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Arthur Dobelis
A young developer posted a question on Slashdot for his own career planning: are we in an app bubble?
Our short answer is no, some more thoughts on this:
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Arthur Dobelis
On Jan 15, Facebook announced its now Graph Search feature. The most prominent response was this Tumblr blog, soon web-famous, showing new possibilities ranging from the silly to the alarming: the phrases “Married people who like Prostitutes” and “Current employers of people who like Racism” raced around the web (and, indeed, around Facebook). Fascination with these capabilities and concerns about privacy overshadowed most other issues.
Now that most users have access to this new search tool and amusement with its odder use-cases has faded, it bears revisiting exactly what Facebook Graph Search means, from a business perspective.
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Arthur Dobelis
Peter Crysdale
Only 7% of marketing agencies use Pinterest for business purposes. That is according to a survey commissioned by The Creative Group (TCG), released on August 22nd. In addition, 44% of the (over 500) marketing executives responding to these phone interviews said “We have no interest in using [Pinterest] for business purposes.”
This is surprising news considering that Shareaholic reported that Pinterest drove more referral traffic than YouTube, LinkedIn and Google+ combined back in January. Shareaholic also reported that Pinterest referrals are on track to beat out Yahoo! organic traffic in August 2012
So why are marketing ...
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Arthur Dobelis
Peter Crysdale
On July 26th the digerati stood befuddled staring at this message:
Twitter's website and the data services that drive its apps were offline, and would not come back on for another two hours.
It wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last. For a site with over 500 million ...
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Peter Crysdale
A lot has been said over the last week about the recent sale of Digg to Linkedin, the Washington Post, and Betaworks. Digg changed the way that we think about news and added a social element to the web. It organized information by what was most popular as opposed to what was the most promoted. Digg lead the internet toward emphasizing the value of content rather than just the positioning of the content.
But now Digg is dead. The concensus is that it did not die a natural death, but that the fatal wounds were self-inflicted: ZDNet’s David Gewirtz ...
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Arthur Dobelis
Peter Crysdale
Krist Novoselic, the musician and political activist best known as bassist for the 90’s grunge trio Nirvana, opened NYC’s inaugural CBGB Festival this week at Landmark Sunshine Cinema on Houston Street. His topic was how networks and social structures shaped his musical career, and how digital social networks are ripe to reshape politics as we know it.
He began by saying "music changed my life." Specifically, he noted, music opened his social horizons, giving him the opportunity to connect with other bands and fans around the country. Likewise, he found a sense of belonging in a musical subculture ...
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Peter Crysdale
On June 25th Louis C.K. announced he would be selling tickets for his new comedy tour exclusively through his website, bypassing services like Ticketmaster, in order to lower ticket costs for his fans by roughly 50%. He is reducing his projected income from the tour in order to make this possible.
Historically, direct sales have been difficult for performers to accomplish. Distribution networks for tickets, video, audio and books required massive – and often completely distinct – infrastructures. Sure you could sell a DVD (or cassette) at your shows but that was no match, financially, for selling in major outlet like ...
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Peter Crysdale
On June 11th Apple kicked off its WorldWide Developer Conference with the usual blockbuster announcements of its new software updates. Three of these announcements will have a huge impact on the way Apple product owners interact with social media:
Facebook will now be integrated directly into iOS 6 (the new mobile operating system, being released this Fall)
The new Mac operating system has sharing features built in allowing users to share basic content from within Applications including Safari, Preview, iTunes, Game Center, and Siri (dictate tweets, Facebook posts, iMessages, etc)
Macs will integrate Twitter and Facebook into Notifications so that ...
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Arthur Dobelis
In his Internet Week NY keynote call to action, Shane Smith presents his master plan to create better news content, save the world from its youth, and make corporate sponsors mess their drawers, all in one go.
Pakistan is almost a failed state. Venezuela, population 30 million, has more murders than the US, and more violent deaths than Afghanistan. Having another person killed won’t run you more than $100 in Karachi, or many places in West Africa and Latin America. In Afghanistan, suicide bombings are up 1000%. Youth unemployment in Spain is at 50%.
This breaking news of the ...
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Arthur Dobelis
Aparna Mukherjee
For the uninitiated, Pete Cashmore might seem to be simply one of the youngest and most photogenic faces in TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2012. But for the digital and entrepreneurial set, Mashable is more than a blog: It is the ticker and chronicle of all things internet, a starting point for all news related to technology, commerce, lifestyle, and startup culture.
Among his audience, netting a 2012 Webby Award for Best Business Blog next week is even more confirmation than TIME’s honor that Mashable is a must-read for anyone doing business online, in mobile and social ...