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Archive for November 2010


Bookmarks for 16 Nov 2010

500 Internal Server Error500 Internal Server Error (none) A VC: Self Expression MattersWhy do you think Tumblr is continually increasing in popularity? This is Fred Wilson's opinion: "A Tumblr is self expression. Jessica's looks different than Emily's, mine and the Gotham Gal's. That's powerful. And that is what I think is driving Tumblr's popularity. Self [...]

Bookmarks for 14 Nov 2010

Washington Post iPad App Ad Remixed Without Bob Woodward – City Desk – Washington City Paper"The Washington Post has decided, apparently, that iPads are the way of the future. And to encourage people to read the paper in the future, they turned to… the Post's past, cutting an ad for their new iPad app that [...]

Bookmarks for 14 Nov 2010

Guardian Changes: McAlister To Head Digital, Folwell Will Lead New Ventures | paidContent:UKA great day for Matt and for GMG: "New Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller is making several changes he says will simplify GMG’s structure, bolster its exec team and focus its energies on its main Guardian News & Media unit. [...] Among [...]

Bookmarks for 12 Nov 2010

500 Internal Server Error500 Internal Server Error (none) Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Twitter Clarifies Usage Rules, but AFP Still Claims Unbridled Right to Use Content Posted to "Twitter/TwitPic"Some thoughts on Twitter's new guidelines on trademark usage. (twitter law copyright branding ) Repeat After Me: Investors Are Never the Story: Tech News «"Like most reporters [...]

Bookmarks for 10 Nov 2010

Poynter Online – Rusbridger: Openness, Collaboration Key to New Information EcosystemAlan Rusbridger at Poytner: "Utopians can't stop thinking about the possibilities ahead: We literally lie awake at night fighting off the thoughts of what can be done — and what, even as we eventually submit to sleep, others are busy doing." (guardian mutualisation journalism collaboration [...]

Bookmarks for 9 Nov 2010

comScore: Facebook Now Accounts For Nearly 1 In 4 Display Ads In The U.S.Wow: "The average U.S. Internet user was delivered more than 6,000 display ads over the course of the quarter. King of the hill is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Facebook. According to comScore, the social network led all online publishers in the third quarter with [...]

Bookmarks for 8 Nov 2010

Vogue on the iPad (Vogue.com UK)Video of Vogue's (first) iPad edition. (video vogue ipad ) Twitter: The great pretenders | Technology | The Guardian"From the Chilean miners to Princess Diana, many of Twitter's most successful accounts are spoofs. We unmask the imposters." Well, unmask is a bit much. "Interview" is more like it. Fun, all [...]

Bookmarks for 8 Nov 2010

Agile Awards 2010 photographs (agile awards photograph ) 500 Internal Server Error500 Internal Server Error (none) What Your Phone Says About You [Graphic]Yeah, that's probably accurate. (iphone android blackberry mobile humour ) Google To Facebook: You Can’t Import Our User Data Without Reciprocity"From now on, any service that accesses Google’s Contacts API — which makes [...]

Bookmarks for 5 Nov 2010

Kodak – the saga continues. Will IP save the day? | Creative Disruption"Eastman Kodak’s quarterlies were out last week – and they got the most positive feedback they’d known for a while." Analysis of a pre-digital refugee from Simon Waldman (kodak financials ) Elevator Pitch: Lanyrd makes conferences social, via Twitter | Media | guardian.co.ukSimon [...]

Bookmarks for 4 Nov 2010

Daily Express scapegoats migrants over mushroom picking | Minority ThoughtMigrants made me post this bookmark. (daily_express immigration ) Lords Hansard text for 1 Nov 201001 Nov 2010 (pt 0003)Primary source of the bonkerness in the House of Lords: "For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two [...]