events in people’s lives just scroll by. She made a nice post about the basic facts. I liked it. So I’m going to do it too.
I left the Barbarian Group almost ten months ago. Since then, I’ve been working on a book about advertising, tech and...
“Despite the rise of smartphones Generation Z goes online old school. Generation...”
– 70% of Teens Hide Their Online Behavior from Their Parents, McAfee Reveals What U.S. Teens are Really Doing Online, and How Little Their Parents Actually Know - MarketWatch
But…. Mobile! OMG! Taking over! OMG! IT’S ALL MOBILE. Oh wait.
“One of the things I like about Brooklyn is you see Manhattan from a distance,”...”
– Literary Brooklyn Gets Its Leading Man - NYTimes.com
Too true. I am glad you’re settled nicely, Mr. Amis. We’re thrilled to have you.
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“Can this really be the meaning of the symbol? Would Apple, or someone within...”
– Laocoön | TechCrunch
Woah.
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Lover.ly Founder Kellee Khalil On Being A... →
“Speaking at Cannes, Facebook’s global head of design, Paul Adams, asked...”
– Feedback Loop: Cannes, Apps, the Return to Flash | Digiday
Bwahahaha. Yes, also consider your yellow pages a branding platform.
“Like many startups, my company put very little thought into marketing or...”
– Startup Delusion and Embracing the Schlep | PandoDaily
“Seventh-generation Lanaian Sol Kahoohalahala said he hopes to see an end to high...”
– Oracle’s Ellison to buy, invest in Lanai - Yahoo! News
That is a good name.
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
– Buddha (via shaneguiter)
“WPP said Tom Bedecarré, the chairman of AKQA, would also become president of a...”
– WPP Acquires AKQA to Beef Up Digital Marketing - NYTimes.com
Hoo boy. That’ll be fun.
“YouTube users upload 48 hours of video, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of...”
– How Much Data is Created Every Minute?
(It’s actually 46,732)
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“A lot of people are coming up with things that they can measure, but there is a...”
– Twitter and Facebook Need Better Analytics | Digiday
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