New York Times: The Bilingual Advantage: the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
No Alzheimer’s For Me
Hilary Rowland
One thing to admire about Hilary Rowland is she started really young as an entrepreneur - maybe 17 - and she has grown her small business empire organically. That speaks to me a lot because my tech startup - at least one of it - is very much in that organic growth mode.
Open Coffee MeetUp: New Location
HILARY ROWLAND - Official Site
HILARY ROWLAND - How I Got Started
Hilary Rowland (HilaryRowland) on Twitter
Hilary Rowland | Facebook
Hilary Rowland - Featured Young Philanthropists
Open Coffee MeetUp: New Location
HILARY ROWLAND - Official Site
HILARY ROWLAND - How I Got Started
Hilary Rowland (HilaryRowland) on Twitter
Hilary Rowland | Facebook
Hilary Rowland - Featured Young Philanthropists
The Mother Of All Twitter Lists
I follow too many people on Twitter - 45,000? - for my Twitter stream to make any sense to me. I will log in and before I click on the Mention button - the Twitter inbox - I will glance through the first few tweets in my steam, and sometimes I will find a snarky comment from someone - Having Coffee - that I will retweet and then I am done. That is not to say I don't want to follow people. I have gone to great lengths to build my lists on Twitter. I add people to my lists every day, most days.
But there are a few problems. Twitter allows you to create only 20 lists. I don't get it. Why is 20 such a magic number? Why not 30? Why not 40? Or 25?
And I want a composite list. There should be an automatically formed mother of all lists. That list should have people that are on all my various lists. That is me wishing I were not following 45,000 people. But 2009 was heady times.
Twitter Blocks Me: Sree's Loss
Why Jack Dorsey Invented Twitter
Image via WikipediaThe New York Times Is Bullish On TwitterLivestream + Twitter Hashtag = Great Way To Experience An Event
Twitter Trouble?
FoodSpotting Follows Me On Twitter
Twitter Gangs Of New York
Twitter Gangs Of New York (2)
Twitter: Too Complex
No, Biz, Twitter Has Real Issues
Monday, May 30, 2011
What Fascinates Me About GroupOn
Image by smemon87 via FlickrOf all the tech companies out there, the one that most fascinates me is GroupOn. It speaks to me. Its emphasis on people action, and its emphasis on words - cute emails - are really something. Of all the tech companies out there, the one that I find most inspiring in terms of what I would want to do with my microfinance startup, GroupOn stands out. You focus on a few basic human actions, and you go for it. You splurge. I also like how fast they have grown. They were not here at all. And suddenly they are everywhere.
This blog post explains where I think group dynamics stand on the tech map: front and center.
My Web Diagram
GroupOn is the web maturing to land in the human domain, in the flesh.
Live Nation And GroupOn: That Offline Component
18 Months Ago GroupOn Did Not Exist
GroupOn's Legacy: Cute Email?
Image via WikipediaGroupOn, Zappos, And The Non Tech ComponentsGroupOn Did Not Launch At South By South West
GroupOn Did The Right Thing
The Internet Week: The Thing To Do
Image via WikipediaI think you show up less to soak up the knowledge and more to meet people. And I just discovered something that makes Internet Week look like a better deal than Social Media Week. For the most part you stick to one location. Get a 15 dollar pass, and stick to one location.125 W. 18th Street
The Internet Week Is Mumbojumbo
Monday
Where Social and Impact Intersect: Lessons for Brands
01:00 PM — 01:50 PM
Official IWNY Ford Opening Party with music by Noisey.com
07:00 PM — 10:00 PM
OMMA's Tablet Revolution
08:00 AM — 05:00 PM
Digital Archaeology
10:00 AM — 06:00 PM
ShareThis & SMG present: Social Media Sharing
11:00 AM — 11:20 AM
VICE Speed Interviewing
11:00 AM — 11:50 AM
The Rise of the Daily Email Newsletter
11:30 AM — 12:20 PM
Facebook Marketing Best Practices
12:00 PM — 12:20 PM
Mobile Engagement 101
01:00 PM — 01:45 PM
The Neighborhood Experience (Beyond Hyper-Localization)
02:00 PM — 02:45 PM
Your Startup's Technology: The First 60 Days in Examples
02:00 PM — 02:45 PM
Social Media & Hospitality: Driving Traffic, Boosting Sales & Upping Engagements
02:30 PM — 03:00 PM
Rallying to Restore Sanity in the Digital Age
03:00 PM — 03:45 PM
The Onion’s Team of Three
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM
How to Survive Internet Week: Using Social Media to Make Offline Connections
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM
Tuesday
Yahoo! PROVOKE Summit
10:00 AM — 01:00 PM
Local is More than Location
01:00 PM — 01:50 PM
Demystifying the Cloud
04:30 PM — 05:30 PM
Using Mobile/Social to Engage TV Audiences
05:00 PM — 05:30 PM
Using Mobile/Social to Engage TV Audiences
05:00 PM — 05:30 PM
USA TODAY Pulse of America Series
08:30 AM — 09:45 AM
Digital Archaeology
10:00 AM — 06:00 PM
Your Personal Finances from LearnVest
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
Some Like it Mobile…How Brands are Embracing Mobile Advertising
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
The Future of Online Video
12:00 PM — 12:20 PM
Social Food Apps: How they’re changing your mind at point of sale
01:30 PM — 01:50 PM
Can ‘Viral’ Be Bought?
