February 2010
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Foursquare Pitches To TV Audiences With New Bravo... →
The new partnership integrates information from NBC Universal’s iPhone app “Guides By Bravo,” which launched its 1.1 version this summer. Users can find curated lists to see where their favorite Top Chef contender eats and where stylist Rachel Zoe of The Rachel Zoe Project shops for couture finds.
Starting Monday, Bravo will offer Foursquare players badges and special prizes...
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January 2010
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“Camera. iPod.”
– Written on Hand of Unknown Fellow Traveler
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iPad vs. a Rock
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“Look, dad, a chicken!”
– Cole, pointing at a pigeon.
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Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer →
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Racing to Give Mobile Ads a Makeover - WSJ.com →
“You could potentially turn it into a Google-like ad model where people bid on the latitude and longitude of where they want their ads to appear at certain times of day.”
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“No dad, don’t play that song. That’s an old man song.”
– Cole
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Wife: This school for Cole focuses on 21st Century learning.
Me: Does that mean there's robots?
Wife: No.
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5 Stories I'll Be Watching Closely in 2010
The calendar says Jan. 21. Too late to make a list for the coming year? Probably.
No mind. Here are a few stories, business and otherwise, that I’ll be paying close attention to in 2010:
Google vs. Everybody (but especially Apple and Microsoft) - The Mountain View Crew is diving headfirst into software, both traditional and mobile. and ticking off Microsoft, Apple and potential mobile...
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How Steve Nash Shines in Basketball - and Business... →
We all need to be improvisers now, to transition between the jobs we have and the backup plans we may need to pursue in the current economic crisis. Between the ways we’re accustomed to working and the new habits shaped by Twitter, Facebook, and other new tech tools. Between the recession and the postrecession world.
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The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web... →
Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site.
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Bing to Become iPhone Search Engine? →
Google / Apple competitiveness remains hot.
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Why Tumblr is Kicking Posterous' Ass →
The answer is as easy as it is counter-intuitive: Tumblr is a New York company and Posterous is a Silicon Valley company.
Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.
Posterous is extremely well engineered. There’s nothing wrong with it. Every single thing about it is well thought out. But it’s not just that it’s less pretty (though it is)....
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WatchWhy Social Media Is Important for Business
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10 Best Albums of the Decade (A Not-So-Definitive...
Musically, the ’00s are bound to be remembered as The iPod Decade. No question the device and its accompanying iTunes component changed the way we listen to and buy music.
As a result, albums, it seems, have taken a backseat to individual songs. Why drop $9.99 when you really just want $2.97 worth of songs?
Makes sense, but for someone who grew up with records, cassette tapes and CDs,...
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Texting: It's Not Just For Children Anymore →
According to new research by mobile messaging company Tekelec, 60% of those over 45 were found to be just as likely to use SMS as they were to make voice calls from their mobile device. The survey of 500 people in North America and Europe also found that text messaging is gaining on email as the preferred means of daily international communication, with 32% of responses across all ages preferring...
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Mom: But you like chicken.
Cole: I like chicken nuggets. Not THIS chicken.
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“U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 85,000 jobs in December, government data showed...”
– CNBC
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Jobs Expected to Grow the Most by 2018
RN
Home health aides
Customer service reps
Food prep and servers
Personal and home care aides
Retail sales
General office clerks
Accountants and auditors
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants
Postsecondary teachers
Source: BLS
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“The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance...”
– CNBC
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Are you better off today? →
Here are a few major trends to consider during the twenty-tens; the decade of unprecedented opportunity:
* The Internet - In 2000, a little more than half of all Americans spent less than 30 minutes a day online. Today 75% of Americans are online for more than 4 hours each day.
* Cell phones - In 2000, 50% of Americans owned cell phones and sent 5.4 billion text messages. Today 85% of...
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“Ewoks are little. Like me.”
– Cole
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Predictions 2010 - John Battelle's Searchblog →
Battelle’s yearly predictions are a must-read: “Google will make a corporate decision to become seen as a software brand rather than as ‘just a search engine.’ I see this as a massive cultural shift that will cause significant rifts inside the company, but I also see it as inevitable.”
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Internet Explorer losing users as other browsers... →
projections from Net Applications suggest it could shrink to below 50 percent by May of this year.
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Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com →
“Nearly a year in, I’ve come to understand that the real value of the service is listening to a wired collective voice.”
“An army marches on its stomach.”
– Napoleon
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LeBron James' new "I love NY" sneakers from Nike...
jasoncalacanis:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/12/lebron-james-shoes-leaked-photos-knicks-nike.html
See and download the full gallery on posterous
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