February 2012
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Why I'm Building a Global Ed Tech Media Project →
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Engagio's Blog: Announcing Engagio’s $540K Seed... →
engagio:
From Toronto, Montreal, New York and Menlo Park, we are announcing today the closing of Engagio’s first seed round of financing, with a stellar list of Venture Capital firms and Angel investors.
This round is led by Rho Canada Ventures (Montreal), and includes Fred Wilson as a personal…
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Engagio's Blog: Knowing where your friends are... →
Mark my words, this is one of the three or four important pieces of the new social search. Google take note!
engagio:
Yesterday, we rolled out a few more features, some more significant than others. But the most important one was showing you the most recent posts where you top contacts are commenting.
That’s a new paradigm for content discovery. Typically, we were used to following our...
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4.0 Schools: A Success Story You May Not Know
Matt Candler, who used to be COO of the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, wrote me an email a couple of days ago to let me know that the three finalists at Startup Weekend were all from his organization, 4.0 Schools.
Matt writes: “For a young organization carving a new path, having such a strong showing at an event as well-regarded (and stressful) as Startup Weekend EDU...
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Ed Tech Meetup in NYC February 28
I am boldly advertising my own Ed Tech Meetup for entrepreneurs, teachers, students and VC investors.
We are looking around for a new space, because we have tipped over 100 people and no longer have any room in the existing space to hold the meetup.
Look into the meetup if you wish to attend and interact with entrepreneurs and educators who are re-inventing the education space.
NYC Ed Tech...
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Kred Tries to Out-Muscle Klout for Valentine's Day
Kred, one of the many tools that exist to measure social web impact — what it refers to as a measure of Community Influence and Outreach — just started ‘Double The Love,’ it’s attempt that takes an ingenious and somewhat predatory marketing approach to getting ahead of Klout.
According to Shawn Roberts, Director, Marketing Communications at PeopleBrowser, which runs Kred, any...
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Foodies Unite: Bringing Great Chefs to Your House
Last night, I ran into one of the co-founders of this chefs social mediaplatform at the Foodist Colony supper club I attended in Brooklyn. The co-founder’s name is Borahm Cho. He’s German and from what I understand of his story, one of his other co-founders is actually a guy from whom Cho had bought the domain a couple of years ago. I’m unclear on this point and I will see if...
All the Dogs in Mexico: Follow Me On Gogobot To... →
forallthedogs:
Followers of this Tumblr know that I love to travel.
Gogobot is in the final stages of choosing one of five finalists to do an adventurous global tour for a travel documentary they are putting together.
I am one of the finalists.
Please follow me on Gogobot to improve my chances of…
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In the Future, Breaking News Will Be About HOW Not...
We have seen 24 hour cycles develop for almost every vertical.
We have 24 hour convenience stores, car lots, banks, media channels.
Why can’t the same thing happen for conferences?
I just happened to find this comment I left at TechCrunch a while ago, during the CES.
I think John Biggs is closer to the point. Why are they focusing on whether CES is dead? Schonfeld keeps talking about...
Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
parislemon:
This morning, I woke up and read Nick Bilton’s weekly New York Times’ column. Nick is a friend and one of the best bloggers/writers/journalists out there. But with today’s column, he was way off base.
Having already said what I wanted to say about the Path situation, I debated if I should weigh in again. Then I read Nick’s column again. There’s a way to say what he wants to say,...
All the Dogs in Mexico: The Russian Mob and... →
forallthedogs:
This was long enough ago that I don’t remember if it was raining when we landed in Phnom Penh, or if it was just really humid.
The Mekong River rolled by the National Highway, and it was near dusk. the copper light of the water almost matched the dirty match smell of the air, and the hazy gray…
“The human heart is made from the only substance in the universe that can become...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Billions Of Pieces (via kari-shma)
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“Does it make sense that companies prefer to hire MBAs, who go into debt to...”
– Me, after a walk through the park.
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“The companies that are successful in this space [advertising or marketing...”
– Jayant Murty, Asia-Pacific brand strategy and integrated marketing director for tech giant Intel, at a Media Partners Asia summit on media development in Asia.
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Sports Broadcasters Say the Most Ridiculous Things
Everyone on sports broadcasting pre-games talks like the Americans just ended WWII.
When really they’re talking about professional athletes who listened to a speech in a locker room.
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Sumazi Links Together Socially Isolated Doers
I have written a couple of times about Sumazi, an intelligent connective tissue for the social web. It’s still in beta.
Sumazi is a social influencer locator, which makes it a little bit different than Klout or Kred, two up and coming startups that are trying to find the right product for a market of consumers who need to find people — and interact with people — who influence...
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Jim Romenesko and the 1990s Media Failure: How...
Jim Romenesko published a write up of a study that said mainstream newspapers online lost the plot in the 1990s because they failed to understand the pay-to-play or pay-to-read game.
I argued in the comments that it was never about finding a typical business model solution to what was really a cultural relevancy problem. As people found their own granular platforms to read and to connect to in...
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A Coming Decline in Subscriber Numbers on...
I looked through Facebook’s rather unwieldy interface for presenting subscribers and noticed that some of my subscribers are listed twice. Is this a bug? And, if it is a bug, does that mean I may not actually have nearly 28,000 subscribers to my public Facebook posts?
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Beacons of Coolness in the Portable City
Had a really good talk with a very cool community manager for a major, global company today. We talked about the evolution of concierge services, and how concierge could be a slightly passive protocol.
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Instead of calling up concierge and saying, “I want to do xxx really hip thing in this fabulous city,” you instead have an experience through the Other. Before I...
January 2012
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Work vs. Labor and the Pace of Creativity →
“There is no technology, no time-saving device that can alter the rhythms of creative labor. When the worth of labor is expressed in terms of exchange value, therefore, creativity is automatically devalued every time there is an advance in the technology of work.” Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World […]
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All Things Tech & Social: Throwing Money At... →
allthingstechandsocial:
Edge Magazine is reporting Zynga spent $120 million on marketing in 2011, predominantly for recruiting new users. In that time they only acquired 400,000 new monthly users, which basically means they spent $300 on each new customer. Since new customers stick around for 12 to 15 months and spend…
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motherPLUKKA: Arguing with Google.... →
motherplukka:
Message from Google marked, “Please respond ASAP” this morning after they saw that I entirely turned off text-only ads -
MY RESPONSE (typos and all)
GOOGLE:
ME:
Let’s see where we go with this. But I think you, READER, get the gist: Google clearly wants to make sure I…