Cf’s Mat Zucker writes in the CMO Network for Forbes, “With Yahoo!, many of us are waiting for something to try, cheer about, and gleefully share. We’re waiting for the exclamation point.” Zucker points out that advertising alone cannot bring about Yahoo!’s triumphant return to relevance and popularity. Read more here.
Category Archives: Feed the Beast
Somewhere, Shirky Sighed
July 20, 2012
Step aside Holzer, Haring, English, Twist and KAWS… here comes the Brandalists.
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Twitter’s Pitch Deck
July 12, 2012
For big spenders, Twitter is promising custom analytics — and “enhanced interest targeting.”
(via AllThingsD)
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First Online Image
July 10, 2012
Our friend Lesley A. Martin examines the first photographic-image uploaded to the Internet in July of 1992: “They’re always semi-accidental and seemingly inconsequential at the time.”
(via Motherboard)
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What Facebook Knows
July 2, 2012
‘One potential use of Facebook’s data storehouse would be to sell insights mined from it. Such information could be the basis for any kind of business. Assuming Facebook can do this without upsetting users and regulators, it could be lucrative’.
(via Technology Review)
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Hahn Win: Super Reciprocation
June 27, 2012
Hands-down the best beer commercial of the year so far—and Internet approved. Get some.
(via BuzzFeed)
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N.Y. Gets Technology Upgrade
June 24, 2012
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Daddy Knows Best
June 18, 2012
The Top 20 most-shared “dadverts” have been collectively shared around 1.7 million times.
(via Unruly Media)
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Cloudy Day: Neural Networks
June 13, 2012
On the start-up, Kimera, contextualizing data, Service as a Software—and Internet as brain.
(via Forbes)
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Plastic Retrospective
June 8, 2012
In a comical condom ad, an old Argentine learns a tough life lesson, thirty-years too late.
(via Creativity)
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Politicization of Twitter
June 6, 2012
Also, did you know: only 33% of Americans have followed a brand in social media.
(via Convince & Convert)
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Six Dimensions of Engagement
June 4, 2012
How community response is mainly dependent upon (a) context; and (b) social motivations.
(via Contagious)
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Print Evolution
June 1, 2012
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Evolution of the Music Video
May 30, 2012
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New Tech City
May 28, 2012
“The expertise we have in New York is well suited to the next generation of tech companies.”
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Comparing Initial Public Offerings
May 25, 2012
Data Visualization of 2,400 technology, web, and telecom market capitalizations since 1980.
(via NYT)
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Here’s To You, Steve Jobs
May 22, 2012
In five words: Obama, Clinton, Lucas, Bono, and more thank the late great.
(via Netted)
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Future Of News
May 14, 2012
“The pace of technological change will not abate, and to think of our current time as a transition between two eras, rather than a continuum of change, is a mistake.” (More)
-Richard Gingras, Head of News Products at Google
(via MIT)
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Badger the Pup!
Get ready to oo and ahh: meet our mascot, Badger the pup, recently featured on Desiretoinspire.net. Many thanks to his mommy @theresag for sharing him with all of us!