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Twitter works just fine – but for investors, anything except total market domination is a disaster | Comment is free | The Guardian

Nothing better illustrates capitalism’s addiction to illogic than the mismatch between Twitter’s workability and its unpopularity with Wall Street [...] Any company that cannot demonstrate a clear route to monopolising its space, monetising its users’ data on a vast scale, is to be discarded, targeted for acquisition, consigned to perpetual dowdiness. [...] When I’ve pointed to Wikipedia, Apache or Linux as harbingers of a new, non-market, open source economics, one of the stock responses is: “now show us something more spectacular.” The problem is, these modest, functional and free products are already in their own way spectacular. Wikipedia is the biggest information product in the world; Apache runs half the world’s web servers; and Linux is the system of choice for at least a third of all servers (the computers that run businesses) and 97% of the world’s supercomputers.

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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800-Pound Publishing Gorilla Facebook Barges Back Into Blogging With “Notes” | TechCrunch

Facebook’s advantage is its distribution. The same weapon it’s used to barge into web publishing with Instant Articles and video hosting with its auto-play clips could help it invade blogging. It’s similar to how LinkedIn used its natural traffic to launch a professional-minded publishing network. People will write where they get an audience. If that’s Facebook, they’ll publish there. And while Twitter doesn’t discriminate, showing every post to everyone, Facebook’s filtered feed shows you what it thinks you’ll actually consume [and what's in their best own interest, keeping you on FB, favouring native content of link-out content]. [ step by step, FB is productizing - offering more to advertisers how to reach their user base, leverage its huge user base, Big Data, users data, the ceiling for FB earnings is far off! and thus its market cap (valuation). could nearly double again from its 250bn. it doubled in 5 years from IPO slump. ] // &! wrd.cm/1Pw2v5w

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Reid Hoffman on best strategies, valuable lessons, the PayPal mafia & creating early social networks - YouTube

book on culture, HR & career // 4 companies that inspire HR and culture - Amazon (Jeff Bezos) 'obsess over customer,' 'invent in the name for customer,' 'it's still day 1,' &! Zappos (Tony Hseih) 'everyone is a customer advocate' &! Netflix (Reed Hastings) 'Freedom & Responsibility' &! TeamTreehouse (Ryan Carson) '4 day work week,' 'think like an owner,' 'productivity; work@work, dont collaborate @ the cafeteria,' 'less Google.' 'dont guilt people 2stay in the office 4 10-12 hours with perks' &! Buffer's Transparency & Communication &! 37signals/wordpress & garyv be nice & respectful. // &maybe too Skidelsky: leisure time. and 25 days of holidays. Alain de Botton - work doesnt have 2be ur sole identity! & actually shouldnt be. // &! min 57 hiring advice! mix highly talented driven hungry learning machines (people) with 1-2 people with some kind of experience 4 guidance and not making mistakes that have been don't already elsewhere (& holding also a mirror up >> anti-dogma)

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Google and blogs: “Shit.” – Marco.org

Landscaped changed dramatically ~2009/10 forward for blogs/content creators. >> blogs have to be now niche, focused, regular content w engagement (due to algos/ranking), ... // "If you want traffic, Google’s arc makes clear to publishers, you’re going to have to pay for it." Include Facebook. Include Twitter (Promoted Tweets). Include Snapchat (Discover, Linkedin (Pulse). >> All gained sized, thus noise, people gaming the system, ... thus owner changes rules and system for his/her advantage and gain (profit maximization). // // even content curators (by hand) can be 1/2 noise. And the summaries are just shorter bouts of noise to scan through (medium.com, Mahalo) - its like joining the dark force. // Things come and go in waves/trends; thus the next wave/trend could be self-published long-form niche content partially free (The Information, ebooks, Pando) which are remarkable (Seth Godin) // snacking is SO western lifestyle, even for information/news - is lowering productivity/focus

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may 2015 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Google warns Blogger users over porn

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-explicit-adult-content-from-blogger-blogs/ - Google bans 'explicit' adult content from Blogger blogs Summary:In an abrupt reversal of policy, Google will soon disappear blogs on its Blogger platform that don't conform to its new anti-adult policies. [...] "Google: Removing content it doesn't like" [...] [...] [opt] to move to self-hosting, which is a safer option than trusting art, writing or creative speech to any conservative company. [...] [Search as public utility, unencumbered by politics nor religion and other things.] // question, snapchat already blocked porners from receiving money via its internal payment product for snaps/paid snaps. question, will it ban nudity when it went public and the company turns into a grown up with grown-up supervision? &! zdnet.com/article/timeline-googles-role-in-global-sex-censorship/ &! http://pando.com/2015/02/24/silicon-valleys-war-on-sex-continues-as-google-bans-adult-blogs/

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Why Reddit's new 'no remote worker' policy is upsetting | VentureBeat | Business | by Tom Cheredar

See the thing is, people are likely upset because they look at Reddit as the anti-establishment — that if these guys (aka Reddit) can rise to the top without becoming a Yahoo or Facebook, then there’s hope for all the people in Salt Lake City, Nashville, Atlanta, and every other middle-of-nowhere city in the country with a decent Internet connection. People who live outside of Silicon Valley can still be all-stars in the technology world — and Reddit is a big part of that. So people were understandably rattled, and probably feeling more than a little defensive about this issue. (That’s not to say there wasn’t also plenty of healthy discussion about business philosophies of remote workers, too.)

