Cool infographic from RMI on the SEO Tactics they used for their clients in 2012. They expect the chart to remain the same for much of 2013.
Found via Cool Infographics
SEO Tactics of 2012
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Geosocial Universe
A little surprised to see only 10% of Yelp’s users are accessing via mobile. Actually really surprised especially considering how awesome the Yelp monocle is. Skype also seems a bit low to me but I guess if you’ve got a mobile phone you’ll just use the embedded phone functionality (unless like me you have AT&T and routinely have to use skype + wifi to make calls).
Found via Cool Infographics
Outbox
This looks like a pretty awesome service. I would love to have digital copies of my snailmail and not have to deal with all the crap.
They’re just kicking off their national roll out starting in San Francisco. Check ’em out.
Billion Dollar Startups
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An Ode To Books
Carl Sagan:
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Found via Value Investing World
Somewhat narrow version of Disruption of you ask me but an awesome article. I tend to think of disruption as anything that pisses off / scares the incumbents and makes them revise their game plan. That definition is broad and not very helpful. Andy Rachleff’s definition (based on Clay Christensen’s definition) is much more structured and useful.
Crunch Analytics
If you do anything remotely related to startups you’ve probably used CrunchBase at least once or twice. It is an awesome platform with a ton of great data.
It appears the folks at big data analytics company SiSense has utilized CrunchBase’s API to create some pretty sweet visualizations. Check ’em out.
Submarine Cable Map
This is really cool. It’s easy to forget that our fancy-pants internet still relies on extremely long undersea cables connecting us all. If I had Photoshop / time I’d draw in some sea monsters and whirlpools like the nautical maps of lore.
Source: TeleGeography – found via coolinfographics.com
Moonshot Thinking
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First, I’d like to thank the academy
According to LinkedIn, I have one of the top 5% most viewed profiles for 2012. No wonder I’m getting so many sales calls. If you ask me, that’s a small price to pay for such esteemed recognition.
Who had the most viewed profile of 2012 you ask? Barack Obama with 526,270 views. To be fair, it was an election year, (i.e. he was applying and interview for a job) otherwise he might just be a five-percenter like yours truly.
No word yet on the date / time / location of the awards ceremony.
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