Friday 7/30/2010
Day 2
"The most essential elements of success in life are - a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regards for one’s word, faithful performance of every promise, perfect system in business so as to be in close touch with all details, putting nothing off until tomorrow, courteous manners, a generous regards for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation. ” Then there must be unflinching courage to meet and overcome the difficulties that beset one’s pathway. If all these qualities be not inherent they can be and must be cultivated."
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 related, entities and events.”
"The big news from this analysis is that there is an immensely strong correlation (r2 of .94) between record sales and social media activity. There appears to be a two-week lag between activity and sales. The implications for marketing tactics and artist management are profound. You can see a dashboard that shows how your efforts are succeeding or failing in many dimensions."
Schmidt did confirm that “you can expect a partnership with Zynga” in the future.
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?
