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Commerce

Micropayments

April 7, 2006

I attended the HBSTech event on the Evolution and Future of Micropayments last evening in Mountain View.
Presenting were:

Preston Roper, VP of Marketing, BitPass
James Hall, co-founder of FTVentures, a fund with deep experience in micropayments 
Peter Ashley, Director of Merchant Services, PayPal
KC George, Manager of Product Innovation & Coordination, Visa USA

The session was not as interactive as [...]

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Is it cool to be accessible?

March 22, 2006

Two posts that came together on the same riff but from different angles. Do communities scale?
First Danah Boyd on "coolness"
"Coolness" is about structural barriers, about the lack of universal accessibility or parsability. Structural hurdles mean people put in more effort to participate. It’s kinda like the adventure of tracking down the right parking lot to [...]

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The Intention Economy – Pulling Demand from the Edge

March 10, 2006

I’m distilling my takeaways from this week’s eTech conference at, of all places, Disneyland. The vacation schedule of my son’s school afforded us a long weekend down here to the land of characters in big, overstuffed heads.
In such a commerce-driven atmosphere, you really begin to appreciate all the different ways that a machine like the [...]

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TimesSelect Annual Revenues Nearly $5M

November 11, 2005

The New York Times announced that it has over 270,000 subscribers to it’s premium TimesSelect service. PaidContent does some back of the envelope calculations and calculates that they are pulling in $4,954,000 in annual revenue from this venture only 52 days after launch.
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Spam Blogs and Financial Incentive

October 24, 2005

Technorati’s Niall Kennedy posts about the recent spate of spam blogs coming out of Google’s Blogger service and describes Google’s Blogger and Adsense service as parts of a spam suite. BoingBoing first posted Niall’s theory that CAPTCHA’s are no longer a valid block and are circumvented by spammers who redirect the test to eager seekers [...]

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Product Blogs, a new business model

June 27, 2005

My colleague, Loic Le Meur, is interviewed by Shel Israel for their upcoming book on business blogging. Loic shares his story about a T-shirt fanatic who built a community of like-minded T-shirt fans via his blog. His site is now a business which turns the traditional “we-design, you-buy” commerce model inside out (sorry about the [...]

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Charlie Wood, RSS as the Information Bus

June 25, 2005

I wonder how many out there have, upon reading Steve Jobs’ recent commencement address, have reconfigured their life to pursue their dreams. First Richard MacManus cited Jobs’ speech as inspiration. Now, Charlie Wood, VP of Enterprise Solutions of Newsgator, has left his job to start a new venture. Spanning Partners will offer RSS integration services [...]

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nytimes.com surveys readers on $50/year subscription fee

May 3, 2005

The Wall Street Journal Online reports and BusinessWeek blogs that the New York Times is surveying its readers on two subscription plans that would move them away from their current $2.95/article pricing structure. One plan would offer unlimited access to the past year’s articles for $49.99 and the second would limit access to 100 articles/month [...]

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Affiliate marketing offline browser

March 21, 2005

People always ask me how they can make money writing a blog. The question is like someone back in 1870, a few years after the invention of the telephone, asking how someone can make money dialing a telephone call. With apologies to Marshall McLuhan, it’s the message not the medium.
Interactive advertising is playing an dangerous [...]

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Collective Loan Network

March 14, 2005

The internet is a wonderful catalyst for busting apart black boxes that mediate experience, knowledge, or commerce. My co-worker Sippey, points to Zopa, a UK exchange network which hooks up lenders to borrowers and, because there’s no middleman, takes only 1% as a fee. Their approach is fresh and they’ve got a few ideas on [...]

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