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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Monetization Strategy is the New Creative Skill (you need to have)
Jaron Lanier has an opinion piece at NYT saying he wants to be paid for his creative content without much more context than that (he seems he has figured out how to get paid for his writing; by having …
How Kindle Could Have Appealed to Passionate Evangelists
When it comes to web services and logistics, Amazon is a rock star. Not only did they figure out how to make hundreds of small applications work a across their networks (the Amazon home page is connecting to …
Amazon blows it with their Kindle E-book Reader
Amazon is going to release their e-book reader on Monday, called Kindle. The thing that got my attention most is that part of the delay in its release is that they were working out deals with content providers! …
Forecasting Trends in Digital Entertainment
This post is my submission to the TechDirt Insight Community. It was one of the top three winning submissions for this challenge case.
The challenge:
The Digital Entertainment industry can be characterized by the creation, distribution and monetization of digital …
An Intro to Web Strategy for Creatives Seeking New Success
I am having dinner tonight with an old friend whom I have not spoken to at length or hung out with for a couple years. He is in the creative field (an illustrator). He does not follow …
Open Social Hype Hangover
I am going over all of the posts today questioning specific parts of Open Social. While the main point is that any 3rd party apps can work on any network (aka “container”), it seems there is no set …
Free things we take for granted
Techdirt’s Mike Masnik is on fire with his economics of non-scarce goods riff, using not-scarce to sell scarce goods. Here is a list of things that companies leverage by giving them away for free that are not scarce …
