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→ Harvard study shows Facebook friends don’t influence your taste
A Harvard study just published in PNAS [1]: [...] the overreaching conclusion was that on Facebook, people befriend others who are similar to them rather than becoming more similar to their friends over time. In other words, tastes influence who … Continue reading
→ Louis Gray on Winning Unconventionally
Louis Gray gives some examples of successes that weren’t secured by learning best practices, but rather by thinking out of the box: There’s plenty to read on best practices of doing a startup or architecting a successful social network or … Continue reading
→ Most Facebook Users Don’t Understand Privacy Settings
Not a big surprise… (some even say this is intentional). And another interesting bit: Google+ in particular was billed as the answer to selective sharing, with its Circles highlighted much more strongly than Facebook’s analogous features.
→ Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels
The labels are keeping a tight leash on their licensees to protect their copyright-based monopolies. An amazing (or appalling, depending on which side you’re on, artists or customers) look at the terms of the licensing deals that labels are able … Continue reading
★ All tablets lead to the iPad: why more alternatives help Apple keep the market
Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu are reporting an interesting research finding in HBR’s Future of Retail forum: Choice Helps High-End Products, Hurts Low-End Products. In their words: Consumers who are offered a richer array of relevant choices in a given product … Continue reading