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Re: Video Of The Week: The Progression Of Joan Miro

Ethan Bauley — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:40:46 -0000

There's an amazing record from the drummer Bobby Previte called "The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro" that's worth checking out. Very avant garde but very pretty.

Cool musical complement the kids may be interested to contemplate as well

http://www.tzadik.com/index...

Re: Dead social networks and the value of history

Ethan Bauley — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:57:24 -0000

Agree in general...I like to think of the "lack of lock-in" in terms of switching costs (i.e. they are low for social network users).

Re: the low value of connections, I like Umair Haque's idea of "relationship inflation" http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/0...

"On the demand side, relationship inflation creates beauty contest effects, where, just as every judge votes for the contestant they think the others will like the best, people transmit what they think others want. On the supply side, relationship inflation creates popularity contest effects, where people (and artists) strive for immediate, visceral attention-grabs — instead of making awesome stuff."

Great piece thanks for writing

Re: Must Read: The Great Unbundling

Ethan Bauley — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:30:18 -0000

If you liked that you'll love "Unbundling the corporation". HBR 1999 article http://hbr.org/1999/03/unbu... ...it's also out there on the web somewhere

Re: Crowdfunding Brooklyn Castle Update/WrapUp

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:11:27 -0000

Thanks for setting this up Fred!

Re: Misunderstanding Twitter

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:52:10 -0000

I concur w/ Howard. My experience w/ Mr. Nocera from a PR point of view suggests he is among the worst offenders of ivory tower armchair quarterback editorial.

In truth I find the attitude expressed in that piece to be essentially hypocritical given the various incendiary judgments he regularly throws out in his column (no matter how devoid of profanity they may be).

Re: Funding Brooklyn Castle

Ethan Bauley — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:47:44 -0000

Ditto. Get this thing fired up, Fred, and we'll take care of it.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

Ethan Bauley — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:04:34 -0000

I'm just trying to echo the point I've heard you make re: people game systems, that's just how it is. I'm going to have to stop speculating about this product until I've had some time to use it and see others use it. What I can say, though, is that having read all the use cases they talk about at their event and in their big media interviews with Steven Levy etc etc, they don't amount to some PageRank-esque paradigm shift, but it does amount to a really huge and interesting improvement to a Facebook search function that currently is a total fucking piece of shit.

Google has set a ridiculously high bar in terms of utility. I'm being diplomatic by saying it remains to be seen whether Facebook search is nearly as useful.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

Ethan Bauley — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:23:04 -0000

It's so interesting because on one hand, it's theoretically this perfect little system with all these built-in little games. But on the other hand, we know that doesn't work.

Re: Turntable 2.0 and Passion Pit

Ethan Bauley — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:10:29 -0000

I am thrilled to see all this feedback from the music nerd/DJ users -- I pretty much agree with everything here so far.

One feature that would be a real time saver would be the ability to import iTunes playlists into your queue. I'm sure it's possible, iTunes has an "export playlist" option that's pretty easy to use. Would be a huge convenience for all the folks that have playlists built for iTunes and their various digital DJ rigs (e.g. Traktor, et al).

In general, I just need to go on the record saying that Turntable is one of my favorite services ever and I am really thrilled to see that they are still working hard on improving it. There's nothing else like it...if they can keep walking down the path they're on and keep the marketing channels alive, I think it will be really successful in time. These latest changes are a really strong signal that they have the right vision.

Said differently, consider this my "opt in" to your uberfan marketing ambassador program ;-)

All the best!

Ethan

Re: Social Warfare: Israel Live-Tweets Its Military Campaign Against Hamas

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:00:58 -0000

The "social channels" aspect of this is interesting, but regardless of whether Twitter/Facebook/et al have an opinion, IDF can report this live on their blog all day long and get roughly the same effect (e.g. they can tweet links to the blog vs making specific threats, etc etc).

