My bet with Conrad
That Twitter will have 50m active users in December 2010. ‘Active’ defined as having tweeted in December 2010.
For £50.
I look forward to buying myself something nice….
Righteous anger hard to reverse even when proved wrong
In 1987, a teenage girl in suburban New York was discovered dazed and wrapped in a garbage bag, smeared with feces, with racial epithets scrawled on her torso. She had been attacked by half a dozen white men, then left in that state on the grounds of an apartment building. As the court case against her accused assailants proceeded, it became clear that she’d actually faked the attack, in order not to be punished for running away from home. Though the event initially triggered enormous moral outrage, evidence that it didn’t actually happen didn’t quell that outrage. Moral judgment is harder to reverse than other, less emotional forms; when an event precipitates the cleansing anger of righteousness, admitting you were mistaken feels dirty. As a result, there can be an enormous premium put on finding rationales for continuing to feel aggrieved, should the initial rationale disappear. Call it ‘conservation of outrage.’
Mum's 60th Birthday Card
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Presentation on zappos - p19 on values is great. 2nd half is generally better.
Pseuds corner
The line has revolutionised our view of the pictorial surface by changing the idea that form is no more than a patch of colour
Aleksander Rodchenko, 1921
iPhone app data
Consider the numbers: as of last week, according to Apple, over 800m applications have been downloaded from the official App Store. A majority of those were free downloads but a still huge number were paid for. Of the price of each app – usually a dollar or two – 70% goes to the developer and the other 30% goes to Apple. It’s that 70% that really interests me.
Take, for example, Tap Tap Revenge – the iPhone’s answer to Guitar Hero. Tapulous, the game’s maker, claims it has been downloaded over 5,000,000 times. Of those, 100,000 people have opted to buy one of the premium versions, like the Weezer-branded edition which, for just under $5, comes complete with a number of previously-unreleased tracks from the band. Thanks in large part to sales of Tap Tap Revenge, Tapulous broke even last December, despite only having made its first sale in September. When you consider the huge sums they have to pay the record labels in licencing fees, that’s an amazing achievement – especially compared to the state of almost every other sector of the paid consumer content business, outside pornography.
Test Joost video
RjDj The mind twisting hearing sensation. (via RjDjme)
Guitar hero goes general
Simple explanation of how OpenID works
