Joost Disappoints as Next YouTube
Internet TV startup Joost, backed by CBS, was supposed to be as big as YouTube. Instead, it’s in danger of being squeezed out as the networks scramble for a billion-dollar payday. read more
View ArticleGin, Television and Social Surplus
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, has posted on what he calls the “social surplus” or the time we gain by participating in the culture versus...
View ArticleAre gadgets killing the internet?
From The Guardian online: Jonathan Zittrain, the amiable but intimidatingly brainy 38-year-old professor of “cyberlaw” at both Oxford and Harvard universities, thinks we shouldn’t forget the...
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CafePress acquires ImageKind
Congratulations to ImageKind and to Kelly Smith of Curious Office on this announcement today! Imagekind, an online art and poster site that also offers customized framing services, has agreed to be...
View ArticleRandy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, has died.
Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose final lecture inspired millions, has died of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch, 47, who turned the lecture into a book, said...
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Your competitive advantage
Competitive advantage is similar to a concept we Product Managers call “Distinctive Competence” and it is a fundamental building block of any business. Those who don’t define it (early), wander...
View ArticleViral Loops, the A-list and Building a Successful Business
I started writing this post about a year ago, but never published it. Today, I came across an article in FastCompany, entitled “How much are you worth to Facebook?“ The author, Adam Penenberg,...
View ArticleGyro Bowl
This isn’t just for kids. I NEED one too! From Amazon.com The Löopa gyro-bowl may look like it’s out of this world because, well, it is. Made with revolutionary spill-resistant technology, the Löopa...
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LED Lighting: Finally Ready for Primetime?
Let There Be Light I’m a huge skeptic when it comes to new lighting technologies. Nothing seems to work as well as a good old-fashioned incandescent light bulb. Yes, they are inefficient, they give...
View ArticleOS X Lion: At $29.99 Apple Applies Pressure to Microsoft
Yesterday’s trio of announcements by Apple were like manna even for ardent Apple critics. With new versions of OS X and iOS on the way, Apple also announced iCloud, a set of cloud based services...
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