The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
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I just became the mayor of TicketMonkey on @foursquare! 4sq.com/wJW4UK
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 29, 2012
@paramendra You are most gracious. Many thanks for your mention. - Ron
— Ron Wayne (@ronaldgwayne) February 24, 2012
I am genuinely overwhelmed by the amount of response that has propagated across the internet as a result of my recent Facebook post.
— Ron Wayne (@ronaldgwayne) February 24, 2012
Paramendra, I very much hope you can join me for a dinner for Juan Luis Cebrian, who heads El Pais, our partner in launching The Huffington Post in Spain. It is at 7pm at my home at _________ 17th Street_______. Let me know if you can make it. All the best, Arianna.The Huffington Post has been in Canada for a while now. I did not know. It even has a French edition in Canada. And it has already teamed up with the top French newspaper. I did not know. And I thought Arianna bought a yacht and went on a world tour after selling The Huffington Post to AOL. Not so. She is hard at work. If you think the newspaper is dead, talk to Arianna. I did not know El Pais was the biggest newspaper in the Spanish speaking world. I had never heard of that brand name.
Headed to a dinner party at Arianna's place on 17th St this evening. bit.ly/yLGKTZ
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 23, 2012
Image via CrunchBaseI met Manick at a Spotify event, my second Spotify event. I looked at his name tag and said, "That's an Indian name!" (Spotify Now Advertising On Netizen, Spotify Vision Specialist: A No Go, The Spotify CTO Talk, The Spotify Event Was Great, Sean Parker's 2009 Email To Spotify) 
Image via WikipediaVinod Khosla: TechCrunch: The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobilea whole new world of platforms, a post-PC era, which I’d more aptly describe as the always/everywhere era, finally, and that means a whole new set of opportunities ..... the cost of experimentation has gone down dramatically ..... raw computing power is taken for granted. ..... What else new has the potential (nothing is certain!) to be truly disruptive or establish a new category in the domain of consumer Internet/mobile/services (which to me are fast becoming interchangeable)? ...... AirBnB and Instagram would be examples of companies whose categories existed prior to their entry, but they are meaningfully different. ...... I call them the “unhyped dozen” (to go with my energy investing activities, which I call the “clean dozen”) ...... (1) Data Reduction or Filters (Siri) (2) Big data or Analytics ... There will be countless new types of data streams .... Much has been written about big data and it and may be getting past the unhyped label! (3) Emotion (Foodspotting, Ness, Instagram) (4) Education 2.0 (Khan Academy) ... “Education models that dramatically reduce the cost and increase the availability of quality learning.” The puzzling question is why education has not already changed. (5) TV 2.0 (6) Social Next (7) Interest-based networks (Twitter) (8) Health 2.0 (9) Internet of Things/Universal ID/NFC/Smart sensors.... The network of things is supposedly growing faster than any other network, social or otherwise. (10) Personal Collaborative Publishing (Pinterest, Tumblr) ... Self-publishing on Amazon is becoming real, removing the gateway of traditional editors and the tax of traditional business models. Where will this lead? Books, especially non-fiction, can become more interactive, crowdsourced (ck12.org), social and collaborative. (11) Utility Apps (Siri) (12) Marketplaces & Disintermediation (Etsy) .... Why does Tom Freidman need The New York Times to get readers ................. We as investors have seen Square take off at an unprecedented rate (so far) for a payments startup, but in terms of relative scale, even Square is dwarfed by Mpesa — it is 20% of Kenya’s GDP already (using a totally different model than Square). Meanwhile in India, their UID system could remake the concept of “cash”....... Tools and services that used to be inaccessible to all but large manufacturers are now available to everyone. Foreign factories that were impenetrable before are now an email away. Design software costing thousands of dollars per seat is freely available (or very cheap). Hackers are mixing all of these elements together and re-imagining entire industries from the ground up. ..... the next industrial revolution ...... “The under 25” who don’t know what they don’t know, mostly have not worked at what traditionalists would call a “real job” and are not afraid to try new things ..... the rate of change is accelerating and the possibilities are endless!The Clean Dozen
wrote a @techcrunch guest post today on Women on Boards & companies that get it... hope you'll read & sharetechcrunch.com/2012/02/19/why…
— aileenlee (@aileenlee) February 19, 2012
@paramendra thank you!
— aileenlee (@aileenlee) February 20, 2012
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Hey @paramendra @bigfuel @austrazub @jennlevine @missuku @ScrapHacker - I guess we're "Outreachers" ow.ly/969ei #smwnyc #smw12
— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 16, 2012
@paramendra omg cool.
