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The pre paper post
Originally it came with whole lots of warnings. No I’m not happy with it. It’s hard to write when you are hiding yourself, and have a page limit for a difficult question. I really wanted a lot of time to explain myself (such a me thing). I feel like I really do need to write [...]
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Something is disturbing me
I wish I knew how to read the markets well. Something is disturbing me. The kind of thing you can’t read but you feel in your gut.
There is too much money sloshing around because of TARP. And we are starting to see the first signs of consumer spending. The money has to go somewhere, and [...]
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Behind on What I Wanted To write About: The Adobe-Omniture Deal
So on the same day that everyone goes crazy over Mint’s exit to Intuit, Omniture gets bought out by Adobe.
I had a bunch of other things to do with my life (being sad about life changes for one, pack, write, bah humbug), yet I really wanted to take a good look and think about that [...]
Also posted in Business, Information, Random 3 Comments
WSJ on Web Money, scary thoughts.
So I was sent this link yesterday because of my love of Real Time Economics
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/09/the-currency-revolution/
It’s worth a read and discussion. There discuss two different virtual currencies. Two are mentioned- Serious, and Ven.
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From Vladimir’s Blog
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So this was a comment I posted on Vladimir’s, a very nice Young Man’s blog, about the fragmentation of the food industry. I was thinking about it recently anyway because right before my younger and only Brother had gone to college*, my only living grandparent had taken us out [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life
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I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life. I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual game [...]
Also posted in Advertising, Business, Ideas, Information, Internet, Posts, Responding Tagged Business, Investment, Media, Social media, Theory 10 Comments
The New New Business of News
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While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense.
This is the third major age of newspapers, but not exclusively newspapers, [...]
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A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law
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So for the past few days, on Fred Wilson’s blog, there have been comment after comment about what to about, well comments.
A good deal of this has to do with what to do with Newspapers in the Internet ecosystem, and their relationship to their readers, especially as their print medium [...]
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The Paper!