Thomas Kenny

My name is Thomas, as indicated above. I live in Toronto, I work in marketing, and I like listening to music. Sometimes I tell jokes to strangers. Find me on Twitter

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Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter

I posted this to Twitter yesterday but it’s been on my mind a fair bit over the past 24 hours so I wanted to post it again here. The post talks about the firehose of information that many of us are tapped into and consume on a daily basis and how much of it is actually valuable. Or perhaps more importantly, how much of it actually makes us more enlightened, even happier. Take a look back at the tech articles you read a year ago, six months ago, even a week ago - how relevant are they now, were they worth the time you invested in reading them? The post doesn’t suggest shutting off the firehose altogether, but looking for ways to filter it down to the really valuable stuff and in doing so, giving us our time back to do the things that really make us happy.

Monday, January 30th 2012 9:58pm

Like a BOSS

Monday, January 30th 2012 9:14pm

Think Different.

Monday, January 30th 2012 12:36pm

"A click means nothing. A click earns no revenue and creates no brand equity. Your online advertising has some goal –and it’s surely not to generate clicks. Regardless of whether they clicked an ad or not, the key is to determine how that ad unit influenced a consumer to think, feel, or do something they wouldn’t have done otherwise."

John Lowell

SVP Director, Research & Analytics

Starcom

Friday, January 27th 2012 1:04pm

Largest Corporate Quarterly Earning of All Time (via parislemon)

Wednesday, January 25th 2012 10:00pm

"We definitely see social as just one part of what people do on Twitter,” Dorsey said. “We think of it as an information utility and a communications network."

Interesting to see Dorsey positioning Twitter as an information network more so than a social network. I’d have to agree, I use it much more as a tool to share and discover information than I do to connect with people.

(Source: allthingsd.com)

Sunday, January 22nd 2012 3:35pm

"Right now what I’m thinking is that if there is a credible threat that this might happen, this could have a positive impact on the thinking of some legislators,” he said. “Do not underestimate our power – in my opinion they are terrified of a public uprising about this, and we are uniquely positioned to start that."

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales speaking on his decision to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (which would allow the government to restrict what content can appear online) by shutting down Wikipedia for a day. Wales is urging Twitter and Facebook to do the same. Occupy the Internet.

(Source: independent.co.uk)

Tuesday, January 17th 2012 11:49am

"Google is using Search to propel their social network. They might say it’s “not a social network, it’s a part of Google”, but no one is going to buy that. They were late to the game in social and this is the best catchup strategy ever."

http://parislemon.com/post/15627530949/antitrust

Twitter has already responded to the announcement stating their discomfort in having their data excluded from Google search, no word yet from Facebook. Not sure how confortable I feel having Google curate the internet for me based on their business objectives.

Wednesday, January 11th 2012 11:18am

US music sales increase for the first time since 2004 on the strength of digital downloads | The Verge

Over the past few years I’ve struggled with the paradox that on one hand music is incredibly valuable to me, yet on the other hand I can obtain it easily for free. I would try to justify not paying for albums by supporting my favorite bands by going to see them in concert when they came to town but the truth is, my hard core concert going days have come and gone. Then a couple months ago I signed up for Rdio, an awesome music service that allows my to listen to just about any song I want, on any device, for about $10 a month. For me this is a great deal, $10 is bargain for the ease of accessing endless high-quality music files without having to search around the web. I’m really happy to see this article saying that for the first time in 7 years music sales have actually increased in the US. My hope is that the music industry will continue to adapt and find new ways to get both the labels and the artists paid.

Thursday, January 5th 2012 9:16am

waxandmilk:

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR ALL YOU GUYS

(Source: cameronr, via seanbonner)

Sunday, January 1st 2012 10:10pm