Growing a Community and The Importance of Being Iterative (4)
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As always: If you just want the status update of Spot.Us as a project -scroll down to the bottom for a nice digestible list of what's going down. Or - keep reading for detailed thoughts. This will be cross-posted at the Spot Us blog. Two months ago I decided that instead of sitting on my hands and waiting for a "tada-moment" to launch spot.us, we should just get started by using a wiki and a ...
Beyond The Conversation (19)
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OK, let's get this straight. For the past couple of years we've had a great time talking about the merits of conversation, transparency, authenticity, facilitation, participation, and blah blah blah. Having talked about "The Conversation Economy" myself—I'm no exception to the "BLAH". So, we get it—and now it's time to get down to business. From my vantage point there are a few things going on at once, so here's a few thoughts rolling around in ...
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JayCrossler said:
This is a good perspective on three types of initiatives that could make sense when explained to executives. Shared so I can later use the image on a PowerPoint slide.
Why Technology Hasn't Saved Us From Inflation (but still can) (20)
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I have a piece in the Aug 11th issue of Newsweek International, but Newsweek's website does such a poor job with magazine content that it's practically unfindable (it's actually on the seventh screen of this series of perspectives from economists and other experts). So here it is: Unleash The World's EngineersChris Anderson believes that the price-cutting power of technology can still bring nations relief if only bureaucrats will allow it to. Technology can be a ...
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fesja said:
no stoy nada de acuerdo con chris, no podemos sacrificar cualquier cosa con tal de ahorrar dinero y hacerlo más barato
Qik now available for jailbroken iPhone and iPhone 3G devices (1)
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Qik is one of the well known mobile live video streaming applications that works particularly well on a device like the Nokia N95. They also have a beta for Windows Mobile Smartphones that I tried on the Blackjack II last month. Qik announced they were working on an iPhone application back in June and today announced that it is working on the iPhone 3G. However, it does require you to jailbreak your phone and install ...
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JaySpear said:
sweet ~ now we have no excuse
In Economic Climate Like This, It's Time For Smart Companies To Invest In Innovation. (3)
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I like this view, I took this picture from the window of Exchange Square, Hong Kong. This is a city where entrepreneurism thrived. SadlyI think opportunities are slowing diminishing. The only big money to be made is real estate or finance. People here truly embraced risks and never too worried about any downturn. In though economic times like this, it is the best time to invest in innovation. Innovation sounds like a great thing to ...
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JaySpear said:
"We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that's exactly what we did. And it worked. And that's exactly what we'll do this time." Steve Jobs
The time/money formula of free (50)
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At some point in your life, you will wake up and discover that you have more money than time. And you will then realize that you should start doing things differently, which means not walking four blocks to find an ATM that doesn't charge a fee, driving for miles to find cheaper gas, or painting your own house. This same calculus is the foundation of a big part of the "freemium" economy. We see it ...
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Brian Oberkirch said:
You can build a good business on this model, as Limor Fried (AKA LadyAda, picture above), has shown with her electronics kit retail/design/community AdaFruit Industries. She and her business partner, Philip Torrone, explain the economics and tactics in a presentation here (good summary here).Short form: 1. Build a community around free information and advice on a particular topic. 2. With that community's help, design some products that people want, and return the favor by making the products free in raw form. 3. Let those with more money than time/skill/risk-tolerance buy the more polished version of those products. (That may turn out to be almost everyone) 4. Do it again and again, building a 40% margin into the products to pay the bills. As Torrone said in an email, "I can't imagine doing a book, a video, a magazine unless I had a community that would rally along the way. In the end it always seemed to be about a story, people like to see the beginning, middle, end and plot of something -- and if there's a buy button somewhere, they sometimes click it and reward us for working hard."
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iAdramelk said:
At some point in your life, you will wake up and discover that you have more money than time. And you will then realize that you should start doing things differently, which means not walking four blocks to find an ATM that doesn't charge a fee, driving for miles to find cheaper gas, or painting your own house.
The Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City (10)
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A few years ago, the Boston Globe looked at what could be called the psychiatric impact of that city's Big Dig. The Big Dig was a massively expensive urban engineering project that put Boston's Central Artery underground, freeing up space on the earth's surface for parks and businesses. [Images: Boston's Big Dig, before and after].The project, however, was plagued with engineering difficulties, cost over-runs, and the periodic collapse of public support (even the periodic collapse ...
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James said:
Pretty sure there's a World of Darkness scenario or two in this.
To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror: Rand Corporation (42)
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A new Rand Corporation report comprehensively surveys the ways that terrorist groups have been disbanded in the past: "Military force was rarely the primary reason a terrorist group ended." Instead, historic wars on terror have been won with policing and settlements. Rand's conclusion? To defeat Al Qaeda, we need to end the war on terror. A recent RAND research effort sheds light on this issue by investigating how terrorist groups have ended in the past. ...
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Awed said:
Somehow I imagine the Consumertives will turn this report into a reason why we need to spend more money in Iraq.
