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Oct 4, 2011, 1:16 pm
It is weird to see an Amazon-internal tool I use everyday making the headlines.
Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad | Cult of Android.
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Oct 3, 2011, 2:00 pm
A rising issue as the media gets personalized. There are a lot of problems, but not that many solutions. It will take a lot of experimentation and design thinking to “imitate” the opinion clashes in traditional media sources.
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Oct 3, 2011, 2:49 am
I am trying to understand why we have so different discovery abilities (and disabilities) for the 3 major media content types that seem not-so-different from a discoverability point of view. I find it amusing that we have pandora et al for music and not for movies. Many mags cover music and movies b... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2011, 7:47 pm
I love PES from Konami. So do a few million gamers. Last week, the new iteration was out (PES 2012). Once more, Konami (and it’s rival EA Sports with the FIFA series) made the games more realistic, more graphically intensive and more intuitive. And Once more they failed to include features like:
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Jul 13, 2011, 6:26 pm
Back in Feb, I had a paradigm shift after reading Chris Dixon's post on Selling Pickaxes During a Gold Rush. Lately, I have been seeing very interesting companies looking at the super hot tech markets from a "pickaxe seller" view. I am sure I am missing many, but here are a few that I find promising... Comment - Like
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Jul 2, 2011, 2:59 am
In Reuters article, Google is reported to have bid weird price points for Nortel patents:
At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128.
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Apr 5, 2011, 1:27 pm
This is a post in my "In search of disruption" series, inspired by Christensen's great books on the subject.
I want to open up with a quote from Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma":
Disruptive technologies bring to a market a very different value proposition than had been available previously. Gen... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2011, 10:15 pm
Lately, many analysts have been talking about Netflix' streaming library. I don't assert that I have understood it completely, but my best, simplified, guess for Netflix' streaming strategy is the following:
Offer the cheapest possible library that is just good enough to keep customers paying.
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Apr 8, 2010, 2:20 pm
Countless number of traits bring success to people. Among those, my vote goes to the ability of learning. In today's world where everything is changing and evolving in a faster pace than ever before, a person's capability to learn, unlearn, and relearn is the most fundamental driver of personal comp... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2010, 12:15 pm
It pisses me badly when I see travel websites promoting their "price match" feature as a benefit to their customers. It is amazing how, in fact, price match policies take advantage of travelers, help keep prices higher, and create tacit collusion opportunities among industry players.
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Mar 24, 2010, 8:34 pm
I have been spending the better part of my spring break by reading books, watching movies and playing video games related to espionage and political suspense. My Kindle is now filled with Vince Flynn and I am about half-way through in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent on PS3.
Naturally, t... Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2010, 1:39 am
How do these two seemingly unrelated themes come together? Through Conde Nast Traveler's "Where Are You" content.
I am a long-time subscriber of Conde Nast Traveler, one of the two (along with Travel+Leisure) top-class travel magazines. In every issue, Traveler publishes a nice photo and asks for t... Comment - Like
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Mar 18, 2010, 3:12 am
Kindle is such an amazing device. Yesterday, I was flying from New York City to San Francisco, a 7-hour flight. I didn't plan ahead for the red-eye, but the Hudson News shop in the airport came in handy. I took a look at the "best-sellers" rack and found many great novels to buy. Yet, I saw one part... Comment - Like
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Dec 25, 2009, 6:22 pm
I realized that I have been spending a lot of time thinking about why some content rental markets are better developed than others – both in terms of content type and geography. As I thought deeper, I started collecting enough data to put my thinking into a framework-like approach, where I analyze... Comment - Like
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Dec 21, 2009, 4:52 pm
There are strange things happening in Facebook’s “Suggestions” box. While it has worked quite nicely in the past few months about finding some “real” friends, the suggestions started expanding into some dangerous territory.
There are a number of people that keep coming up to my Suggestion... Comment - Like
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Dec 17, 2009, 6:21 pm
For 2008, my picks were these.
While I change the format slightly, most of my faves remain on the list:
Devices
Web Products/Services
iPhone Apps
iPhone
Amazon
AroundMe
Livescribe
Del.icio.us
Dropbox
Macbook Pro
Dropbox
ESPN ScoreCenter
Playstation 3
Flickr
Flight Control
Gamefly
Flixster
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Oct 24, 2009, 9:22 pm
FeedFlix, a Netflix API service, says that Netflix is losing 0.3% of DVDs it is shipping.
GameFly, which gives the same Netflix-style service for video games, is unhappy about ~1.0% loss rates for the DVDs it is shipping. Probably for that reason and some others, they filed a complaint with the Po... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2009, 3:35 am
Google Reader started offering a new sorting method for blog posts: Sort by magic.
While many tech evangelists have already declared RSS-reading dead and migrated to Twitter-style micro-sharing, I still think RSS is by-far the most effective learning tool/platform on earth (maybe on par with the c... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2009, 1:10 am
Future of filmed entertainment will not be that different from what it is today – in terms of complexity and number of players participating. But, as the pie is large, there are lots of hopeful and agressive firms out there trying to close a prime estate in the white space. This post is by no mean... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2009, 11:02 pm
For the last 72 hours, I have spent a good amount of time on discovering the inner workings of pay-to-bid auctions, and Swoopo in particular. I must be one of the early inquirers into the subject, as there is still no wikipedia article or reference to this novel auction method (or I am just inept at... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2009, 9:29 am
I wonder why there is no comScore-like coverage in blog world. While RSS is extremely suitable to run advanced analytics on it, there is little offered for publishers and consumers to understand the leaders and readership drivers in this space.
One good, but not impressive, information source is Go... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2009, 2:17 am
This is a follow-up to Cem Sertoglu’s post on Turkish Online News, dated July 28th, 2009.
Some resources say there are 26 million internet users in Turkey, making it 14th largest internet population in the world. Yet, that wouldn’t be enough to justify the following result from Google Insights.... Comment - Like
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Aug 22, 2009, 11:22 pm
Nobody knows for sure how and why the first soccer league was founded. But one theory, further supported by Spaniards’ big success in the realm, suggests that a Spanish king liked the idea as he thought the league will attract the attention of citizens and leave the king the valuable space to mana... Comment - Like
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