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The Art of Indie Music in Commericals
New York comedian Aziz Ansari breaks down the advertising music licensing business.
Tags: funny music business advertising video comedy
"Every year, hundreds of nonprofit organizations rely on the Taproot Foundation's award winning Service Grant program to provide millions of dollars worth of pro bono marketing, HR and IT consulting services."
Tags: design business consulting nonprofit marketing
Gold at the end of the rainbow
"What I failed to realize when the news hit was, regardless of how much coin the band makes from the actual sales, they’ve just built a most impressive consumer database."
Tags: music business email marketing crm
Chris Rock On The Music Business
"If the musician is a good businessman, he’s a shitty musician . . . Which is why something resembling a record company is going to be necessary in the future. Musicians make the music, someone needs to sell it."
Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK
"But those days are gone. Because, mainly, that infrastructure is broken at the moment. How long before [record companies] are irrelevant? Who knows? They seem to be doing everything they can to make sure that happens as quickly as possible."
Tags: music business economics free
Radiohead Results: 38% Forked Over $6 Average
"Paying downloaders forked over an average of $6, with U.S. consumers paying almost twice as much ($8.05) as those from other countries ($4.64)."
Tags: music business internet mp3
"Beacon is the internal project name at Facebook around an effort to work with third parties and gain access to very specific user data. An example may be a purchase of a book or DVD from Amazon."
Tags: facebook business attention marketing
Why Amazon's HaaS (Hardware as a Service) Strategy is a Winner
"It's intriguing to watch Amazon, the old favorite dot com era e-commerce site, transform itself into a technology company with their new and innovative HaaS unit."
Tags: amazon business internet technology
Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin
"San Francisco indie band The Society of Rockets, for example, plans to release its next album strictly on vinyl and as MP3 files."
Tags: music business vinyl mp3
Oink founder: We're just like Google
"If Google directed someone to a site they can illegally download music they are doing the same as what I have been accused of. I am not making any Oink users break the law. People don’t pay to use the site.�
Tags: business copyright bittorrent music mp3 p2p
Is Investing in Facebook Worth it to Microsoft Just to Get International Remnant Inventory?
"So if you're Microsoft, and your search business isn't generating much European inventory or European advertiser interest for AdCenter, a deal like this gives you a much better story to tell."
Tags: microsoft business advertising facebook europe
Outsource to Qualified Freelancers or Firms, Web Designers, Programmers, Technical Writers - oDesk
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DEFENDING THE PIG - OINK CROAKS
"Oink didn’t offer solutions; it highlighted the problems of over-priced, over-controlled music elsewhere. Oink was an online paradise for music fans." - DJ Rupture
Tags: music business bittorrent copyright
Enabling Innovation Through Office Design
"Work has become more mobile and team-based, but most organizations have been slow in changing their workplaces to reflect the new reality"
Tags: business design innovation
"That economic model is not quite over - there is clearly still money to be made selling CDs - but it is on its way out and from a strategic point of view bands choosing to go down that road close the door on a much larger, longer-term opportunity. "
Tags: music business economics
"Microsoft owning a shell called Bungie with all the talent gone isn't a recipe for success (looked what happened when the Palm leadership asked to be spun off from 3Com and the events that followed)."
Tags: video microsoft business management
Armchair Economists, Please Stay Home
"What, pray tell, are the "real products" that will support those industries? Very few bands can make a living off of touring and T-shirts. Oh, that's it, advertising. I bet Arrington listens to a lot of commercial radio..."
Tags: economics music business
Did "Saturday Night Live" Rip Off Aphex Twin?
"NBC didn't actually need permission to use the song for "ephemeral use," and won't, until they plan to air the show again . . . the video remains yanked from all official NBC sites until, presumably, some clearance agreement is made."
Tags: music business youtube internet law copyright
Radiohead's new album: pay what you want
"There’s no doubt that thousands of people will hand over the price of a Sherbet Dip for the download. Presumably though, Radiohead’s argument runs that those people would have obtained the album through file sharing websites."
Tags: music economics business insight
"This false notion that ringtones are something in and of themselves is an anachronism, an artifact dating back to the time when mobile phones existed in their own ecosystem, wholly separate from the PC or the Internet."
Tags: apple business copyright iphone mobile music
"Google's plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks."
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About jobs and networking. Includes the story of how my friend Michael Surtees ended up in New York City (which just happens to be because of me).
Tags: networking jobs business design
Why Passion Matters: #1 In The Series
"I’m more convinced everyday that passion is the ultimate competitive advantage in business."
"First and foremost you need to build an audience, build trust with them, deliver on a regular basis for them. There's no way people are going to come back again and again if your blog doesn't enlighten, entertain, and inform."
"South Park' Creators Win Ad Sharing in Deal
"Comedy Central and the creators of the popular show, "South Park," have agreed to create a hub to spread the program and related material across the Internet, mobile platforms and video games."
Tags: television animation business internet video
"In a way this bundle that constitutes mainstream music begins to establish a model that could be the future of recorded music  that the recordings are the “loss leaders� for everything else."
Tags: music design packaging business culture
"Today that same market is telling rappers to please shut up. While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap."
Tags: hiphop music business branding
"If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy."
Tags: software business it usability
Facebook Grows Up: Can It Stay Relevant?
"At 19, Mark Zuckerberg came up with a new way for college kids to connectâ€â€and started an online revolution. Now 23, he's trying to build out his business without losing its cool."
Tags: business facebook socialnetworking internet
"Many savvy companies are starting to realize that a good name can be their most important assetâ€â€and actually boost the stock price"
Tags: business branding marketing finance stock
Lawsuit: Music Publishers v. YouTube Doesn't Solve the Problem
"If people don’t know what rights they need to obtain and if there's no easy way to obtain them even if they do know, exactly what do rights-holders expect?"
Tags: music copyright business law
"This is the speech we gave at the 4As account planning conference in San Diego."
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Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits
"A new Web site reveals that many of the most obviously self-interested changes come from corporate networks."
The Enterprise, Apple, and Insufficient Ambition
"The only tools that succeed in an enterprise situation are those which are so compelling that people choose to use them in their free time."
Tags: it business technology usability
Research Note: Strategic Errors Mini Case Study - TimesSelect
"The NYT has lost two years of building edge competencies: learning how to turn stale, inert columnists into managers of living, breathing markets, networks, and communities; learning how to redefine brands . . . "
Tags: nytimes strategy business media2.0
"The plan is to build a global digital ad network that uses offshore labor to create thousands of versions of ads. Then, using data about consumers and computer algorithms, the network will decide which advertising message to show."
Tags: advertising business marketing
Cheap fashion: the trend may be over
"Prices have fallen dramatically in the past decade as products are sourced from countries with low labour costs, but clothes cannot carry on getting cheaper."
"It’s simply that new content startups understand the value of being lean and mean and constraint-free, whereas old media houses are too stuck in the mindset of big, fancy and infrastructure-bound."
William Safire talks about how the title "strategist" is all the hype.
Tags: strategy politics business language nytimes
"The set-up is an innovative solution to a problem that big corporations have wrestled with since time immemoriam. Namely. What to do when you get too big? And how to avoid being a victim of your own success?"
Tags: advertising marketing business
Deal Note: Twitter's Nonexistent Business Model (Or, How to Invest in Media)
"Rather, next-gen investors are better off understanding why and how value creation and value capture will shift over the next 2-5 years - and then invest in plays which can dominate those shifts."
Tags: business media2.0 startups money twitter
"I thought I’d share my advice here, even though I’m still learning to apply these lessons in my own nascent career as a manager."
Tags: management business
"Ad agency Anomaly is pioneering a new model whereby it provides its creative services in return for a take of the profits. It's a high-risk strategy that could change the industry"
Tags: advertising innovation marketing business
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life
Best line: "Last winter, CNET's in-world correspondent was conducting a live interview with Anshe Chung, an avatar said to have earned more than $1 million on virtual real estate deals, when Chung was assaulted by flying penises in a griefer attack."
Tags: secondlife advertising marketing business
Online Publishers Need To Stop Selling Space
"So what’s the lesson for newspapers and other traditional media companies trying to transform themselves into online publishers? Stop selling space."
Tags: advertising business internet
Sprint Takes Lead as 1st Sponsor of File-Sharing Song
"Sprint has signed on as the first company to underwrite a song to be distributed on file-sharing networks, agreeing to embed its logo on copies of tracks from Atlantic Records hip-hop artist Plies, sources told The Post."
Tags: business marketing music p2p
iPhone Reality/Sanity Check -- my iWish list
"In conclusion, I think the iPhone is the great-great-grand-father of the future of personal media devices."
Create Candor in the Workplace, Says Jack Welch
"At GE, he put these principles into action by implementing a forced ranking system that divided employees into three distinct segments: the top 20 percent of performers, the middle 70 percent, and the bottom 10 percent."
Tags: management business
Treating different customers differently
"If you're going to be obsessed with delighting customers, it's a lot more efficient to focus on customers that are able to be delighted."
Tags: business customerservice
"Fopp's gone bankrupt. Prince is bypassing the stores completely to give away his new CD. But Adam Webb finds that the future of the record shop might not be as gloomy as the past week's headlines suggest"
"Faced with shrinking profits, record labels are touting a new approach"
Tags: music business economics copyright marketing
Prince Points the Way to a Brighter Future for Music
Prince gave away his new CD with Sunday's Daily Mail. "Part of the problem, according to retailers, is that Prince's move helped solidify a growing perception on the part of consumers that music is free."
Tags: music business trend copyright
In Small Packages, Fewer Calories and More Profit
"In three years, sales of 100-calorie snack packs have passed the $20-million-a-year mark, as consumers don’t seem to mind paying more for less."
Tags: food business psychology marketing nytimes packaging health
The music industry nobs have finally figured out what we're doing
Fake Steve Jobs: "The music companies are in a dying business, and they know it. Sure, they act all cool because they hang around with rock stars. But beneath all the glamour these guys are actually operating two very low-tech businesses."
Tags: apple music business itunes strategy
How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
Some tips on how to hire for startups.
Tags: interviews jobs business tips
"As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else . . . It's called the internet . . . "
Tags: facebook business socialsoftware internet aol
Jobs Effect 1997-2007: A Retrospective
"Now, this might sound trivial - but it's not. Revolutionaries need passion - something to commit to, and to invest in, and to belong to. People are an essential part of the DNA for revolutionary organizations."
dove's evolution is the last of its kind
"If your brand is brave and gutsy enough to get behind a powerful and challenging socio-cultural idea, execute with creative brilliance and support it with a smart CSR program, you will get people to pay attention, but it's . . . unlikley for $50,000"
Tags: viral marketing business youtube
"Those who saw the telephone as a destructive force in communities might have had -- and might still have -- a point, but technological changes have left them on the fringe of society."
Tags: culture privacy identity youth business transparency
The Old Model: TimesSelect Is A Failure
"TimesSelect, the world's stupidest pay-for-content bar to a good user experience, has 222,300 paying members as of May, according to a report just released by the Times."
Tags: newspapers nytimes advertising business
"Crushpad provides grapes from the West Coast's top vineyards, an industry-acclaimed wine making team and a state-of-the-art winery 100% focused on making wine in small lots. You choose your level of involvement and we do the rest."