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brizbane said:
This is very much worth the read.
Plentyoffish Has Plenty of Users: Top Dating Site in US and UK (4)
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Plentyoffish is still on top, now in both the US and in the UK, according to a recent comScore report. The dating site founded in 2003 by Markus Frind in Vancouver has provided us with a rather entertaining tale of minimal resources and resounding success. The spartan dating website draws in over $10 million per year from advertising, equaling out to around $1 million per year for every daily hour Frind puts into the maintenance ...
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JaySpear said:
Smacks in the face of all those hours, days, weeks you spend polishing a site hoping that the shiny skin makes a difference. Solving a problem and making it free makes a difference!
Digital Marketing Needs a Reboot (5)
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From my recent contribution to Ad Age, Digital Next: "Old habits die hard. While consumers are out there spending countless hours on social networks, file sharing applications, chat, community sites, buying stuff, selling stuff and using multiple devices, some of us tradigital old fogies are still reaching for our beloved toolbox of the past in the hopes of getting their attention. While online user behavior tells us that people respond well to simplicity, we labor ...
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JaySpear said:
nice little snippet about comments ...
A Call for Quality Comments (8)
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A few days ago I was snooping around Digg when I noticed a popular submission titled The Difference Between Digg and Reddit. I clicked, eager to learn, and was presented with an image juxtaposing two very distinct flavors of user-submitted comments surrounding the breaking news of Tony Snow's death. The first comments shown at Digg offered generic words of respect that you might expect to hear about a public figure that passed away. The top ...
Obama Is One Of The Hippiest Brand Of The Decade. The World Needs More Brands Like This One. (2)
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I was watching Jack Cafferty today on CNN talking about the questions why Obama gets so much more coverage than McCain. When Obama announced his trip, 200 journalists have asked to join him although the campaign can only be able to accommodate 40. Meanwhile, McCain has taken 3 foreign trips the last 4 months, and not a single network anchor has gone on any of them. A post from Tina on Cafferty’s blog. “Jack, God ...
You Might Be a Digital Anthropologist... (23)
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Upon recently talking about micro-interactions to the folks at Citi, I had a “micro-epiphany.” It occurred to me that companies really need to be looking at the social revolution for possibly one reason over everything else. Insights into human behavior that can lead to future innovations or even product/service improvements. Point in case, as I was talking about some of the interactions I’ve had with brands on Twitter like Southwest or Zappos, I said something ...
What's The Future of Blogs? What's Your Organization's Blog Strategy? (3)
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I have only been blogging for just over a year. I am benefiting from it in many ways from being able to exchange emails with a few thousand people from all over the world to getting to make tens of new friends among the thousands of visitors to my blog everyday who share similar interest. I ended up collaborating with some of them on projects. Most of all, it is just great to have a ...
iPhone: The New Personal Computer (101)
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When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changer. Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhone becomes the new personal computer. The desktop from now on will be for professional and business work. Laptops aren't going away, but will get increasingly less personal use. The reason is that iPhone with its application platform is a ...
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Craig said:
One of my primary drivers for getting an iPhone was that I wouldn't need to get a laptop to have access to email and such when I'm in Brisbane on weekends. It's shaping up to do so much more...
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Nate said:
A good article from RWW.
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Ed Dale said:
I.TOLD.YOU.SO
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Gordo said:
ReadWriteWeb on the iPhone being the "New Personal Computer."
Can Too Much Innovation Be A Bad Thing? Or We Are Doing Too Little? (2)
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Managed to get home on a midday flight and getting some work done on the plane is not bad. I find it is often a good idea to have a few hours on Friday to plan what to do for the weekend (I mean what work to do). So I use Friday afternoon to prepare work uninterrupted work and then Sunday night to plan for the week.I get a lot of questions on "what constitutes ...
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Jacquelyn said:
Hyperinnovation produces diminishing returns + more.
Blogging is Dead! Long Live Blogging! Why I'm Twining More than Blogging (5)
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I haven't left blogging though. Instead, my blogging has evolved and is moving into a better medium. Jason wants to go back to old fashioned email mailing lists, but I'm moving forward into something even better than blogs.Blogs will continue of course, but for those of us who do a lot of blogging and online bookmarking, social networking, online discussions, and social media sharing -- blogs just aren't productive enough anymore. Neither are social networks ...
Look! Turn Retro Tech Into Wonderfully Hip Art Decor (1)
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Somewhere in Melbourne, Australia, a painter is hungry. His name is Satta van Daal and he will paint your retro Mac hardware that you want to toss into the dumpster. He'll turn it into a gem. A godly gem. That I would hang above my bed with lots of duct tape.[via Gizmodo]
Video: Woman Struck by Lightening While Filming Rainstorm (1)
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Um, we suppose it's never a good idea to operate electronics outside during a massive rainstorm. Just a thought... The lightening went through the camera operator's left hand holding the camera, crossed her back and exited out of her right hand holding onto a metal railing. Now she has super powers.