— ninja worrior (@tutifruti1980) February 15, 2012
your version got the job done... & you're fast! RT @paramendra: @ElleeHenry Thanks for filling in the blanks. :-)
— Leslie E. Henry (@ElleeHenry) February 15, 2012
@paramendra Congrats! Another day on top of our leaderboard @ Newyork.kred.com Keep up the great work!
— Kred (@Kred) February 15, 2012
Whats up.We have an overdue lunch that we need to set up RT @paramendra: @cavaughn Hello there.
— cavaughn (@cavaughn) February 15, 2012
@paramendra you take great notes!
— Kevin Selhi (@KevinSelhi) February 15, 2012
Curious how next panel addresses this RT @KevinSelhi @paramendra @scottbelsky:"The dark side of crowdsourcing--careless engagement. #SMWJWT
— Leslie E. Henry (@ElleeHenry) February 15, 2012
--> RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Critical mass Vs Credible mass." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT
— cavaughn (@cavaughn) February 15, 2012
Yes. RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Dreamers love to hire people they'd love to have beer with." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT
— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 15, 2012
yes! hahaha "intoxicated orgy of ideas" RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Dreamers love to hire people they'd love to have beer with." #smwnyc
— Austra Zubkovs (@austrazub) February 15, 2012
@lauramfin thought you'd like this quote :) RT @lydiamann: RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "The doers want the dreamers to shut up" #smwnyc
— Michelle Maskaly (@mmaskaly) February 15, 2012
RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Fight apathy ruthlessly and keep people engaged in the fight." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT
— Austra Zubkovs (@austrazub) February 15, 2012
RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "The doers want the dreamers to shut up." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT
— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 15, 2012
RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Some ideas never happen. Some ideas should never happen." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT
— Brian Duggan (@ConferenceBites) February 15, 2012
So true! RT @paramendra: @rachelsterne "YouTube is a great platform but it has not changed in years." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWGuardian
— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 15, 2012
@paramendra U should say hi after Rachel Sterne event
— Oren Bennett (@1obennet) February 15, 2012
Great interview series, right? We think so. RT @paramendra: Yesterday was @jalak, today is @rachelsterne #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWGuardian
— SocialMediaWeek NYC (@smwnyc) February 15, 2012
@paramendra But slightly racist? ;-)
— Peter Stannack (@pstann) February 15, 2012
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeI knew there was something special about this guy. Now I know. ..... his success didn't happen overnight .... a series of failures and disappointments .... Crowley convinced the school to let him blog for the remaining credits. Teendrama, where Crowley was already writing about his college antics, became his independent study...... "People flocked to Dennis. He wasn’t up in the front of the room saying, ‘Hey, follow me.’ He just did stuff that was fun and people wanted to be with him. He’s always been that way, and that has never changed.” ....... “I remember thinking, what a cool life this guy lives,” says Jonathan (J) Crowley of his brother. “He was working at a hot tech company, going out all the time, he had lots of friends … and then it all disappeared.” ....... In 2001, the week Crowley turned 25, Vindigo went through a series of layoffs and Crowley was let go. That same week he was evicted from his apartment. .... Crowley spent the summer trying to line up interviews, but jobs were scarce. ...... On September 11, Crowley watched the twin towers crumble before his eyes. ..... Crowley's life, it seemed, followed suit. ...... In a matter of months he lost his job, his girlfriend, his home, his direction and eventually New York City and all the friends it held. Crowley was forced to move home to New Hampshire. He hadn’t a clue where life would take him next....... Crowley remained in New Hampshire for the next seven months. It was a tough transition and his spirits were down. ...... “He went from living in New York to living in a tiny little ski house in New Hampshire, and from making a good amount of money to making about $6 per hour teaching kids to snowboard,” says J.......... Dodgeball had continued to transform as Crowley’s side project, but up in New Hampshire he didn’t have the heart to work on it. ....... Bored, alone and broke, Crowley survived by making a few ground rules. From his blog:
Note to fellow unemployed kids: (aka Rules to Live By)
1. Leave your apt before noon every day.
2. No drinking before 5pm.
3. No watching TV before 5pm (except during lunch).
4. No taking taxis.
5. No eating meals when drunk.
Resilient, Crowley turned the bad times into jokes and wrote haikus for his troubles:
unemployment check.
you never showed up this week.
please come again soon.
every month i throw
eighty dollars towards this gym.
towels should be free.
atm machine
i already know i'm poor
keep your damn receipt
hello girl from nerve
i wish you were half as cute
as you looked online
99 cent nugs,
junior bacon cheeseburger
and a frosty, please.
ex-girlfriend. birthday.
send a card - or just "forget"?
my heart she broke. twice.
