BUSINESS: WORK. THAT PLACE WE GO TO EVERY MORNING.
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Another Kind of Networking
There's a new eatery in Chelsea called Swich. It's a pressed sandwich shop with an eye, and mind, towards design. From the logo to the televisions running SWICH TV, the place feels different (and the sand ...
February 20, 2007 |
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Business Expiration Dates
I've had a few conversations recently about the idea of businesses with expiration dates and I thought maybe it was worth getting some thoughts down. Essentially I've been playing with the thought that instead of puttering out 8 years down the lin ...
February 27, 2010 | EMAIL | PRINT | 14 COMMENTS
Creating Passionate Users
Why is creating passionate users such a hot topic? It could be because of the fantastic blog of the same name, or it could be something bigger going on. Kathy Sierra, author of that ...
June 23, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Encouraging Your Customers to Utilize Your Service
Today at lunch with James I rattled off a story about Netflix that I have been telling lots of people lately for some reason. Basically the story is that even though it would seem like Netflix would rather yo ...
August 10, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS
Fixing Business Software
For a whole bunch of reasons I've given a lot of thought to building software for businesses. First off, I work for a business, so it's interesting to me. Second, I'm quite fascinated by the idea that you can build software to help things and peop ...
August 22, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Google and What it Means to Be a Market Leader
[Editor's Note: Inspired by Google's announcment of a Chrome OS and this Jeff Jarvis p ...
July 9, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Horizontal Media in a Vertical World
Time for another one of those conversations I've had about 50 times in the last few months but have yet to blog (at least as far as I can remember). If you've heard this spiel already, I apologize. One of the problems with web sites in corp ...
April 2, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
How to Embrace the Internet
I'm nearing the end of Joe Trippi's fantastic book The Rev ...
November 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Life Lessons of Open Source
As I was reading this article about open source companies slashing prices to compete with each other, I made a quick note. Product = Fre ...
June 20, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Market Adjustment
While I've been in California I've been spending a lot of time reading the newspaper (that's right, like the printed one). I don't read the paper often at home, maybe once or twice a week at most, but I always enjoy myself. What's amazing to me ev ...
June 25, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
More Targeted Equals More Expensive
[Editor's Note: I didn't mean to weigh in on this Gladwell/Anderson Free debate. I swear that this isn't really about their arguments (except the first two paragraphs). But if you're sick of reading people talking about this stuff feel free to ...
July 6, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 7 COMMENTS
Netflix and Human Tendencies
I joined Netflix about a month ago and so far it's been an incredible experience. I'm finally catching up on a long list of movies I've been meaning to see for ages. Problem was, when I hit the video I either couldn't think of the movie I wanted o ...
November 3, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 10 COMMENTS
Open Data and the Future of Business (Vol. 1)
[Editor's Note: Okay, so I've been working on this idea for awhile where I would post a back-and-forth conversation on the blog, but hadn't really found any takers. Then a few weeks ago I was having breakfast with <a href="http://www.flickr.co ...
April 13, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
Open Data and the Future of Business (Vol. 2)
[Editor's Note: As I explained yesterday in volume 1, this is an email exchange between myself and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/joh ...
April 14, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Open Data and the Future of Business (Vol. 3)
[Editor's Note: As I explained yesterday in volume 2 and the day before in <a href="http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2009/04/open_data_and_ ...
April 15, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Picture Brands
<img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: po ...
May 30, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Sincerity and Cannibalism
I don't mean to be a JetBlue whore, but it's time to talk about them again. Looks like my last post about them preceded a hurricane (or blizzard) of <a href="http://tokyoh ...
February 21, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Target's Got Trouble a Brewin'
This can be filed under reasons for companies to start blogging. It seems that Target has begun selling some less than mainstream products including: <img alt="target- ...
November 28, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Transitions
I've been doing a lot of reading (and thus thinking) lately. What follows will hopefully hang together, but it may very well turn into a bunch of random ideas. So goest the dangers of blogging. Okay . . . let's begin with something <a href= ...
January 26, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Trusting Employees
Just read a great entry over at Creating Passionate Users all about trusting your employ ...
May 26, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS