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Cord-cutting, Time Warner analytics, and why the WWE model makes the most sense

Check out the chart above. It’s from Time Warner; during the last quarter reported, they lost 217K video customers (while gaining about 39K broadband customers). You’d have to head back to 2009 to find the last time the company added more video… Continue Reading

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Broncos and Seahawks? Negative. The Super Bowl is really about a small town in central Arkansas (thank you, cheese dip)

Nobody appreciates Arkansas, and that’s probably truer with food than anything else: it’s right near Texas and Louisiana (both extremely famous in different food sub-categories), and it doesn’t even have an official state food. But around this time of year every… Continue Reading

Buffer, a social media startup, let the world know all its salaries. That’s gauche, right? Or maybe it’s genius…

A little over a month ago, Buffer — a startup that, among other things, lets you schedule your social media postings — decided to publish its salary format and the salaries of all its current employees on its blog. You could… Continue Reading

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Ah, the future of social media as local social? Meet Nextdoor

Even though I’m a reprehensible snob about it, Facebook is a good way to keep track of what’s going on in the lives of your far-flung friends. Twitter is less so for that (unless all your friends happen to be… Continue Reading

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Facebook could potentially have a problem with this whole ‘teenagers leaving the site en masse’ thing

This won’t be a very long post, as I’ve already talked about the idea of leaving Facebook (which I’ve yet to do, although in the past couple of weeks, I’ve mostly just checked it once in the morning, said happy birthday… Continue Reading

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Facebook just got into bed with Russia (well, more specifically, with Yandex)

Yandex is, for lack of a better concept, the Google of Russia. It’s the top site in Russia (Google is No. 4) and now, it just got into bed with Facebook. Basically, posts from Facebook will be displayed in Yandex search results… Continue Reading

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In which I actively consider quitting Facebook and the pros and cons therein (alternate title: the downfall of Americana)

I’ve been thinking about quitting Facebook a lot recently. In the last 2-3 weeks, it’s become almost more of a when, not if scenario. I still have some hesitations, which I’ll attempt to outline below, but I figured this was something worth discussing… Continue Reading