Archive for August 10th, 2008

Too Much Revenue, Not Enough Growth

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 7:59 pm from Fractals of Change by Tom Evslin

Jeff Jarvis posted a comment on my post In Praise of Revenue: "I’d also like to see you reprise your lesson (from the Union Square event some time ago) on extracting minimal value from the network you create so the network grows as large as possible and the value you’ve created and can extract in the end is greater than if you had tried to extract more value at the beginning. Did I get that right? I quote you to that effect all the time. Did it just the other day with a big pub...

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An August Afternoon in Southold, NY

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 4:20 pm from The Jeff Pulver Blog by jeff

(photo taken on Aug 8, 2008 with a Nikon D300 and a 28-200mm zoom) ...

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Free World Dialup moving to $30 annual membership

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 3:13 pm from The Jeff Pulver Blog by jeff

The email below went out to inform the nearly one million registered users of Free World Dialup of plans to adopt a $30 annual membership fee as of September 1, 2008. Daniel Berninger has responsibility for day to day operations of FWD as CEO, but I wanted to add a few words on the motivation for taking a stand for paid membership. Yogi Berra said, “When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.” I don’t know if anyone predicted that the entire VoIP industry would end up wit...

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It’s Cucumber Time, Baby!

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 4:52 am from Mark Evans by Mark Evans

Is it just me or is the tech world really dull these days? Usually, Techmeme is a source of interest and inspiration but the last few weeks have been dull, dull, dull. If it’s not another story about Apple, the MacBook or the iPhone, it’s TechCrunch putting the spotlight on a Twitter spoof featuring Hitler, or yet another story about nefarious computer viruses. In the newspaper business, the dearth of news is called the “silly season”, although I prefer the Dutch express...

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Lessons From a Chance Encounter with Joe Torre

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 4:11 am from GigaOM by Om Malik

There are some days when you really don’t want to get out of bed. All you want to do is watch your favorite shows on Hulu.com. Today turned out to be one of those days - mostly because a thick fog enveloped the city of San Francisco and turned the morning into a dark haze. Since the daily regimen calls for a visit to the gym, I couldn’t laze around for too long. And I am glad I didn’t, for it turned out to be such a great Saturday. Post gym, I ended up visiting our local book ...

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