The international war over exit signs.
Very cool story over the debate about America's use of the classic red exit sign vs. the universal exit pictogram/symbol adopted by the rest of the world. URL: www.slate.com
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The international war over exit signs.Very cool story over the debate about America's use of the classic red exit sign vs. the universal exit pictogram/symbol adopted by the rest of the world. URL: www.slate.com
1000 Yr. Old Baltic Shipwrecks Uncovered“…experts believe more than 100,000 whole and partial wrecks litter the sea bottom.” Wow, that is amazing. Amplify’d from news.yahoo.com
Google’s Social Media strategy successful?So far? Not so much, but as the story notes Buzz may just be the one that makes the difference. Amplify’d from mashable.com
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| Chatroulette has made The Daily Show, thereby becoming so mainstream that — hear that? Yup, that’s the sad, sad death knell of an expired Internet sensation. |
Jon Stewart expertly depicted the current state of infamous video chat site, Chatroulette. As we all know by now, the majority of users are men, and many of those men are, well, super proud of their joysticks.
Yup, everyone from The New York Times to CNN has jumped on the Chatroulette bandwagon, each news outlet sending a brave, hapless Gonzo-wannabe into the fray to experience the site for him or herself. And, as Stewart points out so astutely, it’s getting kind of old
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Found this nugget in a blog post that Fred Wilson recently wrote about Facebook's newsfeed patent. This may be well known but it was news to me, you never hear about competitors in the early days. Would love to know more about that. I guess I'll have to wait for the Facebook movie starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake (http://bit.ly/e7dtU)...I'm sure it ... read more
I was chatting this past week with a tech journalist who was in college when Facebook launched. She was not at Harvard but at another ivy league school. She told me that there were “facebooks” launching all over the ivy league that year. Facebook out executed everyone and took the market. That’s how it is done. But they did not come up with the idea that “we should take a facebook and put it online”. They simply did it better.Read more at www.avc.com
Sorry, this is a bad job by LeBron. Announcing that he was losing his #23 jersey in reverence to Jordan (and that everyone in the NBA should, he is just the first) is a sham. This author brings up an awesome point or should I say person. Bill Russell for goodness sake! James doesn't want anyone to wear the great Michael Jordan's jersey but its cool to wear Russel... read more
LeBron James(notes) isn’t honoring the greatness of No. 23, but manipulating Michael Jordan’s marketing savvy. The changing of his jersey number as a nod to M.J.’s basketball career is a purely fictional cover story.
What about Bill Russell and his 11 NBA championships? Jordan, the greatest ever, cleared a path for the worldly basketball star. But Russell was a black star in turbulent Boston in the 1960s. He anchored the greatest dynasty in the sport’s history, and they’ll remember him as the most dominant defensive player to ever live. In the end, James and everyone else understand this has nothing to do with Jordan or Russell, with No. 23 or No. 6. This is business, and he’s insulting everyone’s intelligence suggesting it’s something else.Read more at sports.yahoo.com
Very nice job by Vimeo, looks really great. The story notes that its only available for "plus" users for now. I suppose its possible that it remains as a premium feature, which leads me to this question: do you think that other services will begin to lump analytics features into the freemium model? Will people pay to have more robust analytics and/or more graphic... read more
Vimeo has just rolled out a suite of advanced analytics features dubbed Vimeo Plus Stats. It’s only available to Vimeo Plus users at present.
With Plus Stats you can track plays, loads, finishes, comments and likes for all of the videos uploaded on your account over any time period you define. You can break down plays and loads by country, and you can see how many embed loads and plays occur at each domain — Tumblr or Facebook, for example. You can even break it down by high definition and standard definition to see what quality your viewers are choosing to watch.
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