A Series of Explorations

Search engines have long been judges of what is important; now they are also arbiters of the truth.

Danny Hillis, The Opinions Of Search Engines (via Edge.org)

Hillis makes the case that adding by semantic knowledge into search Google and others are inherently and inescapably advancing a worldview, like the editor of a magazine.

(via stoweboyd)

It is amazing how having a huge homepage can be a curse. People start fighting over existing traffic instead of trying to make awesome new things that are exciting enough to attract their own audience. Marissa Mayer should exclude homepage traffic from all metrics used to evaluate performance — that would be the single biggest thing she could do to turn around the company.

Jonah Peretti’s advice for Marissa Mayer. Always question your understanding of what constitutes success.

Via Business Insider.

gthegentleman:

inspirezme:

Nooka, a New-York fashion brand has created an advertising campaign transforming the famous New York yellow cabs into a back to the future deloeran taxi. Designed by Michael J Lubrano

So great

(via derrickbradley)

Source: inspirezme

They set up an operation with $25 million a year in expenses. But there’s no reason why a daily iPad newspaper needs that sort of budget. A daily iPad newspaper of the scope of The Daily might (but I doubt it), but that simply means the scope of The Daily was ill-conceived. News Corporation went no further than taking the newspaper as we know it — the newspaper as defined by the pre-Internet 20th century — and cramming it into an iPad wrapper. You can’t tell me a good daily iPad newspaper couldn’t be run profitably for $5 million a year.

Skeumorphism in business models is a dangerous thing indeed.

Via Daring Fireball: Why the Daily Failed.