January 2009
43 posts
“Linus Torvalds’s style of development—release early and often, delegate...”
– The Cathedral and the Bazaar
For the record…
December 2008
42 posts
“The value of having a unified system for data portability and single sign-in...”
– 2009 Web Predictions - ReadWriteWeb
RWW hits on two likely axes that will influence data portability/VRM:
1. Security paranoia spikes demand
2. Competition:
Support has been relatively tepid in the past. When you’re winning, open standards aren’t in your interest. When you...
What is 'New Media'?. Rebuilding Media: The fate... →
Vin Crosbie finally puts the whole “What is Social Media” definition discussion to bed…in 1998. Picked this up via Elias Biznnes.
Freemium business model case study:... →
“Chambers wants nothing less than a total redesign of the corporation as we know...”
– How Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist
Despite the absolutely moronic title of this article, this is a must read for “organization design”/startup geeks. Long CSCO. Waaaaay long:
They were inspired in part, Ricci says, by management guru Gary...
“As usual, civilian readers of DTM who might be overwhelmed by the amount of...”
– DO THE MATH: Reader’s Guide
Okay, so since I have been really going full nerd on the “Technology/Economy” part of this log, I’ll try to post a little more often on the “Music/Art” side, too. Especially because I’ve picked up some new readers ;-)
So: check...
“Most of the empirical studies undertaken to date have shown that the effects of...”
– This quote is excerpted from a report composed by the World Bank. The reason I pulled it out is because it underscores the complementarity of social capital and other kinds of capital.
Even though my pal Justin has reasonably imagined that “you don’t need money if you have enough...
“People seem to have learned more about how to design physical systems for...”
– Santa brought me a textbook on game theory called Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict (Roger B. Myerson, Harvard, 1991) that I just cracked open this weekend. I bumped into some pretty serious calculus on page seven and am going to have to re-up on sets, vectors, functions and limits before I get...
“The target for advertising needs to change (influencer-based media plans)
...”
– Advertising and Word of Mouth « Future of Advertising
Great angle on “what happens when we have a social capital accounting system”…
“White Christmas” - Darlene Love
A...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Business - Wikipedia, the... →
I may have to get involved with this. Many of the business/tech/econ articles on Wikipedia are garbage. And on the other end of the spectrum, I’m finding more and more overzealous Wikipedia editor-geeks (with zero or little domain-specific knowledge) flagging articles as “poor quality” when they’re actually well-written.
Um…so I guess the system works?
;-)
The Reckoning - On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not... →
This is the only piece of analysis you need to understand the “financial crisis” and why the radical rethinking of organizational design is the key to scalable value creation in the future.
(…in my opinion. sorry for all the jargon ;-)
“We cannot organize tomorrow’s businesses - or economy - like...”
– Why (Real) Relationships Matter - Umair Haque
Rest assured: a lifetime of econometrics, game theory, interviews, primary research, consulting, PhD’s, and beyond went into that [rather pithy] rhetorical question.
“Gee, my company gives me stock in my 401k but, unfortunately, they don’t...”
– Live Nation’s Strategy Looking Even Worse As It Has To Cough Up Extra $$s For U2, Madonna | Techdirt
Great comment…
“Companies like 33Across are building technology to unlock the implicit data...”
– The Altimeter by Charlene Li: Predictions for 2009
I’ve had the pleasure of talking with 33Across a few times this year, and I assure you this: the use described above is the very least that can be done with this information.
SecretTweet.com - Post your secrets anonymously to... →
More services built on top of Twitter
(StockTwits raised a Series A today, bravo! ;-)
MusicBox demo video -- Anita Lillie →
This is the only audio/music software that has blown my mind since I learned Pro Tools like 10 years ago.
I love it because it will help more people become better DJ’s more easily…
I still want to make a lightweight piece of audio software that makes it easy to beatmatch/crossfade/”mix” on the fly…
“As an experiment, he and a colleague set up an ad that would target all Facebook...”
