Just because few have captured the essence of Wall Street quite like the following "Straight talk with Global Century" SNL skit from the recent past, which reminds us that the more things change, the more they stay the same: a timely reminder in the aftermath of the FB bloodbath. Thanks to Mike Krieger for the reminder

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Steve Jobs laid out a vision for the iPhone that by many people’s accounts has arrived—we’d rather leave home without our wallet than our smartphone. We’ve become accustomed to an extreme degree of always-on connectedness. As a result, mobile has become the new face of engagement for brands and marketers, and push notifications are how they message directly to consumers’ home screens. With more than 1 million apps in the App Store and Google Play, the competition to be a go-to app on consumers’...  show all text

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On Thursday Facebook had the third-largest I.P.O. ever. In the week leading up it, my colleague Amanda Cox spent some time thinking how to best explain and contextualize this offering to readers. What follows is a series of sketches from Amanda, who shared her project folder with me for this post, and Matt Ericson, who edited the piece. The universe of initial public offerings is seemingly simple: about 2,400 tech companies since 1980, compiled by Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the Unive...  show all text

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Father of the Internet” Vint Cerf on Monday warned that Internet freedom is under threat from governments around the world, including the United States. Cerf, a computer scientist who was instrumental in the Internet’s creation, now employed by Google as its Internet evangelist, said officials in the U.

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(This post was prepared in collaboration with Dan Drinkard) Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did just seven years ago, with the most conservative members of Congress speaking on average at the lowest grade level, according to a new Sunlight Foundation analysis of the Congressional Record using Capitol Words. Of course, what some might interpret as a dumbing down of Congress, others will see as more effective communications. And lawmakers of both parties still speak...  show all text

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We need to stop pandering to our "digital native" students and provide structures and platforms that better enable their success.

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On Sunday, Northern Italy was rocked by a magnitude-6.0 earthquake. In the process, many cheese factories in the region suffered damage—and it is estimated that over 300,000 wheels of cheese, thought to be worth at least $320 million, have been destroyed. More »

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Join the Firefox Add-ons team at Mozilla's headquarters in Mountain View for an informative evening of food, drinks, and prizes!Learn best practices for getting your add-ons approved, and hear c

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I keep meaning to write this post every time I go to the ATM. Depending on your bank, you may have used a modernized ATM, e.g. one that has no envelopes for deposits, but instead, scans your checks and cash to determine the amount you’re depositing. Pretty good idea, right? Cuts back on the manual process of opening all those deposit envelops, removes the overhead cost to print and stock those envelopes, removes the need for deposit slips, etc. The problem is how much time it wastes for the end...  show all text

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Digital studio Grouek designed this Web GL website that allows anyone to create its paper toy in 3 easy steps. Please access with Google Chrome.

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YouTube has seen its video uploads grow 50 percent over the last year: Users are now uploading 72 hours of video every minute, compared to 48 hours just a year ago. The Google-owned video site announced the milestone Sunday night to celebrate its seventh birthday. The amount of video uploaded to YouTube has increased steadily over the last few years. In early 2007, users were uploading six hours of video every minute to the site. By January of 2009, that number had grown to 15 hours. By March of  show all text

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Mozilla Corporation is hiring! View and apply for the Engineering Project Manager, Releases (Mountain View, San Francisco, Toronto) Job at Mozilla Corporation in Mountain View, San Francisco, Toronto

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Forbes published an article criticizing my Tesla comic. This is my response. View

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Incident is raising funds for gTar: The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play on Kickstarter! The gTar is a fully digital guitar that enables anybody to play music quickly and easily with the help of LEDs and a docked iPhone

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Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web’s most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change of leadership happened last week. The firm’s latest figures — spotted by Global Nerdy blogger Joey deVilla – show that Chrome’s line of usage creeped overtook IE’s for the first week ever, with Firefox, Safari and Opera completing the top five respectively. Statcounter’s findings give Google a doub...  show all text

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We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form would provide access to patients and caregi

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About.me lets you quickly build simple and visually elegant splash pages that points visitors to your content from around the web. Get started today.

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Google's problem is they used Facebook as their guide to upgrading their view of what the Internet is. And that led them away from their strength, and into what I think is a dead-end. Much as Microsoft was led into a dead-end by the web in the 1990s. The problem with Facebook's approach is more than it has centralized all access to user's data, which they have. They've also centralized the flow of new ideas to the Internet. If you buy the idea that Facebook is the Internet, which is of course t...  show all text

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About.Me is set to get a bit more social. The AOL-owned property just released a public API and SDK into the wild in partnership with Reputation.com, Smarterer, Forkly, Kred and Showyou. While the online profile site already worked with most popular social platforms, today’s announcement is huge for both about.me and their legions of users. Plus, for attendees of Disrupt NYC this week, the company is celebrating the news by having a professional photographer on hand to help create free killer p...  show all text

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I’m proud to tell everyone that two of your regular writers here, me and Nichole Kelly, have decided to merge our companies to form a new digital marketing agency. It will be a division of Social Media Explorer called SME Digital. Nichole is now the president of our new effort to combine forces. We’d love to talk to you about how we can help your company with strategy and implementation of social media and digital marketing to produce measures that connect with the three things that matter: sal...  show all text

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Dan Benjamin shares his thoughts about The Talk Show.

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Share your Search. Rediscover search through your friends and community on the all new social search experiment from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs.

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