parislemon: Google Is "Surprised" That Twitter Is "Concerned"
Just to give everyone their fair airtime, here’s Google’s response to Twitter’s response to Google’s announcement about Search+. Naturally, this was posted to Google+:
We are a bit surprised by Twitter’s comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their…
This is funny. I wonder which VC is being played by Leo in this scene…
The Visible Universe, Then and Now
Before the telescope was invented in 1608, our picture of the universe consisted of six planets, our moon, the sun and any stars we could see in the Milky Way galaxy. But as our light-gathering capabilities have grown, so too have the boundaries of the visible universe. Popular Science’s interactive map shows how the known universe has grown from 1950 to 2011.
Amazon Bulks Up Against The Nook, Kindles Come To 16,000 Stores
Amazon announced today that the new range of Kindles is coming to over 16,000 U.S. retail stores. The usual big-box and medium-box outlets will carry Amazon’s whole family of media devices.
The basic new Kindle - which sells for $79 with ads and $109 without - has been available in stores since just after launch on September 28. Now the $99/139 Kindle Touch and the $199 Kindle Fire tablet will appear on physical shelves.
The Long March from Crowdsourcing to a Global Meritocracy
OK, this isn’t working anymore. Too many people either don’t have a job or the ones that do are predominantly dissatisfied. We’ve been talking about networked organisations and distributed work for decades, but productivity gains have been dim the past ten years. Everything worked just well enough to not think about structural changes. We tried to apply collaboration and fancy search platforms like new paint on a crumbling house that could be fixed.
But because neither renovation nor innovation did catch up at the speed of our economic development, we crashed. And that’s, like with every disrupting event, a tremendous opportunity. It forces us to rethink, because it pushes us beyond the tipping point we tried to avoid for so long.
The Long March from Crowdsourcing to a Global Meritocracy
OK, this isn’t working anymore. Too many people either don’t have a job or the ones that do are predominantly dissatisfied. We’ve been talking about networked organisations and distributed work for decades, but productivity gains have been dim the past ten years. Everything worked just well enough to not think about structural changes. We tried to apply collaboration and fancy search platforms like new paint on a crumbling house that could be fixed.
But because neither renovation nor innovation did catch up at the speed of our economic development, we crashed. And that’s, like with every disrupting event, a tremendous opportunity. It forces us to rethink, because it pushes us beyond the tipping point we tried to avoid for so long.
22nd October 2011
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We are working on some projects studying the data put out by Kickstarter funding, and we can’t wait to show you the trends. They are fascinating.
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