May 2012
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Mobile Push Level Agreement - Money is in the...
Steve Gillmor posted yesterday 6 Comments So now we’re in for an apparently unlimited amount of blaming Facebook for just about anything that needs a scapegoat. Take the story that crossed whatever we call the wires these days about how social readers are being destroyed by some tweaking of the Facebook engine. I followed all the links on Bruce Francis’ Cloudblog story and now...
7 ways Comcast is killing the cable killers
By Stacey Higginbotham May. 8, 2012, 3:37pm PT 13 Comments Comcast Tower We’re at a flashpoint in the evolution of television, and the battle lines are getting clearer. We have the pay TV providers who want to keep their high-dollar cable packages going even as broadband has the potential to break their bundle of channels. We also have content companies, some of whom are owned by the...
Guide to the Facebook Open Graph
Posted by Phil Nottingham on February 22, 2012 in the Facebook, Social Media, Video category Open Graph is Facebook’s new protocol which allows 3rd party websites and webapps to connect user activity on-site with user activity on Facebook. Through defining “objects” (piece of content) and “actions” (watch, read, listen etc) Open Graph enables your product to become an integral part of the...
The Interactive AIDS Memorial Quilt Kickstarter...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1769813233/aids-memorial-quilt-mobile-web-app-0 Dear Friends, To honor the 25th anniversary of the creation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, several events are taking place in Washington DC this summer. The QUILT 2012 events begin with the display of the Quilt as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival from June 27-July 8, 2012. Later in July,...
This INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously...
This INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now Charlie Minato | May 17, 2012, 10:22 AM | 550,425 | 250 Maybe this is the reason General Motors went “mental” and pulled its Facebook ad budget. Digital marketing is confusing—really confusing—as this insane graphic shows (below). Trying to navigate through the various new...
A Harvard MBA's radical quest to erase his debt
B-school grad Joe Mihalic went on an extreme financial diet to pay down over $90,000 in debt in just seven months and charted his story through an anonymous blogging project. By John A. Byrne (Poets&Quants) — When he graduated from the Harvard Business School three years ago this month, the economy was a wreck. Nearly one in four of his classmates didn’t have a job at...
Maria Shriver's USC 2012 Commencement Speech,...
Congratulations to the Class of 2012! Posted May 11, 2012 By Gretchen Parker and Jeremy Rosenberg As part of the University of Southern California’s 129th Commencement Ceremonies, USC Annenberg celebrated the conferral of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to 872 students on May 11. (View photos here.) Dean Ernest J. Wilson III reminded graduates of how important their...
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The Beastie Boys changed my life. As young guys growing up in a small town, and feeling like outsiders we had yet to find our heroes until they came a long. Where we grew up Sports ruled all and in high school if you weren’t good at those, you pretty much felt like a nobody. Pretty typical…
Calgon Take Me Away In This Super Bathtub From...
I almost got to try this bad boy out in person, but the scheduling didn’t quite work out. You’re actually lucky, as you now get to see someone beautiful in the bath, and not yours truly. Rub a dub dub. Here’s what’s up: Kohler has built something called the ‘Underscore VibrAcoustic Bath,’ which might be the coolest bit of bathroom tech that we have seen in some time. Yes, we get emails...
April 2012
7 posts
Universal film fest takes flight on American...
Our USC PR Team Delivered This Idea That Was Picked Up! Onboard festival idea developed by USC students By Marc Graser Universal Pictures will launch an inflight film fest on select American Airlines routes, as part of the studio’s centennial celebration and a partnership with the University of Southern California. “Field of Dreams” and “Seabiscuit” will be...
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - YouTube
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List of Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Examples...
Interested in Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing? Follow Open Innovators on twitter or subscribe to the Open Innovators RSS feed! O Intermediary Platforms Research & Development platforms Innocentive - open innovation problem solving TekScout - crowdsourcing R&D solutions IdeaConnection - idea marketplace and problem solving Yet2.com - IP market place PRESANS (beta) - connect and...
Pinterest’s Unlikely Journey To Top Of The Startup...
Derek Andersen posted 3 hours ago 9 Comments Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is founder of Commonred and Startup Grind. Follow him on Twitter @derekjandersen. Over the past 12 months, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing some of the Valley’s best entrepreneurs and investors at Startup Grind. People like Naval Ravikant, Kevin Rose, Tony Conrad, MG Siegler, Jeff Clavier, and others have...
