January 2011
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3 simple ideas that will change your life | Life.... →
This isn’t about your job, it’s about the important stuff.
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WatchReally interesting interview from AllThingsD which was done with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. It’s only 17 minutes long, I suggest you watch (it will make you sound S-M-R-T!).
A friend was asking me where I saw Twitter going, and some of what Dick talks about is along those lines (some of it is also things I just didn’t think...
“Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and...”
– Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard | Threat Level | Wired.com (via johnbattelle)
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Email spam apparently declining
The below chart from the BBC (found by way of GOOD) shows email spam having had a precipitous drop off over the past few months.
Given marco’s thoughts form a few days ago on how spam is infiltrating Google’s search results, either spam creators are just taking a break for the holidays when people are less likely to be on their computers, or they’re finding they’re able...
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The rise of systems under the guise of games
Occasionally, in fact far less frequently than I said I would, I write for Uncluttered White Spaces, an endeavour put on by your friend and mine Ben Rennie, a man with a heart the size of a Texan (who are apparently bigger in Texas).
I had been thinking about what is being termed the “gamification” of the world around us, which is really the design of a thousand tiny reward systems...
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Marco.org: Google's decreasingly useful,... →
marco:
One solution may be for Google to radically change their algorithms and policies for web search to de-emphasize phrase-matching and more strongly prioritize inbound links and credibility. And, in what’s probably a huge departure for them, have human employees use their opinions of site quality to manually adjust the relevance of domains.
Something which Calcanis and his team at Mahalo...
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The "AA" Meeting
Well, everything just changed. Again. Amazon announced on their blog today their own Android app store, at least the plans for it. The “AA” Meeting is, of course, Android and Amazon.
Developers can now sign up and begin adding apps to Amazon’s store. Amazon will take care of all payment, removing some of the hardships of selling internationally as pointed out by All Things...
Deconstructing Your Social Business Plan For 2011... →
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Random musings on "feeds"
The rise - or rather the lack thereof - of RSS as a viable and widely-adopted web technology remains a mystery to many. Even those beyond comfortable with the web like Fred Wilson haven’t managed to get into it, leaning instead on bookmarks in their browsers to get around - or increasingly, links from Twitter and Facebook.
I was a hardcore devotee however of the RSS feed, in my Google...