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- A Look at the Features in Apple iTunes 10′s Ping
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- An Evaluation of Web Strategy in the Musical Instrument Business
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Category Archives: Innovation
Against PROTECT IP Act: List of People and Orgs
A counterweight to this garbage.
Update 9/8/2011 141 Internet Entrepreneurs
108 Intellectual Propery Law Professors
Professor John R. Allison McCombs School of Business University of Texas at Austin
Professor Brook K. Baker Northeastern University School of Law
Professor Derek E. Bambauer Brooklyn Law School
Professor …
Atari complains about having to compete with itself
GameIndustry.biz reports that Atari is complaining about second hand sales at it’s event Atari Live in London. Their proposed solution? Add features that make it more useful to the users that rely on one sort of online …
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 …
AP proves: Lawyers are not long-term business strategists
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 …
Using Social Media to Market Music
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 …
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 …
How Open Source and Social Media are going to Eat SEOs’ Lunches
(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 …
Ignorance to Competitive Business Models Costs Incumbents $60 Billion by Refusing to Pay Strategy Taxes
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 …
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 …
