This is awesome! The LA Times magazine released the 50 best Los Angeles bands. Each with a YouTube video and open voting for the best LA band. I’m viewing it on the iPad app, which is awesome (LA Times Magazine App), but you can also view it at latimesmagazine.com. The cover everything from the Beach …
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The glory of M&M's
*This is a cross post from a new 1X57 project – OmuthituSchool.com* — Have you ever been away from home so long that you start missing the strangest things? For me it’s always hometown doughnuts and Mexican food. For Spence, who has been in Africa for 16 months, it’s M&M’s. Here’s a message I just received from him: …
The glory of M&M’s
*This is a cross post from a new 1X57 project – OmuthituSchool.com* — Have you ever been away from home so long that you start missing the strangest things? For me it’s always hometown doughnuts and Mexican food. For Spence, who has been in Africa for 16 months, it’s M&M’s. Here’s a message I just received from him: …
Funny business, a woman's career
Funny business, a woman’s career – the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That’s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, …
Funny business, a woman’s career
Funny business, a woman’s career – the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That’s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, …
What happened to the iPhone 5?
Between all the hype about iCloud, OSX Lion, and Apple’s WWDC 2011, something went missing. The next version of the iPhone, rumored to be called iPhone 5. So what happened to the iPhone 5? I’ve been crawling the internet everyday (see picture at right) for news and everything is mum. Not my Mom, she is …
Web vs Internet: The Future of Going Online
Here is an interesting debate between Josh Topolsky and MG Siegler talking about Apple’s new iCloud strategy. Josh is making the case that Apple is completely ditching the Internet, and MG is countering that Josh is missing the App revolution. — Josh: “When it comes to Apple, it feels to me like the company views …
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My Favorite Sun Hat (roll it up and go!)
I don’t usually endorse products (least of which retail/clothing) here, but considering how much I get complimented on this sun hat every time I wear it and how important it is to protect our skin from the damages and dangers of the sun (multiple members of my family have had malignant melanoma on their face), I …
Our consumer-driven growth model is broken: Now what?
Last week at dinner, our friend (@doyendon) challenged 1X57 to find, or at least contemplate, a solution to consumer-based economies, aka contemporary capitalism, which is causing a global crisis of unconscionable proportions – with food and energy prices soaring, world populations surging, and weather-related disasters like tornadoes, tsunamis, droughts, fires and floods increasing in frequency and scale. In a …
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How to build your business around the 90/10 rule
“There is a 100/10/1 “rule of thumb” with social services. 1% will create content, 10% will engage with it, and 100% will consume it. If only 10% of your users need to log in because 90% just want to consume, then you’ll end up with the vast majority of your users in the logged out …
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