Privacy concerns are very real on the web, as they should be. But it seems the stigma with tracking has at least some roots in the illogical. In theory, there is nothing wrong with someone knowing more about you; the ...Read More
Attention is the currency of the web, but clicks are the most trusted unit of value we exchange between buyers and sellers. But just like dollars, clicks only represent value; they are only valuable because we believe they are, as ...Read More
Seriously, think about it. Hef was all about happiness. He wasn’t about politics or really even sex; other people made him into that. What he believed in right from the beginning was delivering happiness by offering people an experience previously ...Read More
Social media is still young, and the innovations we are seeing in the space are largely straightforward from a conceptual point of view. Facebook is college social life translated into the digital space, Linkedin is networking, Twitter is conversation. Social ...Read More
Economists are wary about economies, such as India, that have jumped the development spectrum from agriculture straight to services. They see healthy economic development as needing to progress along a spectrum from agriculture to manufucaturing to services. But the spectrum ...Read More
When it comes to ideas, most of us are like rabbits or Irish catholics: we keep pumping em out. At any given time, we have dozens of little rug rat ideas running around inside of our minds. It doesn't seem ...Read More
When most people let their creativity out they keep it close to the main road. It's familiar, it's easy, and they don't have to fear getting lost chasing it around. But creativity and normal are mutually exclusive; you can't have ...Read More
You can make a business out of servicing people’s wants. But you can shape an industry by creating wants that don’t yet exist. Being a trend setter necessitates being different and appealing to a segment (initially) much smaller than the ...Read More
Facebook recently received a patent for "gift-giving". This must be a red flag for many people as to the direction we are heading with our patent system. There are tons of problems with the system, but this recent development represents ...Read More
There are two dimensions to thinking: focus and scope. With creative thinking, many tend to focus as hard as they can on the problem with the hopes that the answer will become clearer. But scope is just as important. Having ...Read More
The economics of attention and dollars are different. There are many similarities in the incentives, actions, and results both currencies create, but they aren't completely the same. And where there are different realities there is an opportunity for professional differentiation.
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Just asking ;). But seriously, there is (or there is the potential to be) a digital equivalent to every human action, interest, and desire in the real world. The digital world is still so young that many of these equivalents ...Read More
We all know how easy it is to come up with ideas and how hard it is to implement them. The funnel through which ideas are poured into results is narrow, yet most people still dump in way too much ...Read More