"We find available domain names that are descriptive, concise and are easily remembered. And if we can’t find one, or you don’t like any available domain names we suggest – you don’t pay anything. PickyDomains.Com is completely RISK FREE."
twittering for busy execs
Download 2007 Digital Fact Pack
52-Page Data Guide to the Digital Marketing World
Tags: advertising marketing statistics business demographics internet research
Kevin Ham, the $300 million master of Web domains
"Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire."
Google's Video PlusBox May Be Its Most Disruptive Feature Ever
"There are no ads currently on the YouTube video, but you can bet that will change. What’s clear is that on this particular search the Times, the Post, and MSBNC are likely to lose a lot of the traffic that they otherwise would have gotten."
Tags: video business marketing google media2.0
Chris Anderson: "A while ago US News asked me for the five business books that had the greatest impact on me. Now they've published my list, along with the lists of other executives and notables."
"This interesting video, from the folks at GOOD Magazine, shows just how much advertisers are paying to bombard New Yorkers with out-of-home advertising."
Tags: video advertising business nyc
Jane Siberry's "you decide what feels right" pricing
"The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can� policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free  but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track."
Tags: music business pricing money
Bummed I'm missing it, some great speakers there.
Tags: conference trend planning marketing business london
Stewert Butterfield responds to Flickr Complaints
"There are several policies which will be changing as a direct result of this incident and the goal is that nothing like this ever happens again. Any errors from now on should be on the side of caution."
Tags: flickr business transparency community
Branded Utility: Interview With Johnny Vulkan of Anomaly
"Brands being genuinely useful to their customers, employees, suppliers and the people they touch."
Tags: brandedutility marketing business interviews trend
"It's dominated by diminishing return economics - it's just another mass media play in a micromedia world. In that mass media world, remember, MTV was QVC - they were basically the same business model for different domains (music vs consumer goods)."
Forrester's new Social Technographics report
"At the heart of Social Technographics is consumer data that looks at how consumers approach social technologies – not just the adoption of individual technologies."
Tags: research socialsoftware marketing business
"Gaussian distributions tend to prevail when events are completely independent of each other. As soon as you introduce the assumption of interdependence across events, Paretian distributions tend to surface because positive feedback loops tend to amplify
Tags: networks powerlaw business research bestarticlesof2007
"You put all that together and you think, what would the advertising customer like? And what they would like is they'd like a single way in which they can see ads and then have the computer do the allocation for them."
Tags: google advertising future marketing business
Guess Who's Knocking on Marketing's Door
"If conversation is advertising's new sweet spot, should consumer affairs play a more central, strategic role in the marketing equation?"
Tags: conversation business marketing consumeraffairs
"It struck me that this control very much reminded me of another company: Wal-Mart. Here's a summary of the critical points that define the similarities between the two"
Tags: google walmart advertising business economics
"Unexpected films find success with DVD rentals, sales while box office, award winners fall flat"
"ParkAtMyHouse is a new service that provides affordable and penalty-free parking around public venues by enabling property-owners to rent out their empty driveways, garages, car parks and other spare pieces of land to drivers needing somewhere to park."
Moscow's suburb for billionaires
"Most people in Britain are now familiar with the scruffy, boyish and invariably unshaven features of Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, and Russia's most famous billionaire."
Tags: russia business economics politics money
Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?
A new theory of the hit record.
Tags: business culture marketing psychology nytimes bestarticlesof2007
me + alex quit google. (dodgeball forever!!!!) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources"
Tags: google mobile innovation business
"Muji's US target will be an active group of Americans who seek alternatives to showy brand consumerism; those who are looking to pursue higher goals in their consumption habits, but importantly, want to show and share those goals to others."
Tags: business shopping japan design nyc
Wieden Loses Nike over Digital?
"Perhaps if the agency teams worked together, we'd all get better at learning what consistently works online -- and then producing campaigns to match that expectation."
Tags: nike marketing advertising online business
"A survey of leading thinkers, gathered to judge the advertising world's Effie Awards, offers a valuable snapshot of an industry in flux"
Tags: marketing business research advertising
"I believe that "large" is doomed to mediocrity not due to size, but because of the inherent inability of "large" to generate a strong sense of common purpose in the organisation beyond making money for its stakeholders."
Tags: business leadership small
A study proves that the bigger his mansion, the worse the CEO
Tags: business realestate economics research
"Fire the publicist. Go off message. Let all your employees blab and blog. In the new world of radical transparency, the path to business success is clear."
Tags: transparency business blogs trend marketing culture
"The following are the principles that I use to be a transparent company."
Tags: business communication transparency
"The "long table" is a physical manifestation of networked culture. Information is less driven by hierarchy and process and more driven through connections, collaboration, transparency and as Noah aptly put it in his blog, moments of serrendipity."
Tags: design ideas marketing business
Is a new breed of wireless worker emerging?
Tags: culture mobile wireless business
A question to ponder: should big companies even try to innovate internally?
"Even though Yahoo has grown into the entity it is today by virtue of building innovative products, perhaps its future growth path should be driven by its ability to SPOT innovation, not create it."
Tags: yahoo innovation business
"By looking at marketing as a service rather than a message, marketers are sure to gain competitive advantage, enhancing their product offerings and engaging their customers and prospects in fresh and meaningful ways."
Tags: marketing brandedutility business trend
"Great design drives profits. We know that. But we can't prove it--yet."
Tags: business design marketing roi
Big Companies, Small Companies, Innovation and Brickhouse
"Big companies are no longer competing only with big companies anymore. They're competing more and more often with two kids in a garage. Embracing risk, and the concomitant failure, is an essential part of this."
Tags: innovation yahoo flickr process business
"The Carbon Trust is launching a green equivalent to the Fairtrade label - a consumer label which details the carbon footprint of a product and a commitment by its producer to reduce it."
Tags: environment carbon business marketing packaging
Arcade Fire's Neon Bible Debuts at #2
"The Arcade Fire's second album, Neon Bible, claimed the No. 2 spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts this week, stomping all over new LPs from Daughtry, Relient K and Robin Thicke."
Seven steps to remarkable customer service
"Here are seven things we learned about providing remarkable customer service. I’m using the word remarkable literallyâ€â€the goal is to provide customer service so good that people remark."
Tags: customerservice tips business
You make profits for nine days a year
"Companies on average are only profitable for nine days out of the year. If you take all the profitâ€â€the net incomeâ€â€at the end of the year, and divide it by 365, and take the sales and divide it by 365, that’s all you’ve got, is nine days."
"The way to inspire a designer is to give them the message and feeling you want to convey, and the freedom to convey it in a fresh, new way."
MySpace driving down the price of advertising
"Which means, I think, that while MySpace is making more money every quarter, it's actually getting worse at monetising the traffic it generates. Or to put it another way, its yields are declining."
Tags: myspace advertising business
Shareholders as Brand Evangelists
"We tend to view consumers as marketing’s focus and shareholders as finance’s focus. But odds are if you’re a publicly traded company, you have a lot of individual investors who bought your stock because they simply love you as consumers."
Tags: marketing business stock wordofmouth starbucks
How to do it right . . .
JetBlue Begins Reimbursing Stranded Passengers
"The company will begin payments ranging from $25 toward a future flight to a round-trip ticket to passengers kept waiting by the airline’s own mistakes."
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"I’m told some of their executives broke into a sweat as we worked through this rigorous process that requires you to let go of something in order to get something better."
On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry
"We think it takes a lot of balls to destroy what you have in order to make room for the new. Even if we fail, at least we gave it a shot. But hopefully, we won't."
Tags: business risk startups entrepreneur
Beyond the X's and O's, a Lesson in How to Be Big
"For starters, protect the product by limiting its exposure."
Tags: nytimes sports marketing branding business television media
A Good Corporate Blog: Southwest Airlines
"ts strength lies in it's the diversity of its writers who represent a number of different sides of Southwest's business; from pilots and attendants, to schedule planners."
Tags: corporateblogging blogs business travel
"Now that a billion people are online, even sites aimed at a narrow slice of the Web audience can attract huge crowds. Make way for the meganiche!"
Tags: business economics longtail marketing trend
Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information.
Tags: business finance culture
I Know What You're (Collectively) Thinking, Planning
"How long before the collective search terms of a company can be used to sufficiently predict the products and services they next bring to market?"
Tags: attention business search future identity privacy
Patrons or Pirates: the music industry has to choose
What if the music industry restructured itself to more resemble the arts?
Tags: art music business culture
"I believe that the basis of competition in web services will shift from the data to the system that manages the acquisition, and use of that data."
Tags: data trend future business internet
How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote
Should he really have announced six months before release?
Tags: apple technology mobile design presentation business
Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!
"AT&T just bought Cingular? Cingular was already owned by AT&T? Bellsouth owns who?! Let Stephen Colbert help you figure this out!"
Tags: funny video phone mobile business politics
2006 Agency Of The Year: Nobody
"What should an agency of the year look like? In my eyes–in this era of the rising “you�–an agency must embody ten critical attributes and capabilities"
Tags: marketing change culture advertising business management
"Whether you have your eye on a plum promotion, a plump pay rise or just a happier workplace, begin your quest here with our tips on making more of your nine-to-five this year. To kick off, Seth Godin says being average in 2007 just won't do ."
Tags: marketing passion remarkable business management ideas
Breakfast Is Late, So Business Is Good
"For the late-rising professions, the networking site of choice is a cafe with a Continental vibe."
Tags: coffee breakfast trend business networking food nytimes
Some thoughts on innovation from Grant McCracken.
Tags: innovation creativity business management
"A group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company so that they are able to accomplish something that they would not be able to accomplish separately."
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The difference between strategy and tactics
"If you are tired of hammering your head against the wall, if it feels like you never are good enough, or that you're working way too hard, it doesn't mean you're a loser. It means you've got the wrong strategy."
Guy Kawasaki offers up some tips.
Tags: networking tips business entrepreneur
Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
"Google, in typical eccentric fashion, has created an automated way to search for well-rounded candidates."
Tags: google management jobs culture business nytimes
Is Design the New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly
"Some folks are asking this question. I’ve spent the past two years making the transition from designer to business consultant, jumping a lot of hurdles along the way. Here’s a little of what I learned"
Tags: design business consulting strategy management
Wave v Particle Model of Messages
"The particle view of messages makes sense in our post-mass-media world where communications are dominated by one-to-one exchanges rather than broadcast blasts from centralized sources."
Tags: marketing communication business viral
Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
Tags: architecture business management city collaboration culture design innovation productivity
"A consultancy called the Attention Company has just complete a fascinating survey of what it calls "Out There" people---think Mark Cuban and other promoters of radical transparency."
Tags: statistics transparency blogs business attention privacy research
Marketers: It's Time To Stop Blaming Your Woes On The Consumer!
"Marketers should embrace this growing period of reciprocity by refocusing on the fundamentals. Those fundamentals mostly likely are what made you successful in the first place!"
Tags: marketing trend business customerservice
Is Mad. Ave. Ready To Go Naked?
"These brash Brits say they have the cure for what ails the ad business these days. Is Naked Communications a real revolution, or just Brand X in a new box?"
Tags: business advertising marketing communication planning
10 Social Media Strategies for the Fortune 1000 Corporations
"Social Media (Blogs, Forums, Wikis, Podcasts, Video blogs and other tools) are appearing in every industry. Below are my 10 strategic themes for 2007."
