Why Twitter Buying MoPub Is a Very Big Deal [https://medium.com/on-startups/e3ffbf8f3cd8]: This: > What does identity mean? Itâs not knowing your age, gender, and rough whereabouts. That has some value in the ads space, but itâs pretty minimal. Despite the various social media paranoia memes,
iphone
Not interesting: * colours * cheap vs expensive * âflatâ design/ transparency/ parallax effects * 64 bit processor Interesting: TouchID + Bluetooth Low Energy (iBeacons [http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/11/4718082/ios-7-ibeacons-could-solve-indoor-mapping-make-shopping-better] ) Apple just put a method in your pocket to verify your identity instantly with any device it can connect to through
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier â review [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/27/who-owns-future-lanier-review]: > Lanier describes a couple who found love on an online dating site and whose subsequent marriage has proved long-lasting. In his economy of compensation, if 30 years later another young couple is
iphone
Any marketer knows how painful it can be getting a tagline/ strapline that youâre happy with â and the choice of âforward thinkingâ for the new iPhone seemed curious to me. So I took a look at the previous history of iPhone taglines. I presume the stark change is to
google plus
If you donât understand why Google is the 2nd most active social network [http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/09/04/google-second-most-actively-used-social-network-globally-says-globalwebindex-study] , you donât understand what Google+ is. And itâs all your fault. Since day 1 in June 2011, Google was very clear about the motivation behind
Too much hard work is summed up in a sentence [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/woz_pr.html]: > After they loaded Wozâs 4K Basic into it â by hand, programming in hexadecimal â and added a keyboard and a monitor and wired two transformers onto the power
a great quote from Frank Chimero [http://thegreatdiscontent.com/frank-chimero]: I often find these pieces overlong but they do contain gems like this: > Design is a vessel. Thereâs the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptinessâthatâs why itâs useful. Its
Marissa Mayer is really clever [http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/hail-to-the-chief-yahoos-marissa-mayer/]: Yahooâs Marissa Mayer: Hail to the Chief: > âClose your eyes and listen to this list,â she says. I close my eyes and hear her recite: âE-mail, maps, weather, news, stock quotes, share photos, group communication, sports
Fortune 500 Mission Statements [http://www.missionstatements.com/fortune_500_mission_statements.html]: Interesting spread of perspectives. Just imagine the hours that went into developing each one.
Gnip and Datasift are the most intriguing parts of the Twitter ecosystem to me [http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattlynley/yahoo-foursquare-in-talks-over-data-partnership] : Yahoo, Foursquare In Talks Over Data Partnership: > Foursquare already does this through a partnership with Gnip, which sells packaged data from social services like Twitter, but it may go
Is online press coverage the best form of SEO? [http://blog.escherman.com/2013/08/22/is-online-press-coverage-the-best-form-of-seo/] : > Also, although I only spent 20 mins on the phone to Danny, I have also built a relationship with him over 20 years or so â if I was being purist, perhaps I
nostalgia
Iâve just been clearing out my RSS reader â one that Iâd bolstered in 2009 with a collaborative list of marketing blogs suggested in the first useful Google Doc [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am6bhH2SxecqdEV1dTJ3ZDQwUmF6ckZKakZHV0Z5Smc&usp=sharing] I think I ever saw (bravo Mat Morrison.) Scything
