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techhive: Could a Tumblr deal fix Yahoo’s square...

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:09:07 -0400

Could a Tumblr deal fix Yahoo’s square reputation?

Not sure how I feel about Yahoo! buying Tumblr. What are your thoughts?

Obviously buying tumblr alone is going against brand. I’ll be the optimist and say they will probably stay hands off and add some advertising/search integration. Hell maybe we’ll even get lucky and they’ll improve some of the stupid functionality such as how you reply. Of course they could just delete all the porn and piss off 80% of the site.

"One of our challenges is we have had an aging demographic,” said CFO Ken Goldman. “Part of it is..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:39:13 -0400

““One of our challenges is we have had an aging demographic,” said CFO Ken Goldman. “Part of it is going to be just visibility again in making ourselves cool, which we got away from for a couple of years”

- “Yahoo, Tumblr tie-up in the works?” via CNET

You cannot simply buy cool. This has all the makings of a train wreck…
(via marksbirch)

mediaor: A Round-Up Of All The New Tools Google Gave To App Developers | BusinessInsider

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:15 -0400

me*dia*or: A Round-Up Of All The New Tools Google Gave To App Developers | BusinessInsider:

mediaor:

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techfeit: Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:33:01 -0400

techfeit:

Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013 (video)

Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance on stage at Google IO today for a 35 minute…

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I’m skeptical on how much of this is really his view vs. the appearance he wishes to project, but overall a very human and open message for the technology sector.

laughingsquid: Google Play Music All Access, Google’s Newly...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:22:14 -0400

laughingsquid:

Google Play Music All Access, Google’s Newly Announced Subscription Music Service

The possible integration with other Google services and the way they display files on your device give it a chance, but overall I don’t think an application without a free tier could be a Spotify killer. What does everyone else think of All Access?

mediaor: Google I/O Keynote: 8 Best Moments In Photos | Read/WriteWeb

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:45:56 -0400

me*dia*or: Google I/O Keynote: 8 Best Moments In Photos | Read/WriteWeb:

mediaor:

Reposted from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/RjlEqyNcHuY/google-i-o-keynote-eight-best-moments-in-photos on May 15, 2013 at 06:14PM

Google bombarded thousands of attendees at its I/O 2013 Keynote with enough information to force that hi-res photo of Vic Gundotra’s forehead…

Google Expected to Start a Competitor to Spotify | NY Times

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:53:46 -0400

mediaor:

Reposted from http://nyti.ms/14m5wOg on May 14, 2013 at 06:05PM

The service is expected to be announced as early as Wednesday, and reflects agreements the company has made with the three major music labels.

"We don’t realize that our society and our democracy ultimately rest on the stability of middle-class..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:41:44 -0400

“We don’t realize that our society and our democracy ultimately rest on the stability of middle-class jobs. When I talk to libertarians and socialists, they have this weird belief that everybody’s this abstract robot that won’t ever get sick or have kids or get old. It’s like everybody’s this eternal freelancer who can afford downtime and can self-fund until they find their magic moment or something. The way society actually works is there’s some mechanism of basic stability so that the majority of people can outspend the elite so we can have a democracy. That’s the thing we’re destroying, and that’s really the thing I’m hoping to preserve. So we can look at musicians and artists and journalists as the canaries in the coal mine, and is this the precedent that we want to follow for our doctors and lawyers and nurses and everybody else? Because technology will get to everybody eventually.”

- Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class - Salon.com (via infoneer-pulse)

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Fri, 10 May 2013 18:36:21 -0400

stoweboyd: Adobe’s Mighty and Napoleon - digital drawing...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:09:07 -0400

stoweboyd:

Adobe’s Mighty and Napoleon - digital drawing devices that are ready-to-hand instead of purely present-to-hand (Heidigger’s terms: see Matt Webb’s discussion).

"For so many years, as we transitioned from physical modes of digital delivery to digital ones,..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:44:37 -0400

“For so many years, as we transitioned from physical modes of digital delivery to digital ones, people seemed to have a surprising attraction to ownership. Of course, it was a legal fiction. Music downloaded was licensed and, indeed, the same was always true for software. And consumers were reminded of this every time they accepted terms and conditions but somehow the fact that you never really had to ask permission to use software gave a sense of ownership. I suspect it is a form of repugnance to non-ownership that kept this model going. A decade ago, Microsoft experimented with subscriptions for Office in Australia and failed miserably despite the very high comparative cost of software ‘purchases.’ That suggests a non-economic constraint to me.”

