February 2012
14 posts
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“WOW!! Thats what I want to say about your new SDK. I just went live with my new...”
– - Brad Degalu, creator of Where’s My Droid
I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth revisiting because when I read emails like this it gets me really fired up. At Pontiflex, we work with all types of app developers from major media companies down to one-person shops. Each...
"At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13,... →
motherjones:
The actual Most Interesting Man in the World died last week. If you haven’t taken a minute to read his obituary, please do so now.
I don’t know, that guy in the Dos Equis commercials is really interesting.
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““With the pregnancy products, though, we learned that some women react...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets (via eCPM)
Quite the enjoyable read that describes how much companies can learn about their customers and what they’re doing with that data. Nothing too new here, but real world examples of this sort of thing are always fun.
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Books I've Read in 2012
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Pulphead: Essays
Middlesex
What should I read next?
“In the last year POF [PlentyOfFish] has gone from having no mobile apps to 3...”
– So it sounds like this mobile thing is for real.
(via PlentyOfFish blog)
“He appeared to make a minor gaffe last month during a brief appearance at a...”
– via Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell (by way of eCPM)
One read on this is that he doesn’t get how media sales works (which is entirely possible). Another read is that he doesn’t give a shit because Yahoo! was going nowhere when they had an agency-centric approach.
