April 2008
36 posts
“Ten principles that contribute to a Googley user experience”
– Corporate Information - Google User Experience ‘Been self-teaching HCI via Moggridge and Norman (and various O’Reilly books) the last few months…
“Today’s crop of investors and startups are perhaps even more economically...”
– An Open Challenge to Silicon Valley - Harvard Business Online’s Umair Haque Mos def.
The Intrinsic Inequality Of The Blogosphere →
I rewrote the title of this article to be provocative, but it’s an important half-truth. In combination with some of Duncan Watts recent work, I would say that this article, which discusses power law distributions, is essential reading for people working in the PR/Advertising/Marketing realm. It gets to the statistical, empirical core of what I would call the “influence economy”...
“At launch, visitors to Twitter.jp will see media from two clients. One is a new...”
– Twitter Blog: Twitter for Japan Okay, here is another marketing 2.0 maneuver. Toyota is sponsoring an automotive news publisher on Twitter in Japan. Do you think that outlet will be covering competitors? Creating context for consumers? This is the kind of freedom you have as a marketer when...
“Last month, beer reporter James Arndorfer broke a story that Anheuser-Busch Cos....”
– “Brew” Blog - Beer Industry Market Analysis, News and Commentary This is one of the most brilliant marketing 2.0 moves out there. Up there with Nike+, easily. This story was originally reported by the WSJ and then I picked it up from Mike Masnick at Techdirt. There’s some really...
“When you get into the “creative” zone, the lines between “work...”
– /Message: The Costs Of Being A Creative
“This is beauty. This is truth. This is...
Dylan’s “Buckets Of Rain”, as...
“Inconvenient experiences don’t have Web-scale potential, and platforms which...”
– I love this, because it works for so many different kinds of businesses. Pop quiz: Which Internet guru said it? Was it: a) Johnny Ryall b) Norman Bates c) Fred Wilson d) Ian Rogers e) John Seely Brown [answer]
GPS Will Now Tell You You're In A 'Bad'... →
One of my favorite writers, Mike Masnick, has some poignant and hilarious remarks about Honda’s latest innovation. I can’t wait to see what other location-aware software people come up with… (Note: I also used the LAPD website and this sex offender/maps mashup when scouting out my new neighborhood in Silver Lake) (Also Note: Adrian Holovaty’s EveryBlock)
Business Art?
“Business art is the step that comes after art…I started as a commercial artist and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.” - Warhol I’ve been meaning to get this disclaimer up: I don’t necessarily agree fully with the last sentence of that quote, but I think it’s thought provoking.
“- An on-line journalist (a blogger, as an example) wants to write an article...”
– Artist Xite - Find Out How it Works I had put together an outline/presentation a system like this back in 2006. Maybe I’ll post it online just for fun… It will be interesting to watch this one.
WatchSouth Park explores life without the Internet. I can’t decide if this is as funny or funnier than the “Guitar Queer-O” episode…
“The thought of betting against benevolence is alarming in the same way as saying...”
– Be Good (Paul Graham) This is the meme that has inspired me the most over the last ~2 years. Luckily, I don’t have the “trustafarian” DNA he footnotes…(a real LOL if you get to read this)
'Drummers are natural intellectuals' - Telegraph →
HELL yes! Of course, drummers don’t have a monopoly on rhythm; there are many bass, guitar, piano, horn, etc, players with a pocket a mile deep. But, I’ll take it ;-)
Get Satisfaction API Lands - Customer Support... →
Where A Teacher Can Make Millions →
HOLY COW! http://finance.google.com/finance?q=KDQ:072870
Clouds over Simple Paid Apps / Services
continuations:This is the third post in my “clouds over” series, which points out areas of the current IT landscape that will be affected by the inexorable move to cloud computing (the first post was on hosting, the second on DB software). Today’s edition covers simple paid apps and services, such as hosted blogging platforms. Exhibit A is of course 37Signals’ Campfire, for which google engineers...
John Seely Brown on Web 2.0 and the Culture of... →
Can’t wait to listen to this when I get a chance… I’m starting to get really excited about Ed2.0 Even MORE excited about meeting John Seely Brown next week!!!
“If their first album hadn’t been produced by T-Bone Burnett, they’d all be...”
– Lefsetz Letter Lefsetz rips on SO many people in this post (e.g. Counting Crows, above)…he’s clearly getting tired of banging the same drum and just having fun now ;-)
“The US mortgage crisis has spiralled into “the largest financial shock...”
– We are in the worst financial crisis since Depression, says IMF | Business | The Guardian
Marketing 2.0: Can Meebo Make it Real? →
Watch(via The Colbert Report Official Site | Comedy Central) Colbert on the ultra awesome “web 2” education nonprofit DonorsChoose.org
“The end game is collaboration marketing where advertising, meaning paid...”
– Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Shift Happens – The Future of Advertising
Rethinking the rationale for the firm
Rethinking the rationale of the firm. In his seminal essay, “The Nature of the Firm,” Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase argued that firms exist to economize on market transactions. All economic activity incurs transaction or interaction costs—the costs (and time) required to find resources, get relevant information about them, negotiate to gain access, monitor their...
You don't know rhythm, BELIEVE ME
Presenting: Subash Chandran. Subash is a South Indian musician I studied with briefly at CalArts. His performance there a couple of years ago was the only musical experience I ever had that actually caused me to weep. Check out this performance. Be sure to stay around for the last 1/4 of the song, when he and the other performers completely deconstruct these insanely complex and funky...
Benjamin Franklin, blogging role model? →
Cloud computing is well and good, but it can't... →
Paul Boutin misses the central point of SaaS productivity apps, which is collaboration. Networks are flaky, but not nearly as flaky as trying to keep an Excel file updated among >3 people who need to have editing privileges. Or people that need to travel.
Band Name Maker →
Over at my new day gig managing “social media” for Fortune 500 clients at M80, I have to say the word “blog” about 700 times every day. Everyone that works here is a comic genius and it just occured to us that pretty much anything that’s a good band name is also a good blog name. (the phrase that inspired the discussion was “invisible captcha”) What the...
“Fans are asked to buy the five separate tracks, and only once all five have been...”
– Techdirt: Radiohead: Pay Us For A Chance To Make Our Songs Better Close, but no banana.
A 20 Million Song iPod Is Coming →
“Simply send a text message to “AMAZON” (262966) with the name of the...”
– Amazon TextBuyIt Just came across today…I
““together with his wife… who is a student of Jewish religious...”
– Marc Andreessen on Bear Stearns CEO getting a $60M direct cash transfer from the U.S. gov’t. This is so much worse than Dennis Kozlowski, etc