March 2008
58 posts
The best service providers for startups →
Hitting The Reset Button On Mortgages →
“today’s announcement that Verizon Wireless has partnered with Loopt will...”
– Cellphones as Friend Radars - Post I.T. - A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com)
Can Google Stop the Brain Drain? | Epicenter from... →
Lots of good links in this article…
Sign Up Forms Must Die →
Thank God someone else is fighting this battle for me
“Google has said the [unused wireless spectrum] could be used to bring...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Google backs ‘white space’ wi-fi
Please don’t blow this, FCC
“when we figure out how to capture value, we must do it in a way that...”
– Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
This is also a top 5 insight of the last 6 months
“This is a list of Social Media Managers at Fortune 1000 companies”
– NewPR Wiki - Resources.SocialMediaManagers
“Who is going to build the infrastructure the artists and the web services need?...”
– A VC: Moving The Goalposts
Amazon Web Services Blog: Our Most Fulfilling Web... →
Using computers to make actions happen in “real life”.
Reminds me of SMS to Meatspace…
“with improvisation, a group can focus on the objective and be productive while...”
– GameChangers
This is an incredibly insightful statement. It captures so much about management today…and the music I love to play. Double whammy…top 5 insight of the last 6 months ;-)
Songkick’s concert recommendation engine: It goes... →
one to watch
“According to new market research, a multimillion dollar broadcast, radio, print,...”
– Ad Campaign Appeals To Young, Hip, Influenced-By-Ad-Campaigns Demographic | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“But “cinematic” just doesn’t do “The Chandelier Suite” justice, because movie...”
– MySpace.com - Hour of the Shipwreck - LOS ANGELES, California
If you like really intricate psych rock, check these guys out…
Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $19 Billion - New... →
here we go!
[buy GOOG]
Google for Non-Profits →
Nothing different from the normal [free] GOOG services except free advertising and free GOOG checkout.
WatchCharlie Rose - Anderson & Arrington
Why not hang out on my blog for an hour and watch Charlie Rose interview Chris Anderson and Mike Arrington?
Companies Are Not Pimps →
Pathetic Bear Stearns Bailout: Who To Blame -... →
Great analysis of the Bear Stearns sitch by Henry Blodget.
I agree with him: the Fed should let firms fail. Start cutting out the cancer now.
Tivo Data API's
joelaz:
Why doesn’t Tivo offer a set of data API’s that web developers could use to create television widgets and mashups in exchange for promoting Tivo subscriptions? Today, developers can build apps that live inside the Tivo service using their SDK, but there’s no way to get data out of Tivo. Entertainment is one of the most popular forms of distributed content on the web. People proudly...
“What we are witnessing is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking...”
– Derivatives are the new ticking time bomb - MarketWatch
This is going to be sooooooo bad.
“Media isn’t just “content” and “pipes”. Media is...”
– How Apple and Google Dominate - Harvard Business Online’s Umair Haque
“Traditionally the role of the firm has been to increase the efficiency of...”
– Can Your Firm Develop a Sustainable Edge? Ask John Hagel and John Seely Brown - Knowledge@Wharton
Agreed
Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing... →
This is seriously awesome…
U.Va.'s McIntire Second to Wharton in BusinessWeek... →
Is U.Va. going to blow up Wharton as the best undergrad B-School? (They’re in a statistical tie according to BusinessWeek)
That would be just too awesome. Down with the Ivy League!
;-)
Ethan, Comm ‘01
Watch
“How do you move from “We hope you will enjoy the show”, to “We...”
– We Are India: iRock or iSuck?
Brains in India are reimagining the U.S.-dominated mediascape. Don’t say I didn’t warn you ;-)
“That’s the whole idea here: put dog food ads in front of people who have dogs.”
– To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You - New York Times
The enormously disruptive, game-changing potential of Media 2.0 in a nutshell?
[nein!]
I took the easy way out with this one…but...
“I won twice as many states as Senator Clinton. I won more of the popular vote...”
– Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Um, good point!
Now I understand what some folks mean when they say that the Clintons are a bit “slippery”…
“There are some real problems with a nonprofit structure,” [Wales] said....”
– Wikipedia’s tin-cup approach wears thin - Los Angeles Times
Paging TipJoy…
“thinking that everyone is, and should be, an entrepreneur leads us to underrate...”
– What Microloans Miss: Financial Page: The New Yorker
Interesting perspective on Kiva, et al. My take is that there are many, many lessons (economically, strategically, socially, and emotionally) to be learned from microfinance…particularly in creative applications of the same concept...
Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity →
After 4 years with my 12” Powerbook G4, I have to agree. At the moment, I’m working on 3 different computers simultaneously, which has a similar effect ;-)
Plus an iPod…
“With the power of soul,
Anything is...
Is The Campaign Dead? →
The analysts over at Forrester have spotlighted what is probably the biggest issue stunting the effectiveness of online/”interactive” marketing: the systemic reliance on ad “campaigns” of a particular time frame (e.g. 6-8 weeks).
Words (and software) live forever on the infowebs…
“all signs indicate that online radio is ready to take off, leading our oldest...”
– The Coming Online Radio Ad Boom - Forbes.com
This is a short Op-ed piece written by the CEO of TargetSpot (AdSense/AdWords for audio).
When Union Square Ventures and CBS announced the service last year, I opined that hypertargeted advertising in radio streams would still ruin the experience unless...
“I thought it was striking that the New York Times, a firm that a decade ago was...”
– Techdirt: Almost Every Company Is A Software Company
See my presentation on Business Design for Web Services & MediaCos for more on this meme…
Graco Blog » Rules of Engagement →
BRILLIANT implementation of “Customer Service as the new Marketing”, etc.
“The basic paradox of the Internet can be framed very simply: The very platform...”
– Look out for a much longer post on this soon…
[via John Hagel, “Shift Happens - The Future of Advertising”]
WatchThis is sooooo perfect…
For everyone who thought Juno sucked as much as I did:
Andy Samberg (as Diablo Cody):
“What the blog are you blogging about, Sonic the Hedgeblog? Blog the Bounty Hunter! Snoop Bloggy Blog featuring Nate Blog!”
[disclaimer: I bailed on Juno after 45 minutes. And there is no bigger Arrested Development fan than me!]
I was really happy when I heard that John Zorn won...