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DLD 2012 – Brian Chesky: “Average Airbnb Host In NYC Pockets $21,000 A Year” | TechCrunch
In terms of news, there isn’t much to report based on his talk, but Chesky talked about the fact that sharing used to be an integral part of human life and ‘hardwired’ into our DNA, that it disappeared after the second World War because of increased consumer spending and individualism, and that we’re now at the beginning of the return to sharing.
business  newyork  startup  technology  nyc 
january 2012 by mwfogleman
Book Review: The Creative Habit | The Practice of Leadership
I just read and loved Twyla Tharp's book; this is a summary of the main points.
leadership  books  business  creative  creativity  art  gtd  lifehack  management  review 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Lifehacker - How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done - Steve Wozniak
You'd better have the technology knowledge to do it. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas. You have to create a working model, something that you can show people and demonstrate that it works, and then you can start building a future for it.
lifehacker  interview  interviews  stevewozniak  woz  apple  hacking  business  advice 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
The True Cost of Amazon's New Kindle - BusinessWeek
It has taken the online retailer Amazon less than two years to make its Kindle device more or less synonymous with the electronic book reader,

There are, of course, other companies that have built electronic book devices, among them Sony (SNE) and recently Fujitsu. But Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle has come to personify the e-reader in much the same way Apple's (AAPL) iPod brand of music player is often used generically to mean an MP3 player.
components  business  amazon  kindle  cost 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
The high costs of running YouTube. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
It's possible that over the next few years, Google's engineers could find a way to reduce dramatically the costs of hosting such a service. (They're capable of amazing things.) But that proposition is iffy. As Wayne argues, there's a very real possibility that YouTube as we know it is doomed. The company may have to institute restrictions to keep its bandwidth in check, or it could unveil any number of pay-per-use schemes (as some other video sites have done). Then the video free-for-all that we've grown to love will come to an end.
That would be unfortunate. Time wasn't wrong: YouTube and its fellow user-contributed sites really did change the world. Too bad nobody could find a way to pay for it.
video  web2.0  advertising  content  bandwidth  entertainment  slate  businessmodel  bandwith  cost  socialmedia  digital  entrepreneurship  youtube  facebook  economy  business  article  internet  economics  media  google  technology  news  web 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
SourceWatch - SourceWatch
Welcome to SourceWatch—your guide to the names behind the news. SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists, government agencies, activists and nongovernmental organizations. Unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by a paid editor.
politics  reference  culture  tools  business  blog  web2.0  news  wiki  activism  research  economics  media  government  journalism  propaganda  watchdog  sourcewatch  progressive  democracy  information  blogs  policy  resources  analysis  alternative  search  database  pr 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook
Facebook plans to turn on real-time updates as well. But when it does, it could well be looking at another major backlash from users. If we saw a backlash against real-time on FriendFeed — which not only has much fewer users, but also has a user base that is considered to be full of “power” web users — just imagine what the backlash will be like on Facebook. It will be ugly.

And that’s why filters are so important. These allow you to show only certain updates from certain people on your stream. But again, FriendFeed has done a better job on them than Facebook has. Facebook has made it fairly easy to edit who is in what filter, but it’s still not obvious as to how to do that from a friend’s actual profile page. On FriendFeed, it’s obvious.
business  friendfeed  stream  activitystream  lifestreaming  web  future  social  media  facebook  trends  interface  socialmedia  twitter  strategy  features  socialnetworks  realtime 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
How to Craft Your Personal Business Model - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
Making these decisions can be overwhelming–even if you’re a veteran. This past January, for the second time in my career, I abandoned a comfy full-time gig and jumped whole hog into a completely open calendar. Coming up on my last day as an employee, I couldn’t wait to be free again. I felt like queen of the world: I had potential clients offering me paid work, volunteer opportunities to dive into, a long list of new skills and technologies I couldn’t wait to teach myself, and a calendar full of free time. It felt great.
Then I spent my first day as a freelancer wrapped in a blanket, wide-eyed and paralyzed, wondering what in the world I’d gotten myself into. That didn’t feel great.
It was time to do some soul-searching. I picked up a notebook and pen and got to teasing out a bigger vision that would help me make sense of the smaller decisions. I was crafting my personal business model.
article  ginatrapani  business  branding  tutorial  businessmodel  blog  inspiration  freelance  webdesign  career  organization  advice  personal  best  strategy  freelancing  startups  designer 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works
So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need "social media marketing" after all.
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april 2009 by mwfogleman
Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Right Now?
Who the hell are all these people enrolling in journalism schools? Forbes has reported today that enrollment is soaring, even though nearly one-sixth of newspaper jobs have evaporated since 2001, and those left pay an average of $40,000 a year— just slightly more than journalism school will cost you. I know people do crazy things in a recession, but taking out a student loan for a degree that won’t give an edge in a wheezing industry actually makes getting an MBA look smart.

It’s not that I’m pessimistic about the future for good journalists. Quite the opposite, in fact. Journalism isn’t dying; it’s just in a period of extreme volatility. And in any time of volatility, there’s huge room for opportunity. But you’re not going to learn how to exploit it in a stuffy classroom taught by people who got there by working at newspapers.
education  writing  article  business  news  web2.0  journalism  media  newspapers  entrepreneurship  enterprise 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
GizmoStyle // We Love The Web : Linux enters the I’m A Mac/I’m A PC row with ‘We’re Linux’
We’ve all seen the various Mac v PC ads but no Linux ads as of yet. And why would we? - Linux does not have the bank balance to finance Hollywood style adverts - remember Microsofts Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign? $10 million for what? Well, that’s all about to change as Linux have announced five finalists who have made adverts for their ‘We’re Linux’ video campaign. I must admit, they probably aren’t TV ready…..yet. We’ll see what Linux decide to do when they announce the winner tomorrow (Wednesday evening Pacific Time). Here are the 5 videos:
video  software  linux  internet  humor  opensource  design  apple  business  programming  windows  community  sharing  tv  advertising  microsoft  marketing  videos  2009 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory - O'Reilly Radar
Imagine now what would happen if cities did throw their weight behind this kind of innovation? The landscape of those cities would change virtually overnight, with legions of new applications springing up to provide residents with every sort of information conceivable, making their decisions more informed, making their movements more coordinated, and ultimately making the cities themselves work better. This change would happen at a fraction of the cost of any proposals for change currently being considered by cities around the world. And much of that cost, for development and operation, would be offloaded from the city itself to the individuals building and using these services.
internet  o'reilly  cities  opensource  grid  infrastructure  business  web2.0  future  community  collaboration  environment  architecture  crowdsourcing  city 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Daring Fireball: Complex
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
software  startup  evolution  technology  apple  daringfireball  design  architecture  business  read  article  strategy  blog  platform  development  simple  simplicity  agile  ideas  usability  2009  ui  iphone  ipod  complexity 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.
technology  journalism  trends  internet  innovation  culture  revolution  copyright  business  gutenberg  advertising  history  news  change  article  web  newspapers  drm  future  media  publishing  economy  online  print  newspaper  information 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
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