From the monthly archives:

January 2006

Either I’m the guy from “A Beautiful Mind” or there’s a trend going on here…

January 24, 2006 Social Media

The New York Times has an article about recommendation engines, while BusinessWeek is writing about Yahoo’s acquisition spree. The interesting meme in each of these is the strong support for services that use humans to build the index (which Yahoo! has always done), as opposed to software (the Google way). It seems Yahoo! [...]

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When you’re ready to start that next company of yours…

January 23, 2006 Business

This is a pretty useful read. Very enjoyable, and very useful.

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I’ve hit the big time!

January 23, 2006 Strategy

OK, not really, but the New York Times has an article in yesterday’s online edition called “This time, the revolution will be televised,” that reads an awful lot like my “The future (will|will not) be televised” post from last month. If I were paranoid or egotistical, I might think that the Times was ripping [...]

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Howard Stern is the future of media. God help us…

January 8, 2006 Media

Good article on the Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram today about satellite radio and its broader implications for radio in general. They do a pretty solid job of explaining the rules of engagement here as media struggles with consumers’ increasing variety of choice in how they consume content. One notable absence in the article is [...]

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Google will sell video online

January 6, 2006 Media

According to Digg, “Tomorrow, Friday Jan 6, Google Inc. will announce that it will let consumers buy video over the Internet from CBS, the NBA and other providers, becoming the latest company to explore the new method of distributing TV content.” What no one seems to get is that we’ve already had the first [...]

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Happy New Year, everyone

January 1, 2006 Personal

Hi, all. I hope 2006 is everything you need it to be. All the best!

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