July 2010
7 posts
Been listening to Dum Dum Girls lately. Love this...
“Our ability to balance consumption with production and sharing, our ability to...”
– Clay Shirky - Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
“Facebook is founded on the radical social premise - that an inevitable...”
– The Facebook Effect
“What’s most important is that you have a game plan in place which is strategic...”
– Armano/Logic+Emotion
Will Gen Y Grow Out of Social Networking?
Seems like quite a few people have been doing studies on this and concluded they will not.
My quick take on this. Totally agree. For two simple reasons:
1. My mother has been using Facebook via an iPhone for a long time. People at alle ages get into it. Not out of it.
2. In the future everyone and everything will be conntected. Tech will in a suble way enable new relationships and strenghten...
“But there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old...”
– Clay Shirky - The Collapse of Complex Business Models
June 2010
31 posts
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For Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix), we worked with Director Daniel Garcia to create a piece that was purposefully NOT about the lyrics of the song. We went to Portland, where we got a glimpse into the culture of bike jousting. It was a long, fun night and we hope you enjoy the results!
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“So when we think of global political systems and how they are going to develop...”
– Nations And Networks
Such a great day
Today’s been such a great day. Slept long, played soccer at Ferd stadium, ran around Bygdøy (I think the beach season is officially on), had a huge salad for dinner and now late yoga at Skøyen.
Also had the time to listen to some awesome tunes with Extension.fm and here’s a great song embedded with the best music player on the net.
Beastie Boys - 07 - Too Many Rappers (Max...
Wanted
Glasses with:
- augmented reality (for navigation, information, etc.)
- microphone
- speakers
- camera
- GPS
- gyrometer
- “screen” sharing
- mobile Internet
- nice design
Future...
In 40 years we will not be able to distinguish between biological machines and non-biological humans. Basically the machines will take over and our goal should be that they are nice to us.
- Brad Feld
I’m sure it must have been intense to live through the first and second industrial revolution, but I’m so happy to be living right now.
In this perspective it’s easy to imagine tablets as the...
“But if technology and the ability to be connected disappear further into the...”
– Your Life In 2020, Forbes
“I saw a two-year old kid (in diapers, in a stroller), using an iPod Touch today....”
– Seth Godin (via thegongshow)
“There were two other pieces over the weekend that also spoke to the critical...”
– Continuations
“Should I put a Tweet This button on the posts? A Facebook Like button? I really...”
– Scripting News
“Having a “dashboard” to edit content is wrong, imho, and represents...”
– Scripting News
“A lot of people have begun using the term ecosystem to describe these big...”
– Brad Burnham/USV - Web Services as Governments
My Personal Information System
How I stay on top of things is constantly evolving. I used to be a Google Reader addict, but at some point the number of unread items just became too high. Also, I felt that there was a lack of filtering, although the sharing feature is ok. I’m quite happy with the system I have now though. It has five lines of defense.
1. Twitter - Everything. Can’t get enough. Bookmarking items with...
This one randomly appeared on the radar again....
Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile... →
Honestly I can’t remember one awesome mobile app before the iPhone. Only talk about how impossible mobile investments were.
Ways Newspapers Innovate
Currently newspapers mainly seem to be taking one of three approaches to innovation.
1. Internal R&D. The paper invests heavily in building up internal IT resources to both compete and integrate with companies, which are cannibalizing revenue streams. This is sort of the NYT approach and a recent example is their launch of The Scoop, a...
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs [ via mikehudack youmightfindyourself texturism] (via hipsterdiet) (via fascinated)
“There is no easy way to get through a media revolution of this magnitude; the...”
– Clay Shirky - Does the Internet Make You Smarter?
Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos →
This post on the future of mobile by Scoble on TC is awesome. Can’t wait to get there. Meanwhile I intend to keep fighting for the mayorship at the house of literature…
“In 2010, we’re likely to see verticals that don’t typically use...”
– Mashable
“The problem is thus: Someday very soon, it won’t be a camera if it...”
– Scripting News
WatchA really, really good interview with Brad Feld on VC and entrepreneurship .
WatchNot new, but it’s so awesome I have to post it. Makes the iPad look kind of weak… Hope they can release an affordable version…
May 2010
6 posts
“Put another way, the lack of ability to draw on a completely blank slate means...”
– Why Innovation Struggles: The triumph of explication over imagination
“But as currently configured most content apps do not take advantage of the power...”
– A VC
Real Simple Banking: Commodore Vanderbilt in a... →
How cool isn’t it that the future of banking is being rebuilt from a basement in Brooklyn.
Sir Mick on music profits / Sometimes Right →
So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.
Some readings
While having the doubtful pleasure of going through the cumbersome process of bringing our accounting system back to life I at least found some time to catch up on some gems from the blog world.
MIT’s Mind-Bending Media Lab
Is an MBA a Plus or a Minus in the Startup World?
In New York, a Tech Incubator Becomes a Hub of Collaboration
Betting on Future Movie Receipts: Beware the Hollywood...
“In thinking about regulation, always keep Larry Lessig’s arguments in “Code” in...”
– danah boyd | apophenia
April 2010
4 posts
“The only systemic risk the VC business is creating for the financial system is...”
– avc.com
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
– Clay Shirky
“In five years, Jobs has emerged from two serious health scares. His obituaries...”
– The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again? - TIME
March 2010
7 posts
Watchdavid-noel:
Fred Wilson: The 10 Golden Principles of Building Successful Web Apps
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