December 2009
113 posts
“But news analysis isn’t what makes magazines magazines. The X factor is the...”
– The Medium - Articles of Faith - The Existential Crisis of Magazines Online - NYTimes.com
“A great candidate will have 3+ years experience and be strong in C# and SQL”
– Microsoft.com
We initially built this on Java and Postgres. Porting this over cost them time and that’s why they don’t yet have a horse in the ad exchange race.
“Did you know: Google Chrome has its own Task Manager? Press Shift+Esc :...”
– Did you know: Google Chrome has its own Task Manager? Press Shift+Esc : technology
“Someone teleported through time from the early 1950s to 2009 would find a music...”
– Marginal Revolution: Today’s music model: meet the 1950s
“Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube”
– Slashdot Games Story | Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube
Famous San Francisco Sea Lions Abandon Their Pier... →
“The ailing automotive industry retained its spot as the largest advertiser...”
– Drilling Down - TV Ad Revenue Slips, but Hope Persists - NYTimes.com
“One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them...”
– Media Outlets Prepare to Charge for Content Online - NYTimes.com
Wow.
“within a given “hot startup,” differences in pay do not fully reflect...”
– Salespeople and Programmers « The Baseline Scenario
“Watts and Peretti set up a regular mass-market ad buy, running banner ads on...”
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Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 6 | Fast Company
Rafer sez: Watts’ findings reflect my online marketing experience, with a healthy dose of Xobni CEO Jeff Bonforte’s product marketing and MVP thinking.
The seeds of adoption are unpredictable so offer public...
Network Effects →
fringeelements:
A network effect, also known as a network externality, is what happens when people using some service of product adds value to that service or product. An example would be a telephone, video player, computer operating system, rail guages, social networking sites - whatever thing is used by a bunch of people. Using the same rail guages allows for train companies to use each...
“The digital world, even the high end brands, has become a sleazy carnival,...”
– Seth’s Blog: It’s no wonder they don’t trust us
“Meeker’s central thesis is that Yahoo! could become “an increasingly crucial...”
– YHOO: Meeker Starts at “Buy,” $20 Target - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com
“This is what happens to the millions of dollars that Buffett earns for his...”
– Berkshire’s repellent shareholders | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
Felix Salmon talking about a couple of snobby Berkshire investors during their pilgrimage to Omaha.
“We know that what triggers buying decisions is emotion. There is no such thing...”
– How Online Retailers Read Your Mind - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
“On the web, the new form of commerce is the exchange of personal information for...”
– Official Google Blog: The meaning of open
“The problem that folks like Paul Krugman don’t acknowledge is that this spare...”
– Joe Weisenthal (via soupsoup) (via jayparkinsonmd) (via mikehudack)
I’m not sure Joe’s interpretation of Keynesian is accurate. In fact, Keynes challenged the dominant theory (neoclassical) of his time by saying free markets would NOT automatically adjust to allow for full employment...
Upper Mismanagement | The New Republic →
This is slightly tangential to the article— It’s easy to criticize the value of management and knowledge workers because they aren’t cranking out tangible widgets. Nothing validates the value of management better than spending some time at a few big organizations in China. Sure, they’ve built a thriving economy in blazing speed but it’s obvious that there’s an...
“Data-mining deals signed in October will bring in $25 million in exchange for...”
– Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable - BusinessWeek
$25 million a year for two companies to get access to Twitter’s firehose- that’s nice if it’s true and their revenue recognition accounting is legit.
“For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that...”
– Brain Power - Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them - Series - NYTimes.com
“If there was an airline that flew more passengers than anyone else, but lost...”
– The bar for success in our industry is too low (37signals) (via bb) (via sarahkunst) (via mikehudack)
I don’t think it’s a matter of the bar being too low. The paradigm is different in our industry and the businesses covered by new tech media aren’t considered mature by any means...
“The [IAB and [AAAA] have unveiled an updated model contract for online media...”
– MediaPost Publications IAB And AAAA Update Contract Guidelines, Specify Who Owns Data 12/17/2009
But if you read further down, one of the restrictions is that advertisers can’t retarget users based on an ad shown on a publisher’s side. This sounds like publishers are trying to protect...
“[A Microsoft patent] takes aim at fat people, proposing to generate fat avatars...”
– Slashdot Games Story | Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers
“Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks last night caught Houston Rockets player...”
– Nowitzki Knocks Out Guys Teeth With Elbow; Embedded in Arm
“The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source”
– Business: The end of the affair | The Economist
“Maybe junk bonds are the new equity: somewhere you can make a lot of money by...”
– Distressed debt datapoint of the day | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
“We no longer have an independent central bank in this country, at least not for...”
– Marginal Revolution: Three percent price inflation
“If tech giants are making so much money off your data, at least demand a cut.”
– Arise, Web Users! | The Big Money
“Ben Bernanke answers questions from several economists. (Many were addressed at...”
– Economist’s View: Ben Bernanke’s Final Exam
Newest credit card trick? 79.9 percent interest -... →
“Turns out a dumb-pipe Comcast would do just fine competing only in broadband....”
– Why Hulu matters (The Deal Magazine)
Very interesting financial analysis— suggests Comcast is better off with a dumb pipe strategy.
“EBay, which says it will sell $500 million worth of merchandise over cellphones...”
– EBay Translates the Auction Experience to Cellphones - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“while Amazon is not going to take any large customers away from the CDNs - think...”
– Akamai and Limelight: Assessing The Amazon Threat - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com
Tenacity Versus Failing Early (and Often)
mikehudack:
continuations:
Fred wrote about tenacity this morning prompted by a post from Mark Suster about tenacity being a key trait for an entrepreneur. As per usual there is a long comment thread on Fred’s post and also quite a few comments on Mark’s.
There is, however, only a limited discussion of the potential conflict between tenacity and the ability to “fail early and often” (before...
“People did not believe that this Chinese model of micropayments and social games...”
– Russian Facebook Investor Adds Stake in Zynga - NYTimes.com
“One of the areas the FTC case zeroes in on is the burgeoning competition for...”
– FTC pursues Intel on new front: Graphics chips | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News
I’m surprised that these charges have to do with Intel’s current and future (and not historical) business opportunities : netbooks and Core i series chipsets.
Watch12/15/09 in :60 Seconds | December 15, 2009 | ColbertNation.com
“Sold without a carrier, software updates for the Nexus One will be in...”
– How Carriers and Phone Makers Are Strangling Android (And How Google Could Save It) - google phone - Gizmodo
Interesting argument— suggests Google is trying to nip mobile OS fragmentation in the bud with their new move.
“Our findings, captured in the white paper, CPA Performance Trends On the Google...”
– Inside AdWords: A Google white paper: Content Network performance trends
Somehow missed this paper earlier this year. Data to be used in your drunken arguments over search vs. display this holiday season!
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“APIs are Biz Dev 2.0”
– Post and Read via Twitter API — Blog — WordPress.com