November 2008
41 posts
WatchiCitizen 2008: Doc Searls - SlideShare
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October 2008
42 posts
Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In... →
Two words for this: absolutely pathetic. This is Wagonner-grade work.
(See my previous two posts from today ;-)
“Instead of thinking of humans as the active element, think of humans as the...”
– joeandrieu.com » Blog Archive » VRM: The user as point of integration
Ta-da! That was easy.
Can we fix travel? →
“an AdWord ad is a real-time response to an individual’s “three word...”
– The Long Tail of Consumer Demand | Hopper Analytical
That is so good…I feel like I should take the rest of the day off having read it ;-)
WatchLimits to FreeConomics at Web 2.0 Expo, Berlin - broadstuff
Brilliant, but we kind of knew it already, right?
Advertising = fail
;-)
US appeals court rejects business method patents |... →
Finally, something goes right with the patent system!
“Various local sections of the social-democratic SP.A are organising common...”
– http://www.mediargus.be/flanderstoday.eu/rss/19578343.html
The future is yesterday for some people ;-)
“GM’s Rick Wagonner, who I would not let manage Mahalo’s 401k plan, is in...”
– Howard Lindzon
Too funny not to post…
“Here, the entire technological surround of Emerson vanishes into an inchoate...”
– Self-Reliance 2008 - The Atlantic (November 2008)
Right Side Up: Is VRM a 'phenomenon'? →
brutally futuristic…context, reverse markets, information asymmetry, all my favorite concepts covered here…this whole blog is genius, enjoy ;-)
“We don’t really think of social media as a marketing channel; that would be kind...”
– Social media consultants: snake oil or value add? | Feeds | ZDNet.com
Google Launches U.S. Voter Info Site →
Learn to Program from Stanford →
“There is a critique of Web 2.0 that argues it is based on free labor done by...”
– Online Fandom » Fan Labor: Exploitation or Empowerment?
I just skimmed the first 10 pages of this report but it looks good; should have some anthropological/social perspective on designing organizations and incentives.
(Picked this up via Mike Masnick)
“There is a danger”, Schmidt exclaimed, of the Internet “becoming a...”
– ouroboros: You Don’t Know Schmidt About Magazines
It makes me happy when someone can make something this complicated this simple.
WatchOFFICIAL BRITNEY SPEARS SITE
The first “vlog” from Brit…also featuring a blog, Twitter, etc…
This looks good in general, will be very interesting to watch as more fans catch on (seems like the site/social media tools were just launched this week)…
Given how much energy is expended trying to get into the “private” life of celebrities and other notable...
“Our goal: to under¬stand why some individuals, at certain points in time, are...”
– Innovation Hacker | MLab
Breeze through the golf anecdote [unless that’s your thing] to get to the good stuff…
WatchSNL’s third presidential debate parody—The Live Feed
Fred Armisen’s Obama impression is SO GOOD! One of the most underrated comics around…
Musician buddies will especially enjoy Fred’s completely ridiculous fake drumming instructional video, “Complicated Drumming Technique” (in which he appears as the star, Jens Hanneman).
“The dirty secret of the global financial system — and the credit crunch...”
– Not a Great Depression, a Great Rebalancing - Umair Haque
Here’s my comment:
Funny how GOOG addressed this, with the voting v. non-voting stock classes. A truly primordial example of selling new DNA…
“Our DNA is good, trust us! And if you don’t like what we’re...
Paul Graham on a New Attitude for Startup... →
This folds in with yesterday’s discussion on investing in complements in order to scale SMM…
“Asked about Barack Obama, he replied: “I don’t know anything about...”
– Washington Times - Johnston speaks about Bristol Palin, Obama, baby
He certainly knows what side his bread is buttered on!
Management design flaws and radical remedies |... →
In the future, all businesspeople are designers…
Strongly recommend ya’ll check out these videos, in which dozens of leading business thinkers and practitioners (Gary Hamel, Marissa Mayer, Hal Varien), all make the same point: the hierarchical structure of most firms is wildly ineffiecient; managers/entrepreneurs are in the business of designing intra-firm markets and incentive...
Another epic track from Learning Music. Everytime...
“Innovation in complements is an important exception to the commonly heard...”
– Digital Renderings: The Strategic Value of Complements
I’d restate this as “investing in complements is an important exception to ‘focus on the core’”.
This is a killer piece by Nick Carr that leads off with an anecdote of about Michelin road guides:
“Before...
How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media... →
Business Model Design For Web Services Lesson 19547684939: Develop and offer consulting to companies that want to use your service for commercial or quasi-commercial purposes.
I’d venture that a marketing consultancy owned and operated by Twitter would be the premier authority on Twitter marketing (and command premier rates). I’m not necessarily suggesting that for Twitter at this...
Dow Drops Below 9,000 for First Time Since 2003 -... →
Sweet! We got five years into our lost decade in exactly 12 months!
Keep up the great work!
Best,
Ethan
How Wikipedia Can Help the World, Even More
I think providing the analytics data from profile pages, etc, is a revenue model that more web services should pursue. I also think that this is the bias-neutral revenue model that Wikipedia should pursue (i.e. customers pay for individual article analytics) Anyone want to put this in front of Jimmy? Originally posted as a comment by Ethan Bauley on A VC using Disqus.
“Hello, welcome to Project Ingenesist; an open source economic development...”
– Introduction | Innovation Economics
This is pretty interesting…recommended.
From what I can discern (from a quick overview) it’s about creating a Net-based market for knowledge, where individuals’ and firms’ capabilities can be matched with explicit needs quickly.
US Economic Analysis In A Blog Comment
To quickly answer the question where the $700 billion will come from, it will come from the sale of treasury bills: we’ll sell treasury bills at whatever they’re currently going for (10 year notes are getting around 3.6% AFAIK), and buy with that money the mortgage security notes. Effectively, we’re going to trade $700 billion of treasury notes for $700 billion in mortgage...
“We went into the college market as a stepping stone - identifying dense nests in...”
– Facebook Co-Founder Departs To Build “Extensible Enterprise Productivity Suite”
File under: Revisionist History
Information Arbitrage: The Financial Crisis:... →
Sigh