Thoughts on Internet
In the tech Internet world, we’ve really had 3 generations
Web 1.0 (companies founded from 1994 – 2001, including Netscape, Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL (AOL), Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY)),
Four Ways Enterprise Social Networks Drive Value
Despite their promise and potential, enterprise social networks (ESNs) have only received moderate traction. The problem is that most deployments are treated as technology deployments with a focus on adoption and usage. A different way to think about this is that enterprise social networks represent a new way to communicate and form relationships — and because of that, can bridge gaps.
Encourage sharing. Remember how revolutionary email was? It fundamentally changed the way we communicated by reducing the cost/effort and collapsing the time frame and scaling it to include multiple recipients. Social represents a fundamental change, simply because, at its essence, it encourages sharing.
Capture knowledge. Capturing the collective knowledge of an organization is a daunting task because it includes a wide range of facts, information, and skills gained through experience. Yet few people proactively sit down each day to document and capture their knowledge. ESNs provide an opportunity to do just that, by capturing glimpses of knowledge through profiles, activity streams, and interactions.
Enable action. Having an ESN in place means that operations and processes can begin to change as well. This happens when the day-to-day process changes because the ESN enables new relationships and behaviors that address a gap that prevented actions from being taken.
Empower employees. The last way ESNs drive value is that they empower and embolden people to speak up and join together, as well as gives them opportunities to contribute their skills and ideas.
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36 Dustin Hoffman at the unemployment office, October 1967. He had just finished filming The Graduate, his second film and first starring role, though the film did not open theatrically for two more months.
Two visuals stand out, rather starkly. One’s obvious. The other is that there are no people at the unemployment office. Ah, The golden sixties.
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How Target Knows You’re Pregnant
Writing for The New York Times, Charles Duhigg examines how retailers collect your data and, using the science of habit formation, analyze it to make a profit:
About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation.
“My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”
The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.
On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”
This is the holy grail for all companies. How do you find your pregnant Customers?
My husband can not fucking throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times.
Gisele Bundchen, speaking truth. (via markcoatney)
Attagirl! Sums up the Patriots loss in Superbowl.
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This is effing brilliant. Few decades from now when the next generation looks back and wonders what the elected leaders of this country were doing when the nation was faced with the worst unemployment, depression-like economy and the highest national debt - they might throw up out of disgust. Unbelievable.
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Chacaltaya mountain in Bolivia with an elevation of 17,785 ft once had one of the highest glaciers in South America. The 18,000-year-old glacier had the world’s highest ski run - the first built in Latin America. After losing 80% of its area in the last 2 decades, it finally disappeared in 2009, much faster than scientists had predicted. All that remains is a bedrock. Photo by Nick Ballon
Matt Langer: A Proposed Demand
Ok so: I want to take a minute to write about an idea I thought up a little over a year ago. And I think it’s a good idea? But I don’t know! Because I’ve been sitting on it all this time instead of putting it out there and talking about it, not just because it’s outside my comfort zone but also…
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Apple’s iTunes U hits 600 million education downloads
The program was unveiled in early 2007, but according to Apple’s figures obtained by The Loop, half of those downloads have occurred over the last year.
Full Story: Apple Insider
This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photograph with a young boy in his mailbag, 1900. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples.
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