1 month ago
veen : Information Arbitrage: Monitor110: A Post Mortem - " I worked with a terrific group of young, exceptionally bright people who believed in the vision. Ultimately, we failed. But why did we fail, and what could we have done differently? "
Linkorama : Monitor110: A Post Mortem - While we certainly made more than seven mistakes during the nearly four-year life of Monitor110, I think these top the list.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Get Ready For A New Platform War. - Google has made no secret of its plans to target and harm Microsoft, and they know that the best way to go about that is to make the operating system irrelevant by moving up a layer and turning the browser into a standard, but powerful, virtual machine fo
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5 month ago
Linkorama : 11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft - Blizzard Entertainment, the envy of the computer game industry, has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business.
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Shift Happens – The Future of Advertising - Advertising is a case in point. Seismic shifts are shaking up the world of advertising big time. But which shift is most relevant? And what are the implications for executives?
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8 month ago
Linkorama : What does the Media Business Model mean? - Here's my start at a list all the revenue models you can find in the media industry, all based around a core of free or almost-free content:
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Will it fly? - I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
Andy Baio : Ev's guide to evaluating new product ideas - for me, "personally compelling" is the only one that matters, since I can't build something I won't use myself
WillPate : Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
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13 month ago
deusx : Sirlin.net — Your source of shocking insights on game design » Blog Archive » Yomi Layer 3: Knowing the Mind of the Opponent - "Paramount in the design of competitive games is the guarantee to the player that if he knows what his enemy will do, there is some way to counter it."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I: James lays out the rationale behind some of the changes at HOTorNOT
Linkorama : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Go read all three parts
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15 month ago
Linkorama : The Power of Power Laws - Gaussian distributions tend to prevail when events are completely independent of each other. As soon as you introduce the assumption of interdependence across events, Paretian distributions tend to surface because positive feedback loops tend to amplify
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16 month ago
Linkorama : Primer: Enterprise Wiki - 3 points—Get yourself a wiki strategicki.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Failing Cheaper - What has changed is that you can now fail faster and cheaper than ever before.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Where Agile meets Planning - Where Agile is sometimes oversold is in the context of estimation. To me, software estimation is a bit like growing ear hair. It takes time to do it well. There aren’t that many short cuts.
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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing - Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing: "Google is not your competition, Google is the environment. Online businesses which struggle against this new reality will pay opportunity costs both in online advertising revenue as well as pro
Linkorama : Winner-Take-All - Great analysis of Google's dominance of search and ads, but couldn't either be dominated by a player whose core business is neither?
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22 month ago
Linkorama : The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' - An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread.
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Linkorama : The Parallel Entrepreneur - Sam's right, you can't be a parallel CEO. But Scott is right that you can be a parallel entrepreneur.
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24 month ago
Linkorama : Microsoft vs. Open Source - the unmodeled scenario is if web 2.0/Saas drives microsoft to not enable piracy as a method of price discrimination, which leads Linux to dominance from the flatter bottom up
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25 month ago
Andy Baio : Dicewars - highly addictive simple strategy game, but needs multiplayer badly
philgyford : Dicewars - Flash game - Neatly done, time-wasting Risk-like online game. Must. Resist. (via Haddock)
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Linkorama : Software's Perfect Storm - These companies must assess a potential double threat: at the top, vigorous challenges by the mega-vendors bent on further consolidating the market; and at the bottom, disruptive challenges by software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers or open source vendors
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28 month ago
Linkorama : IT Shift from Cost to Advantage - Gartner is calling the shift that was bound to happen. IT is investing for competitive advantage again.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : SOA Versus Web 2.0? - As I indicated in my previous posting, a cultural chasm separates these two technology communities, despite the fact that they both rely heavily on the same foundational standard - XML.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Strategic Acts of Generosity - market share leaders in mature markets offer up access to their customer base to a new generation of partner/competitors in order to stimulate a new round of customer interest in their category.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Content Technology Meets Web 2.0 - The key takeaway from Ross’ talk is that “Sharing Control Creates Valueâ€. It’s extremely difficult to share control, particularly for premium content providers, but virtually every successful Web 2.0 application has that at the
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29 month ago
kayodeok : Wired News: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever - "Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste."
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30 month ago
kayodeok : A requiem (beta) for Edgeio - Edgeio, the much-hyped Web 2.0 tag-sale site, has only been live for a few hours, but it's already wearing a corpselike look
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31 month ago
kayodeok : PBS | I, Cringely . February 2, 2006 - The Walt Within: What If Disney's Prize Wasn't Pixar, but Jobs? - What If Disney's Prize Wasn't Pixar, but Jobs?
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