...... Crowley introduced the game to other NYU students and worked with a professor, Clay Shirkey, to develop it during an independent study. Rainert and Crowley refer to Shirkey as the Patron Saint of Social Media. With his help they tested out social and mobile features for Dodgeball, like Shouting, where messages were sent within a 15 block radius. ......... That summer Crowley learned about finance and angel investing. Their pursuit of capital led them to Google’s doors in September........ Google was fresh out of its IPO and it wasn't in the habit of investing in startups. When Crowley and Rainert met with Google they were told, according to Dennis, "We don't really finance companies but maybe you guys should just come and work here."
That moment was one of the high points in Crowley’s career........ He wrote about it on his blog, of course......... “Hey kids, my grad school thesis project (and what seems like my life's work), dodgeball.com, was acquired by Google today!........“Special shoutouts to everyone that's helped out. Tallboys for everyone. Forever!”..... But the high didn’t last, and selling to Google ultimately put Crowley at another low point....... “Everyone sees this side of Dennis that's so electric but there was a phase when he was in a rut. He was in a tough position. I don't think he could find the energy to get himself excited.” ..... Selvadurai had a desk around the corner from Crowley....... “He was the one guy who knew how to make iPhone stuff. He liked hacking city apps,” recalls Crowley. “I was doing a lot of mobile work and I also liked city stuff and we just started working together. We were experimenting for four to five months. It wasn't until January 2009 when we said, ‘Let's get serious about this and launch it for SXSW.’”....... The ordinarily social Crowley became reclusive.......“When Dennis stops socializing, you know he’s working on something really big,” says J. ......One week in January, a rare event occurred: A Friday and Saturday night passed with no sign of Crowley. ......An entire week passed and J still hadn’t heard from his brother.......“Then a group of us got an email that said, ‘Hey guys, I built this, what do you think?’ It was the first version of Foursquare; it was originally called Jimmy Disco,” says J. ...... Foursquare wasn’t always smooth sailing for Crowley. ..... “Everyone thinks the Foursquare experience is this rocket ship that started at SXSW 2009 and it hasn't let up, when in reality it was a little spike and then a summer of nothing,” says Crowley...... It took him and Selvadurai about nine months to raise the first round of capital for Foursquare. ...... “Then it spiked back up and it plateaued, and it spiked back up and it plateaued,” he says. “Of course if you average it out [the Foursquare experience] looks like a nice hockey stick curve. If you zoom in a little bit it is super, super rocky.” ....... “My whole career is a bunch of sizzles and spikes,” says Crowley. “I'm still trying to make sense of all of it, but when you look back it all starts to connect. Everything connects in hindsight. Of course you don't realize any of that going forward, you only realize that when you look back.” ...... last month he traveled across the country with five ridiculous-looking corn cob pipes to surprise his friends in Lake Tahoe. ...... "I've been trying to solve the same problems for many years and build software that helps optimize downtime. Of course the problem set keeps evolving and changing."....... Perhaps Crowley’s life-long wrestle with Foursquare stems from the fact that he so deeply embodies the product. Life, for him, is a constant game of checking in with people he loves. The personal reward he gets from being with friends and discovering new ways to have fun is what he wants every Foursquare user to experience.
@A_StrausGarcia I have body doubles attending multiple events at once. Say hi to each one you meet.
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012
@A_StrausGarcia Sorry Andy, Mike Bloomberg Wants Me Here goo.gl/fb/cGfrq :-)
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012
The Bourne Legacy goo.gl/fb/Uz275
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012
Mike Bloomberg Wants Me Here goo.gl/fb/cGfrq
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012
@paramendra I'm seeing your mug all over #SMWNY Where you at? Come to this event: bit.ly/wONpem
— Aaron Straus Garcia (@A_StrausGarcia) February 14, 2012
RT @paramendra @cindygallop "The future of business is doing good and making money at the same time." #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWBigFuel #CSR
— Alexis LaScala (@LexxiLaS) February 14, 2012
@paramendra "Hapless" feels a lil harsh. He's starting out, finding his way, was brave to get up there. cc @randomdeanna #SMWBigFuel
— Julia Smith (@juliacsmith) February 14, 2012
@paramendralook @jparkercamqueen
— Leeanna Portier (@Leeannad75) February 14, 2012
@paramendra and you de doctor? lol.
— ninja worrior (@tutifruti1980) February 14, 2012
@paramendra Hey - apologies but we're already expecting a full house! next one.
