July 2012
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“We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn’t to make money. It...”
– Jonathan Ive on Apple’s business.
It really is that simple.
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Beautiful Magazines
I recently bumped into the great website Magculture. It previewed the latest edition of EYE Magazin and I must say it looks awesome. In freshness it quite resembles the cool Dutch magazine Das Mag. Have a look:
EYE:
DAS MAG:
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“I’m not saying it will happen totally, but the transition to online from...”
– Said Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/InteractiveCorp, on taking the Newsweek brand to a digital-only format.
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“Our social media strategy is based on three pillars: Reputation, Service and...”
– Today KLM published a series of blogs about their successful online strategy. For me, KLM provides the best example of how a company can effectively use social media to enhance its brand and its service to customers. Their Twitter-team helped me once or twice when I had problems with my ticket and I...
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“If you wanted to make sure your touristdar is fully calibrated, perhaps you...”
– LOL. As an Amsterdam local, I find this Guided Tour of Amsterdam’s Tourists incredibly amusing and creative. Have a look at this great urban hacking initiative on the Atlantic Cities website.
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“It’s undeniable how big a part of all of our businesses the digital properties...”
– Zei Steve Capus, baas van NBC News, nadat NBC voor 300 miljoen dollar Microsoft uitkocht uit de site MSNBC.com. De tv-zender hoopt op deze manier voornamelijk meer crossmediale advertenties te verkopen, voorheen controleerde Microsft de reclame op de populaire nieuwssite. Saillant is dat concurrent...
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Watch
I would like to write for The New York Times. I would like a big apartment in Greenwich Village and go to cool restaurants every night with my exciting friends. Like on tv.
futurejournalismproject:
So you want to be a journalist?
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FJP: Happy Sunday, and good luck with your journalistic aspirations.
The Phone That Wasn't There: 11 Things You Need to... →
Weird stuff. My right leg often suffers from this…
If you react strongly and emotionally to texts, you’re more likely to experience phantom vibrations.
Maybe my right leg is just more emotional than my left leg.
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When I sent an inappropriate email to a coworker...
thisadvertisinglife:
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Who Reported It First? Who Cares. →
Amy Sullivan, brilliantly on The New Republik:
Has any publication ever received a Pulitzer for being the first to report a major announcement? Is there some secret reward at stake—free cookies for a year? A trip to Hawaii?
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Stomme computers
Nooit heb ik langer gedaan over een internetartikel dan David Auerbachs essay The Stupidity of Computers op n+1, tenzij ik het Franse stuk van een Fransman over iets Frans in de geschiedenis meereken dat ik voor mijn studie moest lezen - ik kan geen Frans. Het n+1-stuk begreep ik prima, maar zoals het dit magazine betaamt was het een frikking lang, maar bovenal boeiend stuk waar ik elke letter van...
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Infographic: WeTransfer has gone global.
Lovely infographic and great looking results from one of the most amazing websites out there! 65,000,000 transfers last year, oof.
presentplus:
We are pleased to see more & more people are using WeTransfer around the world. To show our enthusiasm, we’d like to share some of the stats. In 2 years we have become one of the best in what we do, as the numbers show. We can’t wait to show you...
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Evolution of the Web in One Interactive Graphic →
The evolution of the web is a beautiful thing, especially when Vizzuality and Hyperakt combine all the latest in web design into an interactive graphic that gives viewers a colorful array of web history.
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“Fucking school bus slowing me down when I’m listening to my Drive...”
– Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones) in Rolling Stone’s awesome cover article ’ ‘Master of the Game’, May 24 2012. 