2008

Jul

Go Big Always - The big Marketing mess

“Scripted narratives erode like sand castles in the fluid...”
— Mike Bonifer: Campaigning in...

Offline again for a week…honeymoon in Tulum, Mexico...

Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers?...

Techdirt: You Don't Build Communities, You...

“Professor Wermers says his advice has evolved significantly...”
— Strategies - The Prescient Are...

“When I was at Apple, one the competitive team’s...”
— Mobile Opportunity:...

Dropbox: The Online Storage Solution We’ve...

“If you sound like Elvis Costello, how do we get you in front...”
— THE INDIES ISSUE: THE...

“Digital media isn’t inherently less profitable (hi, Google)....”
— Havas Media Lab Umair’s...

“We built a system that connects Data Consumers to Data...”
— Gnip: We got $h*t to pop Well...

Slashdot | Google Seeking "FriendRank"...

I’m getting married on Saturday at this beautiful...

Business Technology : Most Corporate Blogs...

Jun

The Paper Version of the Web at Deeplinking A bunch of...

“Ultimately, the fact that online ads get viewed more when...”
— Banner Blindness: Old and New...

“In general, advertising doesn’t work on the Web, a...”
— Will Plain-Text Ads Continue...

“There’s a concept in game theory called...”
— Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab

Howard Lindzon » Google and Seth MacFarlane...

“CO-OPETITION is a book that develops a new approach to...”
— An Interview With the Authors

Test Your Decision Making - Yale School of...

Techdirt: Google Inches Toward Wikified Maps

“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are about...”
— Can I cut it as a day care...

“Executives charged with rolling out cutting-edge software...”
— Information Rules - Carl...

“Social media is one dangerous, double-edged sword: it...”
— HipMojo.com » Twitter’s...

Scaling customer-sourced product design

I’m going to start re-posting my comments on other sites here, most of the thoughts I have...

“The war against terrorism has evolved into a war of ideas...”
— Al-Qaeda’s Growing...

The Colbert Report Official Site | Comedy Central The most interesting religious discourse on...

“There’s hardly any oil and gas production in a 40-mile...”
— Houston, we have no problems....

next step in open innovation - Information...

David Byrne: Playing The Building | Pitchfork.tv Well this is insanely awesome…I could sit...

TuneCore Opens Digital Aggregator Platform

The top ten things that math probability says...

Vermont OKs the Creation of Virtual...

“For decades, many of the brightest graduates in economics...”
— Real Time Economics :...

“This is a blog, simply, about a team of experts at Wal-Mart...”
— Check Out Fwoosh!

Here’s a little music for your weekend. This is an instrumental penned by the genius slide...

“When musicians improvise, the lateral prefrontal areas of...”
— 3 Smart Things About Music

“Electroplankton is an interactive music video game...

Twitter / DavidLetterman

artistspaid: WellMixed is a startup company dedicated to...

“For Apple, the advantages of bringing PA Semi in-house are...”
— AppleInsider | Steve Jobs:...

Foldit - Play A Video Game, Contribute To Medical Science |...

Elance Blog | Elance

Five Guys Burgers and Fries

The Jim Webb Story

Economics: Which Way for Obama?

Friends Don’t Let Friends Twitter Drunk (via zappos) The madcap genius of Zappos marketing...

A new headset system picks up electrical activity from the...

“Like Redmond, Hollywood is also very clear about the game it...”
— Mike Bonifer: The Microhoogle...

Genius! Some “Social Media” company should riff on this to promote itself (coff coff!)

““Web users have always been ruthless and now are even...”
— BBC NEWS | Technology | Web...

When Ideas Are Easy And Execution Is Hard......

“These innovations are quite different from the innovations...”
— Edge Perspectives with John...

“Umair is the Billy Beane of Web 2.0. Billy Beane was the...”
— Bubblegeneration for the Rest...

Word Of Mouth Marketing Isn't Effective If...

Advertising Lab: future of advertising and...

Mike Cassidy: Speed as THE primary business...

“A friend of mine sent me to Garfield minus Garfield a few...”
— Techdirt: Sad: We’re...

Universal Fire Destroys Music History

“The Obama campaign has not yet assumed a place in Silicon...”
— The Amazing Money...

“when one imagines how Obama’s political army, presumably...”
— HisSpace Paging Yochai...

Dean Kamen’s Robot Arm Grabs More Publicity | Gadget Lab from Wired.com GOOD LORD

“One Eye Deer is an experiment to see what happens when we,...”
— One Eye Deer

May

Techdirt: Stephen Colbert Takes On MLB’s Attempt To Bully Little Leaguers With Trademarks

Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » The Zappos...

Android Is Out For iPhone Blood - ReadWriteWeb HOLY MACARONI

TV Ads 'a Waste of Money' for the...

“most people don’t know what they want unless they see it in...”
— Predictably /...

