Yahoo! News: "The picture is even more grim after adjusting for inflation. The $27 billion in revenue that newspapers received in 1986 would equal nearly $53 billion in today's dollars."
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Why Is Every App A Game? The Badgeification Of The Internet
The Next Web: "What the heck is going on here? It’s actually pretty obvious. Every web company wants to be “sticky.” They want people coming back again, and again, and again. Everyday, if they can finagle it. What is a dead simple way to get people to come back? Make the product into a game."
Monday, March 8, 2010
What Are the Legal Implications of PleaseRobMe?
MediaShift: "The site aggregates Twitter posts sent when a person uses Foursquare to check in at a location -- meaning they're basically telling the world that they're not at home at the moment.
According to the folks at PleaseRobMe, if a would-be burglar knows you're out with friends, that 'leaves one place you're definitely not...home.'"
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Angels vs. Venture Capitalists
blog.pmarca.com: "In a nutshell, entrepreneurs and the businesses they are starting have evolved. Start ups today don’t need to build a manufacturing plant (as DEC, the very first high-tech VC investment, did in 1957) to start a business. They need less money to build a product and prove that it works before scaling the business. Yet, the paperwork involved in funding entrepreneurs hasn’t changed to meet these needs."
Understanding the participatory news consumer
Pew Internet & American Life Project: "The internet has surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a news platform on a typical day and now ranks just behind TV."
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