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Seth Godin has a thoughtful response to the wonderful Fast Company story “The Un-Tipping Point” by Clive Thompson.
Unleashing the Ideavirus didn’t spread because ‘important’ people endorsed and promoted it. It spread because passionate people did.
There are many ways to interpret the story, which covers Duncan Watts’s research, which discounts the roles of the super-influentials that many marketers try to reach to make their products tip rapidly. My interpretation is that marketers often over-simplify the definition of an influential, not recognizing that different people will be influential for different types of ideas or products. For example, Slashdot is a hugely influential audience for open-source software. It’s almost irrelevant when you have a new digital audio player to sell. This level of nuance has been left out in most efforts to create an influentials strategy, and that’s why the Tipping Point isn’t the panacea marketers hoped it would be. Just my two cents, you should read the story.
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Maybe? I’d love to see the math on that…
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I honestly sometimes wonder if Apple deliberately under-sells what it’s going to do just so analysts make their share price plunge, they can re-buy at a low price and then see the value soar again. I mean, best quarter of all time and lose $14 bucks? Huh?
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Potentially huge change in the way most online sites gather data about their users. It would be a strike for privacy, but I don’t see this going down easy.
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First step in the right direction for the American wireless network. It will soon finally be possible to buy the phone you want and just take it to AT&T, and leave any time you want to. It’s about time.
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Sad to see Meg retiring. Definitely one of Silicon Valley’s finest CEOs.
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Patent for Camera Implanted in Eyeball That Gives Electronic Vision to the Blind [Artificial Vision]Wow. This is one step away from full-on bionics. This would be of tremendous value to the sight-impaired if it works. Seems like there’s serious potential for abuse, however. How do you know that what you’re seeing is what’s really out there?
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NBC makes an investment in Indian media. Looks like someone doesn’t think the writer’s strike is ever ending.
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Car designers still don’t really know how to make a great little car. Shame.
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That PacMan cupcake set is AMAZING.