“Quadir says, “You don’t make money on the poor,...”
— Kevin Kelly — The...

“it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to...”
— Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush...

“A rifflet is a piece of a song—a bass line, a guitar...”
— What is a rifflet? |...

What Are We Twittering? | The Onion - America’s Finest...

Aloha, Mr. Hands: What I would do with EMI’s...

“Now it’s about listening and, in turn, engaging influencers...”
— PR Secrets for...

“it could be much more profitable and successful by...”
— MicroHoo: corporate penis...

Alice: Description by the artist: “The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an...

Techdirt: Inside Craigslist's Increasingly...

“The Bush-McCain saber rattling is the most self-defeating...”
— Republicans and Our Enemies -...

Soldiers’ Stories - Virginia Online Magazine Site The...

“Balancing the short versus the long term is the biggest...”
— chief strategy officers role...

[ paul isakson ]: The Future of Marketing + Advertising Some very strong explanations of productive...

Bill Evans and drums (via ) Shane Endsley from Kneebody just sent this over to me…it is so...

Chaka Khan playing the drums (via ) This isn’t quite on the level that Kneebody was at last...

“As interaction explodes, the costs of evil are starting to...”
— BuzzMachine » Blog...

“In his brilliant book Shaping Things Bruce Sterling talks...”
— databeautiful »...

“Selling is for Lemons Q: Can better advertising save...”
— Bubblegeneration Strategy...

“I will ask Congress,” said the presumptive Republican...”
— John McCain wants to bring...

“The fast-growing company, which works hard to recruit people...”
— Why Zappos Pays New Employees...

“Through the newsfeed and my social network, interesting...”
— Why Facebook Is Even Bigger...

“Benkler pointed out that our economic system is designed...”
— Yochai Benkler, others at...

“Mutually-assured destruction is inherent in Wikipedia....”
— Deconstructing Wikipedia at...

Who Controls the Social Graph?

continuations: As I had suggested in a post earlier this week on Google’s Friend Connect, there is...

jam band fan or taliban?

“Evolution trumps design. Many interesting unsolved problems...”
— Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s...

“Vinod Knosla: The mobile phone will be a mainstream personal...”
— Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s...

The surprising popularity of Bach's complex,...

someecards.com | ecards for when you care enough to hit send...

Here Come the Geo-Smart Apps: Yahoo! Opens...

“Karen Seifert, a volunteer from New York, was outside of the...”
— Racist Incidents Give Some...

“brands thrived on how difficult it was for people to get...”
— These Brands Build Community

Michel Gondry Entertained For Days By New Cardboard Box |...

The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model -...

“what Twitter does for us all of the time: it accelerates...”
— ::HorsePigCow:: marketing...

New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free...

Free Online Course Materials | MIT...

Xobni: Our Path from ‘Wrong Product’ to...

John Hagel tells you everything you need to know about the future. Well, not really. But he asks a...

Hoefler & Frere-Jones a tour of some ampersands and the...

“It’s everything music used to be. A hip cult that the movers...”
— Lefsetz Letter Double dose of...

“all you indie store geeks are gonna e-mail me… Tell me about...”
— Lefsetz Letter

Rumormonger: Viacom offers $10 million to buy...

“Mobile Instant Messaging is set to cannibalise SMS (texting)...”
— Instant Messaging via...

Paul Kedrosky: Ebay vs Craigslist: The Messy...

Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart (via Marc Andreesen) The Singularity Is Near!

Creative Good - customer experience...

Apr

“Ten principles that contribute to a Googley user experience”
— Corporate Information - Google...

“Today’s crop of investors and startups are perhaps...”
— An Open Challenge to Silicon...

The Intrinsic Inequality Of The Blogosphere

“At launch, visitors to Twitter.jp will see media from two...”
— Twitter Blog: Twitter for...

“Last month, beer reporter James Arndorfer broke a story that...”
— “Brew” Blog - Beer...

“When you get into the “creative” zone, the lines...”
— /Message: The Costs Of Being A...

“This is beauty. This is truth. This is music that touches the heart in a way no other music...

Dylan’s “Buckets Of Rain”, as performed by yours truly and The Biscuit...

“Inconvenient experiences don’t have Web-scale potential, and...”
— I love this, because it works...

GPS Will Now Tell You You're In A 'Bad'...

Business Art?

“Business art is the step that comes after art…I started as a commercial artist and I...

“- An on-line journalist (a blogger, as an example) wants to...”
— Artist Xite - Find Out How it...

South Park explores life without the Internet. I can’t decide if this is as funny or funnier...

“The thought of betting against benevolence is alarming in...”
— Be Good (Paul Graham) This is...

'Drummers are natural intellectuals' -...

Get Satisfaction API Lands - Customer Support...

Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock & Tim Lefebvre - Marciac 1999 I just had to post this because...

Where A Teacher Can Make Millions