June 2009
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Sometimes Facebook just smacks you in the face...
Can anyone spot why this review of an app on facebook:
Best flickr app on facebook that I could find - Zuport is flakey, the official one is even flakier. One thing I’d change: the info box is a good idea, but instead of listing all the groups you’re a member of, allow me to choose which ones and/or just show the ones for which I’m an admin or moderator.
Should result in...
The Real Time Web - Investor Perspective →
Interesting video from Robert Scoble with Fred Wilson on Scoble’s new Building43 startu.
“In a decade’s time we’ve gone from half the world having never made a telephone...”
– Mark Pesce
Hyperpolitics (American Style) | the human network
A.P. in Deal to Share Investigative Work From... →
This looks like the market reacting and adjusting to me.
Blogging Innovation: incentive2innovate Conference... →
Great summaries from incentive2innovate by Branden Kelly!
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Some observations on the state of news media
Seeing as the media (especially the news media) doesn’t really do what I’d like it to do yet, I’ve been thinking about what kind of media world we’re going to inhabit once the next round of this revolution is over.
Here’s what I think is going to happen…
1. All Media companies will be online media companies.
As the Internet becomes the de-facto medium of...
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Where's our Journalist discovery engine?
So Don Tapscott says:
If markets are the best mechanism for determining how goods and resources are allocated, why isn’t everybody an independent contractor at every step along the way in production? The answer is collaboration costs. Because the web drops collaboration costs, consumers can now produce.
…and I think he’s quite right. And not only can consumers now produce,...
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What's wrong with digital music 'collections'?
Over the last ten years, I have spent countless hours ripping CDs to mp3 files and tagging them up. As well as transferring from CD, I have bought digital music files, I subscribe to Napster and I have a Last.fm account as well as one for Deezer. Each of these services is available to me, along with my raw mp3s, via a Sonos music system, and each provides me with a library of some kind...
“In purely pragmatic terms, financially we need the bigger lenders more than we...”
– Giles Andrews (Zopa) in the film Us Now (http://watch.usnowfilm.com/)
“Throughout the 20th century we created wealth through the vertically integrated...”
– Don Tapscott in the film Us Now (http://watch.usnowfilm.com/)