Tags: socialmedia blogs community business marketing
"Under the new model, a blogger can permanently "activate" the content, distribute it and allow the New York Times to generate ongoing ad revenue from the article."
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Craigslist Meets the Capitalists
And confuses them quite a bit by saying they are not all about making money.
Tags: business craigslist economics finance
No schedules. No mandatory meetings. Inside Best Buy's radical reshaping of the workplace
Tags: business change culture innovation management productivity time
"How do you do it? By honoring your community, making reasonable and transparent rules, getting experts to help you, and encouraging positive, thoughtful behavior from your site's members."
Tags: community google design business socialsoftware
Getting High Performance out of High Potential People
"Manage for Passion. This is the key takeaway."
Tags: management creativity leadership passion productivity business
"Markets today are so bigâ€â€the global video-game market is now close to thirty billion dollarsâ€â€that companies can profit even when they’re not on top, as long as they aren’t desperately trying to get there."
Tags: business longtail marketing management small videogames
The Bloomberg-for-president scenario starts with the mayor’s growing sense of himself as a man of destiny. Throw in the country’s disgust with the two parties, add a half-a-billion bucks, and you’ve got yourself a race.
Questioning "VPs of innovation"
"If ever a VP of something is created, say a VP of quality or a VP of sarcasm, it means one thing: 1. The company is failing at that activity. 2. The company will continue to fail at that activity until that VP is no longer needed."
Tags: business innovation management culture
Attracting Talent in Spikes and Firms
"The winners in the global economy will be the firms that can find ways to break this vicious cycle and harness network effects for talent development both within and across firms."
Tags: business economics management strategy talent
10 Reasons to Go Short on Second Life
"I thought the blog/Web 2.0/Cluetrain revolution was all about authenticity and living online the way I do in real life... my digital world as a reflection of my real interests and real personality?"
Tags: secondlife business venturecapital
Quick Tips on Corporate Blogging
From Organic and their blog Three Minds
Tags: blogs business tips management
"You’ve got to find what’s interesting in everything, you’ve got to be good at noticing things, you’ve got to be good at listening. If you find people (and things) interesting, they’ll find you interesting."
Tags: creativity lifehacks personality conversation tips business
Oh the emails you'll get . . .
On management consulting: "The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. "
Tags: business consulting management productivity software
"So if you want to get into the venture capital business, become a connector. Find a job that lets you build your network."
Tags: networking venturecapital business tips
"The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems."
Tags: thinking creativity business innovation brainstorming tips lists
"Ok, so even this simplest commercial message is coded and symbolically purposeful."
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Idea Factories: Renegade Marketing Group
Story about Renegade (where I work) and how it's an idea factory.
Tags: marketing advertising business collaboration ideas
"The right thing is to build not a bubble, with it's binary in-or-out choice, but to build a gradient, with shades of resources you make available as people achieve success."
Tags: business google identity opensource startups
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal
Mark Cuban shares 'details' on the YouTube deal from an anonymous industry insider.
Tags: youtube business copyright google law video
The story of the downfall of Friendster.
Tags: friendster venturecapital business internet socialnetworking history nytimes
Some possible pitfalls for Netflix? I don't think so, but it's an interesting point of view.
The Obvious Corp - Evan and Biz Take Back Odeo
The greening of The Valley, why sustainable companies matter.
Tags: business venturecapital web2.0 entrepreneur startups
Embed marketing in products: Crispin Porter + Bogusky CEO
"Google and Starbucks both don’t use much traditional media to get their message across, he said. But that’s because their marketing is embedded in the brand."
Tags: business advertising design trend
Ad Agencies Being Left Out of the Innovation Party?
"For advertising to succeed and move up the ladder, it needs to break away from ego-centric creativity, the 'Madison Avenue' and 'Ad guys' nomenclature that's more albatross, than asset and sharpen its collaborative processes."
Tags: advertising business innovation
The Future Was Staring Us in the Face
"However, aside from his famed “reality distortion field,� the argument adheres to basic business principles and provides an extremely useful template for the introduction of new products and services into emerging or underdeveloped markets."
"As Mr. Schultz sees it, customers get a new cultural experience and Starbucks gets a 'halo'  the associations people have with beloved music, with 'quality, good will, trust, intelligence.'"
Tags: starbucks nytimes branding business
What portion of Google's revenue is Search versus Contextual?
"Google derives about 78% of its advertising revenue from Search, and the remaining 22% comes from other sources, primarily Contextual."
Tags: google business search advertising money
"And of course, that’s the trap for most brands. They confuse social media with traditional communication channels, and they do what they know: talk at people instead of with them."
Tags: marketing branding business media2.0 socialnetworking
"I'd been considering a new MacBook portable, but it's increasingly obvious that Apple has a lemon on its hands -- or, rather, that far too many Apple customers have lemons in their possession or back at the shop for repair."
Tags: apple laptops customerservice business
"Now the challenge becomes matching the panoply of innovations to the business goals, otherwise you run the risk, as Google is doing, of losing focus and confusing customers."
Tags: google innovation business
Finally, some honesty in the business.
Tags: funny video advertising business
How to Run a Meeting Like Google
"No one wastes time searching for a purpose at Marissa Mayer's meetingsâ€â€even five-minute gatherings must have a clear agenda"
Tags: meetings management business google tips
Are Marketers Serious About Ceding Control to Consumers?
"Customer service becomes a powerful media department when consumers chronicle their experiences with your brand."
Tags: marketing advertising business
Colbert Demands Royalties From YouTube/Google Merger
"Colbert demands royalities from Googles recent acquisition of YouTube and runs throught all the great entries in the Colbert GreenScreen Challenge."
Tags: funny video youtube google business media2.0
Announcing The Techdirt Insight Community
"Companies sign up to engage the Techdirt Insight Community to raise issues, get feedback, test ideas, review products, make strategy suggestions. . . or any number of other services that require a dedicated group of experts."
Tags: blogs business research marketing technology
Digital Competition - Avram Miller
You know when you read one of those things where someone has said everything you're thinking . . . and then you realize they said it seven years ago?
Tags: internet business venturecapital
10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Photos from ten really cool looking spaces created to inspire creativity.
Tags: creativity design business management architecture furniture productivity
How YouTube Kicked Google's Ass (and everyone else's too)
"If you go back and look at YouTube's traffic, the day they let people embed their videos in MySpace pages is the day they took off and never looked back."
Tags: youtube google video business startups
"One trend I’ve found is the high number of innovation efforts within established companies, and how rarely they have any effect."
Tags: innovation business management
Knocking the exuberance out of employees
"If you knock out exuberance, you knock out curiosity, and curiosity is the single most important attribute in a world that requires continuous learning and unlearning just to keep up."
Tags: management business passion creativity
Paradigm shift: What Google didn't buy
"They could have considered buying The New York Times. But no--they didn't, did they--and the decision to spend all this money on YouTube shows that the coffin nails of mainstream media are already strewn across the open grave"
Tags: google youtube media2.0 nytimes business newspapers
Engagement Is a Euphemism For Measuring the ROI of Brand Advertising
"Between Google, with its algorithms . . . and TV brand advertising, with its outdated input metrics that are useless for measuring real return on investment . . . is the “fuzzy middle� where the battle for the future of advertising will be fought."
Tags: advertising engagement business marketing television
The 20 smartest companies to start now
"Howard Schultz, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, and other major investors are sharing their best startup ideas. And they're willing to give a collective $100 Million to the entrepreneurs who can make them happen."
Tags: venturecapital business entrepreneur startups
Book Sales Get a Lift from Google Scan Plan
"Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.'s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print."
Tags: books copyright google search business
"Revolutionizing branding is the real play at the heart of all this. Google thinks they are closer now, with YouTube in their back pocket - because they have a platform for experimenting with branded ads."
Tags: youtube google marketing business video
Sony ex-chairman warns on future
"Japan's consumer electronics industry is dying, Sony's former chief says."
Tags: business japan technology
"Are industries based upon rapid fire information inherantly less stable than ones based on selling material goods?"
Tags: advertising media marketing business videogames
Calculating the ROI of blogging
Charlene Li at Forrester offers some thoughts on how to think about the ROI question as it relates to blogging.
Tags: blogs business corporateblogging
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
"These are the top 10 things I learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month."
Tags: tips internet marketing design startups usability business
"Business is about taking a bright idea and assembling a team that can turn that idea into a product and bring that product to customers who want to buy it. It's that simple. "
Tags: venturecapital lists business marketing
Is The "Traditional Venture Capital Model" Broken?
"So we need a new approach to the kind of companies we fund and we need a new approach to how we fund them and how we get out of them."
Tags: venturecapital startups business
Google + YouTube: What it means
"YouTube is winning the hearts of the audience because video search simply doesn’t work. You have to instead rely on the opinions, ratings, and playlist compilations of others to discover good video."
Tags: google youtube video business
"A deep lesson is being taught by Netflix: in a post-network economy where value creation outside the boundaries of the firm is exploding, staying closed will, more and more often, be a dominated strategy."
Tags: trend business strategy netflix
How Did Newspapers Land in This Mess?
"The underlying theme in Tribune’s unraveling is that in a time of technological transition, the two publics that are served by many of the nation’s newspapers are no longer getting along so well."
Tags: nytimes business newspapers
Does Drinking Help Your Career? Maybe, CEOs Say
A new study has stirred up debate about what role socializing plays in the workplace.
Tags: networking alcohol business
How Brands Participate in the Conversation at OMMA East
"There is no "ideal owner" for social media initiatives within an organization, but there is definitely a first mover advantage where the individual with the passion for doing something with personal media often becomes the internal champion . . . "
Tags: blogs marketing business media2.0
"Advertising, and marketing in general, is about capturing the imagination, finding those little nuggets in people lives that relate to the brands we represent."
Tags: advertising marketing planning business management
5 ways to learn to be more innovative
"1. Producing smart individuals is the first step; teaching them to collaborate is the second step"
Tags: innovation management business marketing creativity
The State of OMMA: Making It Up As We Go Along
No one has any idea what they're doing. "As Rishad pointed out, when someone hands him shit, he says, great, it’s fertilizer. There’s never been a more fertile time for innovation in media, marketing, and advertising."
Tags: advertising media2.0 marketing business trend
Times Square Makes Everyone Feel Famous
"The man with the cameraphone is going to capture your street performance whether you like it or not."
Tags: music business culture trend
"The tuna story" and customer experience
"Good experience means focusing on what really matters to customers, in the long run - offering genuinely useful, effective, or healthy products and services - and marketing them in a way that is honest and transparent at every step."
Tags: marketing business customerservice trend
Advertising's New Idea: Don't Push the Product; Pull the Consumer Instead
Advertising's New Idea: Don't Push the Product; Pull the Consumer Instead
Tags: advertising marketing business innovation trend
"The "how they make money" question pales in comparison to how they are -- and more importantly will be -- making money for others, and that's where the real value of this kind of portal exists."
Tags: youtube video television business marketing
People are cheaper than ad space
"What I've tended to conclude from this experience is that for a lot of businesses people are cheaper than ad space - that it costs less on an ROI basis to get some guy to stand in the cold for eight hours a day than it does to take out an ad"
Tags: advertising marketing trend business
Blogs About Business Travel Begin to Feel the Power
Another article about bloggers getting attention from busiesses.