Katalyst Networks presents "Thrash Labs"
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March 2012
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Intel® The Museum of Me
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New Top Level Domains (TLD) open up for $1M
Published on January 13th, 2012 By Adrian Kinderis In this special guest blog which first appeared in Marketing Magazine Australia, Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry Services, says savvy CMOs are poised to get exclusive ownership of an entire product category as the application window for new Top-Level Domains opens this week. In its short history, the Internet has transformed...
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Wired Magazine includes RFID chips in magazine....
While 2D mobile barcodes are getting a lot of attention from magazine publishers and advertisers, Wired is experimenting with another print-mobile ad hybrid by including near-field communication chips in subscriber copies of its April issue, according to Ad Age. Wired is deploying the NFC chips in 500,000 subscriber copies of the magazine as part of an ad for the Lexus GS 2013. Readers with...
What Magazines Can Teach You About Using Pinterest...
With Pinterest’s soaring traffic, entrepreneurs might find it difficult to resist tapping into the social media site’s audience of potential customers. But how can you make Pinterest work for your business? Among the many users on Pinterest, magazine publishers boast some of the most vibrant boards and engaged users. “Pinterest, whose primary audience at the moment appears to...
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One USC Student Trades In His B.A. For An Online...
Two years ago, Matt Plecki did some simple math that would lead to a momentous decision. It was 5 a.m., and Matt had spent the entire night peering at his 22-inch computer monitor. His chemistry textbooks lay at the foot of his bed, unopened. He was expected to be in class in three hours, but he didn’t care. The screen was filled with dark green boxes—sometimes one or two, sometimes...
Knight News Challenge: ParTour: Mapping as... →
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1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
With the Streetsblog Network, we will create “mapping events” nationwide, empowering teams to connect local stories with civic priorities.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Many digital mapping…
Learn What the Student Loan Forgiveness Act Could...
March 8, Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Mich.) introduced H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. Normally we don’t go into the findings of particular pieces of legislation, but the Student Loan Ranger thinks findings like this are refreshing and show Rep. Clarke is living in the reality most of us inhabit, including: Total outstanding student loan debt officially...
Biology: How to create an ant spiral of death(via... →
As creepy as it sounds, the ant spiral of death is deadly only to the ants involved in it. The ants circle and circle into one heaving vortex until they drop dead from exhaustion.
Kraft’s New Name is Crumbelievably Stupid
Kraft’s New Name is Crumbelievably Stupid Kraft Foods Inc. announced today that it plans to change its corporate name to Mondelēz International, Inc. According to a press release, the name “Mondelēz” (pronounced “mohn-dah-LEEZ”) is meant to evoke the idea of “a delicious world.” Monde is the French word for...
Congratulations to the USC student winners...
2012 CRUNCH Winners Congratulations to all of the teams who participated in the 2011-2012 CRUNCH Student Design Challenge! Each of this year’s competing teams brought together students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to create a strong design concept with clear implications for the future of media, journalism and communication. However, the winners were set apart by a...
THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS by Jo Freeman...
by Jo Freeman aka Joreen The earliest version of this article was given as a talk at a conference called by the Southern Female Rights Union, held in Beulah, Mississippi in May 1970. It was written up for Notes from the Third Year (1971), but the editors did not use it. It was then submitted to several movement publications, but only...
The Future of College: The Biggest Classes Are the...
One of California’s largest community colleges has a plan to deal with the age of austerity — charging students more for the most in-demand courses For a long time now, states have been telling their public colleges to do more with less. Legislators have slashed higher education budgets with abandon as enrollment has grown. If you want to see what this will mean for...
Creepy or Not? Foursquare launches a Facebook...
The foursquare check-ins you push to Facebook will now have a much better look when they appear on your timeline thanks to a new timeline app from foursquare. Everyone should be upgraded to the new version automatically. If you have timeline enabled, you’ll see a new foursquare box when you push a check-in to Facebook that appears right in your timeline. It shows your number of recent...
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posted: March 14th, 2012 01:01 pm | 6Comments The Newport Beach City Council moved swiftly on Tuesday, voting unanimously and without any debate to ask staff to remove the city’s 60 beach fire rings because of concerns of safety and air quality. But it will take several months — and Coastal Commission approval — before the rings are gone. Newport Beach City...
