February 2012
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September 2011
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August 2011
8 posts
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AT&T’s New Text Plan Overcharges You by 10,000,000...
“AT&T’s killing their $10/1,000 text plan. Now, you’ll have to choose between $20 for unlimited, or forgo a plan and pay $0.20 per message. AT&T calls this “streamlining.” We call it what it is: an outrageous, gigantic scam.
It’s important to note, before considering anything SMS, that text messages are essentially free. Not for you, of course,...
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The New Yorker, a magazine that has always been heavy on text, took a different tack from its peers. Instead of loading its iPad app with interactive features, the magazine focused on presenting its articles in a clean, readable format.
“That was really important to us: to create an app all about reading,” said Pamela Maffei McCarthy, the magazine’s deputy editor. “There are some bells and...
July 2011
13 posts
Executives Fail to Focus on Social Media Marketing...
Most companies now recognize a well crafted social media strategy is a vital part of the marketing mix. In fact, a study from Jive Software and Penn, Schoen & Berland found 78% of executives thought a social business strategy was somewhat or very important to the future success of their business.
Despite this realization, most executives are still only in the tentative stages of making...
China Plans to Release Some of Its Pork Stockpile...
Some nations have strategic oil reserves. Some keep grain reserves. China has both, and something others have somehow overlooked: a national pork reserve.
And with the price of pig meat up 38 percent in major cities since the start of the year, the government is about to open its floodgates.
You guys! China has Federal pork reserves! This is so awesome. Why don’t we have a federal meat...
“Pachter predicts Netflix’s streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180...”
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Studios are starting to play hardball with Netflix - CNN Money
Told you. Get ready for your Nexflix subscription to start costing what it’s actually worth.
(via chartier)
Yep, and I don’t think the latest increase will be the last big one.
“But actual usage is what matters most — consistent, longterm usage. MySpace...”
– Google, Twitter Flaunt Social Stats … It’s Like 2003 All Over Again (via fred-wilson)
For all the mistakes Facebook has made with the words it chooses to describe various user actions, “feedback” — the number of “likes” and “comments” divided by the number of impressions — is not one of them. Yet this number is often mistaken for a measure of engagement. Many marketers believe that if a fan doesn’t click...
Hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Minnesota are running out of beer and alcohol and others may soon run out of cigarettes — a subtle and largely unforeseen consequence of a state government shutdown.
In the days leading up to the shutdown, thousands of outlets scrambled to renew their state-issued liquor purchasing cards. Many of them did not make it.
Now, with no end...
“If the studios were smart they’d go to the mat and create a massive...”
– Slate - Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry
“As carriers pursue their new pricing strategies around mobile broadband ahead of...”
– GigaOm
June 2011
7 posts
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Trending on Twitter Right Now
#umightbeghetto
#no1likesubecause
Peter Falk
#betbreezy
Dougie Hamilton
BIEBER AFTER DENTIST
Sean Couturier
Mark Scheifele
Columbo
Richard Sanchez
Whoo Friday night! Apparently everyone is not as cool as me and spending their evening watching the NY Senate live feed and tweeting about it. Oh well… I bet 23,000+ viewers is the most the NY Senate live feed has had in awhile, so I...
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“We have 1 follower on twitter. Is it good practice to follow that person? (She...”
– Ha, being new to Twitter is apparently like a teenager starting to date.
(via clientsfromhell)
May 2011
10 posts
Why Google Beat Excite (Back In The Day)
[Google] was too good. If Excite were to host a search engine that instantly gave people information they sought, [Excite’s CEO] explained, the users would leave the site instantly. Since his ad revenue came from people staying on the site—“stickiness” was the most desired metric in websites at the time—using Google’s technology would be counterproductive. “He told us he wanted...
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Watchminnpost:
The Daily Show’s Jason Jones understands why Minneapolis is the gayest city in America after checking out its “hardcore” scene.
(Only barely NSFW.)
Whoo home state!
iPad Magazine Subscriptions
This is how magazines were supposed to work on the iPad when the tablet was launched over a year ago.
Now that Apple finally allows magazine subscriptions through the App Store, Condé Nast has negotiated a deal that lets you subscribe to The New Yorker for $59.99 per year. (That’s $10 cheaper than the print subscription.)
Even better, current print subscribers get full access to the iPad...
April 2011
33 posts
Valued PlayStation(R)Network/Qriocity Customer: We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have: 1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services; 2)...
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PlayStation Network Outage
While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we’ll update you again as soon as we can.
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Days?! What in the world is...