July 2012
2 posts
Building All-Star Teams →
bijan:
via Mike Karnjanaprakorn
At Twitter, Dick Costolo (CEO) makes sure that all new hires can answer three simple questions:
1. What’s my job?
2. How do I know I’m successful at my job?
3. Why does it matter if our company succeeds (vision)?
Mike has a great post on team building and company culture. I encourage you to read the whole thing.
(disclosure: we are investors in Mike’s...
“Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know.”
–
-Lao Tzu
June 2012
3 posts
Nat Turner: Treatment by anecdote (and not data) →
natsturner:
In my brief time in the healthcare industry, one thing I’ve noticed is that doctors treat by anecdote and not by data. They make treatment decisions for the patient sitting in front of them based on something that happened to a patient they treated in the past and their perceived outcome of that…
May 2012
5 posts
The $144,146,165 Button →
unwieldy:
The average New York City taxi cab driver makes $90,747 in revenue per year. There are roughly 13,267 cabs in the city. In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to begin taking credit cards, which involved installing a touch screen system for payment.
During payment, the user is presented with three…
Coming to America.
April 2012
6 posts
March 2012
29 posts
WatchIn preparing for the 2012 Admeld Partner Forum today I was reminded of some of the insightful and forward looking comments from our publisher panel last year.
Looking forward to another great day with our partners across the buy and sell side talking about how the industry has evolved the past 12 months.
Twitter’s Sleepless Adman | Digiday →
Definitely an important 12 - 24 months for Twitter.
The 3rd Annual Admeld Partner Forum is on...
This invite-only event will bring together the industry’s top publishing and buy-side executives to discuss the challenges and opportunities they’ll face in 2012 and beyond
Looking forward to another great Partner Forum this Thursday (3/22)
Admeld Partner Forum
WatchTravel, at its core, is opening your heart to possibility.
It is not an adventure of extravagance or wealth. It is an adventure of constraints and character. This book, by design, is a manual for modern travel.
Great kickstarter project — would love to see this get funded.
The Problem With Online Advertising Is That There... →
Amazon buys some robots →
WatchAdMonsters was fortunate enough to have Jason Kelly, Vice President of Strategy & Revenue Management at Time Inc. Digital as our keynote speaker at our Publisher Forum in March 2010. His presentation was a big hit with our members - so much so that we asked Jason if he would be kind enough to give his presentation a second time and allow us to record it.
As part of that session, we sat down...
Stowe Boyd: The Second Screen Gets Most Of The... →
stoweboyd:
In a study published last year, S. Adam Brasel and James Gips studied the behavior of TV use when a computer was also present:
Media Multitasking Behavior: Concurrent Television and Computer Usage - Brasel and Gips, published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Changes in the…
Updated: GQ’s “Best Songs of 2012, So Far…” →
Step #1: Go to our Spotify page. Step #2: Brace your ears for the flyest tunes of the year. Our latest inductees include: The Magnetic Fields, WZRD, Lissy Trullie, Andrew Bird, Yellow Ostrich, and many, many more. Listen here.
This is your life...
“This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.”
Pretty much sums it up.
tpdsaa:
Submitted by http://twitter.com/marcusjhbrown
WatchHard to believe this letvafly campaign was five years ago. Will always be thankful to Kevin/Alex/Prager for jumping in and helping us get Virgin America off the ground. Can’t forget Fred Reid’s contribution as well…
One of my most memorable songs of 2012. Played...
We Found Love by Rihanna
shared from exfm
