November 2009
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Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global... →
I wouldn’t say this is the end all but it is an interesting issue for Twitter.
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Coca-Cola Lays Out Its Vision for the Future at... →
What an unbelievable amount of scale.
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“The (ad) industry has cut 188,700 jobs — 11.4% of positions — since...”
– Advertising: More Job Cuts Likely on the Way for Industry - Advertising Age - News
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Et tu, Mario? →
Murder, looting, pizza theft, and other hazards of cooperative video-gaming.
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How Do You Hide From the Internet? →
Wired via Gizmodo
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The Last Airbender Movie Casting | Activism at... →
We are a coalition and community dedicated to encouraging fair casting practices. As a far-reaching movement of consumers, students, parents, and professionals, we promote just and equal opportunities in the entertainment industry.
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Build a Cheap But Powerful Boxee Media Center →
From Lifehacker
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Online Content: Who Will Pay? | AllThingsD →
Amusing:
Nearly 50 percent of U.S. Web users are willing to pay for online news, says the Boston Consulting Group.
Not a chance, says Forrester (FORR): Try 20 percent.
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“Amafessionalism is no small movement. In marketplace after marketplace, these...”
– — Mark Penn
Amateurs Rivaling Professionals Online - WSJ.com
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“The company wants to be a total provider like Apple, with its own platform and...”
– — Greg Noh, analyst at HMC Securities in Seoul
Samsung Offers Software Platform - WSJ.com
Why Microsoft has XBox and Zune, why Google has cloud everything and why Apple is winning.
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“My job is to find the potential in something that others can not see, to...”
– — Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo Co.
Apple Emerges as Nintendo’s Game Rival - WSJ.com
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Exit Strategy NYC - The Ultimate NYC Subway App... →
What a badass app.
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Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles
aaronwhite:
marco:
I’m sure you split stories like this into two pages for a good reason: to save my bandwidth. After all, the remaining 3,126 characters of the story’s body (1,530 bytes as transferred with gzip compression) would have increased the page’s total size by 0.0032%. No, I’m just yanking your chain. I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by artificially...
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Marketer of the Year: Hyundai →
A blow by blow of Hyundai’s dominating 2009.
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Gamasutra - Interview: The Melancholy Of Keita... →
It’s hard to shake the feeling its precisely this sort of largely directionless creativity, free from the constraints of financial targets, demographics and brand-building that has brought Takahashi to this unlikely nook on the other side of his world.
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“While I understand that the move is meant to appease anxious copyright holders,...”
– Control Issues: YouTube’s new blocking features | canarytrap.net
Dead on.
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How the iMac came to be.
It strikingly highlights the difference between people who create things and the people who sell them: Apple could see they had a brilliant product, but a terrible way to sell it. TBWA saw a terrible product, but had a brilliant way to brand it.
Gizmodo - The Man Who Named the iMac
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The Caucus - If Fox Is Partisan, It Is Not Alone -... →
The hyper partisan media. “Are people really smart enough to understand what color filter is over the lens?”
I’m highly skeptical.
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Price War
The online price war that broke out last month between heavyweight retailers Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target took a new turn on Tuesday when Amazon chose to extend its $9 price tag on three hardcover books that were officially released Nov. 3. Originally, the price war extended only to certain books that had to be purchased online before their official release date. Now, it’s continuing - on Amazon,...
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