Tags: travel blogs business nytimes
Media and Consumers Emerge as Threates to Agency Creativity
"While ad agencies used to have a monopoly over creativity, this no longer appears to be the case."
Tags: marketing advertising cocreation media2.0 business
An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic.
Tags: design apple process business
"A great piece from The Economist: In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?"
"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
Tags: creativity culture design process management productivity business bestarticlesof2006
Trust is the bond that brands.
CK's three rules of trust.
Tags: trust business branding marketing
Do Talented People Need the Organization?
"Given today’s environment where tools are inexpensive and widely available, the organization needs talented people more than talented people need the organization."
Tags: business marketing creativity strategy
Marketing Services Is the Future of Media
"It’s about leveraging the connection that media (be it New York Times, MySpace, Boing Boing, YouTube, Digg, or Google) has with its users, who are increasingly driving the media (and in the case of MySpace ARE the media)."
Tags: media2.0 marketing business
Advent of an era? Corporate America finally gets contemporary culture?
"When does the corporation get in touch and build a system for staying in touch? Naturally, this will happen when senior managers decide that it is in their best interests that it happen."
Tags: business culture innovation internet trend
Great list of "10 Ways to Love (and respect) Your Customers"
Tags: business marketing customerservice bestarticlesof2006
"How slackers with one dopey idea are getting rich"
The Process of Defining the Problem
"Had we not gone through the process of better defining the problem, one of the two original options may have been utilized and probably failed to meet the company’s goals."
Tags: process design usability business
"Adam Gayner is the chief strategist at thread. Thread is a multi-disciplinary, idea driven New York ad agency, oriented toward Gen. X and Y."
Tags: advertising marketing business innovation interviews
"I have a dream of talking directly to a business and sharing my personal data; where I am valued for this and rewarded with tailored/customized services that design out assumptions and waste. And they are rewarded with my attention."
Tags: attention innovation business environment
Pulling Your Own Strings (Or Fred Wilson's Idea To Destroy YouTube)
"I have said before, and will say it again. The problem with monetizing Web 2.0 enterprises is not a business model problem. It’s a lack of forward thinking advertising agencies and advertisers."
Tags: business youtube media2.0 attention
"Successful vlog stars are not actors. They are successful because we believe them. They are anti-actors. It’s the realness of them which make them successful in the first place."
Tags: video blogs business media2.0 television
They run the fastest-growing Web site on the planet. They have 100 million friends. Not bad for two guys who just wanted a place to hang out.
Tags: myspace business socialnetworking community
"Sites like GigaOm and TechCrunch are rushing to list help-wanted ads, but is there room for all?"
Tags: jobs longtail business trend
Marketing Cannot Cover Up for Company Shortcomings
About Renegade suggesting to a potential client that they fess up to their less-than honest ways rather than pretend everything's dandy with a new campaign. (I'm quoted.)
Tags: business marketing rmg trend customerservice
what brands can learn from colbert and lonelygirl15
Influx hits us with the five rules of new media.
Tags: media2.0 business marketing video
Avoid the myths, find a good niche
"The trick isn't to fill up a niche. It's to fill up a customer."
7 things I learned at wieden and kennedy (portland edition)
Russell Davies reflects on the advertising industry.
Tags: advertising business branding design management planning tips
Why marketing should make the user manuals!
"What if we stopped making the docs we give away for free SO much nicer than the ones the user paid for? What if instead of seducing potential users to buy, we seduced existing users to learn?"
Tags: business marketing passion trend
"Winning� isn’t a zero sum game. This isn’t a 100 yard dash or a boxing match or a F1 race. It’s building a sustainable business. There’s lots of room for lots of those."
Tags: business entrepreneur longtail
Three Ways to Ride the Long Tail
Steve Rubel offers some tips for marketers to ride the long tail: Rethink reach, fund niches and demand more from media.
Tags: longtail marketing business
What Ever Happened to Half.com, Oregon?
The story of the town that Half.com paid to change its name in 1999.
"In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors."
Tags: attention internet trend statistics business advertising
Agency Business Opportunity: Brand Archaeology
"If agencies were smart, they would be scrambling to set up Brand Archeology departments staffed with researchers and lawyers whose sole job is to find lapsed trademarks."
Tags: branding business history advertising marketing
All the news that's fit for bits
Martin Nisenholtz is presiding over a surge in digital revenue at the old gray lady.
Tags: nytimes business media newspapers attention
"If I'm right that the defining advantage of insiders is an audience, then we live in exciting times, because just in the last ten years the Internet has made audiences a lot more liquid."
Tags: blogs business change bestarticlesof2006 entrepreneur innovation attention
Three Of Man's Closest Relationships With Brands
"Three of the five deepest emotional investments of local resident Ken Bowman are currently Apple, American Apparel, and Starbucks, sources close to the 27-year-old graphic designer said Monday."
Tags: funny branding business cocreation relationships
"So what’s changed in the last several years that gave designers a seat at the boardroom table and why do we have technology and information overload to thank for it?"
Tags: design business strategy trend
"In short, we don't have a company creation crisis. But we might have a company destruction crisis. Something is off in our ecosystem - there's simply not enough failure out there right now."
Tags: business web2.0 internet
"Review these typical interview questions and think about how you would answer them. Read the questions listed; you will also find some strategy suggestions with it."
Tags: interviews tips jobs business
10 things you should be monitoring
"In order to manage your reputation you need to track the right things, so here's a list of 10 things that you absolutely need to be monitoring."
Tags: marketing attention blogs business pr rss
The man behind the 'Girls Gone Wild' soft-porn empire lets Claire Hoffman into his world, for better or worse
Tags: business celebrity consumerism culture gender media sex video
interesting things that are going on
"Russell Davies talks about some of the interesting themes/topics/trends he's seeing in the media/marketing/advertising world."
Tags: marketing business media2.0 community advertising trend
The Big Difference Between Old And New
"Old media is begging for attention. New media is attention."
Tags: media2.0 attention video internet business
"High on the list of new rules is an entirely different approach to advertising . . . This is what smart ad executives mean when they refer to "transparency"  precision in a world formerly dominated by blue smoke and mirrors."
Tags: marketing advertising business television commercial
Number 1 is YOU, the consumer as creator.
The Coca-Cola Company and chunky marketing
"Yes, a new culture is upon us. But the real challenge is the old cultures that still prevail within the corporation. It may be possible to cultivate lots of diversity within the corporation but I suspect that "skunk works" strategies will be called for
Tags: business marketing longtail trend
Potential to change the structure of markets
"We invest in IT enabled services that have the potential to change the structure of markets."
Tags: strategy business economics venturecapital
Marketing In An Attention Economy
Max sums up John Hagel. The new collaboration marketing is about the three a's: Attract, assist, affiliate.
Tags: marketing attention media2.0 business
How a husband-and-wife team used clever marketingâ€â€and health claimsâ€â€to turn a weird fruit into liquid gold.
Tags: business fruit health marketing
The Ten Biggest Themes of 'What Teens Want'
A great roundup of teen trends from Anastasia at YPulse.
Tags: youth research trend branding business marketing
Newspapers to Use Links to Rivals on Web Sites
Baby steps . . .
Tags: newspapers linking aggregation business nytimes
Yet another self-serving corporate blog!
The first post at the new Yahoo! corporate blog Yodel.
"Smart companies are thinking about how to exploit all the power of all these individuals to sell shit. Smarter companies are being set up to bridge that gap between individuals and the companies that need them."
Tags: attention business connectedness marketing
"Web 2.0 never changed the rules on what makes something successful, it simply gave us more tools to play the game."
Tags: web2.0 media2.0 business myspace celebrity
Some notes on YouTube, including "YT bandwidth costs are $1m/mo; $3.6m in people costs a year --> $300,000/mo"
Who Will Make Money with User-Generated Online Video?
A look at revenue models for online video sites.
Tags: business media2.0 video youtube myspace socialnetworking
MySpace a launch pad for next-gen media biz
A nice look at how MySpace plays into Fox's strategy.
Tags: business myspace media2.0 marketing socialsoftware
"Because we underestimate how much variation can be caused simply by luck, we see patterns where none exist. It’s no wonder that management theory is dominated by fads . . . "
Tags: business psychology behavioraleconomics
The anatomy of the 21st-century marketing professional.
Tags: branding marketing trend business strategy planning technology
New services allow print runs of a few, or just one, for customers ranging from aspiring authors to anyone who needs a bound document.
Tags: business diy books nytimes internet
MySpace's Business Model Conundrum
What happens when MySpace users capitalize on the attention they're getting and convert themselves into branding/advertising opportunities?
Tags: myspace attention business branding advertising
Making It or Breaking It with Customer Service
"So innovative customer service these days isn’t as much about innovation as it is about core values. Getting back to basics. Sweating the details."
Tags: innovation customerservice design business
"There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money; That's just not why most people use communication tools."
Tags: cgm attention business media2.0
Little guys could take Hollywood out of the picture
"For Hollywood, the solution is not in expanding distribution into new digital channels but in rethinking its entire business model for content creation."
Tags: business internet movies media2.0 cgm
The Long Tail Debate Overlooks the Snowball Effect
"So for me, the radical long tail notion is that it’s no longer necessary to “buy� a hit  you can leverage the socialization of the web  combined with the web’s unlimited shelf space  to generate a hit from the bottom up, virtually for fr
Tags: longtail media2.0 business
Ruthless Focus on the Customer
From the Mini Cooper to Whole Foods, companies and brands are discovering how superior customer experience keeps 'em coming back for more
Tags: design business branding marketing trend
Have strong opinions, but hold them weakly "because, otherwise, it undermines your ability to “see� and “hear� evidence that clashes with your opinions."
Tags: business change communication management ideas leadership
World War III: What's In It For You (Or Why The World Feels Like The Voice Of Nina Simone)
"Google and Terrorism works. GM and High Schools don’t."
Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them
Tags: business innovation creativity management
"In the old static-network world, it made no sense to send people to other networks; in the new, fluid world, they’re going to go there anyway, and so the best thing to do is to help them find the best stuff, redefining the value of a network."
Tags: business advertising marketing identity branding networking
The Long Tail and the Structure of the Media Industry
"In contrast with many others who believe that the long tail will lead to fragmentation, I see the potential for concentration and consolidation of focused infrastructure management and customer relationship businesses."
Tags: business longtail future media2.0
"We are all eventually going to free agents and it’s important you have people who around you who realizes that and know how to exploit it to your benefit."
MySpace to songwriters: sell more shirts
"It's all very much in keeping with the new feudal economics of "Web 2.0": the serfs must be grateful for the hospitality of the proprietor. . . . plenty of people appear to be profiting from digital music - except the people who create it."
Tags: myspace business music media2.0 economics
Can Burberry save itself from the tacky British yobs who love it?
Tags: branding business apparel fashion marketing culture
How to live happily with a great designer
13 rules including this one: "You don't know a lot about accounting so you don't backseat drive your accountant. You hired a great designer, please don't backseat drive here, either."
Tags: design business management
"Instead of fixing the other 7 showers, and bringing them up to par with the best shower --- and making all the showers WORK AS WELL AS THE BEST, or #1 shower.....someone decided to......IMPAIR THE SHOWERHEAD OF THE BEST SHOWER."
