rob zand

Show Navigation

The networks have the ability to provide richer information such as behind-the-scenes content, commentary, or access to talent. They can even go one-step further for episodic content where the second screen is used to deepen the storyline, and it can be a new format for storytelling. If deeper content delivers the most value to the second screen interactive experience, how will the networks syndicate all this content to the companies that want access to it – namely operators, TV manufacturers, or even startups that are building second screen apps.

Link from Tweetbot

1 day ago

The portion of Americans invested in the stock market dropped this year to its lowest level since Gallup started asking, every two years, in 1998 — 53 percent said they were in the market in April, compared with a high of 67 percent in 2002 and 65 percent as recently as 2007, before the financial crisis.

Retreat From Stock Market Continues - NYTimes.com

5 days ago

In investing, you have “technical chartists.” They watch [stock] prices bouncing up and down, hitting what is called “resistance” at 30 or “support” at 20, for example. Chartists are looking at the data without developing fundamental explanations for why those movements are taking place—about the quality of a company’s management, for example.

Among financial academics, chartists tend to be regarded as quacks. But a lot of the Big Data people are exactly like them. They say, “We are just going to stare at the data and look for patterns, and then act on them when we find them.” In short, there is very little real science in what we call “data science,” and that’s a big problem.

Is There Big Money in Big Data? - Technology Review

1 month ago

Twentysomethings are creating a new and potentially powerful housing pattern as they snap up downtown apartments as fast as they become available. … Neighborhood life is blossoming on blocks once dominated by office workers and commuters, and people are clamoring for dog parks.

Cleveland’s Downtown Rebound - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities

1 month ago

Human performance, by this account, does not often fit the bell curve or what scientists call a normal distribution. Rather, it is more likely to fit what scientists call a power distribution.

Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren’t ‘Average’ : NPR

1 month ago

Tweet by Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel (@TMFHousel)
5/2/12 4:04 PM
Out of more than 7,000 mutual funds, eight have bested the S&P 500 every year for the past decade. Seriously. Eight.

(Source: twitter.com)

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

How Creativity Works in Cities - Arts & Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities

1 month ago

But some of his most interesting work has to do with power dynamics. He says that by analyzing language you can easily tell who among two people has power in a relationship, and their relative social status.

“It’s amazingly simple,” Pennebaker says, “Listen to the relative use of the word “I.”

What you find is completely different from what most people would think. The person with the higher status uses the word “I” less.

http://n.pr/JWeBqT

1 month ago

themorningnews:

China expected to eat more than twice as much meat as America this year.

themorningnews:

China expected to eat more than twice as much meat as America this year.

Advisors must segment their clients. The percentage of RIAs who segment their clients into distinct groups (based on their specific needs, affinities, behaviors and other characteristics) rose to 39% in 2010, up nearly 10 percentage points from 2009, according to Schwab’s benchmarking survey.

The Changing RIA

1 month ago