June 2008
51 posts
“Ultimately, the fact that online ads get viewed more when they match surrounding...”
– Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
I would actually reframe the first part of this statement as an opportunity for innovation…BUT…
Creating an automated way to break the “church and state” seperation of editorial and commerce is pretty...
“In general, advertising doesn’t work on the Web, a fact that has been...”
– Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule? (Alertbox)
“There’s a concept in game theory called strategyproofness, which...”
– Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
Howard Lindzon » Google and Seth MacFarlane... →
“CO-OPETITION is a book that develops a new approach to business strategy, one...”
– An Interview With the Authors
Test Your Decision Making - Yale School of... →
Check out this very quick little management lesson…very cool, and I like what it taught me.
(I didn’t get the answer, see if you do!)
Techdirt: Google Inches Toward Wikified Maps →
Great article about designing and executing peer-produced projects (incentives, moderation, scale, etc).
“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are about 1.4 million child...”
– Can I cut it as a day care worker, one of the most exhausting, worst paid, and smelliest jobs in America? - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
I have many many deep and personal thoughts on this issue which I’ll have to get into later.
This is my new favorite industry to think about...
“Executives charged with rolling out cutting-edge software products or on-line...”
– Information Rules - Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian
Sound familiar?
“Information Rules is the first book to describe network economics. Shapiro and Varian explain all the crazy things we see happening everyday in Silicon Valley and beyond. This book is a must for every business that wants to...
“Social media is one dangerous, double-edged sword: it attracts and sucks out a...”
– HipMojo.com » Twitter’s 140 Problems
Totally agreed, with my usual proviso that “ad” doesn’t mean optimized interstitial advertising.
Scaling customer-sourced product design
I’m going to start re-posting my comments on other sites here, most of the thoughts I have that are worth sharing don’t make it to ethanbauley.com:
To borrow a heuristic from Umair: of markets, networks, and communities, communities are definitely the messiest. And probably the most valuable. I like the idea of building apps “on top” of community message boards. Thanks...
“The war against terrorism has evolved into a war of ideas and propaganda, a...”
– Al-Qaeda’s Growing Online Offensive - washingtonpost.com
This article (a truly awesome piece of journalism in it’s own right, complete with hyperlinks that expand the value hugely) raises dozens of questions in my mind. I’m going to think about this and come back with more soon.
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WatchThe Colbert Report Official Site | Comedy Central
The most interesting religious discourse on television is these interviews that Colbert has with theologians…
Of course, I haven’t seen the 700 Club recently so maybe I’m missing something ;-)
“There’s hardly any oil and gas production in a 40-mile radius of...”
– Houston, we have no problems. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
next step in open innovation - Information... →
WatchDavid Byrne: Playing The Building | Pitchfork.tv
Well this is insanely awesome…I could sit there and play basslines on this thing for weeks on end.
Reminds me a bit of this.
TuneCore Opens Digital Aggregator Platform →
The top ten things that math probability says... →
Vermont OKs the Creation of Virtual... →
Companies that incorporate in VT aren’t required to have physical headquarters or hold in-person board meetings.
Love it…
“For decades, many of the brightest graduates in economics sought their fortune...”
– Real Time Economics : Economics According to Google
Agreed
“This is a blog, simply, about a team of experts at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club...”
– Check Out
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Here’s a little music for your weekend. ...
“When musicians improvise, the lateral prefrontal areas of their brains —...”
– 3 Smart Things About Music
Twitter / DavidLetterman →
If you’re a long-time Letterman fan like myself, you may enjoy this. I’m pretty sure it’s “official” and it’s pretty funny. Enjoy!
“For Apple, the advantages of bringing PA Semi in-house are many. In particular,...”
– AppleInsider | Steve Jobs: it’s time we design our own iPhone and iPod chips
Okay, so I beat the “openness/collaboration” drum as loudly as anyone, but yet this makes plenty of sense to me. There’s a few reasons:
- Everyone loves the Bill Joy truism “There are many...
Elance Blog | Elance →
This service has so much potential…it’s a blast to think about.
Seems like they’re kicking things up a notch, I’m going to tune in…
Five Guys Burgers and Fries →
Touchdown! Five Guys has made it to California! This place crushes all other burger joints.
People say that kind of thing all the time, but believe me, this ain’t no joke. Would I interrupt my regularly scheduled nerd diatribes to bring you anything less?
Economics: Which Way for Obama? →
The Jim Webb Story →
“Like Redmond, Hollywood is also very clear about the game it plays. The game is...”
– Mike Bonifer: The Microhoogle Scene: An Analysis - Business on The Huffington Post
I was playing around with FriendFeed this afternoon and happened on some tweets by a well-known, publicly obvious tech entrepreneur in Santa Monica (a transplant from Silicon Valley by the name of Jason...
““Web users have always been ruthless and now are even more so,” said...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Web users ‘getting more ruthless’
I’m excited about this report because it quantifies an intuition I’ve been grokking: search is actually underrated [by media people] in terms of importance.
The incredible utility of Google is passing into the realm...
Bomomo →
joelaz:
Make abstact art with this simple flash app. Just click and drag your mouse. Select different brushes for various effects.
When Ideas Are Easy And Execution Is Hard... It... →
“These innovations are quite different from the innovations in U.S. retail...”
– Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Patterns of Business Innovation in China and India
“Umair is the Billy Beane of Web 2.0. Billy Beane was the first general manager...”
– Bubblegeneration for the Rest of Us at Like It Matters
Perfect description!!!
Word Of Mouth Marketing Isn't Effective If Your... →
Advertising Lab: future of advertising and... →
This is just an incredible blog for media geeks…
Mike Cassidy: Speed as THE primary business... →
“A friend of mine sent me to Garfield minus Garfield a few months back....”
– Techdirt: Sad: We’re Thrilled That A Content Creator Isn’t Suing Over A Derivative Work
Right. The copyright owner needs to be enlightened for this to happen, but I think a real driver here is that the derivative work is REALLY GOOD. That helps…
And, of course, in this example...
Universal Fire Destroys Music History →
“The Obama campaign has not yet assumed a place in Silicon Valley lore alongside...”
– The Amazing Money Machine
I’ve been looking for someone to write this article. Brilliant, in-depth article on the people leveraging the microfinancing of the Obama campaign…
Essential reading!
(Hat tip to The Atlantic Monthly)
“when one imagines how Obama’s political army, presumably intact, might be...”
– HisSpace
Paging Yochai Benkler, Secretary of Teh Internets
WatchDean Kamen’s Robot Arm Grabs More Publicity | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
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