- Digitopoly | Goodbye Software Ownership? (via infoneer-pulse)

Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:48:54 -0400

Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only:

Just a year after launching its $50-per-month plan, Adobe has made its Creative Cloud the only way to get the new versions of its full software suite. Customers ‘overwhelmingly’ prefer it. Read this article by Stephen Shankland on CNET News.

"To win at some games, cooperation is better than competition. Unity that arises through a diversity..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:04:27 -0400

“To win at some games, cooperation is better than competition. Unity that arises through a diversity of opinion is stronger than any solitary competitor.”

- Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm (via timoneil)

NYCxDESIGNxLEARN with NYC Business Solutions

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:59:25 -0400

nycbizsolutions:

NYCxDESIGN, NYC’s inaugural citywide event to showcase and promote design of all disciplines, looks to create a platform for cultural and commercial opportunities, elevate established and emerging design practices and increase awareness of and appreciation for design by all audiences.

NYC Business Solutions is collaborating with NYCxDESIGN to offer courses in every borough during the 12 days of events, scheduled from May 10 - 21.

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smartercities: A Smart Approach to Fixing Cities’ Problems |...

Fri, 03 May 2013 07:50:14 -0400

smartercities:

A Smart Approach to Fixing Cities’ Problems | Harvard Business Review

Corporations and small businesses use new technology and strong leadership to make their operations more successful, why not cities? This remarkable success story in South Bend, a city of 130,000, shows how strong leadership, next-generation technologies, and public-private collaboration can help make cities work a lot better, even at a time when public funds are in short supply. These days, cities are tremendous engines for innovation and economic growth. Young people, professionals, and empty-nesters are drawn to them in search of excitement, culture, and career opportunities. We have the potential to spark a true renaissance for cities, so they’re not just bigger — they’re better.

"Is a social network without integrated analytics like a vehicle without a safety belt?"

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:59:24 -0400

“Is a social network without integrated analytics like a vehicle without a safety belt?”

- Social media hit a low with the Boston Marathon witchhunt, says blogger Eric Schartzman. Analytics, he argues, needs to be embedded in big data.

Via briansolis.com |Without Analytics,Big Data is Just Noise

(via smarterplanet)

datanews: Today we quickly charted the announcement of subway...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:37:07 -0400

datanews:

Today we quickly charted the announcement of subway stations equipped with wi-fi and cell service using a beautiful, faded-map design by Louise Ma and repurposing the technology Steve Melendez put together for our “Changing Trains” post-Sandy subway recovery map. Click through for today’s story and zoomable map.

Need to check out how true this is this weekend

"Sean Gourley, co-founder and chief technology officer of data analytics company Quid, however,..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:37:35 -0400

“Sean Gourley, co-founder and chief technology officer of data analytics company Quid, however, underscored the importance of overlaying a human perspective on a machine’s computational outlook. The easiest problems to solve are ones that can be easily quantified. But, Gourley asked in his presentation, should we really only focus on the easiest problems?”

- Why big data needs human insight | SmartPlanet (via futuristgerd)

cracked: Who better to represent your new line of networked...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:50:45 -0400

cracked:

Who better to represent your new line of networked hospital machines than this cold, human-exterminating robot?

The GE Mascot That Proves They’ve Never Seen ‘The Matrix’

The minute-long spot features Hugo Weaving, reprising his most famous non-elf role as the menacing Agent Smith from The Matrix, lurking through a hospital like he’s scouting for potential ransoms and explaining the exciting new technology General Electric has been developing. It’s part of GE’s “Brilliant Machines” campaign, which showcases a bunch of famous robots from pop culture all convening on GE Headquarters to help them build the future of automated technology, and for some inexplicable reason they decided to center their commercial about networked hospital machines around one of the most evil characters in the history of science fiction
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This is everything I was thinking when I first saw this ad.

laughingsquid: Agent of Good: Connected Hospitals, GE Ad Stars...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:22:55 -0400

laughingsquid:

Agent of Good: Connected Hospitals, GE Ad Stars Agent Smith From ‘The Matrix’