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Pretty good summary by Eliza Kern on why Facebook is not the right place to have a Google reader replacement.

While social news make sense, there’s a different between the social graph (that Facebook is based on) and the interest graph (relevant personalized stories). As I once wrote here, we need to combine social and interests in a topic-centric social media to combine discovery and relevance.

But what do you think? Would you like Facebook to come out with an RSS reader?

Discovered that through my friend Carlos Diaz (http://www.scoop.it/u/carlos-diaz2). Isn’t that awesome? And sadly also badly needed?

Edward Montes makes a very important point in this post: we are not using the right currency to measure what’s important for media (readership quality but of course advertising). We’re still counting page views and clicks but what matters is attention. 

Content is developing into a new economy where the scarce resource is attention - not content. While some see this shift in the value chain as a threat, it is clearly an opportunity to embrace by becoming the trusted resource in a domain as a content curator.

Finally saw the movie Oblivion and that was the first question I googled following that as the movie’s (otherwise great) plot seemed strange to me on that point.

A great… story by Leah Busque, TaskRabbit’s founder. 

Which are yours?

At the time we keep hearing about Android catching up, the strength of iOS as a platform just seems phenomenal.

Interesting analysis showbar every few people read car tickets completely online (but maybe it’s the same offline and we just don’t measure it)). We scan, we skip, we browse but we rarely read.

Of course this means a lot with regards to content and web page design. But it also means that we as curators have a responsibility to bring enough context and meaning to convince our readers that a curated article or video is worth 1-3 minutes of their time. We live in the attention economy and our readers’ minutes are precious. 

Great tip by James Buckhouse : startup entrepreneurship as storytelling.

Ours? 

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But as Ev explains in this brilliant post on medium, “you should read some anyway”. For ideas and inspiration. Couldn’t agree more. He even goes as far as criticizing the “hire only A players” rule which has always been pissing me off to the point where I feel it became the “I want a world in peace” of the Valley. Of course you want a world in peace and only A players. But what if you can’t?

Not only that but also makes it magnetic so easy to hang on metal surface.