A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy [http://abovethecrowd.com/2013/04/18/a-rake-too-far-optimal-platformpricing-strategy/] : > iOS could have been both the definitive Facebook mobile device, AND the definitive Amazon shopping device. They could have been integrated from the beginning at a deep level: your social network in contacts; your
Conservative Party 1978 Manifesto (2nd draft) [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110273]: Kind of neat: a draft of the Toey manifesto with Thatcher’s hand written tweaks. Docs like this make me realise how close PR and politics are as disciplines. But there’s nothing like seeing the work in
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After years of working with journalists and writing myself, the challenge of composing emails that stand out in the right way has become something of an obsession. But I wonder, could you design an email client for journalists that did smart things with the messages to make their life easier
A Manager’s Manifesto [https://medium.com/on-management/be5f6b118084]: Management is still far and away the biggest most fascinating challenge I’ve faced in my career so far. There’s a strange serene wisdom to the people who naturally pull it off – never fail to be impressed by those who
‘Now Is The Best Time’: A Critique Of BioShock Infinite [http://kotaku.com/now-is-the-best-time-a-critique-of-bioshock-infinite-472517493] : Kotaku: > This is a game that lives in its own alternate universe, is in love with its own cleverness, instead of being genuinely clever. This sentence is as true of the article as the game
Twitter’s Big Challenge: Too Much Twitter [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/04/twitters-big-challenge-too-much-twitter/] : From Wired: > (Twitter) needs something a little more algorithmically curated–it needs something that looks a little bit more like Facebook’s News Feed This is interesting because I’m assuming there’s something
What Your Profile Picture Says About You [http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46537875392/what-your-profile-picture-says-about-you-hint] : > there is a mathematical relationship between one’s douchebaggery and facial angle from camera.
Weakness with consequence: Why marketing is like gravity [http://martinweigel.org/2013/04/08/weakness-with-consequence-why-marketing-is-like-gravity/] : > Marketers might like to imagine the consumer in permanent orbit around their brand. But the fact of the matter is that people are happily polygamous in their brand ‘relationships’ for the simple reason that
A Facebook of the Future: Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Show Us Their New Content, New Algorithms, and New Alliances [http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/05/facebook-future-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg] : The best article about Facebook I’ve read in a long time – an excellent summary of recent history there.
Meat – a charming short story about mankind [http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html]: > “They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “Meat. They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our
Visceral Apps [http://mysterioustrousers.com/news/2013/3/25/visceral-apps-and-you]: > when properly done, a visceral app actually causes your body to release endorphins. Worth a read considering this was a real emphasis with Facebook Home and its UI physics too.
““That output does not rise or fall in direct proportion to the number of hours worked is a lesson that seemingly has to be relearned each generation.”” – Bring Back the 40 Hour Work Week [http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/] via @tomstandage