— Brian DiFeo (@bridif) February 14, 2012
RT @paramendra @Techonomy @youngbradford @cliffkuang @randyjhunt @weijmarshausen new.livestream.com/smwnyart/kevin… #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWHearst
— Noah Xifr (@Noah_Xifr) February 14, 2012
@paramendra Yes. I'm going to watch it tonight.
— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012
@paramendra I was there. :) I interviewed John & Jeremy.
— Maya Baratz (@mbaratz) February 14, 2012
@paramendra So grateful for your tweets covering @Jalak's talk. I wasn't able to make it this morning but wanted to hear her thoughts.
— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012
RT @thehotnessgrrrl: RT @paramendra: "There are more mobile phones than toilets in India." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel" who counted?
— Peter Stannack (@pstann) February 14, 2012
RT @paramendra: @jalak "There are more mobile phones than toilets in India." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel"
— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012
RT @paramendra: @jalak "More people have access to mobile phones than clean water in Africa." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel
— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012
thanks for watching! “@paramendra: Moderator to @jalak "You are the betting type." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel”
— jalak jobanputra (@jalak) February 14, 2012
@paramendra Thank you for mention & joining us @SMWmiami @Livestream! @LisaSparksCTCT @ToddPaton @JanieC @alexdc #smwmiami #smwcc #smw12
— Brenda Leguisamo (@brendaleguisamo) February 14, 2012
@davidabloom You gave an amazing talk about an amazing startup. Kudos. #smw #smw12 #smwnyc @TechStars Demo #SMWBigFuel
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 13, 2012
THANKS! RT @paramendra: @davidabloom You gave an amazing talk about an amazing startup. Kudos. #smw12 #smwnyc @techstars Demo #SMWBigFuel
— Ordrin (@ordrin) February 13, 2012
THANKS! RT @paramendra: @davidabloom You gave an amazing talk about an amazing startup. Kudos. #smw12 #smwnyc @techstars Demo #SMWBigFuel
— David Bloom (@davidabloom) February 13, 2012
@paramendra What did you think? Have you given it a try yet?
— Zachary McCune (@zmccune) February 13, 2012
@gregbodenlos @paramendra btw, these are tools that we @nokia use to listen to consumers: i.talkinhaik.us/A3LC01
— Pino (@haikus) February 13, 2012
MT @paramendra: @annmmack "Today's heroes are the #entrepreneurs." #smwjwt #smwnyc
— Austra Zubkovs (@austrazub) February 13, 2012
@paramendra @ChiefBoima @afripopmag @HAElifestyle YAY! we are looking forward to seeing you in person!! ; )
— Kathleen B.(@KateBomz) February 13, 2012
Image via CrunchBaseI just revisited the Social Media Week schedule page to prepare for the events I have said I will go to tomorrow and the rest of the week. 
an explosion of data — Web traffic and social network comments, as well as software and sensors that monitor shipments, suppliers and customers — to guide decisions, trim costs and lift sales ...... the United States needs 140,000 to 190,000 more workers with “deep analytical” expertise and 1.5 million more data-literate managers, whether retrained or hired ...... The story is similar in fields as varied as science and sports, advertising and public health — a drift toward data-driven discovery and decision-making. “It’s a revolution” ...... the march of quantification, made possible by enormous new sources of data, will sweep through academia, business and government. There is no area that is going to be untouched ...... Welcome to the Age of Big Data. ...... data a new class of economic asset, like currency or gold ...... Big Data has the potential to be “humanity’s dashboard,” an intelligent tool that can help combat poverty, crime and pollution. Privacy advocates take a dim view, warning that Big Data is Big Brother, in corporate clothing. ........ a lot more data, all the time, growing at 50 percent a year, or more than doubling every two years ....... It’s not just more streams of data, but entirely new ones. ....... there are now countless digital sensors worldwide in industrial equipment, automobiles, electrical meters and shipping crates. They can measure and communicate location, movement, vibration, temperature, humidity, even chemical changes in the air. ........ the Internet of Things or the Industrial Internet. ....... Data is not only becoming more available but also more understandable to computers. Most of the Big Data surge is data in the wild — unruly stuff like words, images and video on the Web and those streams of sensor data. It is called unstructured data and is not typically grist for traditional databases. ........ the computer tools for gleaning knowledge and insights from the Internet era’s vast trove of unstructured data are fast gaining ground. At the forefront are the rapidly advancing techniques of artificial intelligence like natural-language processing, pattern recognition and machine learning ....... The wealth of new data, in turn, accelerates advances in computing — a virtuous circle of Big Data. Machine-learning algorithms, for example, learn on data, and the more data, the more the machines learn. Take Siri ....... The microscope, invented four centuries ago, allowed people to see and measure things as never before — at the cellular level. It was a revolution in measurement. ....... Data measurement.... is the modern equivalent of the microscope. Google searches, Facebook posts and Twitter messages, for example, make it possible to measure behavior and sentiment in fine detail and as it happens. ....... decisions will increasingly be based on data and analysis rather than on experience and intuition. “We can start being a lot more scientific” ........ the low-budget Oakland A’s massaged data and arcane baseball statistics to spot undervalued players. Heavy data analysis had become standard not only in baseball but also in other sports, including English soccer, well before last year’s movie version of “Moneyball,” starring Brad Pitt. ...... Walmart and Kohl’s, analyze sales, pricing and economic, demographic and weather data to tailor product selections at particular stores and determine the timing of price markdowns. Shipping companies, like U.P.S., mine data on truck delivery times and traffic patterns to fine-tune routing. ....... Police departments across the country, led by New York’s, use computerized mapping and analysis of variables like historical arrest patterns, paydays, sporting events, rainfall and holidays to try to predict likely crime “hot spots” and deploy officers there in advance. ....... data-guided management is spreading across corporate America and starting to pay off. ...... studied 179 large companies and found that those adopting “data-driven decision making” achieved productivity gains that were 5 percent to 6 percent higher than other factors could explain. ...... The predictive power of Big Data is being explored — and shows promise — in fields like public health, economic development and economic forecasting. Researchers have found a spike in Google search requests for terms like “flu symptoms” and “flu treatments” a couple of weeks before there is an increase in flu patients coming to hospital emergency rooms in a region (and emergency room reports usually lag behind visits by two weeks or so). ....... sentiment analysis of messages in social networks and text messages — using natural-language deciphering software — to help predict job losses, spending reductions or disease outbreaks in a given region. The goal is to use digital early-warning signals to guide assistance programs in advance to, for example, prevent a region from slipping back into poverty. ...... trends in increasing or decreasing volumes of housing-related search queries in Google are a more accurate predictor of house sales in the next quarter than the forecasts of real estate economists ....... social-network research involves mining huge digital data sets of collective behavior online. Among the findings: people whom you know but don’t communicate with often — “weak ties,” in sociology — are the best sources of tips about job openings. They travel in slightly different social worlds than close friends, so they see opportunities you and your best friends do not. ...... Researchers can see patterns of influence and peaks in communication on a subject — by following trending hashtags on Twitter, for example. The online fishbowl is a window into the real-time behavior of huge numbers of people. ...... Big Data has its perils, to be sure. With huge data sets and fine-grained measurement, statisticians and computer scientists note, there is increased risk of “false discoveries.” ...... “many bits of straw look like needles.” ...... Big Data also supplies more raw material for statistical shenanigans and biased fact-finding excursions. It offers a high-tech twist on an old trick: I know the facts, now let’s find ’em. ..... Data is tamed and understood using computer and mathematical models. These models, like metaphors in literature, are explanatory simplifications. They are useful for understanding, but they have their limits. A model might spot a correlation and draw a statistical inference that is unfair or discriminatory, based on online searches, affecting the products, bank loans and health insurance a person is offered ...... Veteran data analysts tell of friends who were long bored by discussions of their work but now are suddenly curious. .... “The culture has changed” .... “There is this idea that numbers and statistics are interesting and fun. It’s cool now.”
Google 的貼牌冰箱（Google refrigerator） (Photo credit: Aray Chen)Google has had it this entire time. 
Image via CrunchBaseDaily Mail: Apple is now bigger than Microsoft and Google combined - and worth more than the gross domestic product of Sweden- The tech giant's stock is worth more than the market capitalisations of rivals Google ($196.8bn) and Microsoft ($256.1bn) combined.Clearly Apple is an iPhone, iPad company like Microsoft used to be a Windows, Office company.
- Apple's profits recently passed $1 billion a week and the company now sells a million iPhones a day.
- Apple's stock is worth more than the gross domestic product of Sweden - $458 billion.
- Apple is worth more than all the gold in the American Federal Reserve - $350 billion
- and all the illegal drugs in the world, $321 billion
- sold 37.04million iPhones - its flagship product - and 15.43million iPad tablets, doubling from a year earlier.
- its war chest of cash and securities to almost $100billion - more than enough to plug December's U.S. budget deficit.
- Apple's iPhone business is now bigger than the whole of Microsoft .... The company's smartphone division generated $24.4 billion of revenue in the quarter up until December, whereas the whole of Microsoft generated $20.9 billion in the same quarter.
