Author Archives: Nick Dynice

The Uncanny Parallels Between Israeli Archeology and Innovation Challenges

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Nick Dynice

I recently caught three interesting episodes of Simcha Jacobovici’s Naked Archaeologist on History International:

Episodes #5: “Real or Fake?”
Episode #6: “Fame & Forgery”
Episode #7: “Accidental Archeology”

Episodes 5 and 6 are about the Israeli Antiquities markets where each …

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AP proves: Lawyers are not long-term business strategists

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Associated Press (AP) has send DMCA notices to The Drudge Retort for quoting too much from one if it’s articles and then linking to one of it’s paying customer’s website (more at Techdirt). This, of course, interferes with …

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Using Social Media to Market Music

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Nick Dynice

My colleague at Heavybag Media, Jackie Peters has a post about the great opportunities record labels have in using social media as a marketing strategy. The challenges they are facing: they must switch from selling music in physical …

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When the cost of making ideas can be zero, the fee to use an ideas should be zero

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Nick Dynice

As AgainstMonopoly and Techdirt like to say: when the marginal cost of producing a product, service or experience drops to zero, the price the market is willing to pay will drop to zero. For those that can craft …

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Great Design Spoils Us and That’s A Good Thing

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Great design along with great user feedback and iteration makes me intolerant of bad design, even when there is no alternative.

In the web app space, new entrants continue to appear, competing with each other and incumbents, each tweaking their …

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How Open Source and Social Media are going to Eat SEOs’ Lunches

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Nick Dynice

(Sphinn this)
Search engines react to behavior of its users and site owners. Search engines measures these behaviors to deliver value to each, but ultimately to serve the search engines’ best interests. At first, search engines used what they …

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What is better: SEO or SMO?

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Nick Dynice

You can spend engineering resources on fighting spam like Matt Cutts and team, or you could spend talent resources on writing and curtaining content like Jason Calacanis, Jimmy Wales, and passionate bloggers.

Likewise, you can spend engineering resources to make …

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Ignorance to Competitive Business Models Costs Incumbents $60 Billion by Refusing to Pay Strategy Taxes

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Nick Dynice

There is a really dumb press release (and I say dumb because of its FUDy tone) at Marketwire suggesting that open source is a threat to the software business. This is may be true, but I think my …

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Blockbuster + Circuit City May Mean More DRM

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Today, Blockbuster Inc. announced its offer to acquire Circuit City. This is not good for consumers.
Big box electronic retailers control the consumer electronics industry more that you might think. In the US (and maybe elsewhere), Circuit City and Best …

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The Truth Emerges: Valleywag at the TechCrunch/PopSugar Party

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Nick Dynice

What you are looking at is an ambushing of Mike Arrnington at his own party with the intention of pissing him off and creating news for Valleywag, and the real reason behind all of the drama. (Update: In …

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