March 2012
2 posts
Has The Washington Post Lost Its Way? | Vanity... →
“Quite famously we almost bought 10 percent of Facebook.” I asked why the company didn’t and he directed me instead to read David Kirkpatrick’s book, The Facebook Effect. Don Graham met Mark Zuckerberg in 2005, and later that year, according to the book, when Facebook was looking for financing, Zuckerberg and Graham verbally agreed to the terms of a Washington Post Company investment in...
“One of the things I wanted to do was to have a magazine which you could graze”
– Richard Turley, design director for Bloomberg Businessweek, in Bloomberg’s Richard Turley: Meet The Guy Who Has Totally Reinvented Businessweek’s Design
February 2012
15 posts
An Oral History of the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of... →
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Steve Jobs and Me: A journalist reminisces -... →
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Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs’s Reality Distortion... →
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Hyperink, a Content Farm That Grows Books -... →
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Kindle Fire, and the tricky business of chasing... →
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Dinner at Rupert's - BusinessWeek →
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Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants -... →
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Print - Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A - Esquire →
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Jawbone’s Wristband Health Monitor - Businessweek →
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Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers -... →
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The Code of the Winklevii | Business | Vanity Fair →
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Quanta Seeks Profit in the iPad Era - Businessweek →
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Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble | Fast Company →
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Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself - NYTimes.com →
Will it have an Emma Watson beat?
New Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai Reveals... →
Kunimasa Suzuki, who is Mr. Hirai’s deputy in overseeing the videogame and consumer-electronics divisions, said before the UX group was formed, they discovered that four different product category groups were working on separate projects for a tablet computer to challenge the iPad.
It’s not just the Android OS running on Sony’s tablets that is fragmented.
October 2011
1 post
Passion, Not Perks | Think Quarterly by Google →
Google exec says perks don’t matter, but offers free food, ping-pong tables and volleyball anyway.
September 2011
4 posts
“If you’re thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell...”
– Biz Stone in Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone to Advise M.B.A. Students at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business - WSJ.com
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Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web... →
On one side, those content producers who choose to stay on the free-and-open web will be forced into making more and more ethically dubious decisions to stay profitable. Out will go professional writers and church-and-state separation of content and commerce; in will come more Groupon-style “reader offers”, affiliate links behind every keyword and an Idiocracy of dumber and dumber linkbait.
August 2011
4 posts
SoHo and Turtlenecks →
All the while, Ms. Deng hasn’t neglected the business of minding Mr. Murdoch, who has undergone the kind of change in appearance often associated with a man’s marrying a new and much-younger wife.
Mr. Murdoch for decades preferred establishment addresses such as New York’s Upper East Side and Bel Air in Los Angeles. But after remarrying, he and Ms. Deng set up residence in Manhattan’s...
The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com →
We live in the much vaunted Age of Information. Courtesy of the Internet, we seem to have immediate access to anything that anyone could ever want to know. … In effect, we are living within the nimbus of an informational Gresham’s law in which trivial information pushes out significant information, but it is also an ideational Gresham’s law in which information, trivial or not, pushes out...
L.A. Times employees settle lawsuit over stock... →
$32 million settlement, an average of $1,846 per employee involved. (I wasn’t in the ESOP.) Not exactly a big payday for journalists that rode the leveraged buyout into the concrete.
July 2011
13 posts
Chinese Web Search Giant Serves Two Masters -... →
The unspoken comparisons of Baidu to the early days of Google are staggering.
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“Songs you listen to often on Spotify sit, encrypted, on your hard drive. The...”
– Some of the magic why Spotify is such a slick service.
Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope - BusinessWeek
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“It’s transparently ridiculous that someone would buy a $600 phone with a...”
– Wired’s Lore Sjöberg on apps like Hipstamatic making any photo look like “art.” (via cnnmoneytech)
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“If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your...”
– An unnamed U.S. military official in Pentagon: Online Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War - WSJ.com
New Russian A.T.M.’s Are Built to Detect Lies -... →
“Yes, I do have $1 million in my checking account. You must be mistaken, Bank-teller Machine.”
Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around... →
From: Israel
Idea: Swords Into Software
The U.S. is by far the world’s largest spender on the military and intelligence. But the Pentagon could learn something from Israel about how to convert defense dollars into commercial products that can benefit the broader economy. Veterans of a single unit of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Intelligence Corps have launched such successful ventures as...
Fall of the House of Busch - BusinessWeek →
Busch left Arizona to attend the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University, where, in 1985, he nearly rammed into an unmarked police car filled with narcotics detectives while driving home from a topless bar. The police began to chase his speeding Mercedes, thinking he was a drug dealer. Eventually one of the officers shot out a tire on the Mercedes. When they found out who was behind the wheel, they...
How Apple Feeds Its Army of App Makers -... →
The gangly Stone, a former architect who has written software for Jobs’s machines since the 1980s, revels in talking tech with fellow Apple geeks, particularly the Europeans and Asians who often save a night’s hotel fare by spending the night in line.
I called this last month!
On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t →
Common problem.
June 2011
11 posts
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Tumblr iRony
The long-awaited version 2.0 of Tumblr’s iPhone app doesn’t work with iOS 5 yet.
“I just want to make sure that we’ve got compelling stories, that we publish them...”
– Jill Abramson, New York Times executive editor elect, in a Q&A with New York Times’ Jill Abramson and Bill Keller | MediaWorks - Advertising Age (this practice is pervasive)
Spain Arrests Three in Sony Site Attack →
Police didn’t release the suspects’ names, but said they were in their early 30s. One of the individuals is unemployed and one is a sailor.
Newspapers, Yes, Newspapers Might Be Good Stock... →
Newspaper suggests newspaper companies are valuable.
Hurt Locker lawsuit: 50,000 sued for BitTorrent... →
“Somebody stole our property and we are trying to get it back.”
— Spokesman for “Hurt Locker’” studio
I don’t think the pirates would object to giving back the AVI file, but I somehow don’t think that’s what you’re after.
Microsoft Unveils 'Star Wars' Light Saber Game →
EA showed “The Sims Social,” a version of its popular Sims franchise for Facebook in which virtual characters can dance and kiss each other.
I wonder what Will Wright would think of that gross oversimplification.
The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse →
Well, what do ya know? The postal service, thanks to the growth of junk mail and the disappearance of letter writing, has an ad-based business model.
Charlie Brooker: If the internet gave free back... →
I once read an absolutely scathing one-star [App Store] review in which the author bitterly complained that a game had only kept them entertained for four hours.
FOUR HOURS? FOR 59P? AND YOU’RE ANGRY ENOUGH TO WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT IT? ON YOUR EXPENSIVE IPHONE? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?
Danger: excessive Internet use can cause you to lose your grip on reality.
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Impatience for Kinect komputing →
minimalmac:
The problem is that Microsoft does not, can not, see it that way (and perhaps never will). They invented a device from the future yet could not untether themselves from the past and present. They could not see the potential to change the world with this device because they are too wedded to the idea that it had to work with the present. So, instead, it is just a toy, nothing more.
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