– Digital Domain - Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites - NYTimes.com
To my mind (circa December 2008) this case portends the billion dollar question du jour: after you’ve identified this person what do you do?
This is the question Zuckernerd needs to be asking himself.
More on...
Display Advertising Works, But It Works... →
Great piece for the contrarian-minded ;-)
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? — HBS... →
Good piece to keep your brain juiced up if you’re bored on a beautiful Saturday…
“…if the blog is being used to do the same job as the advertising without...”
– Corporate Blogging - Useful, or just a game? - broadstuff
“My latest and greatest concern in this entire Mommyblogging Coming Out party is...”
– The Business of Mommyblogging
I was at a Microsoft startup/networking event on Wednesday. Lots of nice people for sure.
One fav topic to bring up at these events is how huge the mom (and even “female”) corner of the blogosphere is. Most people laugh when I tell them that the most...
AMEE - The world’s energy meter » (home) →
Accounting for non-financial/physical/intellectual capital, case 8694593029
FrontlineSMS: A free, large scale text messaging... →
The Fallacy of "Giving Up Control" In Social Media
The Control Loss Myth needs to busted!
As we move into the network era where individuals are empowered (see http://twurl.nl/r7e1yp) by broadband, social capital is the only way for brands and corporations to control their destiny. http://twurl.nl/w1zjx6
Originally posted as a comment by Michael Cayley on Ethan Bauley Dot Com using Disqus
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Prediction: SEO and PR Will Merge | BuzzStream... →
Why PR Wins over Media Buying, case 87959392:
Lately, SEO’s have been talking about the fact that 75% of what moves the search results needle are off-page factors, and highest among them is link-building. Yet the old methods are starting to falter — nowadays it’s about linkbait, better link pitches, press release optimization, and social media engagement. And that pushes us toward doing things...
What is the next platform for new businesses? |... →
The network is the platform!
Cisco has fashioned this maxim into religion in terms of IT, but as IT goes, so goes the rest of the [business] world.
Taylor has spent a lot of time analyzing how venture capital and new business financing (esp. in tech) is changing/has changed. It used to be that cash was a huge differentiator and a huge scarcity. Financial capital had to be invested to buy...
First Look: Why Facebook Connect Is Bound For... →
…in which we learn how to “revolutionize media” by channeling the magic of feature creep.
Quasi-related news: Facebook Can’t Find Buyers For Employee Stock.
(Charity Zuckernerd consulting: Capitalize this).
User Generated Context by Umair Haque
nicolasgabard:
For advertisers, user generated context means that today’s focus on finer and finer targeting must reach diminishing returns fast. The context connected consumers create, share, and trade is, in a very real, a powerful substitute for orthodox advertising. Who believes a brand’s elaborate web of often conflicting messages, when ten thousand connected consumers agree that the...
“20th century capitalism, in other words, marginally valued pure financial...”
– How To Be a 21st Century Capitalist - Umair Haque
There are an infinite number of business opportunities outlined in this article. I try to keep my Umair fanboy-ism in check, but seriously, this shit is genius.
(haters will call it “facile” but I’d argue “incredibly well...
“In the past, even in the West, this so-called “Eastern” concept of reputation...”
– Thinking lazily about reputation and relationships
“Marketing” will live and die by these words (a proviso being that there are meritocratic ways to build shortcuts to transaction).
This is also the reason why PR will win over “advertising” (i.e. media buying).
“at first i laughed, and then i got angry. angry because, with ALL the people...”
– Myspace.com Blogs - Upset with Facebook - Lindsay Lohan MySpace Blog
VRM watch, case 869697
faradaymedia.com →
This is a good one
VRM watch, case 284893
I found it with the search query:
“social media” “personal media”
“Personal media” is way more descriptive, can’t wait for my job title to change again ;-)
“…a draft study warns of growing threats from rogue states, nuclear...”
– Report Sounds Alarm on Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction - washingtonpost.com
Maybe it’s because I’ve been sitting around reading books about game theory and the Cold War for the last few weeks, but it seems worthwhile to consider: how do we prevent nuclear/biological attacks in a...