Slow social
Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a Social App Is a Very Bad Thing – AllThingsD – slow social approach is based on the idea that it’s not just about numbers, its about community social norms and ethos which take time to develop within a group. Fake pioneered building slow social type communities at Slate.com during the dot com era. The slow social way was then perfected by Fake and others at Flickr. You can find Caterina’s personal site here.
Business
Energy Risk Ranks Third – businesses increasingly concerned about energy shocks
AOL Sells IM Service ICQ To Russia’s DST For $187.5 Million | paidContent
Consumer behaviour
Data point: How shoppers are using their phones | JWT Intelligence
American Households Not as Reckless as You Think | Mother Jones – or why the debt is going to take decades to work out
China Social Users More Likely to Engage with Brands | China Internet Watch
comScore Releases the “2012 Mobile Future in Focus” Report – comScore, Inc
Culture
In Back Alleys and Basements, Video Arcades Quietly Survive | Wired.com – a bit like music genres when they get taken back underground
Design
Cool Infographics – Cool Infographics – 10 Tips for (journalists) Designing Infographics
Mark Gray on Vimeo – inspirational space programme footage
FMCG
Nestle, Palm Oil and Social Media, Oh My! | Search Engine Journal
How to
::Track This Now:: Track articles across the world on a map – nice mash-up
SynergyKM | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net – use one keyboard across multiple machines without special hardware
3 Creative Ideas to Use Google for Link Building Search | Search Engine Journal
Japan
Japan to develop own mobile app platform | Mobile Entertainment News
Legal
On The State of China Intellectual Property Enforcement And Cars. – China Law Blog: a blog about Chinese law and the legal issues of doing business in China. – rapid acceleration to world-class status
Bill Would Extend DMCA-Style Takedowns To ‘Personal Info’ | Techdirt – this could go horribly wrong as the law and judiciary try to wrestle with what is personal information
ACTA year-long impounding of suspected fakes could hurt businesses | Pinsent Masons LLP
Murdoch news wire pursues ‘hot news’ claim | Pinsent Masons LLP – interesting concept, could this be used by PR people to hit media that break embargoes?
Luxury
Bracelets by another name | FT.com – how a change in language sells accessories to men
Marketing
Wired for chance | Excapite – Nigel Scott on my recent post on online marketing
Eric Schmidt On Google’s IPO: Bad Press Made Us More Money | paidContent – no such thing as bad publicity
MediaPost Publications Why PR, Start-Ups Don’t Always Mix 04/28/2010
Media
Weibo Increases the Frequency, Speed and Impact of Crises | China IWOM Blog
New Rules of the New Economy – Wired – from which Kevin Kelly’s book sprang from
Monocolumn – Battle of the New York newspapers [Monocle]
Online
When Members Dont Have Time To Participate In Your Community – FeverBee – The Online Community Guide
IAC’s Match.com Challenges PlentyOfFish’s Dating Stats | paidContent
MediaPost Publications Social Lubricant For Frictionless Web 04/28/2010 – on the new Facebook changes
Is Pinterest the Next Big Social Network in Europe?
Retailing
MediaPost Publications Pop-Up Power: Retail’s Recession Invention 04/28/2010
Slashdot Apple Story | Apple Bans Online Sales In Japan
Security
Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com – the money quote “It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
U.S. moves to isolate Japanese, Russian crime groups ‹ Japan Today
Shopping
rikumo.com – really nice simple Japanese products
Art. Lebedev Studio Worldwide Store
Software
Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device | ExtremeTech
UPDATE: 38 Infinity Ward Employees File Lawsuit Against Activision Over Royalties, Alleges Devs Held “Hostage” – G4tv.com – Activision has lost already. If they lose the case they have to pay damaged and will find it hard to get talent. If they win, they will find it hard to get talent.
Did Microsoft Just Step In To Help HTC Fight Apple? Or Are They After Android Too?
30 Inspiring WebGL (Chrome) Experiments
“Unethical” HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps
Technology
Apple Readying ‘Products That Will Blow Your Mind’ – Forbes
How I Met Your Motherboard: Tales of Early Computing – I love the idea and the visual design of this