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Oil Inspired Information Design

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design

All the hubbub about oil prices has brought out some interesting charts and infographs. Here are just a few of them. If you can think of others, please suggest them. First, the price of Light Sweet Crude from 2004 to present A neat infographic from the NYTimes showing the relationship between demand and price, or [...]

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Mission Statements That Focus on Usefulness

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Usability

Mission statements are those sometimes laughable, sometimes awe-inspiring puffs of magical corporate thinking that are used as guideposts by companies to tell them where they should be going and what they should be doing. Google’s is perhaps the best known: … to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This bit [...]

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Webs 1, 2 and 3, Diagrammatically Speaking

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Information Markets

The FT has a nice article in today’s edition (World-wise web) which discusses the future of the web. It’s semantic, of course. It’s also transparent, as I keep saying. (“Whatever can be transparent will be transparent.”) But better to quote the FT rather than myself (emphasis mine). It seems a fair bet, though, that some [...]

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What Does Wall Street Think of Google and Their User Experience

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Information Markets, Usability

No doubt you’ve heard the news. Google’s stock is falling because people are not clicking on their vaunted text ads. Wall Street seems a bit confused about why people are clicking less on Google’s ads. This quote from the FT captures the confusion: Mark Mahaney, Citigroup analyst, said the decline could be caused by Google’s [...]

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Searching for Good, Cheap Wine (Again)

February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Wine Markets

In the never ending quest for good, cheap wine, we have some new entrants into the field (hat tip to AltSearchEngine) that seem to be promising. We’ve already talked about Snooth and how they seem to be headed in the right direction, but ablegrape and Vinquire have some potent offerings. Vinquire tries to bridge the [...]

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Leveraging Creative Destruction

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Product Development

An article in the FT (Founders take aim at a bigger target) talks about the new “shotgun” approach of entrepreneurs. Instead of relying on one BIG idea they try lots of little ones. From the article: “In consumer internet, it doesn’t make sense to stick a stake in the ground and say, ‘I’m doing this [...]

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“Better Than Free” … Wouldn’t That Be Free-er (er, More Free)?

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Information Markets

Kevin Kelly has written something that seems to be getting a lot of attention – Better Than Free. The article essentially lists out various ways that companies can add value to their information goods, and hence a price greater than free (a word beautiful to the consumer, hated by entrepreneurs and companies). The fundamental insight [...]

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Online Ads Are Here To … Be Blocked

February 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Other Markets

I once wrote an article called Ads Are Here To Stay. Perhaps I was naive back then (or maybe wise, who knows), but it seemed to me (and perhaps everyone else) that online ads were on their way to becoming a permanent fixture of the web, paying as they did for all of that free, [...]

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HubDub Arrives

January 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Other Markets, Prediction Markets

There’s been a bit of a news storm about the launch of HubDub at the DEMO conference. And deservedly so. Much of the feedback from the prediction market industry watchers has been positive. And I agree with their assessment. There is much to be said for HubDub. But perhaps the most important thing is that [...]

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Google Health … Google Stealth … Google Dream … ?

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets

We read in this morning’s news from TechCrunch that Google is making moves to launch Google Health. From the place-holder page over at Google we read: With Google Health, you can: * Build online health profiles that belong to you * Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies * Get personalized health guidance and relevant [...]

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