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ilt City will start testing the integration through Facebook Deals in five cities nationwide. In the coming weeks, Gilt City will allow users to purchase the site's coveted experiences on Facebook and share them with their friends.

Bump a Smoke is an app that lets you pay someone for a single cigarette, P2P, by bumping your phone. Funny in part b/c anti-smoking stuff has been really fashionable in the ad industry for about a decade.

brands that stand for something sell more items

Zappos and other companies are spending money to have grammer and other problems fixed in online reviews. Studies show that well written negative reviews sell product while poorly written positive ones don't.

This is interesting - a musician that funded her album with Kickstarter and is now crowdfunding her tour, only playing venues where people indicate interest first and selling tickets before booking the venue. Paul F Tomkins does something similar.

Harry Potter e-books site Pottermore.com officially launches in October, but a "Magical Quill" contest that grants one million winners access to the beta site is drawing massive traffic. And beta accounts are popping up on eBay. For each of the seven days, a clue will be posted on the Pottermore homepage, leading those who solve it to the "Magical Quill"-the opportunity to register for early access to the site. A limited number of people are able to register each day, and the competition is designed to keep them glued to the site-though some winners immediately began selling their early-access accounts on eBay. (The bidding on one account is now up to $152.50.)

"Mobile phone carriers, credit card companies, and third-party sluggers, like Google and PayPal, all gain--either through selling hardware, or through transaction fees and revenue-sharing."

Gilt boasts 1.3 million downloads of its app for iPad, iPhone and Android. Our iPad app actually gets longer time per visit than our Web site does! We are also seeing that more that 15 percent of our total revenue coming from mobile devices and we continue to drive third screen exposure for the brands we sell on Gilt.

On the side of their delivery trucks - "The adult version of an ice cream truck". But they can't sell beer off the truck.

Buy buttons added to Netflix.

Research in Motion doesn't know what kind of company it wants to be. It made its fortune selling gadgets to chief information officers, but now those people look to employees to decide what devices to use.

Social game for Weeds

we need to diversify our client list. this coupled with google fiber, yikes.

I see two things, the collapse of IBM and the fragmentation of the entire industry. Is "fragmentation" a global trend for all industries and sectors?

I think it's a constant fragmentation and then consolidation, vacillating between the two, pendulum-like. IBM may do well to continue to complement Apple when they can, as in selling their services.