Tags: culture education business
"I’m not one to believe that we’re in a Bubble 2.0 or anything like that (aren’t we always bubbular?), but here are a few ideas about why some of the web apps out there fail."
Tags: business internet lists socialsoftware
Seven things graphic designers must be cognizant of.
Twilight of the media moguls? Not for this guy. With the $580 million purchase of MySpace, News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch is betting he can transform a free social network into a colossal marketing machine.
Tags: business myspace future marketing media2.0
A conversation between an advertiser and a big company about consumer generated media . . .
Tags: funny advertising business marketing cgm
Laws of post-network economy: Strategy is a commodity
"In a world where strategy is a commodity, creativity becomes the vital factor from which value flows. When everyone can think strategically about everything, the locus of value creation shifts from out-thinking everyone to out-creating them."
Tags: business creativity trend strategy future innovation
The Takeover (or The Death Of The Geek or Who Will Be Running The Internet Next)
"The common folks will win."
"activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!"
Tags: business collaboration software free creativity projectmanagement tools
Hacking Netflix Interviews Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Really interesting interview with the CEO of Netflix. I especially like what he says in response to a question about a referral program. Turns out when offered a financial benefit, no one really referred any more than normal.
Tags: business netflix marketing movies internet interviews
"To follow-up on one of the recurring discussions at this year’s Art of Yahoo! conference, I’ve compiled several of my thoughts on effective design reviews with product stakeholders (clients, business units, etc.)."
Tags: design business process tips
"The real power is how personal media fragments the mass market audience by turning readers, watchers, listeners, into writers and video and audio creators. Most of these folks won't make money and it won't matter."
An incredibly honest self-evaluation from Wieden+Kennedy London.
Tags: advertising management business marketing bestof2006
The era of the blockbuster is so over. The niche is now king, and the entertainment industry – from music to movies to TV – will never be the same.
Tags: longtail media2.0 economics trend business
Robert Scoble answers readers questions on lots of topics.
Tags: microsoft blogs technology business
Russel Davies: "Blogs blur the line between employees as corporate mouth and employees as people. Blogs work best when they're expressions of real personalities, not when they're written according to corporate guidelines."
Tags: blogs business marketing communication
Why Advertising Agencies Don't Get R&D
"Why the heck are advertising and marketing agencies so often so late to invest in or experiment with new technologies and emerging media, while the marketers and clients demonstrate increasing interest and tendency to pursue them directly?"
Tags: advertising innovation marketing business research
Advertisers grapple with consumer online revolution
"Consumers are hijacking top global brands using blogs and online communities but advertising companies are trying to find ways to embrace the revolution rather than fight against it." Yup.
Tags: marketing business cgm media2.0
"The greatest efficiencies come from identifying the areas that people, yes living breathing people, find extremely boring. Then seek ways to make those tasks as painless as possible."
Tags: process business management
Ford is documenting their attempt to save the company.
Tags: branding business cars marketing blogs video
"New technologies are disrupting and inverting these economics, by making attention the scarcest resource in the value chain."
Tags: attention business trend media2.0
Hollywood is buzzing with the revolutionary idea that real opportunity -- and profit -- lies well beyond blockbusters.
Tags: longtail business media2.0
The Top 10 Questions Investors Asked Us
"If you’ve never met with angels or VCs and are curious as to what they might want to know, here is a list of the more common questions we fielded."
Tags: venturecapital business entrepreneur startups
Brainstorming under attack: 8 errors in the WSJ
"It is hard to imagine that an institution as smart at the WSJ should be capable of generating so many stupidities about brainstorming. And this at a time when the corporation is having to flourish in an innovation economy where creativity is the new nam
Tags: brainstorming business ideas
Cubicle Culture: How brainstorming works best
A look at the pros and cons of brainstorming.
Tags: brainstorming creativity business collaboration ideas
How to avoid lame morale events
Including eight tips for creating great morale events.
Tags: management business
"Like it or not, fair or not, correct or not… All first impressions matter. You make them about everything and so do your clients and prospects."
Tags: design business marketing
Digital Digressions: The Secret of Happy Employees
"What makes a great workplace and happy employees? It's not countless training courses or 'away-days' or even a selection of free cakes and an office dog. It is three very simple things."
Tags: management business happiness tips
How do I hire geniuses without sharing my idea?
"Ask any creative person -- especially a writer -- for the most loathsome sentence in the world. (It's 'You're past deadline.') But the second is 'I have this great idea!'"
Tags: creativity ideas business
Scaling up is good. Scaling down is even better.
"Traditional businesses target the top end of the market. . . But the lesson of the Long Tail is that, as Nobel physicist Richard Feynman predicted, 'there's a lot of room at the bottom.'"
Tags: longtail simplicity business internet
Top Ten Truths About the Digital Ecosystem
A great state of the digital ecosystem piece.
Tags: business culture internet media2.0 technology
Canton chain's new owners hope for 15,000 locations by 2020, with multiple formats and new menu offerings
"Consistency assumes that presentation and messaging are the only model for brand marketing. That is simply not how communities, word of mouth, interactivity, experiences, imitation and other proven good ideas work."
Tags: marketing advertising trend business
What Netflix Could Teach Hollywood
Five million families now have a Netflix account, making it one of the most impressive companies around. So why do so many people think it's doomed?
Tags: netflix business movies longtail nytimes
"Since the 1960s, when management gurus crowned the consumer king, companies have been tapping ethnographers to get a better handle on their customers."
Tags: business innovation ethnography research strategy
The evolution of the NetFlix envelope
A look at the changes the NetFlix envelope has gone through in seven years.
Tags: design business netflix packaging shipping movies dvd
"And so it goes as media companies formerly known as mainstream try to figure out this Web 2.0 thing. When everything begins with "where's the money," nothing innovative comes out the other end."
Tags: media2.0 video community business
Does Baseball Need a Minimum Payroll?
"In essence, the Royals do not appear to be maximizing wins given their constraints, but rather, maximizing profits. Fans of the Royals, though, might not appreciate this objective. "
Tags: baseball sports statistics business economics
From a Small Stream, a Gusher of Movie Facts
"In the retail business, that is the equivalent of excellent shelf frontage, or, in television, of having a single-digit channel number rather than being relegated to Channel 284 on the cable lineup."
Tags: amazon business internet movies
A realization of what life is like from the client's point-of-view.
Apple Deja Vue: will they pull it off this time?
"Apple's “closed architectureâ€?â€â€or integrated software/hardware/service appliance approachâ€â€may have been premature when Apple launched the Mac in 1984, but makes perfect sense today."
Tags: apple microsoft competition business
The changing media business model
"I believe that in the future media companies will generate the bulk of their value from serving their ability to aggregate and serve audiences better than the competition."
An interview with Esther Dyson.
Tags: attention business internet socialsoftware
The mystery of the "short" cappuccino
"Solving the mystery of the elusive "short" cappuccino."
Tags: coffee starbucks business strategy
Why Dunkin' Donuts needs to move faster.
"What should the new owners of Dunkin’ Donuts do with the brand? . . . They need their own coffee twist. They need to be the opposite of Starbucks. Strong No. 2 brands don’t emulate the leader, they become the opposite."
Tags: coffee strategy marketing business
Some of the many ways Starbucks has changed America.
Tags: starbucks business culture economics
"Rain or shine, Damian Mogavero's Slingshot brings left-brain discipline to a right-brain world."
"New Zealand reinvented its fuzzy national fruit and rebuilt a franchise."
Tags: food newzealand business science
"Value capture in the new media value chain is a function of market power. And market power is a function of attention. And attention is allocated most efficiently by markets, networks and communities."
Tags: business future internet media2.0
An in-depth look at the trend of brand democratization/co-creation.
Tags: business marketing cocreation
"When the viewing universe for any program shrinks, that impacts ad rates, which impacts revenue. The only way these companies can produce growth, then, is by cutting expenses, and in the creative world, that is suicide."
Tags: television marketing business internet media2.0
"We must engage strenuously with the future, thinking through the dark side of each opportunity, and working to maximize the good that we create while minimizing the harm."
Tags: internet future business culture
Why Don't Ad Agencies Advertise?
"If agencies hype the importance of branding campaigns for public companies to enhance their image among investors, why is it that Interpublic, Omnicom, Publicis and WPP don't support their brand images on Wall Street?"
Tags: advertising marketing branding business pr
"Successful organizations (and I include churches and political parties on the list) fire the 1% of their constituents that cause 95% of the pain."
Nintendo's answer to the console wars: Be unique.
Tags: videogames business innovation
"A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice."
Tags: business videogames community marketing
A really interesting New Yorker article about Muzak and its attempts to rebrand itself from an elevator music to an audio branding company.
Tags: business marketing branding music
"Boss management can stimulate better performance, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap the rewards."
Tags: business communication management productivity
How smart companies are creating new products -- and whole new businesses -- almost overnight
Tags: business innovation marketing
"Being an executive is a tough job, no doubt. However there are a set of things any rational person has to believe about executives, that don’t match their behavior."
Tags: management business lists
The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order
McDonald's has begun to outsource drive-through order taking.
Tags: business food jobs technology outsourcing
How Not to Think Strategically About the Future of Media, pt 193941
"By focusing on unbundling without rebundling Disney is getting edge strategy exactly wrong. They are handing market power to folks like YouTube and MySpace - literally just forking over market power."
Tags: disney marketing media2.0 unbundled video business
Mark Lewis thinks about the future of the agency.
Tags: advertising business future media2.0 marketing
"These are basically little nuggets of wisdom for bite-sized nutrition."
Tags: entrepreneur tips business
Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels takes on Robert Scoble, Shel Israel and corporate blogging.
Tags: amazon blogs corporateblogging business
ARF Can't Define 'Engagement,' We Gave It A Shot
"How 'bout Time Spent (with medium) + Response Rate (average CTR, letters to editor, subscription/renewal rates, number of comments left on a blog) + Average Ad/Content Recall Rates + Uptick in Measured Brand Metric?"
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14 of the Fortune 500, or 3%, blog.
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The Art of Driving Your Competition Crazy
"Companies go astray when defeating the competition becomes more important than taking care of customers. When companies become obsessed with the pursuit of excellence, by contrast, they often reach new levels of greatness."
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Breaking the Corporation - Redefining Innovation
"Why do we produce the way we do? Why do we focus on the so-called productive when it's patently absurd most of the time? Why do we manage in such obviously self-defeating ways?"
Tags: business innovation
"Now the same company, has millions of "users" doing the creation and distribution work for free. Is that empowering the little guy, or is that empowering Mr. Murdock and co's bank accounts?"
"The mission of this blog is to educate both clients and Visual Communication designers (also known as 'graphic' designers) about the nature of speculative, or "spec" work."
"Media 2.0 is platform centric. It starts with a platform that enables community to create digital identity, connect and share."
An Adoption Strategy for Social Software in the Enterprise
A very good approach for bringing social software into the business world.
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From the outside, a CEO’s job looks difficult. From the inside, it’s merely impossible  unless you take charge of the company’s agenda.
Tags: business management
"An edge needs to be sharp and abrubt and distinct in order to generate the light it needs to thrive."