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Native advertising remains an awkward — but very necessary — mess | PandoDaily

http://bit.ly/1rRdtax "“We can buy page views… but we can’t buy time spent,” Segrist said, euphorically. The New York Times jumped “full force” into native 12 months ago, according to Tomich. “It’s been incredibly successful,” he said. “Success is limitless with this type of advertising.”" | http://bit.ly/1nZKdcB + http://bit.ly/1rzyfxM + http://bit.ly/1umjzEp + http://bit.ly/1zbHXYd + http://bit.ly/1rzJEMB "Facebook is no longer a social network. It’s the world’s most powerful news reader [...] I no longer go to the New York Times front page to start my day. I get there through the ‘side door.’ Facebook. [...] Facebook drives massively more referral traffic than Twitter, and publishers I’ve surveyed confide that the ratio can be as high as ten or twenty to one. [Even Pinterest comes before Twitter]" + http://bit.ly/1A0SAhX + http://bit.ly/1xbawCh

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july 2014 by asterisk2a

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LadyBits’ First and Last Year on Medium — LadyBits on Medium — Medium

https://medium.com/ladybits-on-medium || Ev & Biz bankrolling writers. ""A rare insight into Medium-the-terribly-run-magazine as opposed to Medium-the-impressive-publishing-platform + ""The most surprising part of the Ladybits story about working with Medium is that Medium offered terrible analytics + """Nobody knew where the money was coming from to pay writers." On working as an editor at Medium. + ""If you're wondering about the @Medium biz model, LadyBits' @arikia explains — just as she's walking out the door. + ""The best sign Medium is YouTube for text: contributors quitting over discovery and rev share! || +++ ppl talk about going so fast that you think you have nearly no control. otherwise you are not moving fast enough.

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june 2014 by asterisk2a

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On Google's new Search Algo Push/Update - Called Panda.

Lesson Learned. Don't build your business on other peoples platform. Even if it is search. Meaning if your business is primarily impressions/unique visitors coming in via search, or even Social Media (FB - newsfeed algo, Twitter - noise + search algo, Pinterest - search algo, Amazon - product search) ... then you have one more thing to worry about every day - because you can't fix it if they break it for you. +++ http://recode.net/2014/05/23/yes-google-punished-ebay-for-bad-seo-practices-but-it-wasnt-part-of-panda-update/

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service | TechCrunch

DropBox turining itself into a data platform with all the imaginary auxillary apps and services you can think of. Being your storage place for everything and the gateways are apps, services and software. .... SMART. Very SMART. Documents. Pictures. ... Video and Audio Files next. Blogging Style Public documents w comments ... would be quiet a stretch but not impossible. ... >> Dropbox acquires Bubbli (iOS), a startup that built tech for people to capture 360° views w/ their phones; will integrate tech w/ @dropbox; raised $2M from August Capital - Link

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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WordPress.com Parent Automattic Has Raised $160 Million, Now Valued at $1.16 Billion Post-Money | Re/code

Wordpress - democratising publishing. Wordpress VIP plus its new corporate communication platform geto2.com - will compete with the likes of Yammer (MSFT owned) and Slack, atlassian's platforms as well as Salesforce's platform. smart raising a round when money is flushing around - hunt for yield. taking the money for the long-term. likely giving them +5 years runway and solidifying their publishing platform might. there will be acqui-hires along the way I guess. + Automattic’s competitors have certainly been investing, noted Mullenweg. In their last rounds, Weebly raised $35 million, Squarespace $40 million and Medium $25 million. In addition, Wix is currently valued at around $730 million, raising $127 million, in an IPO. ... Automattic's aim is, to become cash-flow positive - I guess. Not in a hurry but naturally with pushing mobile, e-commerce and the Freemium model (driving up conversion) on Wordpress.com.

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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Jonah Peretti: “Both Time and BuzzFeed grew by creating irresistible lists” | PandoDaily

Marc Andreessen on future of journalism "go broad as possible or pick a niche"

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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Best Personal WordPress Themes | ThemeForest
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august 2013 by asterisk2a

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rickwebb's tumblrmajig, lauraolin: Ablogalypse is upon us, right on...

Tumblr surpassed Blog in search queries.

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january 2013 by asterisk2a

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Announcing an audacious proposal | Dalton Caldwell

The advertising-supported monoculture

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” - Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera

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I want a real alternative to advertising hell… I would gladly pay for a service that treats me better.

The disappointment of Web 2.0

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december 2012 by asterisk2a

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Matt Mullenweg is Interviewed by Om Malik at LeWeb Paris 2012 - YouTube

Twitter and Facebook got as users the advertisers, and people are data.

Gotta make money.

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december 2012 by asterisk2a

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How Twitter can save itself from Doom. (Scripting News)
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may 2010 by asterisk2a

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The Ultimate Guide to Wordpress Hacks & Customizations | Graphic and Web Design Blog
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april 2010 by asterisk2a

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Google CEO Disses Blogging - Eric Schmidt - Gawker
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april 2010 by asterisk2a

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30 Brand New Quality Wordpress Themes - Speckyboy Design Magazine
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april 2010 by asterisk2a

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BuddyPress.org – WordPress Social Network Software

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.

BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience.

Global, personal and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favoriting and @mentions. All with full RSS feed and email notification support.