April 2012
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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“Obama fielded a facetious question from then-CEO Eric Schmidt: “What is the most...”
– He’s too cool. The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 23rd
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The Twitter RSVP System
Today, Nike announced a new way to reserve and purchase exclusive shoes. My intuition believes that this system is intended to relieve the mayhem around big shoe releases.  All you have to do is wait for your local Nike Twitter account to “open” RSVP’s with a Tweet at a random time on the shoe’s launch date. You then send a DM with some information: the shoe’s...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 16th
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“The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower...”
– Jeff Bezos to Amazon shareholders.
Apr 15th
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“Everyone has something to say, something to contribute, everyone can make a...”
– Fred Wilson on Finding Your Voice. I really love this quote.
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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A wizard offers you a choice: $40,000,000 or the...
I found this question on Quora this morning, and I find it very interesting. Below, I’ve included a few of the best arguments on both sides: pro-books: It’s only 40m. If you could truly, totally absorb and master the contents of one book per week, 40m would be chump change before very long. Week1: A language book; my salary doubles. Week2: A doctorate level book on CompSci or...
Apr 9th
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“By design, these are sit-ins: Participants illegally occupy the space of their...”
– Yochai Benkler on Anonymous, Hacks of Valor | Foreign Affairs “Anonymous demonstrates one of the new core aspects of power in a networked, democratic society: Individuals are vastly more effective and less susceptible to manipulation, control, and suppression by traditional sources of power...
Apr 9th
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Apr 6th
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Online Networks in the Black Community
This semester, I’ve started an exploration of online networks in the Black community. The research is an independent study that I’ve organized with the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University. I’m very pleased to have Dorian Warren, a political economics professor, frequent MSNBC correspondent, and the IRAAS Dean of Undergraduate Studies as my advisor. ...
Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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