September 2009
4 posts
The Future–August 1999 Style! →
Way back in August of 1999–hey, that was a decade ago, in a different century!–I was lucky enough to visit MIT’s Media Lab along with fellow members of the American Society of Business…
August 2009
9 posts
The real sin: not running businesses →
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You know analysis is sound when it seems obvious — “Newspapers have been too busy trying to protect specific budget lines that protected specific interests – the size of the…
Lifestreaming: Newspaper Uses Posterous to Solicit... →
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Great example of how a third-party service can expedite an idea. These days, there’s little excuse for long development windows. Launch, assess and iterate.
You’re probably…
Ping: Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit →
Evernote, a company that makes a Web application to save data users accumulate, hopes that giving away its product will pay off in the end.
Forestalled: Hunter S. Thompson At The O.J. Trial... →
“We had an eight-hour negotiating session. Hunter wanted satellite dishes, an unlimited expense account and a suite or two at the Chateau Marmont. We were a dying afternoon paper with no budget.”…
Yes, But How Do You Feel? Sentiment Joins the Web... →
Source Link: New York Times The New York Times examines sentiment analysis:
An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world’s unexplored…
"Twitter Effect" Story Covers Consumer Tech... →
Source Link: The Baltimore Sun I was ready to rip this Twitter Effect story for being one of many “trend out of thin air” pieces commonly found in consumer-centric technology coverage. But I…
"Set It and Forget It" Doesn't Apply to Comments →
Source Link: A VC Fred Wilson discusses the effort behind good user comments and conversations:
But if the author of the news story, or opinion piece, or blog post, tends to the comments,…
The Wall Street Journal is Not a Newspaper →
Source Link: The Australian Rupert Murdoch continues to bang the drum for pay walls: “Quality journalism is not cheap,” Mr Murdoch said, noting that the success of The Wall Street Journal’s…
