Economics requires you to push most of your customers into standardized or semicustomized experiences.
Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the trade group Interactive Advertising Bureau, Forbes - Online Advertisers’ Worst Enemy: Venture Capitalists

Romain Gavras + Kanye West & Jay-Z = Riots.

People who decide first that they want to be an entrepreneur and then go looking for an idea are getting it the wrong way around, he said. “The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that’s the only way the idea will come into the world.
Dustin Moskovitz: Y Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Bad for Silicon Valley

Google introduces it’s Knowledge Graph!

Brian Brush, with Yong Ju Lee and their studio e/b Office, has decided to celebrate the chair in their newest project: SEAT. It’s a pavilion for Atlanta’s Freedom Park, constructed from 400 “simple wooden chairs. “Chairs are remarkable pieces of furniture. When you think about the loads they are required to carry, both dynamic and static, in supporting people of all sizes and dimensions, you realize just how strong they actually are,” designer Brian Brush tells Co.Design. “But of course we don’t think of them as structural components, we just think of them as chairs. Their domestic identity overwhelms almost any other interpretation of their use.” Source: FastCo.Design

Brian Brush, with Yong Ju Lee and their studio e/b Office, has decided to celebrate the chair in their newest project: SEAT. It’s a pavilion for Atlanta’s Freedom Park, constructed from 400 “simple wooden chairs.

“Chairs are remarkable pieces of furniture. When you think about the loads they are required to carry, both dynamic and static, in supporting people of all sizes and dimensions, you realize just how strong they actually are,” designer Brian Brush tells Co.Design. “But of course we don’t think of them as structural components, we just think of them as chairs. Their domestic identity overwhelms almost any other interpretation of their use.”

Source: FastCo.Design

Too hot for the App Store: app that turns basic shapes into porn gets rejected by Apple.

State of the Union on Quora

“Quora will be streaming the 2012 State of the Union Address, then choosing a selection of the most-followed questions about economic and domestic policies for the White House to answer.”

Facebook's New... Newsrooms?

“On Sunday, Facebook quietly registered a series of “Facebook Newsroom” domains—a move that seems to signal that Facebook’s entering the media content game in a new way. Three domains were registered, according to Fusible, facebook-newsroom.com, facebook-newsroom.org, and facebook-newsroom.net. Facebook is listed on Whois.com as the registrant, administrative contact, and technical contact for all three..

But to make room for the new media model of the next 100 years, we need to let these old assumptions fall by the wayside. The new vision is for media to start doing the work that each member of the audience already does; and that means deliberately selecting and contextualizing the media we each consume. Putting it simply: media’s great opportunity is to bring the right content to the right person at the right place and time.
Techcrunch - You can’t spell media without me.

Steve Jobs talks about life.