IDF has been doing similar activities for a while (since roughly 2010), but today appears to be a particularly well executed (no pun intended) program: coordinating the actual attacks and storytelling is not easy. I dug up a little more on the background of the IDF blog/social operation here: http://www.ethanbauley.com/...

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the U.S. taking a page from the IDF some time in the future. The Army (among other armed services using social) in particular has shown sophisticated understanding of how to use these tools, e.g. http://armystrongstories.com/

Re: http://caro.tumblr.com/post/35648578985

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:33:35 -0000

Hey Caroline -- we met at a dinner via Jackie Danicki last summer, not sure if you remember me (was working at HP at the time).

Anyways, just moved to Carroll Gardens from SF -- equally lovely if I do say so myself and Airbnb guide appears to agree ;-) Holler if you want to get a drink at Henry Public or something!BestEthan
ethanbauley//gmail

Re: The Nature Of The Firm and Work Markets

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:57:09 -0000

Fred, don't forget Yochai Benkler's "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm," too!

http://www.benkler.org/Coas...

Kind of the next step from firms and markets to pure collaboration without monetary exchange, which "has systematic advantages over markets and managerial hierarchies when the object of production is information or culture" (from the abstract).

I completely agree! Could be useful in framing thinking about specific verticals that will make a good fit for these kinds of investments.

Yale Law Journal in 2002. Yikes.

Ethan

Re: On “Smart Markets”

Ethan Bauley — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:36:14 -0000

Great comment, thanks Mike!

There's a duality to how I used "lowest common denominator." On one hand, it's to connote the "average person" but I'm also thinking of it in terms about the actual practice of composing certain text messages. In the latter case, "lcd" to me means a message/sentence that can't be reduced further. So we're getting into real talk about fractions here.

(Obviously, I am spending a fair bit of time helping my wife put compose word problems for her 3rd graders.)

The construct of "lcd" is also directed towards for senior execs, management consultants, and corporate communications-types, who frequently (mostly?) only speak directly to other business-types, lawyers, investors, and journalists.

Anyways, #justsayin. Your comment is a wealth of knowledge and inspiration of its own!

(Sorry it took a minute to respond...my Disqus settings are messed up and I didn't receive notice that you posted!)

Re: On “Smart Markets”

Ethan Bauley — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:13 -0000

Thanks, Chris! Just saw this comment...something in my Disqus settings is awry.

Re: YCombinator Ad Innovation Conference Keynote Breakdown

Ethan Bauley — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:51:54 -0000

#2 is a little funky, and rings my cluetrain/VRM alarm as written. Not sure I understand the architecture of how this would work. Couple [provisional, inchoate] thoughts...

Certain data might be widely accessible in this manner, but little of the good stuff (customer transaction data? I don't think so). And in my mind when we're talking about customer data, we're kind of talking about ads, but we're more talking about "CRM". Opportunity here depends on how bullish you are on Salesforce.com et al. Think about all the data Amazon pulls in from its customers...that is one of their most valuable assets. They're not sharing that on some read/write database in "the cloud". (They're not really advertising, either). Of course, companies that do make their data available in this manner can plug into developer networks (e.g. Force platform and others similar). Definitely a model that works but not sure of the market penetration/potential.

Actually I think I just talked myself into doing a startup based on Salesforce ;-)

But seriously, it's a question of timing (which I hear is important in the investing/entrepreneur game). Maybe sometime in the future it makes sense for even uber-advanced retailers like AMZN to let third parties r/w on their customer databases, but that doesn't seem like a near-term opp for YC-type companies. More of a hardcore BI/analytics delivered-via-the-cloud opportunity? Either way, I'm definitely not clear on what the "B2C" [did I just use that? sigh] analog for all this is.

Now we come to the part of my comment where I invoke VRM and say "why should vendors own all this data, it should be owned by the customers and used to communicate demand." Then I like to something like this great post from JP Rangaswami and move on: http://confusedofcalcutta.c...

