94% of workers approve of Zuckerberg’s leadership, compared to an average CEO approval rating of 62%. Facebook’s employee morale rating also hits an astounding 4.7 out of 5.
Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley.
Silicon Alley is not Silicon Valley.
Silicon Beach is not Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley.
New York, LA, and ______________ (other cities that are interested in branding themselves in association with Silicon Valley) you are unique. Create your own identity. Learn from Silicon Valley. Build your own culture. Embrace innovation (including in the way your culture tags itself to the world). Rock your independence.
I am fascinated with entrepreneurs wherever they are.
Keep on truckin, be true to you, where you’re from and where you live.
Source: skillshare
We believed we existed to change the world
How far back is my interest in palliative care?
@jfclearywisc my greatgrandpa was in Itally, my mom had us visit local nursing homes w/the hope that someone would visit him there#hpm
— renée berry (@rfberry) May 31, 2012
fascinating.
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” - William Gibson
Yup.
Source: davemorin
My favorite lunchtime activity is catching up on TechCrunch interviews from when I was working in healthcare (and not closely watching tech). This is an awesome interview by Mike Arrington of Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner from 2009. For what looks like a non-legit, yet way better audio version click here.
Arrington: You’re comfortable with the $10B valuation?
Milner: Absolutely. And, you know, I can repeat the reasons why. Basically, I think they have a very unique perspective on social network monetization, that other investors don’t necessarily see. You see how social networks have been monetized in our part of the world, and we’re just doing our math and coming up with numbers that we feel very comfortable with going forward. We don’t really value this business on (fee?) basis 2009 but rather on a longer term, based again on our experience, and we’re very confident that, you know, those numbers can be achieved.
Seems like a fun reflection of how just a few years ago everyone had eyes wide open in shock at Facebook’s 10 billion dollar valuation and the skeptics had plenty of things to say about it then, especially given the junk Bloget’s been touting as tech journalism lately.
Couldn’t agree more! Just met a journalism professor for lunch last week and discussed this extensively. I’m concerned for programs not quickly adapting to make this an integral part of the curriculum. (especially higher education)
“My message is plain and simple - Twitter should be a tool utilized by all educators.” @NMHS_Principal
Source: esheninger.blogspot.com
Google+ As California City
agree…
An interesting analogy by Alexis Madrigal:
But by most accounts and third-party research, the service is growing its number of users but not their engagement. People are “on” Google Plus, but they are not really ON Google Plus. The infrastructure is there. The street signs are there. People own plots of land. But there’s nobody actually visiting town. To make it obvious: Google Plus is the California City to Facebook’s Los Angeles.
This is an elaborate way to argue what I have before: Google+, while a pretty good product, isn’t taking off because it’s unnatural. It was set up to succeed except for one problem: it was set up.
Madrigal also has a compelling way to get Google’s social efforts back on track: scrap Google+ and focus on how people are actually using Google products. As he writes:
I think Google needs to stop looking across town at Facebook and look within itself. Google is riddled with invisible social networks surrounding a wide range of products. Even better, Google’s homegrown social networks tend to be built around Google’s core strength: organized (and organizing) information.
In other words, stop trying to build a weird Facebook/Twitter hybrid on top of Google products and instead focus on the individual (and natural) social elements of the already-in-use products.
Obviously, that’s much more easily said than done. And it doesn’t really get at what this is all really about: unified, cross-pollinated data. But it would be much more natural.
Source: parislemon
