Nick D’Aloisio, creator of Summly
Last week, DigiDame told you about Yahoo buying a news-aggregator for $30 million that had been created by a 17-year-old student. Turns out the story may not have such a happy ending. News just broke that there may be a copyright situation going on.
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1) Facebook Intro’s a Smartphone
2) Kris Jenner Calls the Shots
3) Google Expands Alerts
Google wants to be your go-to source for everything that involves “alerts.” Starting immediately, Google is going to provide alerts from police, fire, and emergency management agencies.
Google is working with Nixle, a subscription service that sends alerts to cellphones and social media platforms. There are 6,500 police agencies that use Nixle. Those agencies currently serve more than 150 million people, but only two million people currently subscribe to Nixle, so that number should increase dramatically.
Kris and Bruce Jenner
Kris Jenner calls herself “momanager.” She came up with that name when she realized that she was not only a mom to six kids but also their business manager. She jumpstarted Bruce Jenner’s career as well.
Facebook’s New Smartphone
The decision makers at Facebook have discovered that more people use their mobile devices to post photos, write comments, and wish each other happy birthday than from computers. If that’s the case, Facebook wants to produce a smartphone that features their social network up close and personal.
From Len Berman’s That’s Sports
Happy Birthday: Giants defensive end Justin Tuck, 30, and Knicks great Walt “Clyde” Frazier, 68.
From DigiDame
Cousin Chris Henderson, teacher, author of Fenicus Flint & the Dragons of Berathor.
I just finished the book,“Kris Jenner …and All Things Kardashian.” I actually listened to it on Audible every day when I took my half hour walk on the treadmill. You can smirk all you want about the Kardashians, but they are a good case study in branding, purpose, and passion. I was eager to listen to Kris Jenner tell her story because I have been involved in so many business discussions where someone asked, “How did the Kardashians ever become so rich and famous?” I even have a very straight-laced, intellectual cousin, Richard Levine, who asks me that question over and over. He thinks I should know the answer because of my background in PR.
I have always been a nervous nelly. That is why I live in an apartment building. I like the idea of a doorman between me and the person coming to see me. I remember one time when we had a weekend house in Quogue, Long Island, my daughter Whitney answered the front door for a Jehovah’s Witness. She was around 10 years old at the time. I was a few feet away, but she ran to the door first. In my mind, someone could have snatched her in the doorway. I flipped out and begged her never to open the front door again unless she knew exactly who was on the other side.
From Len Berman’s That’s Sports blog.
Happy Birthday: NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry, 69.
Birthday: Lady Gaga, 27.
Justin Young, 16.
Nicole Strauss, 35.
Sam Schneider, 35 (March 26).
Maryanne Kilgrow, young at heart, March 24.
William Schneider, 33 (March 23).
Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost)
Twitter set to make almost $1 BILLION off mobile ads in 2014 huff.to/15Vtgbf
Guy Kawasaki (@GuyKawasaki)
Billionaire bored of his yacht – see photos is.gd/dSC8PL
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