added to the must-read list… still, techmeme / memeorandum are my top daily news visits; am sure this will be joining… now I just need ecmeme / finmeme / bizmeme.
“Viral videos and blog posts are becoming the samizdat of our day” —
Hillary Clinton
U.S. Hopes Internet Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies - NYTimes.com
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Always good to support indie films. This year’s show (by Dick Clark Productions) should be pretty cool. The widget will be the exclusive home of the arrivals show.
“The customer really isn’t always right.” —
Great Lake, a Chicago Pizza Shop, Enjoys Being Small - Question - NYTimes.com
(via @jhstrauss)
Fascinating Q&A. Something very appealing about the owner’s confidence in what he wants to create and what he wants to get out of it.
On my first FoodCrawlNYC. Live updates by inventor RobD
Never knew LA could be so NYCish. #artwalk in downtown la
More evidence that #GoogleBuzz is a winner. There’s a big crowd of people who use Gmail but who are too lazy/busy/coolforschool to switch out to FB / Twitter to make friends & make updates. Credit to Google for making it simple to get started (auto-follow is a *win* despite the complaining) and giving Buzz a utilitarian feel (everything from the deep integration of location to the UI) to win over folks who don’t feel at home in the purely social networking environment.
Don’t get me wrong, Twitter & FB aren’t going anywhere, but Buzz will be the 3rd most popular way to get social on the Net sooner than later.
UPDATE: “Buzz is not about beating Facebook or Twitter it’s about commoditizing them.” - this post by TomsTechBlog.com provides the best commentary I’ve read on Google Buzz.
“This is a social network built into your inbox. Why would you go anywhere else?” — Daniel Broukhim, my brother, on Google’s Buzz. Danny is my go to for a man on the street’s perspective of new tech products. Buzz is a winner.