“Might be of interest to investors, readers, writers, designers, marketers, etc. Or not… Two months ago, I got a Kindle. It’s a fascinating device, unlike almost any other launched by a significant tech company. Here’s why: 1. It’s for women…”
via Seth’s Blog
Archive for June, 2008
Random thoughts about the Kindle
Friday, June 20th, 2008Want In To the Angelina Jolie Wanted Screening? Tell Us Why And Get Two Tickets
Friday, June 20th, 2008“Wanted Exclusive Trailer HD On Monday MySpace and TechCrunch will be showing a special free screening of the new Angelina Jolie movie Wanted at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco. We gave out 200 tickets earlier this week (they were gone in 15 minutes, the wait list was full right after). We have a few more seats [...]”
via TechCrunch
Network Solutions Suddenly Opposed To Domain Hijacking
Friday, June 20th, 2008“Hypocrisy alert: Domain name registrar Network Solutions, which earlier this year adopted the questionable practice of registering on its own behalf any domain name searches done on its site, today urged the industry to abandon the practice. Here’ s how the scam works: You go to Network Solutions (or virtually any of their competitors) and do a [...]”
via TechCrunch
Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft’s Success
Friday, June 20th, 2008“Hugh Pickens writes “Bill Gates, in a interview with the BBC, revealed the secret of Microsoft’s success: ‘Most of our competitors were very poorly run. They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together,’ said Gates. ‘They did not think about software in this broad way. They did not think about tools or efficiency. They would therefore do one product, but would not renew it to get it …”
via Slashdot
Is Twitter Vulnerable to Marketer Attack?
Friday, June 20th, 2008“The advent of Twitter going mainstream is upon us, according to Inquisitr’ s Duncan Riley. That’ s not actually how he put it, though. I believe he said something like doom, gloom, and the end of days! What’ s bringing this glorious/tragic event? Riley quotes an email he recieved from known Web 2.0 flopster and prolific e-book salesman John [...]”
via Mashable!
Pay For It: Radical Water Privatization for Poor Countries
Friday, June 20th, 2008“Here is my piece for Forbes.com on the privatization of residential water supply in the Third World. Excerpt: And no, I don’t mean a water concession with a price regulated by the government, I mean true laissez faire in water…”
via Marginal Revolution
The decay of gratitude
Friday, June 20th, 2008“[Francis] Flynn asserts that immediately after one person performs a favor for another, the recipient of the favor places more value on the favor than does the favor-doer. However, as time passes, the value of the favor decreases in the…”
via Marginal Revolution
Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned
Thursday, June 19th, 2008“The stories over the weekend were bad enough – the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submisisons. Drudge Report is doing nothing different than what Digg, TechMeme, Mixx and [...]”
via TechCrunch
Does Affiliate Marketing Mix with Social Media?
Thursday, June 19th, 2008“After I and Inquisitr’ s Duncan Riley yesterday both expressed a bit of apprehension that the sometimes unscrupulous world of affiliate and MLM marketing might be making its way to the Twittersphere, John Reese (founder of traffic funnelling pyramid scheme BlogRush) decided to set the record straight on his personal blog. Unfortunately for John, much like [...]”
via Mashable!
The Hype Worked: Firefox 3 Downloaded 8.3 Million Times In First 24 Hours
Thursday, June 19th, 2008“Despite getting off to a slow start yesterday, the official release of the Firefox 3 browser was downloaded 8.3 million times (that’ s the unofficial tally as of 11:16 AM PT today). Mozilla beat its goal of 5 million downloads by 3 million and set a new world record! All right, there was no [...]”
via TechCrunch