I’ve always believed that transparency is a force for good, particularly that it acts as a disinfectant for corruption (not my metaphor). This is why I love sites like ipaidabribe.com which captures information about bribes in India. (India, for those who don’t know, is, shall we say, experiencing a little problem with corruption.) The site [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Information Markets'
Tell us about the bribes you paid
March 16th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, Information Markets
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What can be _____ will be ______
August 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Information Markets
In the old Razorfish days they used to say, whatever can be digital will be digital. This rather catchy saying (despite perhaps being invalidated by one night of television) always seemed a rather clever way to describe the imminence of the digital revolution. My own conceit is to adjust the phrase to, whatever can be [...]
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Google struggles
August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Information Markets, Product Development, Product Markets
Google has been much in the news of late, and not for all the good reasons. Net neutrality and privacy advocates now have (even more?) reason to question where the company stands on these important issues. Crucially, it appears the company is shifting from previously stated positions. Before they were for net neutrality. Now they’re [...]
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The window is not the view. The browser is not the internet.
September 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Information Markets, Product Development
We should not be surprised to hear that Google is trying to get its browser and operating systems (“Chrome“) pre-installed on computers, just as Microsoft’s OS and browser currently are for most PCs. All of this activity, though, has prompted some interesting questions about where the browser starts and ends, and how much should users [...]
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My poll results and the NY Times
July 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · Information Markets, Poll
Not so long ago I ran a highly scientific poll asking people what they would pay for news. The results are now in. But first …. We read in the FT that the NYTimes is now considering charging for their content. With respect to what they would charge, we read: The New York Times is [...]
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Is violating privacy a successful business model?
June 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Information Markets, Product Development
This article in the FT about a Facebook ap called We’re Related has raised some eyebrows across the pond (in Europe, that is). Essentially the application asks to use your private data to see which of your friends might be related to you, however distantly, and then can potentially share that information, even though you [...]
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Ads as a basis for your business model are so yesterday
June 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Information Markets, Product Development
From a blog post in the WSJ about differing styles in entrepreneurship (Silicon Alley vs. Silicon Valley) we hear this from some some NYC based entrepreneurs: “Does everybody understand that the ad revenue model is just over?” he [Mr. Brill, co-founder of media startup Journalism Online] asked. Jalak Jobanputra, senior vice president at the New [...]
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And yet more free news on the coming death of (mostly) free news
May 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Information Markets
Coincidence? Both the FT and the Economist (journals owned by the same company), recently published extensive stories about how news organizations are struggling with users’ expectation of free news content and the inadequacy of the advertising driven business model to support this. The Economist’s story is here. And the FT’s here. Both articles are well [...]
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How much would you pay to read the news?
May 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Information Markets
As someone who is just plain curious to now, how much would you pay to read content provided by top newspapers? *********************** *********************** Thanks for taking the time!! ~alex
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