Privacy, Trust and Identity are now at the forefront for all consumers, and have wide-ranging impact on technology and media businesses. From tech companies, expect lobbying actions, new tools, new policies and more personal control to rebuild users’ confidence, and from the policy world expect more guidelines around use of personal data and stricter repercussions for violations of user trust. The Best “Sleeper Ideas” For Trends, Stocks, And Private Companies To Watch In 2014 - Forbes

Updating my “Growth Hacking Tools” slide; or, more properly, “Analytics, Testing & Growth Tool Landscape” as of October 2013

saila: I for one welcome Bezos as washingtonpost’s overlord if this becomes the voice of its Twitter account (ht @susinsky)

I think I would just ignore, it is local news doing a story on a lost dog. Their entire government is shut down and about to default and this is how the US media spends its time. An Air Canada rep unintentionally candid response to a questions about a lost show dog from a reporter at a Sacremento CBS affiliate (via saila)Although I’m not usually one to side with Air Canada, she has a point.

I’m a crotchety old guy. I worry about all these new companies. I’m glad that they’re easier to start, but the problem is, they’re just as hard to finish as they have always been. Mike Olson — “Student Entrepreneurs: If Peter Thiel Calls — Hang Up” (via donnabrewingtonwhite) Source: donnabrewingtonwhite

We all think that nobody’s interested in us, we’re all simple folk,” said Doan Moran of Alexandria, Louisiana. “But you start looking at the numbers and the phone records … it makes you really hesitate. NSA spying revelations prompt citizens to rethink computing habits - National | Globalnews.ca (via gregcohn) Source: globalnews.ca

fuckyeahtoronto: brimzofficial: Sky Ridin’ at the #CNE Photo: @tahaphoto Source: brimzofficial-blog

The Exhibition place is not someplace to come and get sick. Except of course, if we make you sick by putting you on a ride but that’s a different story. David Bednar, general manager of The Ex, as quoted in “Food vendor remains closed during wait for test results after 34 fall ill at CNE” (via saila)

continuations: I have written a lot about the challenges of charging for content as digital content production and distribution has skyrocketed. The fundamental problem from here on out is that the supply of content far outstrips the demand which means that at the margin the price for content will be zero…. I commend Wattpad for giving this a try, but I don’t think that their authors have a large enough audience of the right kind of people to make this a huge business.

fuckyeahtoronto: kyol: HAHA, this is so inaccurate!!!!! there isn’t that much stuff north of Bloor is there…???? Source: kyol