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What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium
This is the story of how an unlikely threesome—a girl, a heavy metal band and their fans — pioneered the web at its infancy, bucked the status quo and proved that the Internet wasn’t a fad. It’s 1994. I’m working at Capitol Records in Hollywood, California. via What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium.
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This is the perfectly likable Instagram image | VentureBeat
With 150 million users sharing 16 billion photos and liking a billion of them every single day, Instagram is getting to be a more and more crowded platform. As such, if you want to stand out, it’s getting harder and harder. After analyzing over eight million images, Curulate found the common elements of shareable, likable […]
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Confessions of a Cellphone Holdout – WSJ.com
I hope that I have a few more years left before I come to die, but I have gotten incalculable pleasure from not owning a cellphone, even if I never did make it, as Thoreau did, to the woods. But in a few weeks, I will buy a phone. I am scared. I am afraid […]
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How to Make Money in Music Now — Culture Clash — Medium
Q: Let’s jump right in. How do you do business in 2013? A: As crazy as it might sound, I run my entire business off of my iPhone, meaning that my audience can reach me directly by e-mail, text, and phone. I believe that that level of direct interaction is far more valuable than interaction […]
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Attention, Shoppers – Store Is Tracking Your Cell – NYTimes.com
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers, Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers — how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors — the kind of information that e-commerce sites like Amazon have in spades. So last fall the company started testing new technology that allowed it to track customers’ movements […]
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Twitter opens up its analytics platform, lets everyone review the performance of their tweets for free – The Next Web
Twitter has quietly opened up its various analytics tools to the public, giving everyone access to in-depth data about the people and brands who follow them, as well as the performance of their most recent tweets. via Twitter opens up its analytics platform, lets everyone review the performance of their tweets for free – The […]
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The mobile testing challenge: How to improve your UX and prepare for the future | VentureBeat
Since testing can amount to as much as 10 percent of a mobile development budget, this headache can quickly avalanche into a disaster without the right direction and tools. So what options are available to help companies get through this frustrating period before launching a mobile application? It’s easiest if you consider the four types […]
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Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly. — Understandings & Epiphanies — Medium
Kids aren’t leaving social networks. They’re redefining the word “social.” Rather, they’re actually using the word with the intent of its original meaning: making contact with other human beings. Communicating. Back-and-forth, fairly immediate dialogue. Most of it digitally. But most of it with the intent of a conversation where two (or more) people are exchanging […]