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The Digital Deluge: Explained

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 02.14.2012

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Business used to be so simple. Manufacturers made things. Stores stocked them. Consumers bought them. Rinse and repeat. Ah, it sounds so quaint standing in the marketplace madness that is 2011.

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Data Smog: How Information Turned Deadly

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 02.12.2012

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You know that feeling on a clear blue sky day. The air is crisp, the sun is shining. Everything seems right in the world. Well, on the Web - it isn't...

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When Customers Attack: Comments and the Web

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 02.04.2012

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There are pages and pages of these. I'm not going to name the chain, because I hope that as a careful customer you're searching Yelp, CitySearch, Google Reviews -- or any of the many sites that invite consumer feedback.

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MTV and the "Curated ME"

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 12.26.2011

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Millennials have grown up with a 24/7 news cycle and reality TV. They know the power of branding and publicity. Every day they act as their own digital publicists, curating and monitoring the 'me' brand.

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Brazil. Tech Forward - In a Social Sort Of Way.

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 12.01.2011

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Sao Paulo's Latin motto is Non dvcor, dvco, which translates as "I am not led, I lead." Leading in digital seems very much part of the culture of the place.

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Google News: Humans Beat Robots, at Last!

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 10.14.2011

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After almost a decade, Google is somewhat sheepishly admitting that humans are, well, useful after all.

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CBS Joins the Curation Trend

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 08.20.2011

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If CBS is paying attention -- there's lots of good learning for the CBS Early Show and CBS Evening News in what they're doing with Lazar and Co. over at Now Trending.

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Extreme Transparency: The New Way We Live

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 08.07.2011

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My fellow traveler read my powerpoint from behind me on the airplane. And my car service driver watched it live on the web. Certainly my 'private' presentation to the TEDx community was more public than I ever imagined.

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A Silver Lining? iCloud Embraces 'Everywhere' Computing

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 08.05.2011

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The real opportunity of the cloud is about sharing, not controlling content. Sticking your files on a shared server is great, but it's not a computing revolution. The game changer is the curated cloud.

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Google's User Happiness Problem

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.15.2011

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While Google is defining 'delight' as popping a weather graphic on your screen, users are drowning in a flood of tweets, blog posts, check-ins, and other real-time data that overwhelm comprehension and exhaust users.

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NY's Secret Underground Digital Lab

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.12.2011

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New York has a digital sensory deprivation zone that tests how long people can stand being disconnected from the web. It's called the New York City Subway.

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Can Venture Capitalize on Curation?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.08.2011

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Curation has come of age. The sheer volume of Web content, and the increasing demand of both content consumers and Web advertisers makes it clear that content without curation is simply noise.

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Hey Marketers! I Want My Data Back!

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.07.2011

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If you're like me, you're splurting data all over the place. Just a few years a back, the idea of sharing your credit card on the Internet seemed like...

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Volvo's Social Media #Fail

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.03.2011

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It used to be that in marketing, the brand with the most cash won. Hands down. You could 'carpet bomb' a market, you could 'own' the conversation, you...

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Fred Wilson, Uri Milner: Is Curation VC's Big New Thing?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.28.2011

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A number of the web's most trusted voices have started to embrace a concept that could have massive ramifications -- to manage, and make useful, the massive growth of content on the web, sites must embrace curation.

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Why Stephen Colbert Fears Me

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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At first I didn't put all the pieces together. Why wouldn't he return my calls? After all, in January alone he'd had Jane McGonigal, Michael Lewis, and Amy Chua. But still, no invite.

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SXSW: The Heart of the Realtime Revolution

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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What's the biggest lesson coming out of SXSW? A year is a very long time in the fast moving world of connected content.

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NPR, Facebook, Netflix and the Crisis of Abundance

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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We're entering a critical, and dangerous, time in the content ecosystem. A moment where partisan politics could shout down diverse points of view, and lumbering algorithms could blithely filter out diversity.

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The Cable Cutting Chronicals - Week 3

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Well, now that we've gone and cut off cable, we thought maybe we could go all the way. So after a convincing call with Verizon, we ordered up new inte...

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The People Powered Web

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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It used to be to make a 'TV' show you needed expensive gear, a big budget, a cable or broadcast channel and talent. Now, you can cross off all but the last item.

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Do We Trust Google To Run Our Highways?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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For two days on Hawaii's Big Island, Venture Capitalist David Hornik of August Capital invited a small group of friends and colleagues to what is best...

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Current TV's Jason Silva is thinking about Death - a lot.

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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He's one of the best-known faces on Al Gore's TV network Current TV. Venezuelan born media persona Jason Silva is some newfangled hybrid of Journalis...

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