“When you’re dressed as an 8-foot sausage, you can really lean.” —
Rules of the Race:
In Brewers’ Sausage Race, They’re All Wieners - NYTimes.com
Steve Jobs: A Mega, Meta Mashup in Tweets
(via fastcompany)
New York Mets to use 'dynamic pricing' for seats in 2012 - ESPN New York -
Now this is cool.
“We have a sense going in that an early or a late midweek game isn’t as desirable as a summer weekend game — peak vs. off-peak, so to speak — and the reality is as you get into the season things happen,” said Dave Howard, Mets executive vice president for business operations. “Sometimes marketplaces will tell you that you probably should reduce this price even further, or you probably can raise the price here because the demand is very high because you have a key pitching matchup in a critical game. It just allows us to make real-time adjustments based on those factors.”
Also of note from the Pew Research study “How People Learn About Their Local Community:”
- Nearly half of adults — 47 percent — get some local news and information on mobile devices.
- Neither social media nor mobile apps yet rate as a leading source of local information. Newspaper websites are more valued than those of broadcast outlets but “do not score highly as a relied-upon source on any topics.”
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Before: You could only “check in” to locations using the Places feature on a smart phone.
Going Forward: Now you can add location to anything. Lots of people use Facebook to talk about where they are, have been or want to go. Now you can add location from anywhere, regardless of what device you are using, or whether it is a status update, photo or Wall post. Of course, you can always choose not to add location at all.
As a part of this, we are phasing out the mobile-only Places feature. Settings associated with it are also being phased out or removed.
” —Facebook is getting rid of mobile-only Places and moving in the same direction as Twitter: users can attach their location to pretty much any update or action.
Ideally, this will also help move Facebook beyond the present tense with location-based, as users can discuss where they were previously or want to go in the future. (Post-foursquare companies like Ditto and others have tried to make this a centerpiece of their services.)
This is a smart move for Facebook, since Places hadn’t really been catching on: location becomes part of its core status function which users know and are comfortable with.
This change will also help publicize Facebook Deals as users buy and use them, again through the core status update/news feed function.
Facebook Blog: Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want
TechCrunch: One Year Later, Facebook Killing Off Places To Put Location Everywhere
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Developers come, generally, when at least two of these three criteria are met:
1. Developers themselves use and love the platform’s products.
2. The platform has a large installed base.
3. Developers can make decent money on the platform.
WebOS hit none of those areas.
” — Winners And Losers From Five Days That Changed The Mobile Market | paidContent“But while revenue from Citi Field has fallen because of the Mets’ poor on-field performance the last three seasons, SNY’s flow of subscriber revenue steadily rises. SNY’s total revenue, including advertising, reached $227.7 million last year, according to SNL Kagan.” —
Regional Sports Networks Show Teams the Money - NYTimes.com
Great overview of how profitable these networks are, with a look at the Pac-12, the Orioles (MASN) and Dodgers, among others.
YES is the top regional network: it made $435.2M in 2010.
(via ericmortensen)
Find and share the places you love. Say hi to foursquare Lists. | Foursquare Blog -
Another foursquare feature that adds value for users, boosts network effects and doesn’t seem like it will easily translate to Facebook Places or other would-be envelopers.
Speaking of envelopers: unlike on Yelp, it seems that foursquare lists can be more easily generated from places users have checked in; (I’m guessing more people check in on foursquare than write Yelp reviews).
I’m still really interested in mobile location-based social networks, especially following this paper that I wrote during my last semester at Columbia Business School looking at the industry : foursquare, Facebook and the Strategic Landscape of Mobile Location-Based Social Networks.
The paper was written as the final project for High Tech Strategy taught by Raul Katz. Both are great.
Sunset from The High Line (Taken with instagram)
Post No Bills (Taken with instagram)
Dubrovnik has walls/is rad. Thus begins my final MBA vacation. (Taken with instagram)
Your mousetraps, sticky
And your service oft surly
But you were near home.
R.I.P. Klosty Hardware, 1946-2011
Muffin House: the coolest in town? (Taken with instagram)