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Someone asked me about Second Life
Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr 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 [...]
Also posted in Advertising, Business, Economics, Ideas, Internet, Posts, Responding Tagged Business, Investment, Media, Social media, Theory 13 Comments
The Matryokshka Doll Principle
Image by Jeff Belmonte via Flickr The Matryoshka Doll Principle, Chinese Box Design, however you would call it. This principle will be a guiding force for the rest of your career. It forces you into a quality product. I see it all the time in products, particularly tech products that we all crave, as a [...]
Also posted in Art, Business, Interfaces, Internet, Machine/Human/Beauty, Media Theory, Product Design, Software 0 Comments
A Brief History of the Last Two Times Newspapers Dealt with Tech
Image via Wikipedia As a medium of outward bound communication, Newspapers are about as old as the book. The first agreed upon Newspaper was the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, not much later than the invention of the Gutenberg Press , somewhere between 1439 and 1450 [...]
Also posted in Business, Internet, Iteration, Posts Tagged AFP, AP, History, Media, Newspaper, Reuters, Telegraphs, Television 0 Comments
A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law
Image by Getty Images via Daylife 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 [...]
Also posted in Economics, Ideas, Internet, Knowledge, Media Theory Tagged Mass Media, Media, Media Theory, Newspaper, Reed's Law, Sarnoff's Law 0 Comments
Ring! Ring! Ring! Government-Phone!
In one of those odd sort of moves that I suspected for a while, Verizon is moving to cut its exclusive contract with cell phone makes (such as LG and RIM) to six months.
Also posted in Business, Law, Posts, Responding, Telecom Tagged FCC, Justice Department, Law, Mobile phone, Telecom, Verizon 0 Comments
Convergence and Divergence of the Flip
Image by Boyan Yurukov via Flickr Someone I was friendly with in college posted this link (http://bit.ly/15oAMt), from his Digg to Facebook. In it, is a whole analysis of whether, as shown by the IPhone 3GS, phones will also start converging into point-and -shoot camcorders, ala the Flip, owned by Cisco. A closer look around [...]
The Price of Freemium
A number of links are now floating about the Internet about Malcolm Gladwell‘s review of Free, the book by Wired Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson. Another review, in the Financial Times, by John Gapper, also does not come out so strongly in favor of the economics advocated by Anderson. The reviews are essentially critiques of the Freemium [...]
Also posted in Economics, Knowledge, Posts, Responding Tagged Chris Anderson, Economics, Free, Malcolm Gladwell 0 Comments
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