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Category Archives: Innovation
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! …
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 …
Educators and Employers vs. Social Networking Web Apps: and Opportunity to Improve both?
There is a lot of complaining lately that sites like MySpace and Facebook are eating into companies’ productivity and student’s attention. I think this is an indication that both work and school need to be more engaging the …
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Countering Microsoft’s FUD Mongering of Software as a Service
Read-Write Web via Mary Jo Foley at ZD Net reports that Microsoft is randomly spamming its customers to spread FUD about web apps/software as a service.
1. Google touts having enterprise level customers but how many “USERS” of their applications …
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F8 Platform: an example of an open, easy to switch marketplace for apps
Right now it seems most Facebook users are experimenting with apps that are fun to use with friends. They are free, so there is no financial risk for using the wrong one (but there are social risks such …
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The FaceBook App Strategy
On July 28th Kareem Mayan hosted and organized LA’s first FaceBook Developers Garage at Mahlo’s HQ in Santa Monica, Ca., courtesy of JC. About 50 developers, hackers, strategist, marketers, and entrepreneurs attended. The event is part of …
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LA Times kills article suggesting that newspapers and record labels innovate
TechDirt points to the killed article that was leaked and will be reposted all over the net by the end of the day. The author of the killed article, Patrick Goldstein, was inspired by Prince’s strategy in giving …
