Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. – Ira Glass

You know, we started obviously in Apple using the iPad well before it was launched. Of course, we had our shades pulled and everything so nobody could see us. What I started noticing about my own personal behavior, it quickly became 80 to 90 percent of my consumption and work was done on the iPad. – Tim Cook

It gets overstated but it’s worth nothing again and again.  Apple wants to make the tablet a computer.  Amazon wants to make the tablet a consumption device.

It all depends on your needs.

In two years time you won’t be able to tell the difference between television and the Internet.

So why does a company like Google with an Internet video monopoly in YouTube want to get in the TV game?

Ice cream sandwich. Attack the other end of the screen and squash the advertisers and content owners in the middle.

That’s domination and it’s coming to a TV near you.

I’m glad to have taken part in the last 2 Startup meetups in my town, Stamford CT.

There have been some exciting startup
presentations including one from Kogeto, a recently released 360 camera that attaches to your iPhone.

And even more excited that the town just announced that its historic town hall will turn into a workspace and incubator for startups.

Stamford is about a 40 minute train ride outside NYC. It’s impossible to miss the stock floor trading grounds just outside the train station. The town is also rapidly building apartments nearby.

I’m thrilled to see the East Coast creating its own Silicon Valley. It just makes sense. The talent, knowledge, and money is right there. Now it’s just about the will to create, fail, and establish the next big thing.

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From mouse to touchscreen to Google glasses. Real-time information is coming to the tip of your eyeballs.

Google thinks we’ll need augmented reality glasses for activities like driving and exploration.

I thought lasik was the only advanced eye operation I’d ever get.

I rarely click on friends’ links, pretty much undermining the theory of peer to peer sharing.

But this wasn’t always the case. Twitter flipped trust and interest into admiration for people I didn’t necessarily know but had real expertise.

Even for entertainment based links about Jeremy Lin highlights or funny videos, I’m more likely to click from someone I don’t know than someone I do.

I admittedly spend more time checking Twitter.  Still, the click per time spent is still remarkably higher.

I will say though that Facebook’s real time frictionless ticker grabs my eye often. And I’m more likely to click there than within the Facebook stream. This is probably because it displays bit sized information as opposed to long for content which I describe as anything more than 140+ characters with embedded content.

One thing I certainly do less of is search.  The information I want and need is out there in the air and my Tweeps and friends are just giving it to me for free.

Maybe I just want to learn and discover new stuff.

23 Jazzy Hip Hop Instrumentals that can’t be released in the United States because of certain “samples.”

On the Internet, artists go direct.  The world is (beat) flat.

Get it from Bandcamp.

Straight out of Santa Ana.

Websites that want to prevent pinning will now see this error message:

This site doesn’t allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!

Pinterest is offering the code to any site owner although users can still download images and upload them to Pinterest as their own.

The code enables Pinterest to fence-sit on copyright and warns content owners to think twice about forgoing its 11 million repinning and rabid traffic drivers.

Ultimately, Pinterest is banking on hesitation.  It’s free, drives site traffic, and is joins Facebook’s frictionless sharing with its app.

Pinterest has the content owners exactly where it wants them.

The Hashtag sign that is now the standard language for every social network.

“If you’re not a hashtag you don’t exist!” – Hugh MacLeod