April 2012
141 posts
wbsloan:
Off Limits
“Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, said: “Social networking...”
– Toyota unveils ‘Toyota Friend’ in-car social networking - Marketing news - Marketing magazine (via futuristgerd)
“By 2014, Tilenius notes that 50 percent of smartphones will have NFC built into...”
– Google Unveils Wallet And Offers: An Open Platform For Mobile Payments (via futuristgerd)
Steve Rubel →
thenextweb:
Welcome to Tumblr Steve Rubel! :)
Twitter Poised to Close a Two-Stage $800M Funding,... →
stoweboyd:
Kara Swisher reports on a soon-to-be-transacted funding for Twitter based on an $8B valuation, raising $800M, with $400M to be used to cash out employees and earlier investors.
Kara Swisher
This is more than double what Twitter was valued at when it got $200 million in venture funding from Kleiner Perkins in December at a $3.7 billion valuation.
Once the latest investments are...
“there’s still the giant hurdle of the social network’s user retention. It’s one...”
– Circles Fatigue: The Dark Side Of Google+ | Fast Company (via futuristgerd)
James Allworth@blog.hbr.org: Why I'm Not Going... →
Spotify may try to resist price increases. But, given what we know about the record industry and how it approaches licensing negotiations, I wouldn’t let my music get held hostage to a monthly ransom.
The Blip Blog: Building the place to discover the... →
bliptv:
Today we launched the new blip.tv destination site. The purpose of the new site is to give original web series a home on the Internet. That’s because, up until now, there hasn’t been a good site dedicated to the discovery of original web series.
Original web series are a product. They…
“In this multichannel universe that continues to fragment at a dizzying pace with...”
– MediaCom: Note to Content Companies: Unbundling is Inevitable - Vik Kathuria (via futuristgerd)
“If having 3,000 updates hit the App Store “removing In-App Purchase to avoid...”
– Mike Lee suggests a way to light the fire under Apple about the Lodsys patent spat. (via nikf)
Bijan Sabet: To regulate or not regulate... →
bijan:
First, a disclaimer.
As with every thing I write down on Tumblr, these thoughts are my own personal thoughts and do not represent companies in our portfolio, nor do they represent my partners point of view. They are simply my own and they are subject to change :)
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I’ve been thinking a…
Bijan Sabet: Do we want multi-user profiles on our... →
bijan:
This morning, I read on GigaOm about a hack that brings multi-user profiles to the iPad. It requires you to jailbreak your iPad to make this happen.
I’ve been wanting this for a long time. We have multiple floating iPads in our house. It would be great to just pick up any one and have it all…
Staff to be banned from sending emails - Telegraph →
stoweboyd:
Henry Samuel via The Telegraph
Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos and a former French finance minister, wants a “zero email” policy to be in place within as early as 18 months, arguing that only 10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful. Instead he wants them to use an instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface.
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Bijan Sabet: Academia.edu →
bijan:
I’m delighted to announce our latest investment - Academia.edu based in San Francisco. We led the round along with True Ventures.
Academa.edu has built the best and fastest growing social platform for researchers and academics to share and follow research. They have fantastic tools to…
Emergency Response Center: Tackling Change In... →
smarterplanet:
By Steve White, President/CEO of UnifiedEdge
An activated emergency management operations center is typically a busy, noisy and chaotic work environment. With radios blaring, phones…
“The Internet represents the shipping lane of the 21st century. It is...”
– Sen. Ron Wyden places a “hold” on the PROTECT IP Act (via rafer)
“Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, said: “Social networking...”
– Toyota unveils ‘Toyota Friend’ in-car social networking - Marketing news - Marketing magazine (via futuristgerd)
“Shooting and projecting at 48 fps does a lot to get rid of these issues. It...”
– Peter Jackson, on his Facebook page, talking about shooting the Hobbit in 48 Frames Per Second (via schlomo)
