Thursday, July 26, 2012

Details

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Seth Godin: Feet on the street
The complement to the brilliant strategy is the thankless work of lower-leverage detail...... An organization with feet on the street and alert and regular attention to detail can build more trust and develop better relationships than one that hits and runs.
There are good habits, and there are bad habits. Seth Godin in this blog post talks of some good habits to acquire. Little things like writing thank you notes.
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Twitter Goes Hollywood

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Twitter, Hollywood Working on In-Stream Video Series
the possibility of launching several original video series via Twitter ..... the show could live on a standalone Twitter page similar to the events page that Twitter launched in partnership with Nascar in June, although the series’ page would more closely resemble a microsite in order to feature an expanded video player. Another possibility is that the series would be distributed within tweets—promoted, organic or pinned to a brand’s Twitter page—with users clicking to expand the tweet into a full-fledged video player. ..... With the potential series, Twitter is aiming to get big-budget advertisers on board, with sponsorship deals possibly running around $4 million. ..... theoretically user tweets would somehow influence the show as it airs
Old media does not go away. New media simply infiltrates that old media. And gives it a new life. This is interactivity taken to a whole new level. User tweets influencing the show as it airs is so Twitter.
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Wikipedia Bots

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Did you think it was only humans?

Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia
"Wikipedia would be a shambles without bots" ..... English Wikipedia alone surpassed four million articles this month. It contains an estimated 2.5 billion words, equivalent to millions of pages, and it is 50 times larger than the Encyclopaedia Britannica. ..... The bots perform a wide range of editorial and administrative tasks that are tedious, repetitive and time-consuming but vital. .... The site was founded in 2001, and the next year, one called rambot created about 30,000 articles - at a rate of thousands per day - on individual towns in the US..... In 2008, another bot created thousands of tiny articles about asteroids, pulling a few items of data for each one from an online Nasa database.
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Grassroots Investing

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English: Diagram of the typical financing cycle for a startup company. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
FundersClub Wants To Bypass VC And Let YOU Invest In Startups
If this all sounds like it could usher in a new era of investment, that indicates only that you are still sane. Yesterday it may have taken $20,000 or $250,000 to invest in a startup. Not it takes just $1,000 and a solid nest egg. What’s more, hedge funds, real estate investing, or lending could be the next financial systems upended by a startup like FundersClub.
It used to be called the friends and family round. It still is.

But the idea that you can go out there to raise first few thousand dollars is inherently liberating. You raise money out there from the get go. Small sums from a bunch of people.

There's room for many crowdfunding startups. FundersClub seems to yet another promising entry into the space.
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An Athlete's Racist Tweet

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Coat of arms of Greece since 7 June 1975. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Greek Athlete Kicked Off Olympic Team For Tweet
She tweeted, “with so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitos will be eating food from their own home.”
Free speech is protected but racist tweets bringing social ostracism is a good thing. This was a good move on the part of the nation of Greece.
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Pando Monthly: Finding The Groove

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Sarah Lacy (Photo credit: jdlasica)
Drama and Mike Arrington go together, or did when he was a blogger. His selling of TechCrunch to AOL to a lot of TechCrunch oldies breaking off from the mothership when he got fired from AOL: drama.

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.
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Path Maneuvres

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PandoMonthly - March 2012 - Sarah Lacy Interviews Path's Dave Morin (Photo credit: thekenyeung)
Path started out by saying it is insane you can have 5,000 friends. 50 should be it. And it started out by being mobile only. That second might be a bigger differentiator than the first, if you are talking Path and Facebook. Hopping onto Android was a pretty big move. By now the app is in a sound place.

Path Debuts Version 2.5: Bigger Photos And Videos, Book And Movie Sharing, New ‘Nudge’ Feature

Good thing the "Poke" Facebook is not going after the "Nudge" Path. I guess we are not talking Apple and Samsung.
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