The Man Who Could Record Your Dreams - UnFictional...
TUE MAR 13, 2012 Produced by: Bob Carlson Subscribe to this Podcast: Listen to/Watch entire show: Airings: ON AIR/KCRWonair: JUN 7 2005, 1-2P —> On October 26, 2010, Dr. Moran Cerf was a UCLA neuroscience researcher whose project, on the connections between single nerve cells and specific...
SXSW Tests Homeless Hotspots: Not a Terrible Idea
A couple of days into my first-ever SXSW experience, I remarked on Twitter how awesome the Wi-Fi connectivity was at the convention center. Perhaps that’s why I never saw the Homeless Hotspots; I was never desperately searching for connectivity. I did see homeless people—much as you would in any major metropolitan city—but none of them were carrying a 4G MiFi. Had I seen any of them, I don’t...
9 Astounding Photoshop Transformations [VIDEOS]
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Forget MP3s: Soon You'll Download Your Sneakers...
We’re at a watershed moment for intellectual property. Not a day after online protests drove Congress to shelve SOPA/PIPA, the feds demonstrated that they don’t even need new laws to crack down on websites that threaten the interests of moneyed rights holders. They unceremoniously shuttered Megaupload, spooking other services that cloud-host users’ files. ...
The Pirate Bay Switches from Torrents to...
The Pirate Bay Switches from Torrents to Untraceable Magnet Links By Jon Mitchell / February 28, 2012 2:52 PM / 1 Comment inShare47 The Pirate Bay will no longer link to .torrent files. It will use better technology instead. “Today marks the end of an era,” the Pirate Bay blog says. “Sort of.” The...
New York Times Facebook Timeline harks back to...
Facebook’s new Timeline for Pages gives The New York Times an opportunity to show off its history, all the way back to 1851. The paper’s original name was the “New-York Daily Times.” (Credit: Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) My Facebook Timeline goes back to when I was born, but lists no notable events until 1994. I’m a veritable blip on the Timeline...
Wealth And Ethics Study Finds Rich People More...
MONTREAL - A new study says rich people are more likely to engage in unethical behaviour than their poorer counterparts — like cutting off motorists, lying in a negotiation and cheating to win a prize. That’s the finding from researchers at the University of California and the University of Toronto, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...
Sprinkles Announces Cupcake ATM: LAist
Sprinkles Ice Cream joins their cupcake shop in Beverly Hills. Plus, check out that pink cupcake ATM that will presumably be how you get your 24-Hour-Sprinkles (Photo via Sprinkles on Facebook) If you’re craving a cupcake in the middle of the night, unless you planned ahead and have some on your counter, your only choice might be those nasty ones at your local all-night grocery store....
February 2012
28 posts
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before...
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect [UPDATE 2/22/2012] It is important to note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. More information at the end of this post. On March 1st, Google will implement its new,...
How to Remove Your YouTube Viewing and Search...
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Earlier this week, we showed you how to delete your Google Web History in order to prevent Google from combining your Web History data with the data it has about you on its other products to provide you with...
LA County makes it easier to dine with dogs - CBS...
(AP) LOS ANGELES — It just got easier for many Los Angeles-area pet owners to wine and dine their dogs. LA County public health officials announced Monday that restaurants can now allow canine companions into their outdoor dining areas. Supervisor Don Knabe says the policy has been a long time in coming and will allow a chance for small businesses to attract more customers. Public Health...
Bobby Pin Blog: Retro waves falling in your face
In my post about a bride a couple weeks ago, I promised I would show you the technique I used on her hair. This is a really popular hair curling technique right now as you can see from the image above and all over the internet. Many hair stylists are using it for anything from beachy waves to a fingerwave feel. Most Youtube videos show this process starting at the root and working your way down....
Victorian Wedding Hairstyle Reader Request: Bobby...
Victorian Wedding Hairstyle Reader Request A reader requested that I offer directions on how I did the Victorian bride last summer. http://bobbypinblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/something-different-for-me-victorian.html This was a quickie. When I did this hairstyle on Laura it took almost 2 hours from start to finish. She was a perfectionist so there was a lot of moving small pieces around...
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