December 2010
14 posts
Artificial Intelligence to transform web, says Yury Milner: “I think that in 10 years if you ask a question on a social network and you get an answer you will not know if a computer or a person has answered you… When you receive a question, you will not know if it has been asked by a person or an artificial intelligence. And by answering you help the computer create an algorithm.”...
Sharp Drop in iPad Magazine Sales →
“…the larger issue is the publishing industry’s insistence on using new platforms like the iPad to ape antiquated models like print, when it could be using them to develop entirely new ones.”
Luxury Society: The Digital Agenda
Download Report: http://static.luxurysociety.com/report/TheDigitalAgenda.pdf
Cathy Horyn: What's Next for Designers in 2011 →
Social commerce, personalization, customization key for fashion in 2011
The State of the Blogosphere 2010 →
“2011 is the year of information curation and the dawn of the curator… networks and services that cater to the role of the curator will emerge, with several already leading the way. Storify, Curated.by, Pearltrees, Scoop.it, and Paper.li are becoming the coveted services of choice amongst curators as they not only enable the repackaging and dissemination of information, they do so in...
http://youtube-trends.blogspot.com →
Interestingly, YouTube Trends, “a destination for daily insight into the zeitgeist of the world’s largest video site,” offers an editorial layer over the raw stats.
BBHData: What is the Reach of a Tweet? →
A good question. Or is it? … The metric called ‘Tweet Impressions’ is meaningless and not a useful way to approach the evaluation of the channel. It’s using the old model of exposure for a new channel based on active participation… Instead count how many followers you get. How many people re-tweet.
“The next decade will be the decade of games.” →
WatchMcQueen creates new Tumblr for the relaunch of McQ
Moda Operandi offers Fashion Immediacy and... →
Lauren Santo Domingo and Aslaug Magnusdottir’s new start-up Moda Operandi gives consumers direct and immediate access to shop new collections within 48 hours of runway shows. Launch partners include: Thakoon, Proenza Schouler, Prabal Gurung, Narciso Rodriguez, Vera Wang, Alexander Wang and Giambattista Valli. The site expects to have 100,000 members in the first year and plans to provide...