“In Lieu of Wedding Gifts, Please Give Us Free Venture Capital”:
ue Kataoka and Svetlozar Kazanjiev have come up with a novel way to hit up their wedding guests for cash: explain the cash will be used to generate even larger sums of cash, via the internet. They even made a video to explain everything, above. The couple claims to have inaugurated "The World's First Start-up Wedding Registry" to fund their super-secret Web company Aboomba. Friends and family can "feed an outsourced engineer for a day" to make the couple rich,…
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What is the most important metric to track in social media?
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WSJ.com – How Long Does It Take an Athlete to Make 100 Grand?:
cording to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, it takes an average U.S. citizen a shade under four years to earn $100,000. Alex Rodriguez does it in six pitches. Punching the Clock Here's how long it takes several star athletes to make approximately $100,000, based on the amount of money they've earned this season. ATHLETE/SPORT TO EARN $100,000 Alex Rodriguez, MLB 6 pitches Ben Roethlisberger, NFL* 4 snaps Tiger Woods, golf 11 holes LeBron James, NBA* 21 minutes…
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Clay Shirky on Big Ideas & Failure in tech and social media:
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The Atlantic Monthly – What Scares Google:
ke IBM in the 1940s and Microsoft in the 1980s, Google is still on the ascent. “It may take 10-plus years for Google’s star to waver,” notes Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn. Other top tech executives also give Google about a decade before it faces a transformative moment. How might that moment arrive? “The Web is doubling in power every two years,” explains Rowan Gibson, co-author of Innovation to the Core. So in 10 years, the Web will be 32…
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CNN.com – Strangers gather on Web to make collective art:
NN) -- One of the Web's basic tenets is that small contributions from lots of people can amount to something powerful in the aggregate. Fans of the Japanese band Sour contributed images to a music video. 1 of 3 Now, a growing group of writers, musicians, visual artists and videographers is turning this Wikipedia-era philosophy into online collaborative art. Twitter users are banding together to write an opera for London's Royal Opera House. Bands like My Morning Jacket and Sour,…
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Clay Shirky at the ICA, more on social media and the Obama campaign:
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Clay Shirky at the ICA, discussing Obama’s campaign and coordinating efforts via social media:
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