A creative director talking about clients: "They don’t know what they want. That is our job. It was what we do. We figure that out.�
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Agencies Slow to Embrace New Media: Not the Problem
Gary Stein: "I certainly don't mean that the spread of digital technology is not an important thing for business and for advertising. But if you're focused on the technology, you're going to solve the wrong problem."
Tags: advertising marketing media2.0 internet business
The role of anti-marketing design
This time it's Scoble telling the world how bad design is good for your company . . .
"So how can we restructure value for advertisers and ourselves in the marketplace of conversation?"
Tags: media2.0 advertising business change marketing communication
If West is the NBA's logo, should he be?
"The NBA logo is, outside of the Olympic rings and the Nike "swoosh," the world's most recognizable sports emblem."
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Issues Entrepreneurs Face as their Businesses Grow
"Growth also creates challenges for the entrepreneur. Here are some of the more common issues that entrepreneurs wrestle with as their business grows."
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Guy Kawasaki's tips for naming a copmany or product.
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Schrodinger's Products (ten ways to be desirable)
Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users gives her "Ten ways to make your product desirable."
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The Art of Creating a Community
Guy Kawasaki's eight tips for creating a community around your product or company.
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"While many within the design world pursue linear processes, and embrace well-meaning philosophies such as the user-centric model, real integration – real vision – demands something both more profound and more difficult to achieve."
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"It [DoubleClick] showcases real users right up front at the top of the main page, which I think is great (much better than what I've done so far), and the quotes are a combination of category 3 and 4."
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Hungry? Want another bullshit sandwich?
"Those who say that poorly designed websites are partly responsible for some companies’ success are feeding you a load of crap. And too many of you are eating it up."
Tags: design business internet
"What Google wants to do with these trailers is SERVE EVERY TV COMMERCIAL ON THE PLANET because only they will be able to do it efficiently."
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Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media
"There’s a bubble because the tech industry is trying to be the new media industry, and very few people in the tech industry understand what’s really happening to the economics of media."
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Guy Kawasaki: "The art of recruiting is the purest form of evangelism because you're not simply asking people to try your product, buy your product, or partner with you. Instead, you are asking them to bet their lives on your organization."
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Thinking about the Stanford marshmellow experiment, which showed that "Delayed gratification seemes to play a significant part in success," and considering what that means for entrepreneurship.
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How Pixar Adds a New School of Thought to Disney
"We've made the leap from an idea-centered business to a people-centered business. Instead of developing ideas, we develop people. Instead of investing in ideas, we invest in people."
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"So add one more skill to our career advice for young people: be willing to take risks! Perhaps more importantly, be willing to tolerate (and perhaps even encourage) risk-taking in those who are managed by you."
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Thinking through what brands you ally yourself with and why.
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"That is, edge competencies are focused on learning how to utilize the universe of value outside the firm – leveraging value creation external to the firm, and, in many cases, external to all firms."
Tags: business innovation
"We must not only keep up with the facts of change, but also (and perhaps more importantly) release our death-grip on the way things are right now. It's completely futile."
Tags: change business innovation
"The Printable CEO (PCEO) is a form I made to focus my time productively. For me, that means concentrating on making my freelance business sustainable and fun."
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Most obnoxious line of an otherwise good article: "In the existential hall of mirrors of the new mass technoculture, what goes around comes around, like plot points in a Charlie Kaufman screenplay."
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Platicity and Post Branding Mini-Case: Spot Runner
"Spotrunner's intent isn't just to make buying TV ads hyperefficient - it's to make the entire TV advertising value chain hyperefficient, like Google makes the larger media value chain hyperefficient."
Tags: business advertising television innovation trend
Employees are an incredibly valuable medium. Have you gotten them to buy into your marketing position?
Tags: marketing passion business
Erick Schonfeld from Business 2.0 writes about AttentionTrust and /VAULTSTOCK
Guy Kawasaki's nine tips for creating a business plan.
Tags: business entrepreneur
Five good tips for pitching your business to anyone, not just VCs.
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Guy Kawasaki's 9 rules of innovation. My favorite line: "Innovation is not an event. It's a process."
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"The myth of The Great Idea is a dangerous one. It makes you constantly search and search for something that you'll probably never find."
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"Not only are mistakes a great source of insight that we can apply to next steps in our journey, sometimes they're absolutely required to make us stop and listen."
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Live Nation Inc. "is paying roughly $3 million for an estimated 6 percent stake in the band's box office, licensing, publishing, merchandise and CD revenue for its recently released album and its next album."
Why Blog Networks Will Fail This Year
Is there any real value to starting a blog network?
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2006: The Year of Total Design
Total Design is "what happens when you combine wickedly good design thinkers with a human-centered, business-sensitive design process."
Small Biz 101: Tips for Increasing Sales
A business needs sales to survive. Tips for someone just starting out on how to do it.
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How to build innovative companies
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Brand extractors would go into companies and find those ideas that they had thrown away but shouldn't have.
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Luke Wroblewski attempts to "outline how design processes differ from traditional business processes."
Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy
Further proof Jason Calcanis is obnoxious.
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Five questions on the role of the CMO and the future of marketing, as answered by Howard Handler, chief marketing officer for Virgin Mobile USA.
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Jon Udell: Predictions for 2006
Jon Udell makes some 2006 predictions based on the fact that roughly 9 months after his first mention companies like del.icio.us, Flickr and Bloglines were acquired.
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Small Biz 101: No one starts with a masterpiece
"Every successful business has a dirty little secret: They didn’t know if they were going to be successful when they started."
CafePress brings customization to the world.
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A Guide to Starting Your Business
"In an attempt to reduce the number of frustrating hours searching the web for what you need, we’ve written this article to help you with the small business paperwork, the basics of accounting, and an overview of some legal considerations."
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The New York Times picks up unbundling in a very unimpressive way.
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Why Big Media Just Doesn't Get Mobile (And Many Other Things)
"The fundamental problem is that big media doesn't understand that there's just one big content market, not thousands of tiny little differentiated ones."
Tags: business media mobile unbundled
Jeff Jarvis writes a newspaper state of the union.
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Evan Williams, who started Blogger and now Odeo, gives some tips to potential web startups.
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10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small
Rajesh Setty: "There was a discussion a few months ago on whether being small had its advantages - agility, speed etc. My response then was that it all depends and I stick to the same opinion even today."
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'Great managers know and value the unique abilities and even the eccentricities of their employees, and they learn how best to integrate them into a coordinated plan of attack."
Tags: business management
"Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google."
Tags: management innovation business
"Three years ago the company was considered a parasite and a scourge. Today it's a rising star - selling virtually the same product. How a pop-up pariah won the adware wars."
Tags: business advertising adware
"If we are going to help people cope with the arrival of the information society, where information can be delivered "any time, any place, anywhere," then information design needs to stake a larger claim in the corporate world."
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"You're saying I have to lose control of my medium to gain it? Get outta here!"
Nick Denton lists the tools he uses.
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capture, manage, access and deliver content across your enterprise
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Douglas Rushkoff: "Pretending that each aspect of your existence or your enterprise can be compartmentalized is, itself, a product of the Industrial Age"
Tags: business innovation
"Why should successful companies be losing their best people this way? I think there are several factors involved, but perhaps the overriding factor is the energy and creativity of formidable employees chafing against company inertia and close-mindedness.
Tags: creativity business startups innovation
Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)
Michael Arrington from TechCrunch thinks about the companies he'd like to see sprout up around the net. Lots of good ideas in this one.
Tags: business entrepreneur startups internet
The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
Tags: ideas business copyright patent innovation internet software technology
Designing in Hostile Territory
"You don't need anyone's permission to think like a designer. But there are five things you need to do if you want to be effective in a "design-unfriendly organization.""
Gary Stein: "I think Root is an interesting experiment: will players (especially consumers) be interested in participating in this sort of market place? We'll have to wait and see."
Tags: attention business posted
How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.
Tags: business yahoo flickr search photography community web2.0 posted
Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo
Leaked copies of both emails detailing the changes Microsoft must make to keep up with the "OO"ses
Tags: business microsoft software internet advertising google web2.0 posted
A plant that grows with a word on it. If you buy 5,000 you can get any word you want.
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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollarsâ€â€it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"
Tags: business colors design innovation science toys posted
Systems Engineer "Ray Digerati" enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two.
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From Communication Nation: "Here's a compilation of "how-to" posts from this blog that can help you be more effective in business situations:"
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Simon Williams: The 10 New Rules of Branding
"The marketing community needs a new set of branding rules, says Simon Williams, chairman of New York-based branding consultancy Sterling Group. And he’s more than happy to supply them."
Tags: branding business marketing rules lists posted
Amazon, excess and the future of navigation...
"A massive explosion in trustworthy ways of exploring through your data is how you turn a business from a repository or a directory into a web native, 21st century operation."
Tags: amazon internet usability tags interface business posted
On the Value of Design: A look at Stationery Package Creative Fees
"It is up to the creative community to stand their ground and educate and/or reinforce the value that design and creativity brings to the table."
Tags: design business money posted
Predictions for next year from Renegade president Drew Neisser.
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The Art of Business: Marketing Smart
"Nine top ways to make your marketing fast and effective."
Tags: marketing business tips lists posted
Six Apart does their customers right
Asks customers to let them know how much the downtime has effected them by choosing how many days of free service they should receive.
Tags: business marketing passion customerservice posted
"They may not tell you, but clients expectâ€â€even demand things from the creative firms they work with. Learn how to meet and exceed those expectations."
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Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude
""They've grown up questioning their parents, and now they're questioning their employers. They don't know how to shut up, which is great, but that's aggravating to the 50-year-old manager"
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"I’ve realized that the basic corporate design model for Web and application design is broken. This article will share some of the conclusions I’ve drawn and propose some better approaches for designing successful applications."
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"CEO Jason Fried's startup philosophy can be summed up in three short words: Keep it simple"
Tags: business design internet simplicity software posted
"Founded on the premise that the consumer has the right to her data, ROOT Markets is the first financial exchange for consumer leads."
Tags: attention business economics posted
"On the occasion of today's gruesome statistics on the continuing fall of newspapers, here's an updated look at mainstream entertainment and media in decline"
Tags: business statistics research economics longtail media posted
How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
David Pogue's 10 commandments to electronics makers
Tags: business gadgets nytimes technology posted
Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web
"From Lifehacker’s very own internal editorial style guide, today we’ll go over some simple guidelines for writing on the Web that will help you get your message across and elicit the best responses."
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"Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web."
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Wired to Open Gadget Store in NYC
"The purpose of the store would be to give shoppers a chance to see the latest technology and gadgets up close."
Tags: business marketing gadgets posted magazines
ITunes Video Sales Top 1 Million
"Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that iTunes users have downloaded more than 1 million videos since they were made available on Oct. 12."
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Public Enemy Takes It to the Net
Public Enemy is alive and kicking both on the net and off.
The four toughest talks in business
"All tough conversations put you on the defensive. Your job is to switch to offense and work toward a solution that satisfies both sides. To do this, you must understand four truths of tough talks"
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Steve Rubel: "This illustrates the gap they can narrow by getting more involved in the dialogue by having a blog."
Tags: corporateblogging business marketing search posted
Everytime you buy something with your Bank of America debit card they'll round up to the nearest dollar and transfer the extra money to your savings account.
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Including the top 10 reasons to love Nike.
