February 2012
77 posts
Pinterest: Why should we be interested?...
Banksy on Advertising
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most...
Join @SETILIVE & search for interesting signals...
SETILive is taking the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) directly to you by presenting radio frequency signals LIVE from the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) while it’s pointed at stars that, based on Kepler exoplanet discoveries, have the best chances of being home to an alien civilization.
Infographic: The Psychology of Color for Web...
One of the most fascinating and overlooked elements web designers tend to overlook is the influence of color on their website visitors. While a color palette may look visually pleasing, is it psychologically pleasing? When you go to design your next website pay special attention to your color choices and what they actually mean. To help you out with that printmediacentr have created this beautiful...
How to Manage an Effective Street Team In the New... →
Steve Jobs and the 7 Rules of Success
1. Do what you love. 2. Put a dent in the universe. 3. Make connections. 4. Say no to 1,000 things. 5. Create insanely different experiences. 6. Master the message. 7. Sell dreams, not products.
Google+ Falls Below MySpace for Monthly Engagement →
Facebook User Engagement Study
Buddy Media analysed user engagement from the top 100 retailers’ Facebook pages during a 6 month period in 2011:
Best time to post = between 8pm and 7am (20% more engagement) Best days to post: Wednesday and Saturday Post less than 5 times a week - one or two times a day maximum Less than 80 characters per post is better, under 40 is best. Asking questions creates twice as many comments...
Apple developing new audio file format to offer...
Apple is working on a new audio file format that will offer “adaptive streaming” to provide high- or low-quality files to users of its iCloud service.
“It’s payday for mastering engineers - there could be calls for thousands of albums to be remastered, and at over £1,000 to master a mainstream album, it’s going to be a healthy boost for the recording industry.”
TechDirt: Why Music Is Not A Product & Three...
1. Music is not the product that creates the financial reward. 2. Music adds value to anything. 3. Sell fans what they want to buy, not what you want them to buy. More
Jesse Thorn: Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for...
1. Start Now (Kate Beaton) 2. Make Deadlines (Jonathan Coulton) 3. Keep Your Legs Moving (Killer Mike) 4. Don’t Confuse Content & Medium (Boing Boing) 5. Be Authentic (Andrew WK) 6. Follow Your Passion (Chris Hardwick) 7. Focus on Great Work (Merlin Mann) 8. Connect with People You Like (You Look Nice Today) 9.Own What You Create (Felicia Day) 10. Find the Money (Kasper Hauser) 11.Build a...
Smithsonian Mag: Teller (from Penn & Teller)...
1. Exploit pattern recognition. 2. Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. 3. It’s hard to think critically if you’re laughing. 4. Keep the trickery outside the frame. 5. To fool the mind, combine at least two tricks. 6. Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself. 7. If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. More
The first Google+ page past 1m is Coldplay
ArtBistro: Finding Your Own Artistic Voice by Eric...
1. Let your personal library go 2. Work on what you want to portray 3. Stop allowing risk-taking to feel risky 4. Don’t allow your progress to stall 5. Thinking about positioning 6. Make your mission clear 7. Combine repeat and new work 8. Revisit your earliest passions 9. Try to understand your artistic intentions 10. Accept the unknown
by Eric Maisel PhD for Art Bistro.
TOPSPIN: Getting Practical: A Step-By-Step Guide...
Ian Roger’s Presentation From New Music Seminar Los Angeles, February 2011.
The Sky is Rising - a detailed look at the state...
TheSkyIsRisingReport
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The Alchemist Russian viral spread
Brazilian author Paulo Coelho has sold over 100 million books worldwide. On the Russian market, however, sales were slow. Coelho decided to carry out an experiment: he discretely uploaded a Russian translation of his bestselling novel The Alchemist onto The Pirate Bay, without asking his publishers for permission. The illegal copy spread, and without further marketing sales of physical copies...
Facebook Content Guidelines: Abuse Standards 6.2
Abuse Standards 6.2 - Operation Manual
Bottlenose: Very clever Sonar/Visual Thesaurus for...
Join up here using invite code: getsonar
Can’t wait for the iPad App!
Distant 'waterworld' GJ 1214b is confirmed
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a new class of planet: a waterworld with a thick, steamy atmosphere. The exoplanet GJ 1214b is a so-called “Super Earth” - bigger than our planet, but smaller than gas giants such as Jupiter.
"Your beautiful eyes" by Suren Manvelyan
How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?
Gaga launches Little Monsters - a Pinterest-style...
Gaga + Troy Carter + The Backplane = Little Monsters
Mission
To have people connected to each other
Make them feel like the superstar
Connect on a more personal, intimate, and creative level
Community
Creative Community of Fashion Designers, Photographers, Artists, etc.
Social networks are for people who you went to high school with, Backplane is for the people you wanted to go to high...
Gesturing towards the future of interaction →
The computer keyboard and TV remote control may be the ways we interact with our technology at present but new ideas are emerging all the time.
In the first of a series of BBC reports, Ian Hardy looks at how gesture control could shape the way devices are used.
BoingBoing: Target's creepy data-mining program... →
9 Things You Can Do to Be Happy in the Next 30... →
Surprising ways to instantly improve your mood by Gretchen Rubin, RealSimple.com
Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer... →
Mountain Lion introduces Messages, Notes, Reminders and Game Center to the Mac, as well as Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration and AirPlay® Mirroring. Gatekeeper controls what apps are installed on your Mac. Developer Preview - today, Release - late summer 2012.
6 Terrifying User Agreements You've Probably... →
How many user agreements have you clicked through in your life without reading them?
Facebook’s 845 Million Users Are Worth $4.39 Each →
from $3.71 billion in revenues generated last year
Ian Rogers - 75% of Topspin's Sales Are Physical →
That’s according to Topspin CEO Ian Rogers, who disclosed the ratio at SF MusicTech Summit. “Physical is 75 percent of my business,” Rogers relayed as part of a broader discussion on physical sales. But what is ‘business,’ exactly? In a follow-up email, Rogers told Digital Music News that the 75 percent figure does indeed refer to actual revenues - meaning,...
