Johan Steenkamp

rianvdm:

I have a feeling that we live too much of our lives through other people’s eyes. It seems as if we’ve changed our definition of what is worthy and real to accommodate an economy based on the currency of sharing. It’s an economy that measures an event’s value by the number of likes and retweets it…

rianvdm:

Dmitry Fadeyev:

It’s a good indicator for the value of content: is it tied to recency, or is it still going to be read many years on? How much do you really gain by consuming content the value of which dissapears only a few days later? If it’s diversion you want, find it in activities that build rather than waste. Yes, reading a book requires more effort than an article, and the rewards are not immediate — another indicator of value — but in the end you will improve in some way rather than just kill time.

“Never write more than two pages on any subject.”

parislemon:

Amazing how WSJ overhyped Google-Safari story to degree that Google’s getting bigger pass than otherwise would have bit.ly/xG2nl0

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan)

February 17, 2012

I think Danny Sullivan has this right. Because WSJ went so over-the-top in making the story about Google…

daveeday:

Between 2007 and 2009, as Facebook made its great leap forward from a few dozens to several hundred million users, some programmers were carving out spaces in our machines where people could concentrate better, removed from advertising and from the urge to constantly check for new messages or…

The market conditions changed: natural gas has boomed with exploitation of new fields using fracking. The price of silicon, used to make traditional solar panels dropped, and coupled with low cost Chinese manufacturers has resulted in lower cost panels.

A contrary view was subsequently published: There is no Cleantech Bust, sorry Wired  

parislemon:

Swimming in a sea of red, Panasonic is the bloodiest yet. A $10.2 billion annual loss. That’s not just bad, it’s insanely bad. 

But again, they’re hardly alone. Reports Tim Kelly and Yoko Kubota for Reuters:

Together, Panasonic, Sony and Sharp Corp expect to lose $17 billion this year, highlighting the savaging of Japan’s electronics industry by foreign rivals led by South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, weak demand and a strong yen.

$17 billion. And the underlying subtext here is that all are (were) key players in the television set industry. The low-margins and competition finally caught up to these guys. To some, this will raise more questions about Apple entering the industry. But to me, this signals yet again that they need to enter it. The system is in disarray. Ripe for disruption.