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Really, Radar Online? You can’t believe it? I think you’re being a little disigenuous here.
Source: -saturdaynightlive
While most startups are focused on allowing users to share information as frictionless as possible, Neko.io is taking the opposite approach. The new service by Meontrust Inc. allows users to post on their friends’ walls, blogs, and anywhere else in a scrambled web link. To be able to read the link, you need to be “friends” with the Neko.io user who originally posted the link, and have a Neko.io account of your own. Clicking on the link takes you to the Neko.io website where it unscrambles the link— allowing you to communicate with your friends in a public forum, but still limit your privacy to a much smaller audience. In this sense, it’s a much more “frictional” way of sharing, but allows you to still use the services where your friends are already present.
In the “I mean, I get it…” news category, Neko.io is a way to post secrets to a public form. Sounds plausible.
Source: arcticstartup.com
The hostess that’s great (Taken with instagram)
Mouth To Mouth Marketing
I discovered the app Blip.Me on an Android Blog. Blip.Me is voice texting, similar to HeyTell, but dead simple and fun to use. I didn’t have any other friend using, so I told my girlfriend about it. As she has AT&T in the city, we can never call each other, and within days Blip.Me became our dominant digital communication tool. As we began using Blip.Me in public, people started asking us what we were doing. “Why are you telling your phone, ‘I love you?’” Within weeks we were responsible for 4, then 8, and now 12 new Blip.Me users, as well as however many people they get to use it.
But what’s interesting is that all of these instances were happening offline in meatspace. I couldn’t get anyone to use Blip.Me when I tweeted about it, or sent a text message. Only when seeing the app in use could I convert someone.
Since everything has become ‘word of mouth’, I’m ‘brieving ‘offline word of mouth marketing’ to ‘Mouth to Mouth Marketing’. It’s what we all did before the Internet, and now it’s got a catchy term you can use.
The good headphone stuff is nonsense, I was able to get the experience with some crappy ear buds. That said, it’s probably better with nice headphones.
First, go grab some headphones. The best ones you’ve got. If the best ones you’ve got are these suckers (or something similar), you should really go buy new ones, but use the best you’ve got for right now.
Take a break from whatever you’re doing for 2 minutes and listen, but just listen to the whole thing, even if you have to multi-task.
Headphones on? Ok. Good.
Now, press play.
“Upular (3D Audio Version)” - Pogo
Source: SoundCloud / PogoMix
Social Media: Evolving From Long Form To Push Button
In the evolution of social media over the last decade, the trend has been a move from long form content, which has high friction of participation (both on the production and consumption side) to ever lower requirements placed on a user to participate in a conversation.If I were tumblr I’d be so insulted by this article. Pinterest is del.icio.us with pictures. Tumblr is community and expression in a way that is genuinely unique on the internet, at a scale that is completely unmatched. Articles like this are one more reason I have so much disdain for most Silicon Valley trend bloggers.
(via newsweek)
Source: blog.eladgil.com
Also referred to as “spillage” in the industry, TowerGroup found that through 2008, expired cards had the highest channel for lost consumer value, accounting for 52 percent of spillage, followed by fees. Fees, such as a $1 service charge for inquiring about your balance, caused an estimated 39 percent in spillage. Misplaced cards contributed 9 percent of total lost value.
Is it possible that actual human beings respond to a barrage of vagina jokes with such gusto? And if so, why is it that a 59-year-old Hollywood sound engineer named John Bickelhaupt is so busy this fall?
This is a great article about laugh tracks.
Coincidentally, there’s a very interesting, and very sad, story about the history of professional laughers, or people who get paid to sit in on sitcoms and laugh on queue. After two armed men broke into her house and brutally raped her and a friend, Fran Drescher did not feel comfortable letting strangers onto the set of The Nanny. The producers called a casting director to hire people to do the laughing on set. Now a full on profession, professional laughers are responsible for some of the most recognized laughs on television.
Also on the subject of laughing, I wrote a just okay article about the health benefits of laughing in college called ‘Laughing To Live.’
Source: New York Magazine
We’re comfortable buying apps from third parties. Curated, third-party app stores made their presence felt this year: Amazon opened its limited Appstore of Android apps for its Kindle products, and GetJar had more than 350,000 apps available for all major platforms, saw more than 2 billion downloads total — and it grabbed some impressive exclusives.
Huge ups to my employer, GetJar for having a monster Q4, a very promising 2012, and hiring me full time as of today.
By the numbers: Mobile apps in 2011 — Tech News and Analysis
Source: gigaom.com
