Social Media’s Evolution from Long-Form to ‘Push Button Curation’
posted 3 weeks agoIf you read this blog then you know we have been pretty excited about Pinterest lately, and how we think it represents a new kind of digital ‘scrapbooking’ behavior. But here is another really nice way to think about the significance of Pinterest (courtesy of the blogger Elad Gil)… in terms of a new, simpler, ‘push-button’ way to be social.
The shift from long-form to push button social expression reflects a cultural reaction to the exponentially increasing amount of information that is coming at people daily through the internet. The more and more people have to process, the less time they have to really think.
Wait, what’s that saying… “a picture says a thousand words?”
Here’s Elad’s post
http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/12/how-pinterest-will-transform-web-in.html
Help! The Internet is Crushing Me!
posted 3 weeks agoMenu and Hours from Michelle Jones on Vimeo.
Just heard a crazy stat: 65% of internet users stated that the amount of information coming at them daily had grown year over year by 50%. And then I read about two new cool web services…
1) this cool new search engine call Sortable.com that lets you “skip the search” - or at least the google part of it - when buying stuff online.
2) this cool new restaurant finder called ‘menu and hours’. the mobile app solution for “TMI” foodie apps like Urban Spoon.
Let’s get real - google search is not going away. But these - along with the continued growth of social over search for time spent online - are good indicators that there is growing frustration with the amount of crap on the internet that you have to wade through. In 2012 people will be increasingly looking for tools that help them filter.
here’s the study
http://www.slideshare.net/steverosenbaum/the-digital-lifestyle-survey
Wish #5: Benoit & Sergio “Principles” - Here’s another tune that got me excited about house music again this year. The sound has been described as “Beach Boy Techno”, which I think is a good descriptor.
Wish #4: Lucky Paul “Thought We Were Alone” (Money vs. Gold Remix) & a new sound of House
This year I got back into house music - thanks to the discovery of the new house sound of the Wolf + Lamb, Soul-Clap, Visionquest, Benoit + Sergio, and No Regular Play crew.
What’s cool about it is that it’s kind of like post-house-music house music. House used to be so genre driven, a la “tech-house” or “deep house” or whatever. It got bogged down in its own genre rules and thereby got boring. But the beauty of this new sound is the subtlety and mashing-up of so many different influences - hip hop, R&B, techno, disco. It’s slowed down, song-oriented, and live performance driven. You forget you’re actually listening to “House Music”.
Wish #3: TV on the Radio “Second Song”
Talk about the year of the horn… The horn parts absolutely make this tune the banger that it is and is a real testament to the production talents of David Sitek.
Beyond the musical arrangement of the horns, he gets this amazing staccato and processed/distorted sound that just fills your ears (drops at 2:58). Pure bliss
Wish #2: Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned - “Who Do You Love”
posted 1 month agoSgt Dunbar& the Hobo Banned - Who Do You Love by O+ Festival
2011 was the year of the horn. It seemed to be freaking everywhere this year - from TV on the Radio’s new record to some of the new neo soul/Van Morrison-y stuff that broke through (a la Michael Kiwanuka) to this awesome band representin’ Albany, NY. Great live show - check em out.
If you know me, you know that every year around this time, I put together a compilation of the tunes that defined the year for me. I call it Wishlist. For the remaining days of december I will be counting them down.
Wish #1: Michael Kiwanuka ‘I’m Getting Ready’
I instantly fell in love with this new blend of soul, melody, and beautiful guitar songmanship when i heard it; it triggered memories of listening to “into the mystic” in my bedroom in the 5th grade.
Fast Company, I love you but you don’t need to tell people how to lead a creative life
The journey that is creativity -
beyond just being a great tribute to steve jobs, these remarks by apple design chief jonathan ive capture for me the challenges of the creative process in business today: the fragility of great ideas in an an overly rational world; not just having an idea, but the reality of building it; having the vision and balls to see and support the kernel of a great idea through the clutter of bad ones.
