- The new hot startup model is being an exceptional middleman (Quartz). Let’s build one.
- What Is Content Marketing? (Content Marketing Institute). Marketing is impossible without great content.
- The Top Transferable Skills Every Manager Should Have (LinkedIn featured article). To make it short: Influential, Communication, Empathy, Conviction.
- 14 Tools Every Entrepreneur Needs for Managing Social Media (Entrepreneur Magazine). Useful, except Tweetdeck. I hate it.
- Carl Icahn Runs a Content Business, Not a Fund (BetaBeat). “Mr. Icahn is wielding the flows of information as a weapon. The money follows.” Good reading.
- Getty Images is betting their business on embeddable photos (The Verge). Interesting.
- Ars Technica experiments with digital currency, creates Arscoin for “educational use only” (Ars Technica). Still don’t get the ‘hype’ of Bitcoin.
- When Is the Best Time to Buy a Ticket to a Sold Out Concert? (Priceonomics). Should’ve bought it before sold out. Let’s just do that!
- Edward Snowden to Speak at SXSW Interactive Via Videoconference (SXSW). Are we seeing the next Julian Assange?
- Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest (Spotify Press). Now the music intelligence technology is on-board, this is their goal: Together, Spotify And Echo Nest Want To Build The Facebook Connect Of Music (Techcrunch).
