To mark the start of yet another Premiership season. Memories.
In 1996 Graham Souness did his bit to further reconciliation on the football field. Oh, wait …
Miscellaneous
It’s Funny Because …
Google – Don’t Be Honest?
Mobile openness is the tool of the outsider, not the incumbent. Google is now registering some 200,000 Android handsets every day. Phone-to-phone, Android is now outselling the iPhone. Google doesn’t need openness anymore.
via wired.com
Ad Troll
“Internet Population Now Mostly Unable To Distinguish Between Advertising And Reality”
I saw multiple people on Twitter praising her bravery and hailing her as a hero. Seriously people, it didn’t look even slightly set up and scripted to you?
Some context here.
More from Jesse Schell
Here’s his full presentation from 2010 D.I.C.E. summit, ‘Design Outside the Box’
Go here for a comprehensive round-up of responses.
2010 Social Networking Map
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Weekend reading
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
“Selling ads doesn’t generate only profits; it also generates torrents of data about users’ tastes and habits, data that Google then sifts and processes in order to predict future consumer behavior, find ways to improve its products, and sell more ads. This is the heart and soul of Googlenomics.”
Students finally wake up to Facebook privacy issues
“young people are very engaged with the privacy settings on Facebook, contrary to the popular belief that their age group is reckless with what they post publicly.”
“I need my umlaut,” Blomkvist said. “What if I want to go to Svavelsjö? Or Strängnäs? Or Södertälje? What if I want to write to Wadensjö? Or Ekström or Nyström?”
Related to this, Stieg Larsson recently became the first member of Amazon’s ‘Kindle Million Club.
The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
“We can segment it all the way down to one person,” says Eric Porres, Lotame’s chief marketing officer.
I think Mr. Porres may have lost the meaning of market segment (which implies groups sharing certain characteristics) in his excitement about his company’s technology. A question I’d be interested in is whether the law of repetition in advertising holds true for online ads that “follow people around the Internet”? A host of ads for Evony have followed me around the Internet for well over a year now and I have so far clicked on none of them. Context is also relevant here – will users be more prepared to click on ads on certain sites?
"The World" – Radoslav Zilinsky
via blog.longnow.org
Why? Because It's There
http://www.youtube.com/v/moBJMGNSql4&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1
via youtube.com
Great Everest footage, although it doesn’t quite tempt me to start training for an attempt yet. Certainly not until next year anyway.
It's a Pretty Good Headline Alright
Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts
Japanese macaques will completely flip out when presented with flying squirrels, a new study in monkey-antagonism has found. The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys.
There is video here.
This is a great response to the current movement towards making headlines search-engine friendly but rather homogenous.
Newspapers still have headlines, of course, but they don’t seem to strive for greatness or to risk flopping anymore, because editors know that when the stories arrive on the Web, even the best headlines will be changed to something dull but utilitarian.
One of my personal favourites below, from the New York Post
More of this kind of thing please!
(story via Metafilter, image from weheartit.com)