December 2009
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99 Most Hunted Songs of 09 via @we_are_hunted
Discover the 99 most popular songs and artists of 2009.
http://wearehunted.com/2009/
These are the songs and artists who spent the most time in our top 10 throughout 2009.
Happy New Year!
Stephen Phillips founder / cto http://wearehunted.com http://twitter.com/we_are_hunted
Songs
1. Island, Is / Volcano Choir 2. Trust / Old Canes 3. Ambling Alp / Yeasayer 4. Terminally Chill / Neon Indian 5....
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Boom goes the VOIP!
GigaOM’s article, AT&T to FCC: Let My Landlines Go! – http://bit.ly/5CkXX8 touches on the next great battle shaping… VOIP!
In the article AT&T offers some other scary stats:
Between 2000 and 2008, total interstate and intrastate switched access minutes have fallen 42 percent.
For the incumbent local exchange carriers, revenue from wireline telephone service fell to $130.8...
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Will 2010 be a Tech Boom for Women?
Women 2.0’s Female Founder Successes of 2009 is below but the list isn’t closed…
Are you a female founder with a success to celebrate in 2009?
Join the list - Give us a sentence description of your accomplishment(s) in 2009, your full name, company name, and company link or relevant article to foundrtickr@women2.org. This list of Female Founders is limited to founders of technology...
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Put Your Brand to the Test
The Lovemark Profiler: Put Your Brand To The Test
Instructions: Answer the following questions with a YES or NO answer. If you can answer YES to all the questions, congratulations, your brand is a Lovemark! If you can not answer YES to all of the questions below, identify the section where love is needed.
RESPECT
It’s the consumer that decides whether something is a Lovemark - and the consumer...
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Lovemarks
Lovemarks was named one of the ten best Ideas of the Decade by Advertising Age magazine.
It’s the thing you recognize in a brand but never knew what to call it…
…the thing that makes you treat a brand like family - supporting their efforts, applauding their successes, and consoling their failures.
Lovemarks are the brands consumers love.
Check out a sample of the Latest...
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Why Google is Advertising Chrome
The universal login is a concept I’ve been posting about…
(see http://jaredzlotnick.tumblr.com/post/258217707/single-sign-on)
It will make life on the internet easier - driving the semantic web faster and further. It’s also the key to your digital identity and it has every Advertiser in the world drooling.
Techcrunch has a great article on the browser login as the singular...
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Will Personal Brands Survive The Content Farms?
Technology and demand content platforms are moving toward content farms, which will fight a negative connotation for a period of time before they’re identified as a necessary evil of journalism economics.
One content farm platform, SEED, has caught the eye of the digital media industry.
SEED assigns, buys and distributes work for all of AOL’s properties: more than 80 of the...
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Watchwatching @steviedove host the red carpet premier of NINE!
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Do you work at Emory University Hospital?
A very good friend NEEDS an invite to the @emoryhealthcare clinical trial using #stemcells to slow #ALS (Lou Gherig’s Disease)
If you can help DM me! Thx!
http://bit.ly/7PbzCT
Emory University will be the site of the first U.S. clinical trial that focuses on using stem cells to slow the progression of adults with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Rockville, Md.-based Neuralstem Inc. (Amex: CUR)...
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A World of Freelancers
Thomas Friedman recently opined on how “the great recession and great inflection are making our companies ultralean, innovative and productive.”
He describes “the Great Inflection (as) the mass diffusion of low-cost, high-powered innovation technologies — from hand-held computers to Web sites that offer any imaginable service — plus cheap connectivity. They are transforming how...
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HOLIDAY FT. JACK JOHNSON (MADONNA) | G. LOVE
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Hyper-local: Fresh Air for a Carbon Tax
Hyper-local purchase incentives are creating an accidental carbon tax!
Huh? You’re right, that probably didn’t make sense upon first read. Let me take a step back and we’ll think this one through out loud.
If it’s more cost efficient for me to purchase local products and services I will.
It’s the reason we choose to shop at the Costco in Harlem rather than the...
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Watchlet this roll with the volume up and you’ll never stop… the Pursuit of Happiness #KidCudi #MGMT #RATATAT @janehotelnyc
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Google and the Innovator's Dilemma
Irwin Gotlieb, Global CEO of GroupM, the world’s largest media buying and planning agency, says Google does one thing brilliantly, but “will probably be leapfrogged by something that two Ph.D.’s in China are working on.”
This quote from Ken Auletta’s book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, recalls Bill Gates proclamation, repeated earlier in the book that...
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Visual Search via Augmented Reality
ReadWriteWeb published an excellent article on Visual Search via Mobile Photos but what does this mean to you?!
It means the wall between your physical and digital world is coming down. Imagine raising your smartphone camera to capture that little black dress in the window and receiving instantaneous information on the designer, store, where to buy, and comparison pricing!
[With Visual Search,...
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the case for unbranded
When advertisers go app shopping consider the following case for unbranded:
1. Organic traffic
Why dedicate the time, effort, and $ to build an audience?! when you can engage an existing, engaged population in their chosen environment.
Not to mention the clutter!
“There’s so much clutter and just such a flood of apps out there that unless you’re really looking for them, or...
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Leading the Herd
this morning @fredwilson wrote about two approaches in the venture business:
[…the contrarian approach. Go where the money isn’t.
Or be earlier than everyone and anticipate where the herd is going to be next.]
I prefer a combination of the two. Identify the white space no one else sees and build a groundswell of passion for it - lead the herd!
The tipping point that defines these...
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the morning soundtrack is left as rain →
nice find @fredwilson! #musicblog