March 2009
80 posts
Why Iteration is a Powerful Way to Build a Startup... →
Leaving Amazon: What I learned →
Advertising - Adults Spend 8 Hours a Day in Front... →
The best in advertising, design, and digital... →
“You need good dealflow and by good dealflow, I mean, proprietary or a...”
– Venturehacks on investing
“When you hear people talking about a successful angel investor, they’re...”
– Paul Graham on angel investing
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“Strong Offers Raise Clickthrough Rate but also Increase Bounce / Abandonment...”
– Copy tips from Komarketing
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Top-3 trends to leverage, according to Dopplr
Declarative living
User-generated data
Social intelligence
information aesthetics - Information Visualization... →
Grid Based Design Toolbox | Fuel Your Creativity →
visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on... →
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An panel on what the commerical market can learn...
“You never get a second chance to launch. Unlike a lot of other startup...”
– Startup lessons learned
Progress: A Graphical Report on the State of the... →
Beautiful visualization of the world today.
Conversations with Ads " Response to Eric Clemons'... →
“Data and measurements are essential in software, and can take you a long way on...”
– Scott Stevensson on Developers vs. Designers
“Instead of advertising becoming more like product development - the in-meme...”
– Me.
“What I am saying is that we need more people wanting to build companies, not...”
– SAMBA Blog: The Startup Myth
Rafer sez: Thank you, thank you, thank you. (via rafer)
Another day, another advertising post mortem →
“..the three A’s for metrics: actionable auditable accessible”
– Eric Ries
Burt and Plugg preview →
Translation of a dutch blog hyping Burt before Plugg ;)
Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet →
Yet another log on the death-by-advertising fire, this time on Techcrunch by some professor from Wharton. It’s well written and researched, but makes the classic mistake of arguing that advertising…
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Another day, another advertising post mortem
It’s not easy being in advertising these days. Not only does our industry consist of professionals with an exceptionally high level of existential anxiety - being paid to sell out to the highest bidder will do that to you ;) - but we’re also under constant attack from people in other parts of the value chain. Not that this is anything new, advertising has been under siege both from the...
patio →
Good looking, but very stripped down, todo app.
“Copyright is uniquely badly designed for the world we live in, for almost no...”
– Owen Blacker (via factoryjoe)
Startups in 13 Sentences
factoryjoe:
Pick good cofounders.
Launch fast.
Let your idea evolve.
Understand your users.
Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent.
Offer surprisingly good customer service.
You make what you measure.
Spend little.
Get ramen profitable.
Avoid distractions.
Don’t get demoralized.
Don’t give up.
Deals fall through.
From Paul Graham
From personal experience I know...
EC2 for Poets (Scripting News) →
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“If news is important, it will find me”
– College student talking to Nielsen Lab on News 2.0. Incredibly well put.
Main - WebHome - Alenty - Advertising visibility... →
Measuring Social Media Efforts | chrisbrogan.com →
How to Make Display Ads Suck Less - Advertising... →
Personifi Categories →
Demo of Personfi’s semantic processing engine
compfight + a flickr™ search tool →
Digital Element Helps Tumri Boost Online... →
Burt and Plugg preview →
Translation of a dutch blog hyping Burt before Plugg ;)
OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN | The Art of... →
Death by advertising, according to the Economist →
9 Reasons Japanese Interactive Work Is Awesome |... →
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Death by advertising, according to the Economist
So the Economist has an interesting article up on how many large consumer web sites are having problems monetizing their audience’s usage. The point being that advertising isn’t ramping up enough revenues so these services now have to start charging for their services, which is difficult since barriers to entry are low and the user’s will then flee to some copycat service...
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