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Category Archives: Creativity
The Uncanny Parallels Between Israeli Archeology and Innovation Challenges
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 …
When the cost of making ideas can be zero, the fee to use an ideas should be zero
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 …
Posted in Creativity, Innovation
Tagged copyrights, execution, ideas, Innovation, patents
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Great Design Spoils Us and That’s A Good Thing
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 …
What is better: SEO or SMO?
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 …
Posted in Creativity, Disruptive Business Models in Content
Tagged Jason Calacanis, SEO, SMO, web strategy
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The Networks Effects of Creating Value Networks with Derivative Creative Works
There is some talk of Fair Use reform to define it as: “work that adds to the value of the original, as opposed to substituting for the original, is fair use.”
So, what are some examples of adding value? …
