October 2007
337 posts
links for 2007-10-01
Selling Ads on Facebook Is a Tempting but Risky Business | Wired.com
Quote - While Facebook earned respect for ringing the come-and-get-it dinner bell to developers, that level of benevolence seems incompatible with its $10 billion ambitions. (via PaidContent.org)
(tags: socialnetworks advertising facebook)
Good news for airline passengers | New York Times
Quote - During the past decade,...
rexhammock: [FB status] Rex is socially networked out the whazoo. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
September 2007
211 posts
Good news for airline passengers | New York Times
Quote - During the past decade, deaths from airline accidents have dropped 65%, to one fatal accident in about 4.5 million departures, from one in nearly 2 million in 1997. (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
rexhammock: Vince Young about to be interviewed on 60 mins. (about 7:25 CDT) (via Twitter / rexhammock)
Selling Ads on Facebook Is a Tempting but Risky...
Quote - While Facebook earned respect for ringing the come-and-get-it dinner bell to developers, that level of benevolence seems incompatible with its $10 billion ambitions. (via PaidContent.org) (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
Baseball season begins
I don’t actually follow baseball until the playoffs, so I’m not quite sure how we arrived at the surreal place where the Cubs win their division and the Red Sox win their’s — on the same night. However, such impossible possibilities as having a Cubs-Red Sox World Series is why I love sports. So, with apologies to fans of all other playoff teams — I completely understand your loyalties — forgive...
The ability to segment Facebook friends is “in the...
Apparently, there will soon be an upgrade to Facebook that will address one of its more obvious and serious flaws — the whole “tone deafness” to any forms of social networks that seem grown-up. According to the “In the Works” section of “What’s New” on Facebook, “(FB will soon) let you organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more specifically who sees what.” I interpret...
links for 2007-09-29
The magazine industry - out of vogue | Economist.com
Quote - It’s a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, says Felix Dennis, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money. (via: Martin Stabe)
(tags: magazines)
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The magazine industry - out of vogue |...
Quote - It’s a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, says Felix Dennis, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money. (via: Martin Stabe) (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
A key to understanding how to replace that which...
There’s no date on this piece by Tim Manners at FastCompany.com, however I just ran across it today and especially liked this quote:
“…if we’re not helping people live better lives, we are not helping ourselves. If all we are doing is interrupting people who don’t have time for interruptions, we can’t expect their attention. If all we are doing is annoying people who have zero tolerance for...
rexhammock: @MeganG - Congratulations on winning the N’ville corporate spelling bee tonight. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
Team Hammock spellers k-i-c-k a-s-s
I hate to sound braggadocious, but can’t help myself from giving a shout-out congratulations to the Hammock Publishing corporate spelling bee team for annihilating the competition in tonight’s 14th Annual Corporate Spelling Bee, benefiting the Nashville Adult Literacy Council.
Fittingly, they went ahead on the word braggadocious and won on the word annihilate.
A perennial power-house in the...
Apple rumor #3 resurfaces
Longtime readers of the rexblog know that I have a list of “All the Apple rumors you’ll ever need.” It comes in handy because I can say, simply, “That’s rumor #3″ when I read a “new” rumor about a “mutil-touch PDA 1.5 times the size of an iPhone and sporting an approximate 720×480 high-resolution display that comprises almost the entire surface of the unit. The device is further believed to...
rexhammock: Anyone watching The War? Katharine Phillips has become the Shelby Foote of this documentary. My ear loves her 3-syllable ‘WAAH-rah-ah’ (via Twitter / rexhammock)
The shape of things to come
Chris Silver Smith posted a photo of a set of buildings that when viewed from a satellite, forms the shape of a swastika. It turned out that the buildings were part of a 40-year old Navy barracks complex. To change the appearance of the buildings on Google Maps, the Navy has approved $600,000 to modify walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels. According to the AP, “the Navy decided to...
The only way to succeed in magazine publishing
Seth Godin quotes Michael Brooks, the publisher of Concrete Wave magazine. Among the nuggets:
“I am not publishing a magazine – I am helping to document and foster change within skateboarding. The magazine is part of a greater movement within skateboarding. Concrete Wave exists to spread specific ideas. The more people we can spread these ideas too, the more success we achieve…I am not merely...
links for 2007-09-27
Observations of Value of Facebook | Susan Mernit
Key quote - There’s a lot to savor, and a lot to be learned, and I am still eager to see what next big thing the FB experience is training us for.
(tags: socialnetworks facebook)
15 Billion More Reasons to Worry About Facebook | Kara Swisher
Quote - Silicon Valley can now be considered to be at Delusional Level Red. Or green, given all the...
There’s this thing I really hate that some...
Scott Karp, one of the smartest people I know, thinks mobile devices aren’t ready for prime time when it comes to having a meaningful online experience.
Rather than disagree with Scott (whose blog, by the way, is #9 on the “Advertising Age Power 150″of blogs that follow media and marketing) and engage in a meaningful debate, mobile browser developer Russell Beattie immediately attacks Scott...
rexhammock: [FB status] Rex is showering money on AmazonMP3. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
Fake Steve (Baker)
I guess some people will do anything to get press credentials in order to keep from paying to gain access to DEMO. BusinessWeek writer (and blogger) Stephen Baker says he’s getting pings from folks attending DEMO that someone is at DEMO, wearing a Stephen Baker, BusinessWeek, badge and IT’S NOT HIM.” When asked, the person is cleverly saying that, oh, he’s the other Stephen Baker at BusinessWeek....
The iTunes Store needs all the competition it can...
