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Mark Cuban on Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers | Entrepreneur.com

Image credit: Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com A great quote from technology luminary Alan Kay that every entrepreneur needs to remember: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." I'm working with a company that at one point had a product that was not only best in its class, but also…

Apr 16, 2012

The Future of Magazines Should Look a Lot Like Spotify | PandoDaily

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The options we have for reading magazine journalism in the digital format are pretty sad. We live in an era of self-driving cars, augmented reality, and we can keep a map of the entire planet in our pocket, but we are stuck reading magazine journalism the way it has always been presented: in dead…

Apr 16, 2012

The Most Dangerous Gamer - Magazine - The Atlantic

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L ike many wealthy people, Jonathan Blow vividly remembers the moment he became rich. At the time, in late 2008, he was $40,000 in debt and living in a modest San Francisco apartment, having just spent more than three years meticulously refining his video game, Braid —an innovative time-warping…

Apr 16, 2012

Bloomberg and Reuters: The Future of News | Adweek

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They're rich, they're global, and they're snapping up A-list journalists—and maybe newspapers, even 'The New York Times' The Press Matt Winkler, Bloomberg News Photos: Elizabeth Lippman Advertisement There’s no mistaking where Andy Lack feels Bloomberg LP is positioned versus its competitors. “We…

Apr 14, 2012

Why digital-native media will (almost) always win — Tech News and Analysis

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Much of the traditional media business has been in the doldrums for some time now, a victim of declining circulation and the free-fall of print advertising that has sucked the oxygen out of many traditional business models. And yet, many of these companies still have only taken small steps (if any)…

Apr 14, 2012

Liz Danzico on web design education | Interview | .net magazine

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13 handy Atom shortcuts Web Design Work faster and smarter with these 13 time-saving shortcut commands for Atom. 14 top web app resources By Chris Mills netmag Here are 14 tools, tutorials and blogs that will help you do great things with progressive web apps How to add data to your Sketch designs…

Apr 13, 2012

"Girls" lives up to the hype - Girls - Salon.com

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HBO’s “Girls,” a new comedy about four affluent, early 20-something friends boldly and haplessly talking, tweeting and screwing their way through starter jobs, clueless dudes and New York City’s outer boroughs, is easy to love and even easier to worry about. The many articles already written about…

Apr 13, 2012

AIGA: Unjustified — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers

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Imprint: Print Magazine’s Design Blog Imprint is Print’s design blog and community, with a rich daily selection of stories and opinion from the likes of Steven Heller, Seymour Chwast, Paula Scher, Rick Poynor, Debbie Millman, Paul Shaw and many others. It’s the best design blog for news, commentary,…

Apr 5, 2012

Ballad of the Road Warrior - Businessweek

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More sedentary friends gasped when I told them last fall that I was about to embark on a 56-hour set of flights from Santa Barbara to Hyderabad (and then fly away after fewer than 72 hours there). Upon arrival, I knew I’d encounter information booths with no people in them, roads with no signs, and…

Apr 4, 2012

How the Love Affair With Apple Might End - NYTimes.com

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Apple devotees waiting in line to buy the latest iPad in San Francisco in February. Robert Galbraith/Reuters LONDON — If you stopped people on the street and asked them to name a successful design brand, many of them would say Apple. And why not? Apple’s products have won shoals of design prizes.…

Apr 3, 2012

Sunday Essay: You Or Someone Like You - The Rumpus.net

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April 1st, 2012 Let me start off by saying I love getting to teach writing. It’s the only job I have ever had that I didn’t despise—every other job has been some boss or company taking my time in trade for something as meaningless (but not, sadly, useless) as money. There really aren’t many down…

Apr 2, 2012

BuzzFeed's Secret Plan to DESTROY Internet Ads Revealed! (By BuzzFeed. - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD

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Everyone who covers the media business is required by law to write about BuzzFeed , Jonah Peretti’s shareriffic site. But just about all of us end up writing about the stuff the start-up makes and not the stuff it sells — advertising. So what exactly is BuzzFeed’s ad strategy? You can get a good…

