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Facebook, Twitter and the economics of attention

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:13:38 +0200

Facebook, Twitter and the economics of attention:

Facebook is stuck in an awkward place compared to LinkedIn, Twitter, and even Google. It’s not a “vertical” social network like LinkedIn. It’s not an “open” social network like Twitter [and] it’s not a default part of using the Web like Google is.

Point made.

"Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not previously suspected."

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:35 +0200

“Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not previously suspected.”

- Practical wisdom on creativity circa 1957 (via explore-blog)

I’m currently road tripping throughout Europe. From Vienna to Brussels via Germany in a van....

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:09:27 +0200

I’m currently road tripping throughout Europe. From Vienna to Brussels via Germany in a van. Right now in Germany, on data roaming on the iPhone sharing with a hotspot on the iPad while writing this brief post, reading Instapaper and Twitter.

I love technology.

This is really weird. Facebook started serving me GTA San...

Mon, 28 May 2012 18:10:57 +0200

This is really weird.

Facebook started serving me GTA San Andreas ads / page recommendations. I’ve started playing San Andreas a week ago — after ~ 5 years; without any social media reference whatsoever. No Facebook post, no Twitter, etc.

Can someone explain it? It’s so interesting and weird in the same time.

collaborativefund: Neil Gaiman’s exceptional advice for anyone...

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:59:22 +0200

collaborativefund:

Neil Gaiman’s exceptional advice for anyone who’s ever had success or sought it.

"Lazaridis, who shifted from circuit boards to pagers to BlackBerrys, continually reexamined the..."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:24:11 +0200

“Lazaridis, who shifted from circuit boards to pagers to BlackBerrys, continually reexamined the original mystery and sought out new mysteries as well. “In a business,” he says, “no matter how good the process is, no matter how much you’ve got it down pat, no matter how much money you’re making, how efficient, you have to always go back and say `Is there something fundamentally wrong with the way we’re seeing the market? Are we dealing with incomplete information?’ Because that’s what’s going to get you: it’s not necessarily that some young whippersnapper’s going to come up with some better idea than you. They’re going to start from a different premise and they’re going to come to a different conclusion that makes you irrelevant””

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Amazon Kindle: The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (via ninakix)

Biking in Vienna teaser

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:17:02 +0200

Biking in Vienna teaser

curiositycounts: Influence: A Brief History200 years of...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:15:46 +0200

curiositycounts:

Influence: A Brief History
200 years of transformative moments
*Click-through to website for best zoom-in-age

fastcompany: Using Origami To Mock-Up Ingenious Gestural...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:10:16 +0200

fastcompany:

Using Origami To Mock-Up Ingenious Gestural Interfaces. Genius!

Why RSS is not dead, will not be and the major difference with Twitter

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:13:57 +0200

Why RSS is not dead, will not be and the major difference with Twitter:

from apas.gr:

The main difference between those two (RSS, Twitter) is time-relevancy. Twitter took off for several reasons. One of them is the “instantness.” Using Twitter, a user gets to know what happens *right now* in the world, real-time, for whatever he’s interested in. RSS is not instant, yet it is contemporary.

A population density map

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:00:44 +0200

A population density map:

This is amazing.

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:53:58 +0200

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.

This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.

The only problem with Google+’s new redesign is this huge...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:35:29 +0200

The only problem with Google+’s new redesign is this huge unused space. Somehow Google forgot everyone with a monitor bigger than 15”. This is from my 27” iMac.

Instagram for non-Believers

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:30:43 +0200

Instagram for non-Believers:

Francis Dierick:

Instagram brought a lomo-like approach to photography to the iphone & to the masses. Focus on the process, not the result. Take your camera everywhere you go. Use it any time. Don’t worry about any rules. Don’t think. It’s ok to use cheap tricks to make pics more interesting. Just create. Damn the quality. Damn the cheap lenses & film. Translated to the digital age: damn the heavy compression, damn the crappy filters, 600px is just fine! […] Instagram removed features to make sharing pics simple again.

Placeme, tracking your everything

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:50 +0200

Placeme, tracking your everything:

and I quote:

Placeme may be both the scariest and amazingly futuristic smartphone app I’ve seen yet. It uses every sensor in your handset to track your activities, location and environment. It simply records everything in the background. And that creates the fullest set of personalized data I can think of: Placeme is a complete personal tracking solution.

Placeme is way beyond highlight.me, SXSW’s new favorite app — way beyond simply local & social.

It’s way beyond the freaky line for the vast majority of people. The fact admitted by both Sam Liang (founder of Placeme) and Scoble (he interviewed him.) But it’s totally the future. And I agree with that — it’s only to be seen how people will adopt this. In other words, it might be “too soon” for the market or on the other hand, Placeme can pull that off and be one of the greatest pioneers ever, just like Google was.

Yet, the line has to be pushed. And will be.

explore-blog: This image of Earthrise endures as one of the...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:24:03 +0200

explore-blog:

This image of Earthrise endures as one of the most memorable space images of all time, inspiring the kind of awe that makes one lament the grim future of space exploration.

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is..."

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:51:11 +0200

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

- An elderly Albert Einstein meditates on science in a letter to Hans Mühsam dated July 9th, 1951. (via explore-blog)

PENULTIMATE Templates for iPhone Apps

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:31:38 +0200

PENULTIMATE Templates for iPhone Apps:

I have been using Penultimate App for iPad for a long time now. It has been my main tool for taking notes and sketching ideas due to its fantastic stylus response. With one of the latest updates, the user has the opportunity to add custom Paper Designs as backgrounds.

distellamap

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:24:13 +0200

distellamap:

Seeing the operation of code in Atari 2600 games. This is a dual reprise of my dismap and mariosoup pieces that look at the code of cartridge games, and how the graphics are mixed in.

Cafe Phil

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:19:11 +0200

Cafe Phil