02:00 PM — 02:45 PM
Idea to Product to Traction
02:00 PM — 02:45 PM
Monetizing a Social Audience
03:00 PM — 03:45 PM
Make it Happen! Creating a Successful Web Series — From Page to Screen and What Comes After
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM
Love on the Go -- How Mobile is Changing Modern Dating
04:00 PM — 04:20 PM
Mobile Startups and The New York Effect
04:30 PM — 04:50 PM
The UK and the East-London Technology Cluster
05:00 PM — 06:00 PM
Wednesday
Why Do Mindsets Matter?
02:00 PM — 02:50 PM
The Evolution of Online Advertising
05:00 PM — 06:00 PM
IAB Innovation Days @ Internet Week
08:00 AM — 05:00 PM
USA TODAY Pulse of America Series
08:30 AM — 09:45 AM
Digital Archaeology
10:00 AM — 06:00 PM
Sex, Hair & Chicken: What Busy Women Want Online
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
The Industry that Knew Too Much
11:00 AM — 11:50 AM
Women as “Tribal Leaders” – The Democratization of Influence & The Social Video Network
12:00 PM — 12:20 PM
The Future of Sports and Social Networks – Moving From a Social Relationship to an Active One
12:00 PM — 12:20 PM
Master Your Domain
12:30 PM — 01:15 PM
The Partners Project with Shira Lazar and Rocketboom
01:00 PM — 01:45 PM
Data Drives Success for Leading Marketers:
01:00 PM — 01:45 PM
Everyone’s a Comedian
02:00 PM — 02:45 PM
Creative Content Calendaring
03:00 PM — 03:45 PM
Mobile? We Have an App for That!
03:00 PM — 03:45 PM
How Mobile Advertising is Impacting Brands and Consumers
03:00 PM — 03:50 PM
Data Drives Consumer Reach:
03:30 PM — 04:15 PM
Bringing Smart and Sexy Back: Pay-Per-Success Model in Social Media Advertising
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM
The 24/7 Online Newscycle & Reaping the Rewards of Real Time Reporting
05:30 PM — 06:00 PM
Thursday
Web 2012 and Beyond: Redefining the Internet of Tomorrow
05:30 PM — 05:50 PM
IAB Innovation Days @ Internet Week
08:00 AM — 05:00 PM
Digital Archaeology
10:00 AM — 06:00 PM
The Art of the Side Project
11:00 AM — 11:40 AM
The BajillionHits Way: Internet Content Mass-Manufacturing
11:30 AM — 11:50 AM
How To Stop Sucking at Email, Meetings, and Calls with Investors and Customers
11:30 AM — 12:10 PM
Stars of TechStars
12:30 PM — 12:50 PM
How to Buy and Sell Digital Media
01:00 PM — 11:00 PM
Pop! Goes the Bubble
01:30 PM — 01:50 PM
Finding the Keys to the Kingdom: Getting People to Use Your Product
02:00 PM — 02:45 PM
Startup City
02:00 PM — 02:45 PM
The Evolution of Communication
03:00 PM — 03:45 PM
SOCIAL COMMERCE: Insights from innovative leaders who are reshaping the commerce experience
03:00 PM — 03:50 PM
Online Advertising is Broken. Can We Fix It?
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM
We Are NY Tech: How a strong tech community in New York is driving the success of the industry in the city.
04:00 PM — 04:20 PM
The location has been chosen right. This is the heart of the tech scene in the city.