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Most Designers aren't Design Thinkers - Yet
"The shorthand of “design thinking� gathers a set of skills and perspectives that correlate to increased design maturity framing and solving problems, instead of designing function, form, and style."
Tags: design thinking business posted
Nick Denton: "The whole point about blogs is that they're not part of big media. Consolidation defeats the purpose. It's way too early. Like a decade too early."
Tags: blogs business media posted
Seven Technologies That Change Everything
Everything from AJAX to biogenerics
Tags: ajax business internet science technology posted
How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry
The Theory: Steve Jobs used Motorola to get a deal with Cingular with the eventual plan of an iPod phone.
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"It also provides a look at what Apple is doing to get close to the customer, exame the consumer experience and get its product design and innovation right. CEOs, innovation champions, managers, designers, marketers"
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"Can you make the type bigger?"
"When design becomes client driven, and the designer sidelined to a role of passive implementer, the result is the timid repetition of formulaic ideas and endlessly recycled stylistic poses."
"Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for the part-time independent contractor."
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Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide
"Here's my little unofficial guide to creating passionate users for those working in Big Companies."
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"Googlers from across the company contribute knowledge and opinions which are aggregated into a forecast by the market."
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"We love this idea. What is HSBC using these VW vans for in New York City?" The BankCab gets some PSFK love.
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And this time around it will be built by you
Gillette unveils 5-bladed razor with two lubricating strips
"Gillette has escalated the razor wars yet again, unveiling a new line of razors on Wednesday with five blades and a lubricating strip on both the front and back."
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
"If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende?"
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"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
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"In design, and particularly logo design, the pessimistic axiom that “everything has already been done� is becoming more and more true"
Tags: branding business design logos tips posted
Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
Garrett Dimon: "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
Tags: business design freelance lists productivity tips posted
9 Lessons from 9 Years of Interface Design
"As a result, I’ve always approached design as a learning experience rather than a production process of applying guidelines and set processes."
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Interview with Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens of 9rules
"Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens is barely 25 years old and already has a productive entrepreneurial effort underway building a loose network of high quality blogs under his "9rules" banner."
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"The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, 'The Million Dollar Homepage".:
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Why Google's Print Ad Experiment is a Really Big Freakin' Deal
"Google gets to know response rate, all in one place; they can even (ready for this?) charge based on it."
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Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged
Some recommendations companies can follow to help them get blogged
Tags: blogs business marketing productivity tips lists posted
"The use of it by one person naturally informs others of its availability and benefits. (eg Get your free web-based accessible at any computer e-mail at hotmail.com, condoms)"
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Project management for a freelance designer: "This article is a starting point to start thinking about communication in the creative process."
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Interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals
"The best marketing in the world is to give people products they love. Give them things they want to tell others about."
Tags: business design interviews marketing productivity software usability posted
"A key business challenge today is to share a large critical Power Point presentation instantly. With it’s powerful compression ability PowerShrink allows you to do that."
Tags: software powerpoint business
Publish books yourself with no minimums
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"The value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is in relationships. The value is in trust."
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When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?
"The minute we saw this equation from the other side we knew what we had to do. Without realizing it, we had already built the audience, now we needed to create a product for it. “If they come, you will build it.�"
Tags: blogs business entrepreneur trend longtail posted
10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
"1. Solve the smallest possible problem (that is still big enough to matter) for the user and know exactly what problem you're trying to solve. "
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"On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus, altogether."
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Industries that Don't Seem to Understand the Web
"While there are plenty of businesses that don’t seem to understand that the web can do amazing things for them, there are some cases where an entire industry seems to not understand the full potential of the web."
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SFist bitches out the Blog Business Summit PR department
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Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
" What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location?"
Tags: business google wifi posted
Physics of Passion: The Koolaid Point
Creating Passionate Users: "Forget the tipping point--if you want to measure passion, look for the koolaid point."
Tags: passion business marketing posted culture
37signals: Part 3 and my coffin is being prepared
Whitespace: "Many of us have gotten to the point of where we either give a website a 10 or a 0. Why can't we see what's good and not so good (see that sounds much better than "bad") about websites/apps?"
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"These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
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"These come from years of being frustrated by useless meetings and a true desire to help people get the most out of their work day."
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"A lot of the links to the service say things like "full of AJAXy goodness!" or "guess how small the dev team was?" or "it's Ruby on Rails!". People, this is a tool for helping your business make more money."
Tags: business ajax design posted
Killer resources for entrepreneurs
Tags: blogs business entrepreneur tools webapp software posted
Side-Business Software: The neglected software market
"Who cares about the Fortune 500? It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000."
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Some great quotes about dealing with terrible clients.
Tags: design funny quotes posted business
Keeping T-Shirts in the Moment
NYTimes: "Lately limited edition T-shirts, most likely made in someone's cellar in Brooklyn, have suddenly become the hipster's preferred mode of expression."
Tags: art business fashion customization trend posted
Things My Boss Said to Me Without Elaborating.
McSweeney's: "Quick. Tell me everything of consequence that has happened."
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Nothing To Fear From Executive Blogging
Bob Lutz of General Motors: "To any senior executive on the fence about starting a corporate blog, I have a word of advice: Jump."
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Steve Rubel's top 10 tech trends for the next 10 years.
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Inside the big switch: The iPod and the future of Apple Computer
"The cold, hard reality here is that the Mac is Apple's past and the iPod is Apple's future, in the same way that the "PC" is the industry's past and the post-PC gadget is industry's future."
Tags: apple business intel ipod posted
By buying Web player Intermix Media and its runaway hit social-networking site, the media conglomerate gains on the Internet giants
Tags: business media socialnetworking posted
Top Ten Ways to handle Bad Clients
"There is nothing more frustrating than a bad client that turns your project into a nightmare. I've had my share of them and I thought I'd give my ways I handle them."
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On the Job, the Pauses That Refresh
NYTimes: "There is a point, of course, where distraction becomes blatant slacking off, but I would argue that some percentage of time wasted during work is actually a part of the work."
Tags: business internet boredom nytimes posted
NYTimes: "While most of us don't think about typography, beyond choosing among the preinstalled fonts in our home computers, consider an up-and-coming font, like Bello."
Tags: business typography design nytimes posted
Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates
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How one company transforms its employees into entrepreneurs.
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In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.
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Tom Peters interviews Jason Fried, president and founder of 37signals
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"The 37signals manifesto was our original site from 1999-2001. It's a collection of 37 nuggets of online philosophy and design wisdom."
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Inside Odeo with Evan Williams
Another interview with Evan Williams on Odeo
Tags: business podcasting odeo interviews posted
BusinessWeek looks at Cornerstone and other so-called "experiential" brands marketing to the hip
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How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel?
"Answer: by limiting music that played in classrooms, haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene."
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Inc.: "Refining your company's message is an ongoing process and it requires considerable discipline."
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A VC: "Blogging 2.0 has developed to the point that the $410 million that The New York Times paid for About.com is going to look really cheap in a few years."
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An ongoing collections of quotes and references to design in business
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"A thought struck me about how successful, modern mainstream brands (think Jet Blue, Axe, even Fox News) now behave. They act like insurgents."
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Business Week's cover: the kiss of death
A look back at Business Week covers over the past thirty years and the havoc they cause.
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Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website (A very very very long history of Suck.com)
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It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur
Bnoopy: "There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. "
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For a fee, some blogs boost firms
"With a growing number of businesses using blogs to help promote their products, sometimes in ways that are not very transparent, it is increasingly difficult to discern who or what is behind a blogger's pitch . . ."
Tags: blogs business marketing posted
Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now)
"don't clobber your biggest fans with pitches to ads and instead relegate ads to areas where it might help people find more information or related products."
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how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control
adaptive path: "Relinquishing control is becoming a requirement in all aspects of Internet businesses."
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"This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching . . ."
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Five reasons social networking doesn't work
Cnet on the five reasons social networking sites suck
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Garrett Dimon: "We learn something new, a competitive advantage if you will, and we post about it as soon as we can to share it with the world."
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# Likenesses of cartoon characters, many made in garages and sold by small vendors, prompt legal action by entertainment giants.
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The Art of Creating Passionate Consumers: Howard Schultz
The legendary leader of Starbucks sets down his recipe for building and leveraging a rich relationship with consumers
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Call Me Shithead, or, What's in a Name?
Design Observer: Naming things is a "design-related activity that virtually every person on earth feels fully qualified to undertake on their own, for free."
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Living On The Edge At American Apparel
Dov Charney's fast-growing clothing company is built on pro-labor policies, racy ads, and a sexually charged culture
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The Five Things I Learned In Business School
A VC: "I learned five things in business school. They are five important things, but there are only five that I can list."
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Customer Relationships are Fundamental
Feedster CEO writes about turning on customers to your brand through blogs.
Tags: blogs business branding posted
Open source software companies undercutting other open source software companies. Sounds like war.
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"The success of a web service is inversely proportional to the secrecy that surrounded its development. There are exceptions of course. But I also think this can be applied to other things. Segway, anyone?"
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Are You Ready For The Catalytic Consumer?
iMedia: "The old marketing doesn’t work any more. The internet has created a new kind of consumer; one that is personally informed, market-savvy and demands two-way permission-based interactions -- in other words, the marketer’s equal."
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"Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"
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New Yorker: "The term “crisis management� may seem like little more than a euphemism for “snow job,� but there is an art to it. Spin alone won’t do the trick."
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Adrian Shaughnessy: Decoding Coldplay’s X&Y
Design Observer examines the cover art of Coldplay's new album X&Y
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An Open Letter to the Eight-Hour Workday.
McSweeney's: "Shoot, when you think about it, an eight-hour day really comes down to a good four hours and 54 and a half minutes, give or take."
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Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
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Transparency and sponsorship in the blogosphere
Marc Canter's explanation of his "pay bloggers to blog" strategy
Creating Passionate Users: "So... how are you heping your users/customers/students/guests/visitors/clients/members/readers kick ass?"
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Message that was less than grossly offensive
A guy changes a customer service hold message and when sued, gets off because it was only "offensive" not "grossly offensive"
Seth Godin: "One of the implications of the Long Tail is that you don't know what's going to work. That it's easy to launch stuff, hard to figure out where it's going to land."
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The Web is San Francisco circa 2001
"Visiting San Francisco for the first time in 2001, it all snapped into place. Here was a city cross-hatched by freeways that each felt just a little too dangerous to walk under."
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"Trends are not an accusation of some widespread lack of original thinking. Instead, they are a sign of design evolution in our ever-shrinking world."
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The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme is a cautionary tale of ambition, greed, and inexperience.
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog
NYTimes: "Only a handful of music blogs, with names like Fluxblog, Stereogum and Largehearted Boy, have any influence, but even those still have a long way to go to fundamentally alter the landscape of the music industry."
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If You Can Make It in Silicon Valley, You Can Make It . . . in Silicon Valley Again
More talk about the internet "reboom"
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"ClockWork is a time management solution that allows you to easily track what you do during your day."
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Why smart people defend bad ideas
scottberkun.com: "The primary point is that no amount of intelligence can help an individual who is diligently working at the wrong level of the problem."
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"Individually none of these signs should be deal breakers. However put a few of them together and it may be worth thinking twice about taking on that project."
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"Open up your cellphone, and approach their cubicle. Say into the phone, "hold on one second." Then tell your talkative friend exactly what you need to tell them."
