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Jack Dorsey the Zen Master

November 11, 2011

I had a great day yesterday at the GigaOM Roadmap conference. The agenda had a number of great speakers including Brian Cheskey of AirBnB and Tony Fadell of Nest, the red hot company that is re-defining what a thermostat should look like. The thesis the conference explored is one that Om Malik (now my boss) has [...]

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Digital Cartography

November 7, 2011

Eric Fischer takes large datasets and turns them into art. His flickr stream is a collection of fascinating time-series maps plotting data over time to draw out shapes which take on a greater meaning. Weather it’s a map of taxis in San Francisco or an overlay of flickr metadata on top of NYC, Eric’s creations are at once [...]

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

October 27, 2011

There’s the 10 o’clock news and then there’s the sound of helicopters over my house as they fly back and forth to the airport so they can refuel and go back and watch. It’s now past midnight and #occupyoakland and #occupysf are flowing with updates from hundreds of cell phones out on the streets. There [...]

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Chris Poole on Identity

October 18, 2011

Chris Poole (4chan, canv.as) spoke about identity at the Web 2.0 Summit going on right now in San Francisco. Many point to his talk as the most impactful and thought-provoking. Facebook and Google do identity wrong, Twitter does it better, and I want to think about what the world would be like if we did [...]

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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

October 6, 2011

Raise one to Steve – who celebrated the crazy ones.

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Flaming Lips makes the upsell into an art form

September 20, 2011

I’ve written about the innovative use of the premium upsell as something instructive for anyone selling premium content. I just learned about the Flaming Lips Gummy Bear skull which they released earlier this year which has turned the whole premium upsell thing into an art form. I love it! Embedded inside a 7-pound gummy bear [...]

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Google Wallet in the Wild

September 18, 2011

OK, call me an idiot if I missed something but I just saw a headline speculating on rumors about a launch date for Google Wallet. Everyone’s searching around online for leaked memos for clues but meanwhile, in the real world, at the Peets in downtown SF, I already see a Google Wallet reader right there [...]

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Those Who Seek Beauty, Will Find It

September 18, 2011

Over the weekend I saw the film, Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary about the New York Times street fashion photographer. It’s been years since I’ve wandered into to the Style section of the Times where Bill’s weekly On the Street photo-scrapbook lives (this week’s column, Reality Check). The film is an inspiration to those [...]

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Google Flight Search UI – Brilliant

September 15, 2011

Google’s Flight Search scatter plot visualization of fares is brilliant. Word is that fare data is still light (they don’t have any international, non-US fares) but the UI has put all other travel comparison sites on notice.

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Airbnb started as Air Mattress, Bed and Breakfast

September 8, 2011

Touching story about how Airbnb started and grew into what it is today. Talk given by Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founder. PSFK CONFERENCE NYC 2011: Joe Gebbia from Piers Fawkes on Vimeo.

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