Me In The New York Times
New York Times: Manhattan’s Tech Start-Ups Settle in the Flatiron District and Chelsea
Talking of the New York Times, I think I am going to be in an article on June 2, fingers crossed.
The Internet Week Is Mumbojumbo
Image via CrunchBaseI was just at the Internet Week page. There's a lot going on. And looks like you have to pay for each event. It is not like Social Media Week which was mostly free events, or rather all free events. First of all, there are soooo many events. You can't even browse through all just to get a glimpse.
One good option probably is to buy a pass for 15 dollars but that only covers events at one location for four days, June 6 to June 9.
I guess the arduous process is to go through all the events and be selective and go to a few events. This below is not a list of all events I am going to. These just caught my eye. And I might go to one or two that I might not mange to list today.
You read the lists of events and you realize there is so much knowledge in the blogosphere.
Monday, June 6
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM The Onion’s Team of Three
Metropolitan Pavilion
HQ Aol Broadcast Stage
125 W. 18th Street
Tuesday, June 7
06:00 PM — 09:00 PM wimlink: The Social Experience of Media: Personalized Apps, TV, ECommerce, what's next..
Samsung Experience
10 Columbus Circle
Time Warner Center
$15
Wednesday, June 8
03:30 PM — 04:15 PM Data Drives Consumer Reach
Metropolitan Pavilion
HQ Classroom
125 W. 18th Street
06:00 PM — 11:00 PM Ignite NYC XII @ Internet Week New York
Tishman Auditorium
66 W. 12th Street
$10
Thursday, June 9
12:30 PM — 12:50 PM Stars of TechStars
Metropolitan Pavilion
HQ Content Stage
125 W. 18th Street
05:30 PM — 05:50 PM Web 2012 and Beyond: Redefining the Internet of Tomorrow
Metropolitan Pavilion
HQ Aol Broadcast Stage
125 W. 18th Street
04:00 PM — 04:20 PM We Are NY Tech: How a strong tech community in New York is driving the success of the industry in the city.
Metropolitan Pavilion
HQ Content Stage
125 W. 18th Street
Friday, June 10
07:30 AM — 09:30 AM Opening Government Through Technology: Can Open Data Drive Innovation?"
Samsung Experience
Time Warner Center
10 Columbus Circle/3rd Floor
Wait. There were supposed to be lots and lots of panels. Where are they?
That 15 dollar pass is looking good, because it looks like all the best events are on those four days.
Internet Week Fail Whale
Brett Martin Of Sonar
Internet Week On The Way
Excited About Internet Week
The Highlight Of My Internet Week
Liking Is For Cowards
Image via CrunchBaseMy Web DiagramNew York Times: Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.: I’d developed trust issues with my Pearl, accountability issues, compatibility issues and even, toward the end, some doubts about my Pearl’s very sanity, until I’d finally had to admit to myself that I’d outgrown the relationship. ..... or doing that spreading-the-fingers iPhone thing that makes images get bigger ..... our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly, and makes us feel all powerful, and doesn’t throw terrible scenes when it’s replaced by an even sexier object and is consigned to a drawer. ...... the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self. ....... the world of techno-consumerism is therefore troubled by real love, and that it has no choice but to trouble love in turn. ..... e the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. ......... liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving. ...... a narcissist — a person who can’t tolerate the tarnishing of his or her self-image that not being liked represents, and who therefore either withdraws from human contact or goes to extreme, integrity-sacrificing lengths to be likable. ....... If you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you’ve despaired of being loved for who you really are. ...... You may find yourself becoming depressed, or alcoholic, or, if you’re Donald Trump, running for president (and then quitting). ...... Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery. ....... We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. ...... a contrast between the narcissistic tendencies of technology and the problem of actual love ....... “getting down in the pit and loving somebody.” She has in mind the dirt that love inevitably splatters on the mirror of our self-regard. ...... trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for example, you’re going to find yourself in a hideous, screaming fight, and you’ll hear coming out of your mouth things that you yourself don’t like at all, things that shatter your self-image as a fair, kind, cool, attractive, in-control, funny, likable person. Something realer than likability has come out in you, and suddenly you’re having an actual life. ....... Suddenly there’s a real choice to be made, not a fake consumer choice between a BlackBerry and an iPhone, but a question: Do I love this person? And, for the other person, does this person love me? ............. There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of. ...... But there is such a thing as a person whose real self you love every particle of. And this is why love is such an existential threat to the techno-consumerist order: it exposes the lie. ....... Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. ....... The prospect of pain generally, the pain of loss, of breakup, of death, is what makes it so tempting to avoid love and stay safely in the world of liking. ....... To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived. ...... then a funny thing happened to me. It’s a long story, but basically I fell in love with birds. I did this not without significant resistance, because it’s very uncool to be a birdwatcher ........... and although one-half of a passion is obsession, the other half is love. ...... And love, as I’ve been trying to say today, is where our troubles begin. ..... When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there’s a very real danger that you might love some of them.I came to this article thinking this was about group dynamics. It is about face time alright, but not the large scale group dynamics I had in mind.
