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"So, how does a Facebook mobile ad network solve this problem? Easy: Evernote allows its users to sign-up using their Facebook account.  Facebook takes this user ID, and checks the cookies the same user's browser had last time he or she logged into Facebook or visited one of the pages tracked by Facebook's data partners. Facebook then takes the anonymized data about this user (really, many similar users) and sells Evernote ad inventory to advertisers trying to reach that kind of user. If the Facebook mobile ad network works out, it is a big, positive development for several constituencies: Advertisers, who will be able to reach customers on mobile, a platform that is going to be bigger than desktop by the end of the decade. App developers, who will be able to monetize through targeted advertising. Users, who will have more and better apps to use because there will be a better financial for developers to make them."

Gender equality, starting with a pretty tech-based company.

For both companies, Pinterest is a godsend: It's the only social medium in which domestic product content has built-in relevance and an audience that wants it. Expect the P&G/Unilever takeover of Pinterest to continue apace.

Cool new product from google that solves the "what do you want to do today" problem. They are already partnered with Entertainment Weekly, IGN, and Rolling Stone.

Newspapers are a great example of an industry upended. First denial followed by more denial then structural counter measures (i.e. paywalls). Then finally diminishment and irrelevancy. Industries that solved problems that no longer exist (talking to you Pay TV) can not survive.

I think this is huge. Some of the most developed countries have a "working population problem." Now that all goes away. Do countries with low human and high robot populations have a massive strategic advantage?

link shortening service that displays an image chosen by the person who posted the link for 5 seconds before the person clicking through can see the content. could be huge for brands/celebs on Twitter

Amazon is taking a direct shot at the U.S. Post Office by launching their in-real-life locker box service as a delivery portal for the crap people buy on Amazon.com. They launched in Seattle in 7-Eleven stores, and have recently been spotted in Rite Aide and Gristedes in New York. This isn't an entirely new idea, as Best Buy and Walmart already allow in-store pick-ups of online purchases, but it finally solves the problem of where we can get out Twilight Saga books delivered without having to explain it to our roommates.

Bynamite wants to convince consumers of the value of the data they currently give away for free online. The service hopes to solve privacy problems by reframing the issue as an exchange of value.

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