February 2010
28 posts
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“Digg Ads as a whole see about a 1 percent click-through rate, but what’s...”
– How Digg Found a Way to Make Money – GigaOM
Perhaps Digg can become relevant again.
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“What developers see is that the App Store is a shaky foundation upon which to...”
– John Gruber (via marco)
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“We do not fear any competitor.”
– — Reggie Fils-Aime
Nintendo: No Fear of Competitors - Digits - WSJ
Cocky but focused. Nintendo plays their own game.
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Watch
Nike Sportswear : Human Chain
Everybody gets knocked down, how quick are you going to get up? Fantastic ad.
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Kenneth Feinberg Not Happy With Certain Wall... →
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“Creating apps, digital games and web browsers actually prove to current and...”
– How These Advertising Agencies Create a Legacy Beyond Ads - Agency News - Advertising Age
BIG SPACESHIP
Products: Corpsify, Perfect Monkey Tankpants
FALLON
Product: Skimmer
TAXI, NEW YORK
Product: Food Content Alerts
IMANO
Products: AcrossAir Browser, Virus Killer 360
BBH ZAG
...
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Starbucks Gets Its Business Brewing Again With... →
180k users
80k submitted ideas
50 implemented in-store ideas
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“Lady Gaga, with her army of nearly 2.8 million Twitter followers and more than...”
– Advertising Age
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Failbook vs. Failbooking
LOLspats: Cheezburger Network Sues Failbook.com for “Confusing and Defrauding Our Users” | Popwise | Fast Company
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How I Raised $55 Million Of Venture Capital In Two... →
From the guy who ran Elance.
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Most Innovative Companies - Advertising &... →
Grey New York
Firstborn
Crispin
Unilever
R/GA
Goodby
Mr Youth
Mindshare
Katalst
Trumpet
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Adobe working to sabotage HTML5 (updated) →
So says Apple Insider. But Adobe claims it’s bullshit.
Nothing like keeping up with some HTML drama. What’s up Gossip Girl?
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“There is something undeniably ghastly about the Abercrombie & Fitch...”
– Savile Row, on the Sundance Channel, and How to Make It in America, on HBO | Reviews by Nancy deWolf Smith - WSJ.com
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Korea is the new Japan
Samsung’s TV manufacturing business has nearly doubled in size since 2006
the world’s biggest seller of TV sets
Closing in on 20% global market share in TV unit sales, a threshold not reached by any manufacturer since the earliest days of the industry more than 60 years ago.
The second-largest maker, LG Electronics Co. had 14.8% market share
This year, LCD and plasma models (from...
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Forrester’s Business Capability Architecture →
Silly business jargon but with three practical points:
Start with business outcomes.
Direct the evolution of business capabilities.
Provide design implementation models oriented around business change.
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Reverse Synergies
Marketing: P&G’s $57 Billion Bet on Gillette Five Years Later - Advertising Age - News
When Gillette married P&G it was supposed to be about ‘reverse syngergy.’
Jack Donaghy would be proud.
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On MicroSD Problems « bunnie's blog →
Fascinating look at how memory chips are manufactured.
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“Windows Phone 7 is hanging over them (Windows Mobile 6.5 phones) like a...”
– What Happens to All Those Windows Mobile 6.5 Devices Now That Windows Phone 7 Is Coming? | Technomix | Fast Company
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Malaria Most Likely Killed King Tut, Scientists... →
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Four Square Fatigue and the Evolution of Privacy -... →
Will we get bored of Four Square or is there a generational shift at play?
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TheyMakeApps.com →
Wonderful site, clever way to showcase the work.
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“Having just transcribed several emails that prove that Microsoft was perhaps the...”
– The Comes v. Microsoft antritrust litigation opened up thousands of exhibits, some which is in the form of internal emails, from the period of 1988 to 2003. Groklaw examined a new piece from 2003 in which Bill Gates commented on Steve Jobs’ ability to create iTunes.
I’m guessing this is...
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“It’s not just about great songs. In the best-case scenario, it’s a...”
– Lady Gaga’s Lessons for the Music Business - WSJ.com
Hello transmedia KPOP.
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List of Corporate Social Media Strategists,... →
Kinda like the opposite of a fad.
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The Real Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmology |... →
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“The problem is, in hardware you can’t build a computer that’s twice as good as...”
– Steve Jobs in 1994 (via marco)