August 2008
26 posts
Android Developer Challenge Gallery - Android →
iGOOGmighteatAAPL’slunch
“We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because...”
– Android Developers Blog: Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system
Want to scale your business using the Internet? Try letting individuals coordinate value chains using frameworks like markets, networks, communities, and auctions.
Remix and recombine these constructs to massively...
McCain Seems To Have Obama Beat in One Arena -... →
Obama can’t afford to sleep on this. I can’t believe they blew purchasing misspelled domains, either.
Fred Wilson fields complaints about his portfolio...
When you kicked this blog off years ago, did you ever think you’d be doing customer service for your portfolio companies through it? The thing that I love about this post is that it gets into the “Who actually calls the 1-800 number on the back of a cereal box?” question. What are these people’s M.O.? Should I take them seriously? I love the “customer service is the...
WatchThe pitch for ‘Project Better Place’ | Videos on ZDNet
“For children ages 10 to 14 who use the Internet, the computer is a bigger draw...”
– Drilling Down - Preferring the Web Over Watching TV - NYTimes.com
Gee, didn’t see that coming.
Another headline from NYT today: Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo.
Which brings me to two incredibly incisive 140 character thoughts from Clay Shirky about producing video (or any...
“But Republican ambitions are grander: They are attacking Obama’s charisma,...”
– Michael Kinsley - Convicted Of Charisma - washingtonpost.com
The Market for Lemons - Wikipedia, the free... →
Like most forehead-slappers, this is effin genius!
““I’m a right-wing economist, so they can’t call me a...”
– Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California - Los Angeles Times
…and the book is DAMN good:
http://www.introecon.com/
“Founded in October 2007 on $200 million of venture capital, Better Place, in its...”
– Better Place || An Innovative Company || Who We Are
Delivering value exchanges through advertising →
“If advertisers are subsidizing apps for people, Facebook’s market will...”
– Harvard Business Online’s Umair Haque
TAKE THAT TO THE BANK!!!
“Like it or not, we are all public figures now — famous, as the new cliché goes,...”
– Jason Tanz writes in “Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion”
(via Chris Messina aka factoryjoe)
Watch“One of the most exciting things about the new music business is that artists have a wealth of options.”
You can say that again ;-)
(via Topspin » David Byrne and Brian Eno Release Everything That Happens Will Happen Today On The Topspin Platform)
Open Source as Business Strategy →
Reverse auction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Worth reading…
Word War III - washingtonpost.com →
Brilliant article about the editors who make Wikipedia happen. The process, the social norms, mediation, and more. Very in-depth; recommended Sunday reading ;-)
“This was at the core of the confusion over the definition of the Long Tail...”
– The Long Tail: Thirteen words that lose their meaning when the denominator approaches infinity
So I have avoided linking to Chris Anderson for years because of this very reason…people don’t understand the actual underlying point that he made about power laws and his book was so popular...
Stage Two Consulting » Can you deliver a pitch in... →
Here’s the comment I left., “awaiting moderation” for now:
Check out this article from Venture Hacks: http://venturehacks.com/articles/high-concept-pitch I frame my composition strategy for short pitches in terms of “how do I inspire an inquiry for more information” instead of “how do I summarize this quickly”. You’ve got to both a) work within to...