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Management's role in passionate users
Companies need to create policies that are inherently trusting of employees, not the other way around.
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Reverse-engineering passion: part 1
Evangelize, Connect, Learn, Improve, Show Off, Spend Time and Spend Money
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Messaging spreads office gossip
One in five people in the UK are using instant messaging at work but the majority of firms are failing to regulate its use.
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NYTimes: "DON'T ask Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media and its growing list of popular Web logs, about his empire. "People come up to me as if it's witty and say, 'How is the empire going?' " Mr. Denton said, "which is pretty pathetic.""
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
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Welcome to the real David Gensler and what he really thinks about everything. Co-Founder and President of the KDU and considered by many to be the top youth culture strategist in the world,
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A VC: On Google, "But I don't understand how all of these new web services have anything to do with their core business of targeting advertising via search and contextual advertising."
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Dream teams thrive on mix of old and new blood
"New team members clearly added creative spark and critical links to the experience of the entire industry."
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The assault on software giant Microsoft
The next two years will be crucial for software giant Microsoft. Under attack on numerous fronts, it could falter - or fight back to become even more dominant.
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Seth Godin: "Several million people (and the number is growing, daily) have chosen to become the haves of the Internet, and at the same time that their number is growing, so are their skills."
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You can do anything - but not everything.
David Allen, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace -- without wearing yourself down.
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Users don't care if you are the best.
Creating Passionate Users: "Quit telling us how great you are, and start telling us how you plan to deliver something that helps the user become greater."
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The great American beer crisis.
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How The Net Is Remaking The Mall
To lure Web-savvy shoppers, retailers are turning to "lifestyle centers"
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Greg Brenneman, the endearing CEO
Excerpts from an interview with Burger King’s CEO, Greg Brenneman.
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Can Blogging Ever Become Big Business?
Calcanis: "John did an amazing job over the past six months taking BoingBoing from ad/revenue-free to ad/revenue-filled without upsetting the user base or the four bloggers. I understand it makes $40k a month and is growing"
All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers -- and ways to do better.
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The largest job database on the planet
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O'Reilly Radar: An "inventory the veritable cornucopia of web-based applications on which I run my day."
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Blogs Will Change Your Business
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later
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Paul Graham: "You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications-- which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week."
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Sony opens game goods marketplace
Game giant Sony is opening its own market where players will be able to buy and sell virtual goods.
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Six Tips for Corporate Bloggers
You can't afford to miss this wave -- and even more important, you can't afford to do it wrong
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Stonyfield Farm's Blog Culture
The yogurt-maker's CEO Gary Hirshberg and Chief Blogger Christine Halverson on how the Web journals connect them to customers
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The executives at Epic won't release her new album, but they may be right not to.
Daily Kos Swings for the Fences
Wired: "He wants to build an empire, and an unlikely one -- a network of interactive community blogs devoted to a world only slightly less partisan than politics: sports."
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Marketing Lessons Learned from FREAKONOMICS
Brand Autopsy: Lesson 3: "The abundance and availability of information today makes storytelling more important than ever for marketers. Storytelling, not information, is the new leverage-able asset in business."
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Analyst sees quantitative proof of the iPod halo effect
Following yesterday's Apple earnings announcements, Merrill Lynch said it sees "quantitative proof" that the popularity of the iPod is transitioning into new Mac sales, as Mac revenue increased by 29% year over year during the company's March quarter.
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Running your company on web apps
evhead: "One interesting thing about starting a company today versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now available that you can more or less run you company on."
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Bubblegeneration: "The feedreader, I suspect, is becoming the browser 2.0. This is hugely important, but little discussed. Because someone else has control of your browsing,the value equation gets flipped on it's head. Now, the point of this is not that t
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10 ways to tackle your goals and projects
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The story of how Yahoo! pulled itself back into the search game
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Toasters, clock-radios, vacuum cleaners - everyday devices, found in everyday homes. So how do manufacturers make us buy more of what we already have? By getting product designers to think harder about how we use things, and designing products for couples
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Washington Post: "Old advertising was predatory, militaristic almost: There were "campaigns" to "target" passive consumers; the objective was to score "hits" on them. Googletising is an altogether gentler art. Ads aren't directed at consumers. They are di
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'LIFE CACHING': collecting, storing and displaying one's entire life, for private use, or for friends, family, even the entire world to peruse.
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Patent No. 6,004,596: Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
WSJ: "Smucker argues that it should be given exclusive rights for its method of sandwiching the jelly between peanut butter and bread."
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Mining the Web is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains and fierce competition.
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Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off
The time-saving trend of "tagging" is luring legions of Web surfers -- and Yahoo!
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Kasparov on Business and Chess
Brand Autopsy: "The interview explores the rich territory of chess as an analogy for business strategy/competition. It is a way worthy read for all and below you’ll find a scalpel/suture of my key takeaways from the interview."
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Economist: "With consumers becoming increasingly empowered, how can the marketing, advertising and communications firms that companies use to promote their products hope to get their messages across?"
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The First Annual Bottom Line Design Awards
Business 2.0: "Good design is nice to look at, but great design exhibits beauty that's more than skin-deep -- it integrates form, function, and market need."
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Guardian: "Yahoo isn't just back in the game - it's winning. How weird is that? "
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The new geek speak / neo-marketing language
Creating Passionate Users: "When people are passionate (or even just "into") something, they have a shared lexicon that helps dinstinguish them from those who aren't."
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Jason Fried on The Project Triangle
43 Folders: "I’ve always felt that The Project Triangle was an elegant way to discuss resource constraints with a client, but it’s also a useful tool for helping your team understand the play."
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Blogaholics: "The world of business is intertwined with conversations - the industry is talking, your customers are talking, your competitors are talking - you need to be a part of those conversations."
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Type in a search term and we'll show you the Max Bids and listings for that term.
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Federal Express
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United Parcel Service
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Microstructure in the Long Tail
The Long Tail: "I've assumed that demand can shift down the tail and quality can rise up it, almost without limit. But there may indeed be a threshold at which this egalitarian mobility no longer works."
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Time: In a wireless world, teenagers are driving the hottest new technologies since the dotcom era
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Incremental vs. revolutionary improvements
"If you're competing for market share, with products or services that are hard to differentiate, incremental improvements might be a waste of time and resources!"
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StopDesign: An answer to the question "How do you stay organized?"
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Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster
Mark Cuban is funding the Grokster defense. "Its about our ability to use future innovations to compete vs their ability to use the courts to shut down our ability to compete. its that simple."
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A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys and some libertarian friendly moves have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes.
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Twenty-Six Entrepreneurs We Love
Martha Stewart tops the INC Magazine list
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"Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching"
glassdog: "Boing Boing has not only embraced advertising, but appears to be giving it a vigorous reach-around in the process."
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BrandShift: "In co-creation, customers truly feel like they are a part of the company (family, ecosystem, etc.) and that their voice is heard."
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Jeff Hawkins new company. Numenta is developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex.
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New Yorker: "Do ads still work?"
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Apple Becomes a "They" Company
A VC: " "We" companies are built by and for a community of users. "They" companies are traditional companies that seek to optimize profitability at the expense of everything else."
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Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr
Post from the Flickr blog on the acquisition by Yahoo
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Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
New York Times writes about newspapers deciding to charge for content online. Foreshadowing?
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Masses of iPods will trigger Mac market share growth
AppleInsider: "Apple will gain share in the personal computer market over the next 2-3 years due to the iPod "halo effect," . . . and the company's ability to drive innovation with high-quality, realistically priced products."
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The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens.
Bnoopy: "Said another way, there is a long tail of very custom process problems that software is supposed to help businesses solve."
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An Open Conversation with Robert Scoble Microsoft Geek Blogger
WebProNews: "In a 38-minute conversation, we discussed a wide range of topics, including evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book proje
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Fast, Fashionable -- and Profitable
The performance of European "cheap chic" chains H&M and Inditex is making rival U.S. apparel chains look like wet rags
10 reasons why blogging is good for your career
Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
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GQ article about Google
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The Devaluation of Information
From Terry Heaton's TV News in a Postmodern World. Discusses the effects the internet has on the value of information.
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Doing kottke.org as a full-time job
Jason Kottke has decided to quit his job and blog full time. He's asking for contributions to help him achieve his goals.
N.J. to hit Blockbuster with fraud lawsuit?
New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey sued Blockbuster Inc. Friday, claiming the video rental chain is deceiving customers with its new 'No More Late Fees' rental policy.
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Web services are poised to revolutionize the way content sites get their goods to the folks who want them
A Conversation with the CEO of Flickr
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Here's the news of Bloglines being bought by Ask Jeeves from the AJ Blog
This comes according to Napsterization . . .
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Some offices opt for cell phones only
The implications for people's personal lives are huge
More Teens See Future in Business
Annual study finds increasing number of next generation see business as “ideal job,� followed by careers in medicine, education and entertainment.
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A place for consumers to complain to companies
Does Friendster have a viable business plan?
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BusinessWeek cover story about how Linux operates
Behind the String Cheese Incident's music is a serious businessâ€â€built on an Internet strategy that is a big hit.
Marketing's Flip Side: The 'Determined Detractor'
Using the net to fight corporations
2005 Predictions - The Coming Year of Hyperfragmentation
MediaPost makes some predictions for the media business in 2005
Turn Your Customers into Raving Fans
If your customers take the initiative to talk about you then you're in good shape
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Malcolm Gladwell, says one fan, is "just a thinker." But what a thinker. His provocative ideas are taking the business world by storm. So who is this guy, and what can he teach you about business?
How the Amazon API is transforming its business
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Blockbuster dropping late fees as of Jan. 1
Blockbuster Inc. announced Tuesday it is abolishing late fees on all its video tapes, DVDs and video games as of Jan. 1.
A new study will change how you generate ideas and decide who's really creative in your company.
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Target is cool with rock 'n' roll, but not sex and drugs
When Target struck a deal for Amazon.com to help run its Internet store, search results that turned up listings for books and videos about sex and drugs weren't exactly what the retailing giant had in mind.
How to Pitch Into the Long Tail News Curve
More long tail information
How Mazda screwed up their attempts at blogging
How to listen to blogs in business
Going Commercial, Very Carefully
Charlie Suisman's task: Turning his formerly ad-free Web site to a "sponsored e-mail" model without alienating his loyal subscribers
The future is something to get excited about again. Here's our look at the surprising people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005.
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Connecting leading companies with customers in inventive ways to deliver measured results and maximum returns
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Analyst: Blogging is good business
Forrester researcher sees major opportunity in blogging
She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a deathmatch made in heaven - but they found common ground.
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Oct 2004 State of the Blogosphere: Corporate Bloggers
Writing for the Web - In Technicolorâ„¢
Free Corporate Blogging Primer
By Leigh Steinberg, the sports superagent who inspired the movie Jerry Maguire and who has negotiated more than $2.5 billion in contracts for clients such as Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Lennox Lewis, and Sugar Ray Leonard
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.
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Need a New Job? Check Out a Blog.
Both employees and employers are using blogs for jobs
Body as billboard (not suitable for work)
Rent designer handbags
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Business instant messaging rules
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The importance of small ideas in business
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Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience
The diamond cartel isn't forever
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Starbucks Says Wi-Fi A Success
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