No such thing as spare time.

No such thing as free time.

No such thing as downtime.

All you got is life time.

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-Henry Rollins

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#hashtags: the social data glue

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From Wikipedia: Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed with the symbol #, a form of metadata tag. Also, short messages on microbloggingsocial networking services such as Twitter, identi.ca orGoogle+ may be tagged by including one or more with multiple words concatenated, e.g.: #Wikipedia is an #encyclopedia From “Michael-Myers-pedia”: Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed...

TED Talk from Eli Pariser on the danger of “filter bubbles”

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I posted about the future of search being a three layer cake two years ago and in it I outlined a three tabbed SERP solution with social (filtered) results being first, business results being second and academic results on the third tab. I somehow missed this TED Talk (thanks to @jmarkow) from @elipariser on “filter bubbles”, where he outlines the pitfalls of having your content...

Baking location into Pinterest

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It should come as no surprise for anyone that reads this blog that I have an opinion on what Pinterest should do from a product standpoint and even less of a surprise that it would include the concept of location. (I know. Sssshhhhhocking!) 20% of Pinterest’s traffic is currently mobile. I’m unsure what percentage is the Pinterest app vs. m.pinterest.com but I’m sure that...