Christopher Franzese

Digging Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans. This is my...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:47:00 -0400

Digging Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans. This is my Prairie is particularly amazing. Five Dollar Bill, above, is a good bit of fun.

Wears My Shirt is a pretty fun charity idea.

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:22:21 -0400

Wears My Shirt is a pretty fun charity idea.

BULLSHIT from: The Apple Store

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:02:00 -0400

BULLSHIT from: The Apple Store

via: lookbothways: NPR KNOWS DIGITAL.. this is awesome…. NPR:...

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:10:44 -0400

via: lookbothways:

NPR KNOWS DIGITAL.. this is awesome….

NPR: All Things D (via NPRCreaTV)

Bosssome! bestrooftalkever: George and I love this new NBA...

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:23:16 -0400

Bosssome!

bestrooftalkever:

George and I love this new NBA commercial, “We Love You, Fans”

Speed for Need: Likes vs. Links

Mon, 24 May 2010 09:14:46 -0400

mikehudack:

gbattle:

Excerpt from an email I wrote a month ago regarding Facebook’s Global Like and Google. Names have been removed to protect the disruptive. Was going to expand this into a proper post, but the raw idea was good enough (ie. I’m too lazy to write it and it’s been sitting in my queue for a month).

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In an intent obsessed internet economy, user needs are represented by actions, and actions are measured by impact. In the sharing ecosystem, the action is the sharing mechanism and the impact is the social and channel dispersion of the engagement. As far as social gestures go, a “like” represents a much lighter need than a shorten/share or cut/paste, which is the entire point behind the Global “Like” - there’s a market for people to share on impulse without friction. The most viral safe form of sharing and tracking is the URL, and as a standardized protocol, it can go wherever the distributed social web takes it and becomes accretive via annotation, inheriting mass and velocity ie. momentum - across Facebook, Twitter, SMS, smartphones, IM, email where the score is ultimately tallied via search engine ranking. There can be massive impact from sharing via open protocols as the dispersion is frictionless. Likes have less initial friction by way of platform handling the heavy lifting - one click and you’re done, no annotating, no cutting and pasting, no decision to be made, pure impulse gesture - but it is limited to one network virally speaking and further limited by the hurdles, perils and confusion of privacy in your private/public network within Facebook.

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By shadowing or removing links from the most vibrant areas of the sharing ecosystem on the internet, Facebook is rotating the most monetizable market share away from the link economy where Google wins to the private social sharing economy where Facebook wins. The internet chess match has been set for us. Everything Google does is to expand the internet pie - the more links out there, the larger the internet, the more they can monetize from their dominant position in search. Everything Facebook is doing is to reduce the internet pie - the more links they can remove from the open internet and rotate into their private platform, the more they can monetize from their dominant position as a walled garden.

OH NO!!!! via: eeeverythinglovely: R.I.P...

Thu, 20 May 2010 08:16:52 -0400

OH NO!!!!

via: eeeverythinglovely:

R.I.P bigdaddykanesfriendian.tumblr.com

via: soupsoup: Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, and...

Mon, 17 May 2010 08:51:13 -0400

via: soupsoup:

Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, and Alexa Andrzejewski, founder of Foodspotting discussing running a start up in the hyperlocal space.

Great video detailing Twitter’s conception and...

Mon, 17 May 2010 08:36:52 -0400

Great video detailing Twitter’s conception and realization.

via: tristanwalker

Awesome. Super Sexy CPR via: jendotlu

Fri, 14 May 2010 15:52:36 -0400

Awesome.

Super Sexy CPR via: jendotlu

Advertising is amazing. Casting for Porn: Amour ads /via...

Fri, 14 May 2010 10:14:52 -0400

Advertising is amazing.

Casting for Porn: Amour ads /via jendotlu

FFFFOUND!

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:49:44 -0400

FFFFOUND!

eeeverythinglovely: one day, just not today.

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:18:31 -0400

eeeverythinglovely:

one day, just not today.

Ambient location awareness, the ability to like the internet and...

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:15:21 -0400

Ambient location awareness, the ability to like the internet and more, all being shown up by an outsider’s jpgs. That’s a lot of volume for one conference.

via: mikehudack

Of course it’s awesome, but mostly I’m left...

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:10:44 -0400

Of course it’s awesome, but mostly I’m left wondering what deep-seated, subconscious stew of past experiences caused that to TOTALLY FUCKING BLOW MY MIND.

via: wtfdude:

RAD TIMES.

For anyone that needs this.

“Where is the comp at?!” via:...

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:58:30 -0400

“Where is the comp at?!”

via: eeeverythinglovely:

Converse Band of Ballers II - Jim speaks on defending the title, and bringing on God to help make it back to back.

“BeetleCam was promptly mauled and carried off into the...

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:35:30 -0400

“BeetleCam was promptly mauled and carried off into the bush.” The BeetleCam Project via: the radar

This is virtually exactly as I had pictured Mr....

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:48:42 -0400

This is virtually exactly as I had pictured Mr. Steinbeck’s Rocinante. It simply bellows freedom.

dpstyles:

Yes please.

whitneymcn:

This is the car. If I feel the need for a wildly impractical midlife crisis car, you can keep your ridiculous little sports cars — this is what I’ll go for.

davidporter:

I’m not a fan of the SUV — or even the car for that matter, as I’ve never really owned one save for a year’s stint with the Live365 PT Cruiser — but this late 1960s International Harvester Travelall is really cool.

I liked that very much. itsemilywoolf: smart, entertaining, and...

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:23:04 -0400

I liked that very much.

itsemilywoolf:

smart, entertaining, and beautiful content by mother ny for stella

Lovelinessvia: swissmiss | Google Maps Envelopes

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:54:55 -0400

Loveliness
via: swissmiss | Google Maps Envelopes