Posted in crowdsourcing on Sep 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
I always love to look at people their bookcases when I visit them. It normally tells quite a lot about someone what books they have collected over the years (and read of course). Therefore it is quite interesting to see how sites like LibraryThing try to connect people by collecting information about the books you [...]
Posted in long tail on Sep 29th, 2007 No Comments »
In a post from “The long tail” a small movie director has written an interesting e-mail to Chris Anderson. But the reality at this time for me and my company is that I need to find multiple large national distributors if I hope to even come close to making a living at this game. And [...]
Posted in diversity, Politics on Sep 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Bill sent me this article that describes how voters have a systematic bias regarding some economic effects. The article questions the fact that voters in general have a bias for anti-market, anti-foreign, anti-efficiency loss of work and a pessimistic outlook. This systematic bias of course would lead to bad decisions since the errors do not [...]
Posted in social networks on Sep 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I think we all know the sorry feeling that we lost track of people we knew and worked with in the past but lost sight of. In the past it a was always very hard to find them again. Since some time now there is a new social network called LinkedIn. The idea is that [...]
Posted in businessmodel on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Isn’t it funny how more and more things are being paid for by advertising while at the same time we all get more and more irritated by advertising being everywhere. The New York Times have stopped their paid subscription service in favor of free access. This is a subscription service that made them 10 million [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing, diversity, Politics, social networks on Sep 16th, 2007 No Comments »
First have a look at the video: The way I see it the idea behind this video is that until now images have been used for a lot of bad reasons. Their message on their website is: So ask yourself this. If you had the entire world’s attention for just a few minutes, what story [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Children grow up sooo fast. My son said that he wanted a blog too so I made one for him. He made his first post (and he referred to his dad’s blog on it, nice ). Than he asked that I made a link to his blog. I said to him that he should first [...]
Posted in long tail, paticipation, social networks on Sep 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Some books are very helpful in making you understand developments. This summer I have read a book called “The Cluetrain manifesto”. Central theme of the book (which by the way is written in 2000 but started as as website in 1999) is the statement that markets (and a lot of other things) are conversations. The [...]
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