Apr 2, 2012

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Cuts the Guruspeak : CJR

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Capital New York takes a quick but revealing look at how and why Bloomberg BusinessWeek has revolutionized the business magazine, reporting on a visit by Editor Josh Tyrangiel and creative director Richard Turley to Columbia. Here’s Joe Pompeo on how BizWeek has upended magazine design: It’s a…

Apr 2, 2012

10 Ways to Humanize Your Brand on Social Media

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Joe Chernov is the VP of Content Marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand. Marketers are suckers for a catch phrase, from “join the conversation” to “think like a publisher.” Now, thanks largely to Facebook…

Apr 1, 2012

We Need A Private Mode For The Whole Internet

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I suspect Mat Honan wishes he could hide the fact that he was listening to Cher and the Black Eyed Peas eight months ago on Rdio. But he can’t. We’re on a march to share more: More content, more services, more details, more frequently. A few things I’ve shared this year that I did not share a year…

Mar 31, 2012

Coffee and other stimulant drugs may cause high achievers to slack off: UBC study « UBC Public Affairs

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While stimulants may improve unengaged workers’ performance, a new University of British Columbia study suggests that for others, caffeine and amphetamines can have the opposite effect, causing workers with higher motivation levels to slack off. The study – published online today by Nature’s…

Mar 31, 2012

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E Ink is already doing swift business in the growing e-reader market, but just like any technology company, it can’t sit still for fear of being overtaken or made redundant. With that in mind, the company has used IFA 2011 to show us some future products and the latest updates to its displays that…

Mar 31, 2012

LG begins mass production of first flexible, plastic e-ink displays | ExtremeTech

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LG, that South Korean conglomerate that has mostly spent the last few years fading into Samsung’s shadow, has just announced that it has begun mass production of the world’s first flexible, plastic e-ink display. This is opposed to the hard, heavy, prone-to-cracking glass-laminate e-ink displays…

Mar 31, 2012

Ten Lessons I Learned from Shark Tank Altucher Confidential

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I just gave up all parenting responsibilities this weekend to Mark Cuban. Meaning, my kids and I watched eight straight episodes of Shark Tank. For the past two years, people have been begging me to watch Shark Tank . One friend of mine, who has co-invested with me on two deals, has given me two…

Mar 31, 2012

‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt - NYTimes.com

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Illustrations by Johnny Selman You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong. This isn’t an accusation from the right. It’s a friendly…

Mar 26, 2012

Behind the Curator's Code | News | .net magazine

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13 handy Atom shortcuts Web Design Work faster and smarter with these 13 time-saving shortcut commands for Atom. 14 top web app resources By Chris Mills netmag Here are 14 tools, tutorials and blogs that will help you do great things with progressive web apps How to add data to your Sketch designs…

Mar 26, 2012

Curator’s Code — No thanks : DesignNotes by Michael Surtees

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My initial reaction about reading about the Curator’s Code was that it was one of the most ridiculous things that I’ve read in a long, long time. People do link back in a fair way as it stands. People do use via links when. For someone to basically create a system that really benefits themselves is…

Mar 26, 2012

A Hardy Group Holds Out on Smartphones - NYTimes.com

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THE occasion of taking out my cellphone has provoked considerable mockery in the last 18 months or so. “Zack Morris wants his phone back,” I have heard more than once, in reference to the “Saved by the Bell” preppie’s bricklike mobile (a late-model Motorola DynaTac, the first cellphone sold…

Mar 26, 2012

Experience Is The Next Frontier In Marketing | Fast Company

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"Experience" is the marketing buzzword of our time. It seems like every week someone is extolling the vast untapped potential of experience to move your customers: Starcom recently created a Chief Experience Officer position; SMG Global CEO Laura Desmond has called experience the "future of…

Mar 25, 2012

Report: Nokia paying AT&T for exclusive employee use of the Lumia 900 | wpcentral | Windows Phone News, Forums, and Reviews

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We've heard numerous times that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be a "hero" device for AT&T , a term that is unfamiliar for many who are not in the business of smartphones. Here, the usage refers to AT&T promoting the Lumia 900 on the level of the Apple iPhone meaning we should expect a very intensive…

Mar 25, 2012