Brett Martin Of Sonar
So there is this guy called Brett Martin.
He looks like the actor Matthew McConaughey.
He presented his app Sonar at the TechCrunch Disrupt. We exchanged a few tweets and a few emails. The guy is buying me lunch during Internet Week.
I am so looking forward to Internet Week but I have not had the time to go down the schedule to pick the events I want to go to. I'd like to believe I have some time. Hope they don't all get filled up. Or maybe I should do that today, go down the list and RSVP to all the events I wish to go to.
Sonar: How Whales Roll: Mike Arrington My Sonar Friend
Brett: Let's grab breakfast during internet week. How about 9am on weds the 8th at the grey dog cafe on carmine in the wet village? Open to other ideas, unfortunately I haven't made my schedule for that week yet.
Me: we will do something one on one during internet week
right now i don't know what
Brett: OK, you LMK. I really liked your analysis and would like to treat you out to lunch.
Me: u want to buy me lunch?
:-)
ha ha
i blogged about sonar b/c it is an exciting proposition
Image via Wikipediait has the potential to be the leader in that hyperlocal space
i will let you buy me lunch if you will keep it to around 5 bucks, not more
dumplings at Joe's Shanghai in Chinatown ----- 6 bucks
i have not looked at the internet week schedule yet, but i am in mind to do as many events as possible
so once i have my to do list ready ----- then i'd like to fit in lunch ---- hope i am not sounding "difficult"
i mean, i'd love to meet and u know that already
:-)
Brett: ha, 5 dollars for 60 minutes of you thinking on my problems is a great deal.
Looking forward to soup dumplings- they are amazing.
Me: 60 minutes (or more) to get to know and become friends with an
interesting dude who just might be on to the next big thing, and HE is
buying lunch?
great deal :-)
i'd love to blog about sonar again -------
He looks like the actor Matthew McConaughey.
He presented his app Sonar at the TechCrunch Disrupt. We exchanged a few tweets and a few emails. The guy is buying me lunch during Internet Week.
I am so looking forward to Internet Week but I have not had the time to go down the schedule to pick the events I want to go to. I'd like to believe I have some time. Hope they don't all get filled up. Or maybe I should do that today, go down the list and RSVP to all the events I wish to go to.
Sonar: How Whales Roll: Mike Arrington My Sonar Friend
Brett: Let's grab breakfast during internet week. How about 9am on weds the 8th at the grey dog cafe on carmine in the wet village? Open to other ideas, unfortunately I haven't made my schedule for that week yet.
Me: we will do something one on one during internet week
right now i don't know what
Brett: OK, you LMK. I really liked your analysis and would like to treat you out to lunch.
Me: u want to buy me lunch?
:-)
ha ha
i blogged about sonar b/c it is an exciting proposition
Image via Wikipediait has the potential to be the leader in that hyperlocal space i will let you buy me lunch if you will keep it to around 5 bucks, not more
dumplings at Joe's Shanghai in Chinatown ----- 6 bucks
i have not looked at the internet week schedule yet, but i am in mind to do as many events as possible
so once i have my to do list ready ----- then i'd like to fit in lunch ---- hope i am not sounding "difficult"
i mean, i'd love to meet and u know that already
:-)
Brett: ha, 5 dollars for 60 minutes of you thinking on my problems is a great deal.
Looking forward to soup dumplings- they are amazing.
Me: 60 minutes (or more) to get to know and become friends with an
interesting dude who just might be on to the next big thing, and HE is
buying lunch?
great deal :-)
i'd love to blog about sonar again -------
@paramendra thanks for the kind words about @sonarme . swing by our booth , i'd love to meet you in person.less than a minute ago via TweetDeck 
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
The Internet And The Emperors
Image via WikipediaI have liked what Sarkozy has done for Libya. (The Arab Revolutions And My Rethinks On Britain And France) But the guy is on the wrong side of history on the Internet. For a guy who has sought to bring American style individualism and entrepreneurship to his country, he is missing out. Some of the rants by Sarkozy remind me of a story I read a long time ago that I just tried to look up on the Internet but was not able to find. There was this king. Some of his citizens came to him to report the river in the kingdom had flooded. Don't you worry, the king replied, I will command the river to stop flooding.
