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Showing posts with label TechCrunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TechCrunch. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
OK Glass
So Sergey Brin - who I like a lot for his China stand - has hooked up with the Google marketing manager who gave the world the phrase "OK Glass." His ex and he are at peace. And the self-made billionaire has found new love. He is a Russian Jew. She is a Chinese Jew. So I read. More important, I feel like he wants to be associated with Google Glass like Steve Jobs is associated with the smartphone. Although I think that is a tall task. The Glass is more like a smartwatch, it is cool, but the smartphone will continue to be the center of the mobile experience, and even the Glass and the smartwatch will hitch to the smartphone bandwagon.
I think she is pretty and funny. And I left a few positive comments on her Google Plus page. Too many people have spewed venom on the same. The crowd can quickly descend to the lowest common denominator. Here comes everybody, but do make the effort to build the close relationships so as to not get bothered by the asteroids spewing venom. This is like Sean Parker complaining in a TechCrunch post about all the venom he and his fiance had to face when they got married. In this day and age of social media, everyone with an internet connection is a pest, I mean paparazzi. Learn to ignore.
I once heard a millionaire say, he was just this normal dude, then he made a lot of money, and he tried hard to keep his old friends and acquaintances from his middle class days but too much jealousy was being spewed and so he started hanging out with other millionaires, and that venom did not exist. Maybe Sergey and Sean should hang. They both have billions and very pretty women.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
A Case For A Facebook Phone
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| Latin America and the Caribbean (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Facebook Phone International, Bringing The Developing World Online Social-First
Through savvy carrier deals, subsidized handsets, and free limited data access, Facebook could ensure emerging markets come online with friend requests as their first experience. That could turn populations in southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America into Facebook users for life.
Friday, February 08, 2013
So Glad To Be Podcasting
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| The logo used by Apple to represent Podcasting (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
It started with this post at TechCrunch: Google Integrates Third-Party Web Apps More Deeply Into Google Drive.
I was reading it on my phone this morning, and I got excited. I fired up my laptop, and went to Google Drive and quickly integrated a whole bunch of apps. I created a floor plan using FloorPlanner. And I was feeling good about being able to edit video in Google Drive. Then I happened upon audio.
On second try I was able to use an app that feels like podcasting. I record my talk on the phone, save it over to Google Drive, from there I edited it with TwistedWave, the app on Google Drive, which then allowed me to share it to SoundCloud, which allowed me to embed it to my blog, this blog.
For the longest time video has felt easier than audio. I guess the music industry casts a jaundiced look upon the landscape. And so app developers stay away in fear. But I have just wanted to be able to record and share my own voice with the ease I can share words I type.
Hint: this should be a simple feature in Blogger's mobile app.
And so, welcome to this podcast, if it can be called that: Social Media Week Is Upon Us.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Pando Monthly: Finding The Groove
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Pando Daily entered a crowded space. It got funding, alright. It had talent, fine. But the space was crowded. But I saw room for some long form journalism. And Pando Monthly fits the bill. Although I have yet to watch any of the Pando Monthly videos, it feels like a Charlie Rose thing.
PandoMonthly Presents: A Fireside Chat with Ben Horowitz
Pando Monthly is the most outstanding thing Pando Daily has done so far. It is an innovation.
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Google Plus Is Google's Bing
Image via CrunchBaseTechCrunch: How The IPO Ruined GoogleI never thought Google Plus was going to one up Facebook. Facebook is the social king. And that will stay. Just like Google is the search king and that will stay. Facebook tried to one up FourSquare, and failed. It gave up. But Facebook can not ignore the location space, and Google can not ignore social.
But I do think Google Plus is an arrival of sorts. Google wanted a player in the social space, and now they got it. They needed an also ran, and they have it now. Google badly needed a social layer to its services, and now they got it.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
AirTime Time
Sean Parker (Photo credit: Wikipedia)TechCrunch: Sean Parker And Shawn Fanning's New Social Video Startup Airtime Staffs Up For Launch Finally. This could be big.
My Take On AirTime (4)
AirTime
“Facebook is about identity, the people you already know,” Parker said back in October. “It has little to do with people you don’t know.”
Lost Remote: New social video startup ‘Airtime’ draws big names
Business Insider: Airtime, The Chatroulette Of Facebook, Is Hiring A Bunch Of New Engineers
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