October 2007
31 posts
“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”
– Peter Ustinov (via my Brudder)
Orange Box - games bundle
Occasionally I buy ‘Edge’; the cerebral gaming magazine, and did so last night to accompany a train journey. Anyhow, that Portal game I mentioned is being sold as part of a £50 bundle (with Half Life 2 and another couple of games), called ‘Orange Box. The cool thing is, each of these games is worth buying in their own right - I hardly ever buy PC games, but I’m definitely...
3 pushes out again →
3, here in the UK, is constantly pushing the boundaries of the market. A lot of their disruption is around pushing new revenue models (or dropping prices), but they also push new services into the market at a fair clip. As an aside, they’re able and willing to push prices and services in this way, because, I guess, as the smallest provider, they’ve got nothing to lose.
3 are...
“The big era will come when ourselves and others can produce enough biological...”
– Craig Venter; Prepare For The BioHackers
I keep coming back to that Sterling quote: “The future’s already here, it’s just not widely distributed yet.”
“The $10 began its long journey into Kellener’s wallet in 1983, when a...”
– Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source. Pure genius - now, if trickle down theory had been explained in the clear manner in University… (via Kottke)
“Word of mouth is still number one even in this media-saturated age”
– BBC NEWS | Magazine | 10 ways to get you to read a book.
Nice write up of the key influencers of how books become best sellers. No mention of longtail models, or profitable niches, though.
The most important conduits are both social, human interaction; word of mouth (most imporant) and book...
“The constraint I like to play with is this: what are the smallest, most...”
– Matt Webb outlines what all companies should be asking themselves in a comment to a great blog post about his ideas for improving the Zune - Small steps towards an imaginary Zune 2.0
“How nice it would be to have a “scheduled calls” tab in my phone...”
– O’Reilly Radar Fabulous idea - I also plan calls I’m going to make on long drives; particularly now I have a way of talking and people hearing me.
“Outline.
Plan everything you’re going to write, scene by scene, all the...”
– 50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work (via 43Folders)
WatchThe Chess Guru of Dupont Circle - washingtonpost.com (By way of kottke.org, where else? :-)
“Process is the feature creep of organizations”
– Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity. Many-to-Many:
