January 2012
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Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company →
Culture, like brand, is misunderstood and often discounted as a touchy-feely component of business that belongs to HR. It’s not intangible or fluffy, it’s not a vibe or the office décor. It’s one of the most important drivers that has to be set or adjusted to push long-term, sustainable success. It’s not good enough just to have an amazing product and a healthy bank...
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One Per Cent: FBI releases plans to monitor social... →
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media sites to better respond...
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“Student loan debt now stands around $1 trillion. Education is often a great...”
– Apple and the Education-Information Chasm - Forbes (via infoneer-pulse)
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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar -... →
This is really something that echoes a problem I have been pondering for years: I really agree with Drucker on the issue and I been for many year but why is strategic insight so under valued and overlooked? When discussing the need for real insights the whole discussion usually ends with a lunch-to-lunch exercise in the woods… because “we have already planned that and we don’t...
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The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient... →
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for...
“The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are...”
– George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War - The Daily Beast
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Tumblr Blows Past 15 Billion Pageviews Per Month,... →
The latest social-media phenomenon, Tumblr, continues to post astounding traffic metrics.
Founder and CEO David Karp spoke at the DLD conference in Munich this morning, where he reiterated some of the company’s recent milestones:
100 million uniques per month
15 billion pageviews per month
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How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon →
There are lots of ways of publishing content onto the web, and if you look at the relative popularity of, say, WordPress vs Tumblr vs Twitter, then it’s easy to come to the conclusion that the easier you make it to publish, the more popular you’re going to be. But at Tumblr, at least, there’s something else very interesting going on: according to Karp, there are 9 curators for every creator on...
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Prejudice Is A Basic Human Need →
Prejudice is just bigotry that arises from flawed ideology, right? Not so, say the authors of a new paper.
They contend prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need and it is associated with a particular way of thinking. People who aren’t comfortable with ambiguity and want to make quick and firm decisions are also prone to making generalizations about others. People who are...
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THE IECONOMY - How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone... →
What remains unknown, however, is whether the United States will be able to leverage tomorrow’s innovations into millions of jobs.
This is a story around Apple and how the development and production iPhone mostly was done outside the US. It is an important line of thought that most likely will have implication on how the future for the Western industrialized, and even innovative, countries...
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Crowdfunding: Micro no more | The Economist →
THE idea of collecting cash online through a mix of patronage and prepayment sprouted informally a few years ago. Initially bands used it to raise money for studio rental and the production costs for releasing an album. But the idea took off and is now offered by a plethora of middlemen, and embraced by all manner of creative types. In 2011 Kickstarter, the most successful of the online...
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Amazon Kindle Owners Are “Borrowing” Nearly... →
infoneer-pulse:
According to the company, customers borrowed nearly 300,000 (295,000 to be exact) KDP Select titles in December alone, and KDP Select has helped grow the total library selection. With the $500,000 December fund, KDP authors have earned $1.70 per borrow. In response to strong customer adoption of the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, Amazon says it has added a $200,000 bonus to the...
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Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally... →
Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the “GarageBand for e-books,” so to speak—and expand its...
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Kodak managers learn gobbledygook theory of... →
A good ad thoughtful article about how smart and intelligent people at Kodak might got stuck in shallow groupthink with the roots in an MBA model for strategic thinking - in this case core competence thinking.
Why were they so optimistic? When challenged to discuss it in class, they proudly explained that Kodak’s “core competency” was “color”. The reasoning went something like, “We understand...
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“It turns out that tech companies — especially Apple and Amazon — are the new...”
– Why e-books will be much bigger than you can imagine — Tech News and Analysis (via infoneer-pulse)
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University Presses Disagree With Publishers Group... →
infoneer-pulse:
The battle over public access to federally funded research is heating up again, and university presses have been drawn into it. In the past week, several scholarly publishers, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s press, have parted company with a major publishing association over a bill in Congress that would curb public-access mandates.
U.S. Reps. Darrell E....
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Study links skyscrapers to financial crashes →
emergentfutures:
An “unhealthy correlation” exists between the construction of skyscrapers and financial crashes, according to a new report from investment bank Barclays Capital.
Full Story: ABC
Interesting correlation! I immediately think of the magnificient head office buildings successful companies tend to build preceeding their downturns. I doubt skyscrapers can be used as tools for...
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Twitter Revealed Epidemic Two Weeks Before Health... →
In particular, a new report shows that Twitter provided an early account of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti. According to the study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Internet news and social media were faster transmitters of information in tracking the cholera epidemic in Haiti than health officials. The tweets provided information that health officials...
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blog.bufferapp.com: 6 Incredible Examples Of How... →
1.) Twitter Accurately Predicts Politician’s Victory at New Hampshire Primary
2.) Twitter knows how you will be feeling this Friday
3.) Did Twitter predict the revolution in Egypt?
4.) Predict the future yourself with Twitter and Timeu.se
5.) Hedgefund to make bets based on Tweets – beats the market
6.) Predicting and stopping the spread of diseases with Twitter
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agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com: Three Library... →
1: Here Come The Embargoes! - Publishers and other content creators are looking for ways to push people towards their revenue streams (namely, to buy the book or movie).
2: A Shift to Community over Collection - While some of this is based on content being under siege from the previous prediction, I feel that it will be an impetus to revamp the form and function of the library.
3:...
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“Seven out of ten young employees who are aware of their companies’ IT...”
– Source: Cisco Connected World Technology Report
Many Young Workers Are IT Rule-Breakers - The Daily Stat - January 10, 2012 - Harvard Business Review
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Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future... →
arcfinity:
February 2012 will see the debut of Arc, a bold new digital publication from the makers of New Scientist. Arc will explore the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated authors – backed up with columns by thinkers and…
Might be worth reading!
(via @futuryst)