December 2011
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Reflecting →
Taking a hard look into the mirror … eh, ornament.
Reflecting, NY, NY, Dec 2011
I don’t need a camera, and I know everyone is buzzing about the Sony NEX-7 right now, but if I was to…
“Donovan McNabb sitting on his couch is a better quarterback than Christian...”
– The Fabulous and the Flops of NFL Week 15 - The Triangle Blog
“The College District website is being upgraded to not only act as a hub for all...”
– College Football’s Biggest Entrepreneur - Forbes
The Theory of the Nine Rakes →
How a joke from the Simpsons tells a story about the power of commitment.
Back in October I learned about the Theory of the Nine Rakes from Eric Marcoullier (@bpm140) atTribeCon.
The origin dates back to a memorable Simpsons episode from October 1993, from a sequence where Slideshow Bob steps on the teeth of nine rakes in a row, causing the handles to swing up and hit him in the face nine times,...
“The most important Clipper before Paul’s arrival (and maybe even after)...”
– An NBA strategy session on how Chris Paul will impact the Los Angeles Clippers - Grantland
Carrying on from the quote, ever wonder on what % of Blake Griffin’s pick and rolls did he slip ball screens, or how how Chauncey Billups ranked as a player when coming off screens on the left side?
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“Groupon is the acme or nadir of this phenomenon,” Gibney emphasized, bringing up...”
– Want A Piece Of Founders Fund’s Latest $625M Fund? Start By Trying To Change The World | TechCrunch
“An old essay in the always entertaining Brain, Child magazine proposed a future...”
– When Writer-Mothers Cross the Line (via pegobry)
Investing in Big Data: Cross Pixel and PlaceIQ →
Following up from my recent post announcing our investment in Awe.sm, sharing news about two new recent investments in Cross Pixel and PlaceIQ.
Announced last week, kbs+ Ventures invested in…
“I don’t believe that today’s mobile banners are the best use for mobile...”
– We’ve Seen It Before | Darren Herman
Always enjoy giving someone something to think about first thing in the morning.
“Each physical thing has a mental weight attached to it.”
– Notice the mental weight of physical things, by Ross Hill
“[Adobe is] creating a future storm for Madison Avenue, or more accurately a...”
– How Adobe Is Giving Madison Avenue Something Else to Worry About | DigitalNext: A Blog on Emerging Media and Technology - Advertising Age
Creative Cloud + Digital Marketing Cloud = Storm cell.
Schedule workouts, new quests, and a special...
fitocracy:
We’re almost done with 2011 (woah) and so we wanted to send a few updates to let you know what we’ve been working on at Fitocracy: Workout Scheduling You can now schedule future workouts! All you have to do is:
Go to the Track page
Select a day in the future
Add your planned exercises with however many sets/sessions you plan on doing
Click the blue “Schedule Workout” button
On...
“This is the public financing of twelve years ago,” Moritz tells me, “it is just...”
– Michael Moritz On Klarna’s $155M Round: “This Is The Public Financing Of Twelve Years Ago” | TechCrunch
How HP is learning to predict customer behavior by... →
Top Tweets from TEDxWomen 2011 - PRNewser →
“Words are as important as graphics and animation. Words are part of the user...”
– inessential.com: On the Tab Labels in the New Twitter App for iPhone
Tebowing →
You may think you don’t want to visit, but you do.
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“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
In a Distance →
Monument, obscured.
In a distance, Washington DC, Nov 2011
#4,832 in a series of Landmarks, Obscured, a series for eventual release.
“Every generation gets the self-help guru that it deserves.”
– Timothy Ferriss, Silicon Valley’s Self-Help Guru : The New Yorker
“‘You can always recover from the player you don’t sign. You can...”
– Billy Beane, quoted, in Life after Albert Pujols in St. Louis - ESPN
“You don’t get l*id unless you ask.”
– King St. Q&A w/ Jeremy Yuricek « Hudson/Houston
“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people...”
– NYT, 12/9/2011 (via informationarbitrage)
Vision is better, but we still need gear. →
We all know “gear is good, vision is better,” but we still need gear to make images. Here’s what I use.
I firmly believe that “the best camera is the one that’s with you“; that said, we all have to choose what to carry with us. Here’s what I use.
And why do I carry a camera around with me, and spend most of my time looking for images taken and untaken?
Well, here’s why I love photography:
I...
“We are currently assessing this source code, and over the next month we will be...”
– Motorola explaining their next steps to release Android Ice Cream Sandwich
To an 99.9% of end users, this entire thing must read like pure Latin.
Actually, scratch that.
Pure gibberish.
Worse, when translated, this clearly means it’s going It’s to be months before any Motorola Android user gets...
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“If we continue to base our paid media buys on only the paid media metrics, we...”
– Introducing Adaptly Momentum: Combining Paid, Earned, and Owned Social Media Metrics
Truly excited to see Adaptly (a kbs+ Ventures portfolio company) announce a new metric, called Momentum, to help brands “evaluate how different marketing initiatives impact the overall brand performance...
“For eight months, starting last November, [Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed] was the...”
– After Serving as Somalia’s Prime Minister, Back to Work in Buffalo - NYTimes.com
Talk to Adaptly: Introducing Adaptly Momentum:... →
adaptly:
Social network advertising is like no other digital channel that we’ve ever seen before. Each social network is a platform on its own with a completely unique, non-standard ad experience. Standard ad banners are nowhere to be seen; instead, each platform has embraced integrated…
“Sure professional photographers must work harder today to differentiate their...”
– Don’t Drown In Photography, Get Rich Instead | Chase Jarvis Blog
“Q: What’s your perspective on this perennial tension between creative ideas and...”
– Navigating “The Don’t’s” of Technology in Branding - Forbes
“The crux here, the issue driving this whole “Tebow Thing,” is the...”
– Chuck Klosterman on Tim Tebow - Grantland
“Right now, whenever Broncos vice president of football operations John Elway3...”
– Chuck Klosterman on Tim Tebow - Grantland