August 2010
July 2010
“The most essential elements of success in life are - a purpose, increasing...”
– Huguette Clark Estate?
Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web... →
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or...
“The big news from this analysis is that there is an immensely strong correlation...”
– The Predictive Power Of Social Media Page 2 of 2 - Forbes.com
Details surface about Google’s rumored social... →
Schmidt did confirm that “you can expect a partnership with Zynga” in the future.
AT&T's Insane Service Plan Strategy | Sascha Segan... →
Still, though, it would be really nice for the companies’ pricing schemes to be sane and comprehensible. There’s a natural progression—cheap simple phones, slightly less cheap texting phones, and, then, smartphones. Why is that so hard for AT&T to understand?
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“So I called New Balance and talked to Catherine Shepard in the press relations...”
– The Quest for American-Made Sneakers
Watchlove these guys, The Rise of Makerbots - CBS News Video
“The blessed wonders of technology are overwhelming us. We don’t control them;...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Tweet Less, Kiss More - NYTimes.com
THREE ARROWS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY →
The Three Arrows Co-op, located in the picturesque Hudson Valley, was established in 1936 by a group of young, New York socialists looking to build a summer ‘paradise’ away from the hub-bub of urban life. They pooled resources to begin an intentional community, and purchased 125 acres on Piano Mountain in Putnam Valley: the farm house provided lodging, the barn, a place for social...
“Facebook and Google are each coming at the same social search prospect from...”
– For Google, Social Networking Is Just A Means To An End | paidContent
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business... →
It’s one thing to see into the foggy future with acuity and chart the course corrections that the company must make. But it’s quite another to persuade employees who might not see the changes ahead to line up and work cooperatively to take the company in that new direction. Knowing what tools to wield to elicit the needed cooperation is a critical managerial skill.
