Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
chrishughes : I just paid $29.39 for Chris Anderson’s new book Free . Something is wrong with this picture. Apparently you can get it for free if you prefer.
OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Let the games begin! At last night's Ning Appathon kickoff event at the Ning offices in Palo Alto, Ning started a week-long worldwide app development competition for the recently launched Ning Apps platform. WHAT: The Ning Appathon is a week-long OpenSocial development competition with prizes for both original and ported applications. Judges include Ning Chairman and Co-founder Marc Andreessen , Wired...
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Photo: Jib Ellison at TEDIndia, Session 6, "Green and Blue," November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson “If you want to change the world, take something powerful and nudge it,” said Chris Anderson at...
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Photo: Pranav Mistry at TEDIndia, Session 3, "Wonder. Wonders." November 5, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson A round-up of Session 3 from TEDIndia: Chris Anderson opens up the session reminding the audience of TED’s...
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Photo: Lakshmi Pratury and Chris Anderson at TEDIndia, Session 1, "Fast Forward," November 5, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson A round-up from the thunderous first session of TEDIndia: Usha Uthup's mesmerizing voice rings in...
INSPIONS - Murali's Thought Garage (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Audio version of “FREE : The Future Of A Radical Price” by Chris Anderson is available for download from Audible or through iTunes for, what else, absolutely FREE. Related posts:Menu Engineering : How To Fix Price For Your ProductWordpress Automatic Upgrade : WoW!Vonage Offers Unlimited Calls to India : Back to 1 Month [...] Related posts: Menu Engineering : How To Fix Price For Your...
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
It's less than 24 hours before Day 1 of TEDIndia. This afternoon, co-hosts Lakshmi Pratury and Chris Anderson and TED's media team met with all the TEDIndia speakers in the big theater to talk about presenting -- sharing tips...
Daytime Running Lights : All Posts (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Blogs are pretty much append-only. Most of the time you add new posts, sometimes you edit recent ones. There are new comments. CouchDB's file format is also append-only. This doesn't make it special, lots of databases have used similar techniques before, but it does make it more like web data. It also makes it smooth for the disk, because the disk doesn't have to seek for writes, and most reads are...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
An offer is a special kind of ad that tries to get a user to do something like sign up for a service. These offers are a big source of revenue for free-to-play social games on social networks such as Facebook. But they have come under fire because some offers can be deceiving. Anu Shukla, chief executive of offer company Offerpal Media, got into a videotaped verbal scrap with Techcrunch editor Michael...
Smart Betting - Sports Betting Tips (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Denver Nuggets, who managed a bright start going 3-0 lead by the strong play of Carmelo Anthony averaging 37.7 ppg and Chauncey Billups averaging 23 ppg. With those 2 players leading the excellent team playing Nuggets, things look to be headed in a similar direction to last year. Nene, Kenyon Martin and also Ty Lawson, Chris Anderson off the bench have proven to give valuable contributions to the...
Damien Mulley (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky, Free by Chris Anderson, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, anything by Seth Godin. Just some of the books I’ve decided to not read given everyone else is extolling their virtues. Finite time and infinite words mean that for every one of these I read, there is another book I won’t. [...]
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I enjoyed reading Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's books, Free, and The Long Tail. Anyone who loves to blog or spend time online will find them highly informative. Here, in The Long Tail, Anderson is writing about the "reputation economy". As...
"Reflections of an ethical business hack" (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
They all do better online communications than most about ethics, in different ways. When I write "better", I mean better than many others, and better than they used to be at communicating on this difficult and complex topic. I'm not saying perfect. 15 years or so after it began, CR reporting is still a toddler, or at best, a gangly teenager, all oversized feet and bad hair. Here's who I pick...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Here is the Technorati Top 100 blogs list for today, which I converted into a line chart after reading Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The Huffington Post is at the top of the chart with a Technology authority of 968...
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Chris Anderson, author of “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” discusses how different companies use the free-to-premium, or freemium model, to not only make money, but often keep customers at a higher rate than fully-paid services. There are many economies–ones of status, time, information and more–and the trick is to get people to trade [...] Midas Oracle = About + Archives...
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