Jmarcafella, aka: Nocturnal State.

Feb 18

“In reading the articles, it seems to me that Matt did an excellent job of highlighting a recent surge by Like while still noting relevant competitors. Erick’s post, which I am more familiar with, is in my opinion above reproach. Erick notes the strengths and weaknesses of both platforms and suggests that developers will ultimately make a decision as to which, or both, they will join. Erick also interviewed Wilson for the post and quoted him in it.”

Fred Wilson - Hypocritical, Wrong and Conflicted

At the crux of this argument is a data set from Comscore and some other unvarifiied source; for anyone that appreciates the inaccuracy of web traffic measurement and true Facebook app usage, thats funny.

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Feb 17

Use Google Analytics to measure your traffic | Tumblr

For anyone who wants to get a little more serious about Tumbling (or blogging).

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Feb 17

“By packaging and dispersing it, people close to Francis tell me, Mantra does as much as $40 million a year in sales.”

Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild): ‘Baby, give me a kiss’

Simple, but very clever business concept. Joe Francis is quite an interesting and impressive entrepreneur.

Found article via this well organized Mahalo page.

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Feb 16

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] DailyHype: The Prodigy - Girls (Rex the Dog Remix)

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Feb 14

“Commissioner David Stern is considering new plans to create five full-fledged NBA franchises in Europe over the next decade, a league source told SI.com.”

NBA considering five-team European expansion

This would represent the first true globalization of a major sports league. And, has the potential to make basketball the most popular sport in the world. Quite historical.

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Feb 13

“MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe plans to be closely involved in the venture, which News Corp. has seeded with $15 million to hire roughly 40 employees, mostly software developers, say people with knowledge of the plans.”

Rupert Murdoch’s New Startup Incubator

Clever.

Ive worked in two different IAC incubator structures and we never once employed a developer; bad strategy. Without actual builders, there is little more than powerpoint and an ivory tower.

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Feb 13

Startup Wisdom: “The Less Understandable You Are, The More Attractive You Are.” - Silicon Alley Insider

How-to video sites are all the rage. Hope they are all this entertaining!

Curious video player design; not my favorite.

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Feb 12

“After several more weeks of fruitless phone calls, she received an offer she calls insulting: $900 for her trouble — in the form of a store gift card. Her blood boiled. She had paid more than $1,100 for the computer and the warranty.”

A lost laptop, a $54 million lawsuit:

I was dismissive at first, but after reading the article, Raelyn Campbell’s effort seems heroic.

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Feb 12

“Ad inventory on social networks like Facebook are not worth much. Lookery is offering a guaranteed ad rate of 12.5 cents for every thousand impressions (CPM). By offering a guaranteed rate, it hopes to attract enough application publishers to get to a billion impressions a month, up from 170 million in December.”

How Much Is a Facebook Ad Worth?

$.13 cent CPMs is not viable. Good luck making that excel model work.

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Feb 12

Independent Film Channel : Overnight

IFC understands programming (and curation). Overnight makes the Gawker Media sites seem tonally tame.

Utterly demystifies “the Business”, in the event you need demystification.

Process, Politics, Dependence, Hollywood and a system.

Why doesnt he just raise money from non-industry sources and do an end-around? I wonder if the documentary was reality or a movie.

Reminds me of the Chappelle Theory.

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