"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google’s own issues with creating platforms on Google+. Apparently, he only wanted to share it internally with everybody at Google, but mistaken shared it publicly. For the most part, Yegge’s post focusses on the horrors of working at Amazon, a company that is notorious for its political infighting. The most interesting part to me, though, is Yegge’s blunt assessment of what he perceives to be Google’s inability to understand platforms and how this could endanger the company in the long run. Google Engineer: [ continue reading Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms” ] “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!! #IAmSpartacus #twitterjoketrial “ Social networks, those loose, busy and self-absorbing communities of Facebookers and Twitterers, have always invited analogies from the insect world. If we are to accept the most common of them, then in the past week, Malcolm Gladwell, provocateur-in-chief at the New Yorker magazine, has poked a sharp stick into the online ants’ nest. The twitterers have responded to his provocation by swarming on to blogs and websites to protect their uniting belief: that the future belongs to them. Gladwell is a spirited contrarian. His argument in the New Yorker was an attack on the prevalent idea that online [ continue reading Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell ] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Anthony McNeill MANL Twitter Dissertation: .) People are boasting on Google’s behalf of their prowess in being able to catch Apple in market share. It is impressive, but not as much as you might think. Apple has never tried to lock-out their competitors, they’ve never designed their product strategies for market share. Jobs said that in a recent interview (I think it was at the D conference). Google has been able to do to Apple in mobile devices what Microsoft did to Apple in PCs, because Apple would rather control their share of the market and have a single target defined by both hardware and software [ continue reading Google vs iPhone and Facebook ] Is your Council on Twitter? Last time I checked, in March last year, your council probably wasn’t. And now it probably is. A total of twenty London boroughs have taken the plunge and are attempting to interact online with their residents, with varying degrees of success. Some are merely promoting council services, consultations or events. Some tediously regurgitate press releases and chop them off after the first 140 characters. Most only broadcast, while others occasionally respond. And a few are occasionally interesting, or useful, or even both. Here’s a clickable summary of how those 20 councils are doing, [ continue reading Twitterburra ] Popular stream reader TweetDeck turned two on July 4th, and founder Iain Dodsworth just put up a post giving an update on the company’s progress. Tweetdeck now employs 15 people and recently raised more than $3 million in a series B round, led by betaworks. The company’s product started out as a Twitter client, but now supports multiple streams, including Facebook, Foursquare, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, and Myspace. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch TweetDeck Turns Two, Desktop App Passes 15 Million Downloads: .) [ continue reading TweetDeck Turns Two, Desktop App Passes 15 Million Downloads ] Every day, thousands of stories are passed around the internet on blogs and via Twitter. A new study by Journalism.org has examined the source of those stories. It turns out, most of them come from old-school media. We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning’s newspaper. This is a look at where blogs and Twitter users are getting their stories, and what kind of stories their users are most likely to link to. Source: Journalism.org A collaboration between GOOD and Part & Parcel. (CLICK HERE FOR [ continue reading Transparency: Where the Stuff on the Internet Comes From ] I have found in my brief forty-two years on the planet that everyone has a different spectrum of friendship. Some people I barely know appear to consider me a friend, and that’s typically charming (if perhaps misguided). Other people I have known for many years are still rather formal with me, despite dozens to hundreds of contacts. Pondering Friendship Online: Focus on Intimacy ] Has there ever been a startup that’s had so much success despite itself — despite its complete lack of understanding about how people use its service? Let’s hope for Ev’s sake that Twitter ads work better than most Twitter products. Otherwise, he might be this generation’s John Sculley, the guy who took over Apple, fired its founder, launched a bunch of dumb products, and almost killed the company. via Is Twitter’s Ev Williams The New John Sculley?. TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air desktop app for social networks (though an HTML5 version is on the way), has now integrated Foursquare into its latest release. The move represents the latest from the startup to grab the “social dashboard” crown against the likes of Seesmic and others, although Tweetdeck seems to be heading towards a kind of “Pro User” space more than anything else. Now, adding your Foursquare account into Tweetdeck adds a location column. This has the handy benefit that Foursquare tweets can now be filtered out of your “All Friends” twitter column. A lot of people [ continue reading Tweetdeck Adds Location Column, Integrates Foursquare ] Your digital life can be split into two parts: content and data. You know plenty about the content: that oh-so-hilarious tweet you punched out after closing time, or those delicious pictures of the new baby posted on Flickr especially for your aunt in Australia. You create this stuff, and much of the privacy argument has been over whether strangers or ex-girlfriends or even your parents should be allowed to see it without your express permission. Yet all that is a handful of dust compared to the cascades of data about yourself that you shed daily. What sort of information? [ continue reading Facebook, Google and Twitter: custodians of our most intimate secrets ] We already knew it was hours if not minutes away – see our earlier report – and it’s perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year’s day). Yes folks, the official Twitter app for iPhone is here, you know the one expected based on Tweetie ever since Twitter bought the company. We expect other iPhone app stores around the world to propagate shortly. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch Yes Folks, The Official iPhone Twitter App Is Here: .) [ continue reading Yes Folks, The Official iPhone Twitter App Is Here ] The internet is Ochlocratia and all attempts to institute Theocratia or Oligcratia are doomed to fail In both of these “closed” examples, Facebook and the App Store, they key to longevity is a movement towards open. If either Facebook or Apple resist that, they’ll become AOL. Something will come along and shove them out of way. It has happened before. It will happen again. And it will keep happening. It’s inevitable. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability: .) [ continue reading Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability ] I wrote yesterday’s piece about Twitter very quickly, too quickly — because I came up with a shitty title that didn’t reflect how I was thinking about it. We’re in the phase of the tech loop where what matters is how impressive your latest press event was. To illustrate the effect of a great press event, look at this post by Scoble where he basically says Game Over, point-set-match to Facebook, checkmate, everyone go home, the fat lady has sung, etc etc. The problem is that Scoble (who I love as a dear friend) will write the same freaking [ continue reading How Twitter can save itself from Doom ] With last week’s declaration by Twitter that it intends to start identifying places based on the coordinates of geo-coded Tweets, the location land rush is in full swing. A long list of companies including Twitter, Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, SimpleGeo, Loopt, and Citysearch are far along in creating separate databases of places mapped to their geo-coordinates. Mapping businesses, in particular, to the GPS locations near where people are checking in, Tweeting from or pegging a photo is the first step to be able to show them geo-targeted ads, which could help fuel local mobile online advertising in a [ continue reading it’s time for an open database of places ] “If Twitter wants to be a force for good they should stick to small things they have high leverage over, not fancy “big picture” things that any other rich person could do. Bill Gates made this mistake. Instead of cutting off the air supply of his competitors and landing his company in antitrust hell, he could have been a Force For Good by welcoming competition as a way to keep his company tough and on their toes and responsive to customers. [ continue reading Twitter as a force for good? ] Logging into Twitter over the last few days, users are being prompted to update their profiles. According to the AP, Twitter is encouraging people to allow their e-mail addresses and mobile phone numbers to be included in the service’s search index. Let’s be honest, this is more of a Twitter acquisition strategy than a Twitter service improvement. The more information Twitter has about its users, the more it can charge advertisers. Twitter may push out 50 million tweets every day, but after four years in business the blue birdie needs to make some bank. (CLICK HERE FOR [ continue reading Social Media Spring Cleaning Tips – important ] | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. 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