Although I enjoy geeking out about "unstructured data" and the like, I am always grossed out at a cultural level by marketing people who want to do war with customers ("target", "attack", "retain"). Said differently, there's a reason AMZN bought Zappos. There's a lot of exciting stuff to be done in analytics, and there's a lot of exciting things to do to build better personal relationships with customers. I reckon where the two meet up is where the extra huge $$$ is.

Post script: I like #9...more content and targeting should be done at the edge.

Re: SXSW 2012 - Why "super users" power the social web

Ethan Bauley — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:58:12 -0000

Here's some other media coverage of the Social Computing Lab's research:

http://www.techmeme.com/100...

http://www.techmeme.com/110...

http://www.techmeme.com/100...

Bernardo FTW

Re: webOS: Keeping the Dream Alive

Ethan Bauley — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:23:56 -0000

Hey Steve - you're completely wrong about attributing this to Richard Kerris...these comments are from Derek Kessler, a reporter for PreCentral.net:

http://www.precentral.net/s...

7th graph. Look forward to you correcting this, we're having trouble reaching you by phone.

Ethan Bauley
HP Corporate Communications

Re: Areas of Interest from kbs+p Ventures Summit

Ethan Bauley — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:17:22 -0000

That would be fun...I should be in NY end of July, will look you up

Ethan

Re: Areas of Interest from kbs+p Ventures Summit

Ethan Bauley — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:06 -0000

I really like number 6 and number 9. Both good insights/ideas. That recent Pew research said ~30% of traffic to news sites was via Google and I don't doubt it (e.g. trends/news and sem seem very complementary).

Is no one doing anything with that?

For 5, i think it depends on context and definition of influence. Talk to some corporate communications types about that and they probably have ideas for certain very-hard-to-influence types that could be interesting. In my experience, almost the definition of non-scalable. The way the question is worded is a little distracting, I don't think "buying influence" is a constructive a way to put it. A bit like "buying love". If you could do that, everyone would be doing it. Maybe I'm wrong

For some very interesting notes on fan acquisition v. retention as a priority (specifically re: Fbook but generally interesting), check out this guy Justin Kistner's post here: socialfresh.com/facebook-ad...

Great stuff thanks for sharing

Re: Would a Facebook Buy Button Be Successful? I Think So.

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:26:35 -0000

I mean it weakens because it's highly debatable :-)

Re: Would a Facebook Buy Button Be Successful? I Think So.

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:22:55 -0000

Interesting idea. I think point #2 is unnecessary and weakens the argument though.

It seems like the biggest thing would be FB just having credit cards on file and a secure connection. That's what makes iTunes/AAPL so powerful.

Re: Research Shows News Outlets Key Driver of Twitter Trending Topics

Ethan Bauley — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:41:52 -0000

As we noted on Twitter via @hpnews:

"@jonfortt re: @HPLabs media research...it must feel good to be empirically validated #happyvalentinesday"

;-)

Ethan
HP Communications

Re: letter.ly

Ethan Bauley — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:13:34 -0000

I wonder how many other deals like this are available and what the total aggregate market is. The other markets you reference had ridiculously huge [estimated] notional values...but I guess some of the point is that none of this is transparent ;-)

Re: Help The Children, And Win A Ticket To The Crunchies

Ethan Bauley — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:13:32 -0000

For anyone looking for detail on HP's matching offer, the announcement is here on our blog:

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t...

Thanks to UCSF, TechCrunch, Causes, Ron Conway, and the rest of the participants for stoking the fire on this competition!

Ethan
HP Communications

Re: The HP Match

Ethan Bauley — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:35:03 -0000

Are you calling me out? ;-) Let me look into booking a flight out there. And I'll see if I can bring some other HP folk, too.

BTW I wrote about your "Fragmentation" post earlier today and used the graphic from your post on the HP blog: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t... ...hope that is cool.

Thanks for the kind words. The AVC community is the best.

Ethan
HP Communications
@hpnews