Anthony Bourdain’s Raw Craft Episode 4 (video)
Google’s evolution (video)
How to build a brand by Laura Roeder and David Karp (video)
@lkr + @davidkarp talk about building a brand.
It’s time for Flipboard to get contextual
I love Flipboard. It’s an amazing tool and I’ve recommended strategies in the past. I’ve been spending more time on it lately and they’ve been doing a great job of suggesting topics for me to follow. When I open the app, it takes me to the Daily Edition, which is an aggregate of all stories across “all” my interests. This is a great idea but I notice that when...
A modern day breakup
There are several things I find interesting about this video.
This is how many relationships end (and begin) in today’s mobile culture.
This is a “music video”. There used to be these things called music videos when MTV wasn’t a cultural scab on the collective shin.
Enjoy!
Am I watching an online community die?
I have been on Imgur (pronounced imager) since 12.13. I can’t remember exactly why I decided to spend time there but I immediately loved it. Visually, it somewhat resembles Pinterest. The primary difference is that it’s filled with user-generated images, gifs, etc instead of professionally taken photos. It was created as the image hosting server for Reddit and a detailed history...
Behold Alphabet!
Google just announced a their changing their business model. Their new parent company is called Alphabet and you can find this announcement at abc.xyz. Below is a copy of the announcement for posterity.
Business needs to evolve
Update: I had this scheduled for tomorrow but given Google’s news today, it seemed to make more sense to post now. Check out Google’s new parent company: Alphabet. My father and I were talking the other day about the how difficult it is for businesses to stay in business for any serious period of time. I’m not sure I can put an exact number on many years a business has to exist to...
Someone needs to go shopping
It would be painfully cliché to say that business has evolved over the past 20 years. It’s been disrupted. People work whenever and wherever they are. They do much of this work from mobile devices, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and embrace BYOD. Not all workforces are mobile workforces but as corporations of deconstruct, there are a new set of tools to empower offices. Slack is an app...