While John Gruber’s post on the new Amazon MP3 download service is filled with interesting facts and dead-on observations, his math regarding the profitability of music sold via the iTunes Store is a bit suspect as he dismisses the significant “costs” associated with servicing the downloads, i.e., “acquisition costs” and marketing expenses. Moreover, the point being made by others is not that...
Whats in Googles Name? NYT Bits Blog
Funny - The word Google comes from the measure of how many different claims can be invented against a company with such deep pockets. (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
15 Billion More Reasons to Worry About Facebook |...
Quote - Silicon Valley can now be considered to be at Delusional Level Red. Or green, given all the cash that is being shoved in Facebook’s direction now. (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
Observations of Value of Facebook | Susan Mernit
Key quote - There’s a lot to savor, and a lot to be learned, and I am still eager to see what next big thing the FB experience is training us for. (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
rexhammock: @whatsnext and I had a fun lunch thnx to twitter. Recalled how we knew each other from back in the day. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
links for 2007-09-25
Nashville’s Band of Outsiders | New York Times
Quote from Ann Patchett - I live in Nashville and I don’t listen to country music. It is not such an uncommon state of affairs. (This piece echos lots of what I’ve written in this blog on the topic.)
(tags: music nashville)
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rexhammock: @darrindickey - Bironas has a new holder as Heindrich is out. Also, thanks Titans-tweeters — Nice to share my hotel ‘away’ game w/ ya’ll. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: Keith Bullock is having a career season. This year’s team is quickly becoming my second-favorite of all time. By all time, I mean since 1999 (via Twitter / rexhammock)
The new $5.95 Trump magazine is for readers who...
If you’re counting, I think the Trump magazine that will be announced on Tuesday will be the third (or maybe fourth) magazine with that name attached to it. Like the other Trump magazines, this one will be “a magazine devoted to ways to spend a great deal of money.” And while it will be distributed in the same Trump properties, it’s not the same Trump magazine that was distributed in all the Trump...
rexhammock: That’s what I’m talking about. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: @susanreynolds - powder blue? There’s nothing powdery about Titans Blue. : ) (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: @darrindickey - I vote we get @marcuswhitney to do it again. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: @susanreynolds - That pick is looking better, but this game’s not over. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: @susanreynolds - The Titans-tweetster nation will forgive you — this time. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: Okay, Titans-tweetsters. I’m holding it down in Manhattan. @ColeH in Austin is cheering on VY and @jaxn is in NJ. Mon. Nite Tweetball. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: @GingerSnaps the voice sync problem must be an ESPN-thing as the problem is happening on Time-Warner cable in NYC as well. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: I’ll say it once more. It sure would be nice if Twitter added groups, i.e., #Titans. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
MS’s 5% stake in FB vs. GOOG’s 5% stake in AOL
If the news that Microsoft is investing $300-$500 million in Facebook to acquire a 5% stake in the company sounds familiar, it may be because it sounds similar to the 2005 Google investment of $1 billion for a 5% stake in AOL. The investment will secure a boat-load of advertising inventory for Microsoft (or Google, as, according to the Wall Street Journal, Google is also interested in...
rexhammock: @steverubel and I just geek-talked for 90 minutes at a Starbucks near Times Square. We could have gone a day or 2 more. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
Nashville’s Band of Outsiders | New York Times
Quote from Ann Patchett - I live in Nashville and I don’t listen to country music. It is not such an uncommon state of affairs. (This piece echos lots of what I’ve written in this blog on the topic.) (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
Conde Nast quietly trying on Facebook applications...
This morning, during a Folio: Show panel regarding magazine company developments on the web, Ted Nadeau, general manager of CondéNet, said the Conde Nast unit is stealthily testing applications on Facebook. Nadeau said, “The (Facebook platform) capabilities are impressive and with just a couple of developers, you can grow a pretty amazing application. We are experimenting — and you may not even...
rexhammock: [FB status] Rex is in NYC Monday and Tuesday. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
links for 2007-09-24
How to avoid sounding like a monkey | Scripting.com
Finally getting around to posting Dave Winer’s observation that there is absolutely no need for the term ’social graph’ when social network works just fine, thank you.
(tags: scialnetwork)
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How to avoid sounding like a monkey |...
Finally getting around to posting Dave Winer’s observation that there is absolutely no need for the term ‘social graph’ when social network works just fine, thank you. (via del.icio.us/rexblog)
rexhammock: attending a magazine awards show reminds me there’s a magazine about everything. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
rexhammock: in NYC. It’s been years since I’ve stayed in times square area. I’m feeling like a tourist. Perfect tourist weather. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
links for 2007-09-22
Open letter to Mark Zukerberg | Marc’s Voice
Dave Winer quote (from comments) - Become the API the Internet never had — identity. Then rename the company to HolyGrailBook and change MZ’s title to The Pope of the Internet.
(tags: facebook socialnetworks)
Last in first out | Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab
Quote - NBC’s decision to dump iTunes will have the same success Times Select did, by...
rexhammock: heading to station inn to hear chris thile and his new group. (via Twitter / rexhammock)
My day at Law School
I participated on a panel today at Vanderbilt Law School with students way smarter than me. Fortunately, I understood most of the questions, except the one about Arcade Fire and LCD Soudsystem appearing live last night at the Hollywood Bowl. Actually, I understood the question, I just had no idea who Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem are. I do now.
Speaking of live music, tonight I’ll be enjoying a...
Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life |...
From the it sounds like a trend, so let’s do a trend story department: people are shutting down their Facebook account. No stats or research to back it up, only some examples strung together. (via del.icio.us/rexblog)