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Book Review: The Long Tail, Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More


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April 17, 2011

Reading this book reminded me a lot of reading Paul Graham’s article “The Other Road Ahead.”  Both pieces are a bit on the older side, but posit theories and observe and report on trends that have

Book Review: The Long Tail, Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More


By:
April 17, 2011

Reading this book reminded me a lot of reading Paul Graham’s article “The Other Road Ahead.”  Both pieces are a bit on the older side, but posit theories and observe and report on trends that have

RewardTag is featured deal on Jasmere.com


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April 11, 2011

Congrats to Brian Nichols (APOC 2010) for launching RewardTag.com and for being March 29th's deal on Jasmere.com (a daily deal coupon site).   RewardTag is a brilliantly simple business that provides stickers to put on electronic devices.  If a device (phone, laptop, camera, etc) is found, the finder logs into the site, types in the unique ID number printed on the RewardTag, and receives a reward for returning the item.  Finally, we have a way to get back our data, pictures, and other personal info rather than just replacing our lost devices!! 

Speaker Introduction: Greg Liberman of Spark Networks


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April 10, 2011

Greg Liberman is not a person; Greg Liberman is a machine. Anybody suspecting otherwise has been ill-informed and is probably susceptible to influence from the darker regions of the Sprawl and Wintermute. If this is the case you should consider jacking out now to avoid Tessier Ashpool’s black ICE.

Health Community Review


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April 6, 2011

If They’re Getting Paid to Write, Why Can’t You?


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April 6, 2011

My thoughts exactly.  We find so many blogs where it’s just people writing down stupid celebrity gossip (Perez Hilton, WWTDD), stupid things they see at Walmart, or stupid drunk texts they send out, and make money from it.  Have we sunk to the lowest common denominator that this is what the Internet is now being used for?  Yes.  And god bless it, because writing

A Rant About Television's Difficulty in Representing Committed Relationships


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April 6, 2011

Two things collided over the past week for me as a loyal television viewer and I want to get them off my chest. I give fair warning that this is going to be a bit of a rant. There's almost no aca here and a hell of a lot of fan.

The first is that after watching House M.D. with some great pleasure for seven seasons, I am more and more facing the grim reality that it has more or less jumped the shark this season thanks to its frustrating and ill-conceived representation of the on-again, off-again love affair between House and Cuddy.

Check Out Student Work from Annenberg Innovation Lab Conference


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April 5, 2011

Last Friday, I had the pride and joy of participating in the first conference organized by the . The Lab is a new research initiative launched over the past year, with the goal of becoming an incubator for new media practices and platforms, a space where important conversations can occur between academics and industry leaders which may help shape the future of communications.

Industry Round-up: 4.4.2011


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April 4, 2011

GOOGLE

No stranger to the public eye, Google has been keeping busy this week with several announcements about feature upgrades, patents and leadership changes, just to name a few:

Tonight’s speaker was going to be Simon Mainwaring from We First, but he canceled.


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April 4, 2011

Simon Mainwaring is the founder of We First and not only has Simon worked with almost every different type of product and service one could think of, but he’s did it with some of the biggest brands and ad agencies in the corporate world. He’s worked with Philadelphia Eagles, Nike, Kia, Jaguar, DirecTV, ABC, Diet Coke, Red Bull, Bud Light, Rolex, Holiday Inn, Hotels.com, McDonalds, Carl’s Jr, Project Peace on Earth, GE, Intel, CVS….there’s many more, but I think you’re starting to get the idea.