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Snapchat Is Now Worth $10 Billion, SEO Strategists Are Legitimately Ruling Newsrooms, and Virtual Reality is Awesome

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Howdy readers....here are a few tech links to satisfy your Thursday night cravings (because who needs happy hour when you have reading, right?). Original Article: "The Newest Important Person in Newsrooms: Audience-Development Czars," from Digiday[...]

Read This Startup Founder's 1,284 Powerpoint Presentation On How to Live

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San Francisco entrepreneur and investor Ryan Allis released a 1,284-slide Powerpoint presentation earlier this week, in celebration of his 30th birthday on Thursday, August 14 (happy belated, buddy!) It's been mocked by lots of media folk -- but I re[...]

These Five Adtech Startups Presented At Turner Media Camp's Demo Day

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by Brendan Doyle
3 years ago

Original Article: "Turner Media Camp Demo Day Highlights Five New Startups," from TechCrunch. Right as Rupert Murdoch raises his skull-and-bones flag and sets full-sails ahead on a Time Warner acquisition, five startups made their own humble pitch[...]

Here's What DJ Skee Actually Does

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by Brendan Doyle
3 years ago

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Original Article: 'How DJ Skee Is Reinventing What It Means To Be A DJ,' from Fast Company. DJ Skee, according to Fast Company, is a media mogul-as-paradox. And you can tell he is a media mogul-as-paradox, you see, because every interview, video a[...]

The Financial Times Is Now Selling Ads Based On 'Time Spent On Site'....Who Will Follow?

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by Brendan Doyle
3 years ago

Original Article: Contently, "The Financial Times on Why They Ditched CPMs For A New Ad Currency: Time Spent." The Financial Times announced that it will sell display ads based on the time its audience spends with its content, as opposed to cost p[...]

Stanford and UPenn Have The Frattiest, Techiest Kids In The World

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by Brendan Doyle
3 years ago

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Business Insider has released a list of the top 15 'Most Successful College Fraternities in Tech.' The list is fairly informal -- more a compilation of Wikipedia/Google research than a genuine database ranking -- but one trend is clear: Stanford and [...]

An Unabridged History of Maker Studios

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by Brendan Doyle
3 years ago

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Maker Studios -- the YouTube multichannel network founded by-- has had almost as sordid and dramatic a history as, say, Snapchat or Facebook. To commemorate Disney's $950 million acquisition of the company, let's take a look back at the history o[...]

Interview With Micah Rosenbloom Of Founder Collective: Self-Awareness And Growing Talent In Silicon Alley

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Self-awareness is a beneficial quality in many circumstances: Working under pressure. Identifying personal weakness. Inspiring humor. And for startup success, according to Founder Collective Partner Micah Rosenbloom, a founder's self-awareness ca[...]

Sergey Brin’s Resume From 1998 Is Our Awesomely ‘90s Link of the Day

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by Brendan Doyle
3 years ago

Courtesy of TechCrunch, we have Sergey Brin's resume circa 1998, right around the time he was working on Ph.D research like 'Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web.' Brin was also in the nascent stages of developing Google with [...]

Business Insider Sparks Media Maelstrom Over $12 Million Funding Round

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Business Insider raised an additional $12 million of funding earlier this month, with major investors including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and will be expanding into the U.K., according to the Wall Street Journal. Michael Wolff of USA Today -- a ubiqu[...]

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Snapchat Is Now Worth $10 Billion, SEO Strategists Are Legitimately Ruling Newsrooms, and Virtual Reality is Awesome

Read This Startup Founder's 1,284 Powerpoint Presentation On How to Live

These Five Adtech Startups Presented At Turner Media Camp's Demo Day

Here's What DJ Skee Actually Does

The Financial Times Is Now Selling Ads Based On 'Time Spent On Site'....Who Will Follow?

Stanford and UPenn Have The Frattiest, Techiest Kids In The World

An Unabridged History of Maker Studios

Interview With Micah Rosenbloom Of Founder Collective: Self-Awareness And Growing Talent In Silicon Alley

Sergey Brin’s Resume From 1998 Is Our Awesomely ‘90s Link of the Day

Business Insider Sparks Media Maelstrom Over $12 Million Funding Round

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