The Internet is a genie out of the bottle. That is not an argument to legalize drugs and prostitution. The opposite is true. The massive scale actions that need to be taken to tackle the biggest problems and challenges of our times can not even be imagined without the Internet. The massive data collection that we need to do to tackle global warming is about building an Internet of things. We have to add intelligence to our entire ecosystem so we take real time readings on all metrics to do with the global environment. Globalization minus the Internet would be chaos. But with the Internet globalization will lead to creations of unprecedented levels of wealth in all parts of the world. Cross cultural understandings are not possible without the Internet. Minus the Internet the governments of the world are too cocky, too inefficient, too inept, if not outright despotic and cruel. Minus the Internet a no name black man could not have ended up in the White House. The Internet is a tool with which to cure poverty, to end human trafficking, to end sex slavery. The Internet is the tool with which to bring democracy into every country.
This is the Internet Century.
“But the Internet is changing every institution in society. It enables new approaches to innovation, requiring new thinking about patents and copyright. It renders old institutions naked, requiring more transparency on the part of governments and corporations. It disrupts old models of learning and pedagogy demanding a change a relationship between students and teachers in the learning process. It offers new models of democracy based on a culture of public discourse, in turn compelling old style politicians to engage their citizens. It turns intellectual property into bits, that don’t know the old rules that governed atoms of how to behave. It drops the transaction costs of dissent, subjecting dictators and tyrants to the power of mass participation. It breaks down national boundaries and requiring a rethinking of how peoples everywhere can cooperate to solve global problems. And for the first time in history children are an authority on the most important innovation changing every institution in society.”
— Don Tapscott: G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing (Via Infoneer Pulse)
Saturday, May 28, 2011
The Music Tag On Tumblr
Image by Matthew Buchanan / Flickr via CrunchBaseTumblr sucked me in somewhere along the way. I am on Tumblr pretty much every day, often times more than once a day. When I need to take time off work, I often end up on Tumblr.A recent addition to my Tumblr experience has been the music tag. Suddenly it feels like I am reaching out to humanity. Music is the most obvious of tags. Often times I come across some music clip that I most certainly have never heard of, I might not even hear a second time, I might never have come across on my own. And I reblog. And often times I am the first person to reblog a clip by someone. And it feels like I am saying hello to strangers who could perhaps use a hello.
Music has fast become my favorite tag on Tumblr. There is always something to listen to. And I dig the randomness of the whole experience.
And I have come to really appreciate Tumblr's reblog feature. I don't produce much original content on Tumblr, for that I stick to Blogger, which feeds into my Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook streams, but Tumblr does a bad job of getting my Blogger feeds into my Tumblr stream, and I smell conspiracy.
And I follow some tags that show me great pictures, the best of which I reblog: animals, food, landscape, portrait.
And then there is the tech tag, the reason I got active on Tumblr in the first place. But the most prolific of the tech people I ended by following on Tumblr by way of David Noel are all hard core politicians. And I am like, dude, that's my turf, I came here for tech.
My Tumblr Just Got An Upgrade
So Proud Of My New Tumblr Theme
David Karp: Tumblr Or Hipstr
Tumblr Explore
Tumblr Down, Tumblr Up
Friday, May 27, 2011
The Esoteric Wordsmyth For Enriching The Esoteric Vocabulary!
The Esoteric Wordsmyth
Matronym
Matronym pronounced \MA-truh-nim\ From Latin metr- (mother) + Greek -onym (name, word). A name derived from the name of a mother or maternal ancestor. Also metronym.
It's easy to see that the terms maternal, maternity, matron, and matrimony have something to do with the sense "mother" and are related to today's word but what could metropolis, material, matter, matriculate, and matrix have in common with them? A metropolis is, literally, a mother city; matter and material derive from Latin materia, woody part of a tree, its source of growth; one matriculates to what is to be an alma mater; and matrix comes from Latin matrix, a female animal kept for breeding. All of these terms are ultimately offsprings of the Indo-European root mater-.
Ian Hunter; Free Speech Depends On What You Say; National Post (Canada
Serena; Modern Manners: Your Cut-out-and-keep Guide to Surviving the Minefield; Independent (London , UK
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