GigaOM Pulse

"Omni-channel targeting capability (targeting users on desktop, mobile, tablet, etc) is important,..."

om — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:31:51 -0700

“Omni-channel targeting capability (targeting users on desktop, mobile, tablet, etc) is important, and Google and Facebook are leaders here. Marketers are increasingly attempting to reach users as they shift across multiple screens, from desktop to tablet to mobile. With well over a billion users each (on desktop and mobile), Google and Facebook can track users as they shift from desktop to mobile devices, a significant advantage”

- Jefferies Research

Om vs Home (Facebook Home, that is)

om — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:49:10 -0700

om:

John Gruber invited me to his podcast, The Talk Show this past week and we talked about a whole bunch of things. Amongst topics discussed:

Facebook Home (the faux-app/OS hybrid.)

Facebook and its mobile OS (why I believe there is one in the works and is…

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Allen Stern, may you rest among angels

om — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:48:55 -0700

om:

Allen Stern, a blogger and a great human being passed away this last week, according to an update from his sister. The cause of death is not clear. I learned this when I woke up early in the morning. It wasn’t how I wanted to start my day and it has sent…
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From the press release: The beauty of the phone is the...

om — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:20:33 -0700

Samsung S4. Just like S3 except beefier & lighter.

From the press release:

The beauty of the phone is the highly crafted design encompassing a larger screen size and battery, minimized bezel; all housed in a light (130g) and slim (7.9mm) shape. The Samsung GALAXY S 4 is slimmer yet stronger, with less to hold yet more to see. It has come up with simply unreal beauty. At launch, two color options will be available - Black Mist and White Frost; with a variety of additional color options to follow later this year.

Samsung S4. Released yesterday, seems to have good solid hardware. But for me, it is not enough to give up on my beloved iPhone 5

"Facebook is the Soviet Union of the modern web."

om — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:28:08 -0700

“Facebook is the Soviet Union of the modern web.”

- via GigaOM

Living With a Lot Less

om — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:10:56 -0700

“Intuitively, we know that the best stuff in life isn’t stuff at all, and that relationships, experiences and meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.”

Graham Hill, founder, Treehugger.com, in the New York Times

brookhavenlab: Three Years in 13 Seconds The landscape at...

om — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:59:10 -0800

brookhavenlab:

Three Years in 13 Seconds

The landscape at Brookhaven has been changing with the addition of the 1/2 mile ring for the new National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). Our first light source (the original NSLS) uses electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light to produce x-rays 10,000 times brighter than the ones your doctor uses to check out a broken bone. Instead of seeing fractures, NSLS’s beams reveal details of materials at the scale of molecules!

Soon, NSLS-II will produce x-rays 10,000 times brighter than NSLS. Scientists will be able to use this powerful tool to examine the nanoscale structure of proteins or figure out how tiny insects digest food or watch what happens to individual atoms as batteries charge in real time. We’re getting pretty excited about seeing this new experiment powerhouse fire up. When it does, it’ll be the brightest synchrotron light source in the world!

Amazing stuff

om: I cannot wait to get a whiff of this Helium from Mophie.

om — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:21:13 -0800

om:

I cannot wait to get a whiff of this Helium from Mophie.

bijan: A cool, crisp night in San Francisco (Leica M9 | 16sec,...

om — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:40:52 -0800

bijan:

A cool, crisp night in San Francisco

^{(Leica M9 | 16sec, f/4, ISO 160)}

San Francisco

lensblr-network: istanbul turkey 2011 by...

om — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:12:38 -0800

lensblr-network:

istanbul turkey 2011

by affenkind.tumblr.com

Damn clever fashion art :)

Using a Dynamic Map as a Table of Contents

om — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:47:57 -0800

I have a project planned for this blog in 2013 — a series of blog posts touring the village of Cotuit each accompanied by photographs of the relevant landmark or neighborhood. I want to use a map of the village as a ‘table of contents’ — either by adapting Google Maps or Google Earth into a dynamic interface, using the ‘pin’ function to mark each spot and then link that spot deeper into a specific blog post.”

David Churbuck

Ev Williams, Larry Page & Internet of Islands

om — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:41:05 -0800

Larry Page, CEO Google in an interview with Fortune magazine

The Internet was made in universities and it was designed to interoperate. And as we’ve commercialized it, we’ve added more of an island-like approach to it, which I think is a somewhat a shame for users.

Two years ago, Evan Williams of Twitter said the same in a conversation about two years ago:

If you create something on the web, you’re your own island and you try to get people to visit your island. On the mobile phone, you don’t have your own island. You’re renting land.

The question is when will our Internet “leaders” do something about it?

Om Malik: Attn founders: CEO Jeff Immelt on GE's Silicon Valley Plans

om — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:20:28 -0800

Om Malik: Attn founders: CEO Jeff Immelt on GE's Silicon Valley Plans:

Will GE start buying software companies in Silicon Valley? After all, Immelt had venture capitalist Marc Andreessen on stage, and Andreessen would love to sell him some big data companies and pocket those GE dollars. “We are better off acquiring people than companies,” Immelt said. The company is…

End of Maison Martin Margiela brand?

om — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:26:17 -0800

Don’t get me wrong, I very much appreciate the Margiela brand, but it’s not at all what it used to be after it was bought out by Diesel jeans in 2002, and licensing out the name to a fast-fashion brand like H&M is just the wrapping paper and bow on the end of an era — as the Margiela brand was originally founded on the principle that authenticity trumps marketing hype and label recognition. Margiela especially deplored celebrity marketing and famous models, which H&M used in abundance to promote their own Margiela collaboration (is this the definition of irony?):

(Nathan Branch)

How big is Tumblr?

om — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:02:35 -0800

Tumblr now has 120 people. It is clocking 20 billion page views a month, has about 80.8 million blogs and over 35.7 billion total posts and gets about 165 million unique visitors every month. [via GigaOm]

In conversation with David Karp, CEO & Founder of Tumblr

om — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:02:24 -0800

my notes from a conversation with David Karp, CEO & Founder of Tumblr. He talks about the social web, Tumblr’s place in this new Internet, the shift to mobile, the iPad Mini and how he has changed as a founder and entrepreneur. [ continue reading on GigaOM]

Tumblr CEO David Karp in conversation with Mathew Ingram at...

om — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:56:55 -0800

Tumblr CEO David Karp in conversation with Mathew Ingram at GigaOM RoadMap 2012 conference.

Jawbone releases new UP. More here.

om — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:57:18 -0800

Jawbone releases new UP. More here.

Photo

om — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:10:42 -0700

Jessica Alba & Microsoft sitting on a tree

om — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:05:48 -0700

Is Jessica Alba endorsing Windows Phone 8? Looks like she is.