August 2009
48 posts
“Bundling devalued online ads and taught advertisers online could be viewed as an...”
– The Newspaper Original Sin: Keeping online units tethered to the mother ship | Howard Owens
Give Me Your Data, Said the Spider to the Fly →
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Very interesting news yesterday about Google Adsense and competing ad networks. From ClickZ:
Google plans to open its AdSense network to other ad networks, potentially…
The Stern Broadcasting Corp. →
In today’s Daily News, David Hinckley and Talkers’ Michael Harrison speculate that when Howard Stern’s Sirius XM contract is up, he could use the internet to start his own broadcasting company.
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Google's Summer of Code Helps Government... →
In it’s fifth year, Google’s Summer of Code continues to usher advanced education students into the open source environment. For a three month period, 150 open source projects benefit from…
Nokia annuncia "Nokia Money" →
Bravissimi.
Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone Espoo, Finland - Nokia today introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile…
The problem with incentives →
Dan Pink gives a punchy TED talk about the adverse impact of incentives. He reports studies that show that offering incentives will increase performance for routine tasks. But for activities…
Nokia annuncia "Nokia Money" →
Bravissimi.
Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone Espoo, Finland - Nokia today introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile…
Four rules for running with the big dogs →
I’ve just met four great startups in the last three days.
All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market” - one where competitors have a profitable business selling to customers…
Futuristic London Garden Foldable Electric Bicycle →
London Garden is a concept car free zone in downtown London allowing bicycles and busses only as transportation means. In this connection, the designers have created an innovative transportation…
“Whether we like it or not, success on the Web mostly comes from quantity and not...”
– Demand Media Is a Page View Generating Machine - And it’s Working
What We Can Learn From Mess →
Gary Wolf wrote a Wired cover story about craigslist called “Why Craigslist Is Such A Mess”. It’s a somewhat strange article because it is highly critical of craigslist’s design, management,…
Augmented Reality: Maptor concept →
*A lot like the Layar or Wikitude apps, but turned inside out. Note that projected-video flashlight has inbuilt GPS.
*I like projected-video augments and think they are underrated, but I wish…
“Systems of categories are not objectively “out there” in the world...”
– Semantics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Newspapers and magazines are in trouble. We think they will mostly die, because...”
– Journalism.co.uk :: Q&A Y Combinator: ‘News organisations can learn from start-up culture’
(Video) DIY Hotel Dining →
With the economy still in a bad state state, travel across the board is down. Family vacations are losing ground to rediscovering the wonders closer to home, while business trips are…
“Whether you want people to come to your country or want them to stay away,...”
– http://www.frontiereconomy.com/2009/08/educate-everyone-everywhere-now/
geoTwitter and news and more →
Twitter announced a geolocation API today and it set my mind to spinning with implications that I tweeted like a Gatling gun:
* For news, it would be possible to verify that witnesses reporting…
All Business Starts With A Community →
Today I was on my way back to our house after dropping my kids off to camp, and I decided to stop by a local cafe for a quick coffee-n-chat. Now, in August, “our house” means a century-old…
“In fact, many people claim that they wouldn’t pay for online content even...”
– P2P Not to Blame for Content Industry Failures Says EU
“Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own...”
– About Scratch - Scratch Wiki
“You’re working on a new anti-ulcer drug and you accidentally spill some...”
– Would you lick it? « Rowan Simpson
“What if I could take a blog post I wrote and could hire someone for a fee to...”
– NewBizNews & Hyperpersonal news streams « BuzzMachine
Jeff Jarvis Tries To Save Local News (With... →
Local news always seems to get the short end of the stick, both in terms of coverage and advertising dollars. And as the entire newspaper industry continues to struggle for survival, the…
Fresh : Shrinking Milk Concept Jug →
As soon as a person opens a gallon of milk, they start to spoil because of various creepy crawlies that remains in the air and grows by eating such organic materials. Shrinking Jug is a concept milk…
Bravo, Snaptalent →
I really liked the original Snaptalent product (sort of an AdSense for recruiting). Apparently the product didn’t succeed — I can imagine working on a recruiting product during this recession…
“In fact, it could be said that money is an incredibly clever and successful...”
– Social Exchange Rate | Frontier Economy
Shopping and monoculture →
Alan Moore points to a provocative piece by Neal Lawson in the Guardian: Do we want to shop or to be free?. Snippet:
Who will challenge this creeping monoculture? Not the main political parties….
“What was at the core of Bernie Madoff’s operation? According to the public...”
– Free Madoff | Frontier Economy
“It was a complex business, being the world’s best gymnast in 2026. To begin...”
– Ownership Society | Frontier Economy
“This is how the best soccer team in history became the best: Oxytocin,...”
– Lonely Champions | Frontier Economy
“Consider soap and cleaning materials in general, or drinkable water: Without...”
– The Mediocre Returns of Extraordinary Technologies | Frontier Economy
“Apparently studies say we spend a credit dollar more easily than we do a debit...”
– This Blog Sits at the: What is happening to money these days?
“In Startupland, everybody should be working towards the same goal: that big...”
– Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay
“The issues I delineate below I think are by far the central, salient facts about...”
– Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.COM
A eulogy for the click-through rate →
I’m here to speak a little marketing heresy. The ubiquitous click-through rate, the longtime arbiter of the success or failure of online marketing efforts, is actually a pretty poor measurement…
“[..] the Guardian was a life-style, a niche, an affinity group. Whatever the...”
– Goodbye Guardian. Hello the Guardian Experience | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
Hello Haptic: Tactile Learning For The Visually... →
Samsung Design Membership has nurtured the talents of up-and-coming designers for over 15 years, and manages to consistently deliver award-winning innovation in the…
“[..] software licensing can be 30%-40% of a council’s budget;[..]”
– Charlie’s Angles: Why can’t local government and open source be friends? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“The gentleman enjoys himself and says nothing. I remain silent.”
– On Tour with Frank Zappa: ‘Free Sex for Everybody’ - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
“Anthropic reasoning typically concludes that the stability of structures...”
– Anthropic principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“That no one can save us, that no one else can save them; only we can save...”
– 20 years on, life is still tough for Romania’s street children | World news | The Observer
Don't Be A Player Platform Hater →
I’ve been meaning to post a long-ish rant on the importance of celebrities taking control of their own platforms, but never gotten to it, in part because I’m not that enamored with the…
Alinea →
This post has very little to do with technology and venture capital. Every once in a while I like to share things with all of you that simply blow me away. This post is about a restaurant in…
“For the most part, the traditional news outlets lead and the blogs follow,...”
– Study Measures the Chatter of the News Cycle - NYTimes.com
“Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years. For me, a...”
– Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates « Gravity and Levity
“But when AR really hits, it’s going to be because the technology it’s presented...”
– Pulse Laser: “Preparing Us For AR”: the value of illustrating of future technologies
How Is America Going To End? →
Slate.com looks at a number of apocalytic scenarios in considering how the United States could cease to exist.
If and when America expires, we probably won’t agree on the cause of death. For…
(Pics) The Styrofoam Cup Art of Cheeming Boey →
Over the past four years, Cheeming Boey has been carving out a unique artistic niche for himself. The California based illustrator creates crisp black and white drawings on…