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Jun 11

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“We’re just looking to make cool pieces of entertainment and just arbitrarily make that subject matter a brand’s message.”

He drew an analogy to an improv troupe’s asking the audience for a word.

“They don’t care what that word is. That word can be tennis shoe. And now you’re performing a sketch about a tennis shoe,” he said. “It’s really fun to have that creative challenge.”

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Marketing Venture From Bateman and Arnett Takes Off With Orbit - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com

Brilliant

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Jun 09

“ At work, special information rectangles help men and women silently complete any number of business-related tasks, while entertainment rectangles—larger and louder and often placed inside the home—allow Americans to enter a relaxing trance-like state after a long day of rectangle-gazing.

— Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

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May 29

We can anticipate that a hurricane passing over the oil spill will be able to hurl oil and toxic dispersants many miles inland during landfall.

(via What Happens When Summer’s Predicted Big Hurricanes Meet the Oil Slick - The New Ideal - GOOD)

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Website Editors Strive To Rein In Nasty Comments : NPR

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“ If we force hedge funds and the like to compete for talent on a more level playing field, then maybe we’ll see our best and brightest minds go to more productive activities than moving money around and taking a cut of the action.

— A VC: Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy

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“ I kind of want to be an outsider,” she said, eating a truffle-flavored French fry.

— The Ten Harshest Parts of Lynn Hirschberg’s M.I.A. Profile — Vulture

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May 27

“ By the way, I always thought Facebook’s best option would be to sell online goods that allow one to play the “game” of Facebook better. That is a far more benign way of monetising than strip-datamining.

— The underlying flaw in Facebook’s business model - broadstuff

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May 22

» While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core

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May 16

» Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads

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“ The market is, like raptors in Jurassic Park, testing the fences. It has discovered a major set of coupled, equity-related weaknesses in the shadow liquidity system, in the absence of a central market limit order book, in the best price national market system, in exchange-traded fund arbitrage, and in off-exchange trading networks.

— Raptors at the Liquidity Fence, and the Big Whoosh

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May 09

» Facebook's Privacy Erosion Strategy

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» Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up

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May 06

» The Mating Game Theory

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May 04

Tweet test:

“HP and Palm: announcing an acquisition social media style” v insightful analysis from @IRWebReport http://bit.ly/cj9KHI $HPQ $PALMless than a minute ago via webEthan Bauley
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Twitter / Ethan Bauley: “HP and Palm: announcing a …

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Apr 21

“ Three years ago at our first f8 conference for developers, I introduced the concept of the social graph

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Facebook | The Facebook Blog

LOL

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