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26,191 | far33d | 2007-06-04T01:24:54 | Paul Kedrosky: Shut Up About the Age Thing | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/06/03/shut_up_about_t.html | 16 | 7 | [
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26,192 | far33d | 2007-06-04T01:27:17 | Best SEO is Useful Content (Seth's Blog) | null | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/06/building_43.html | 6 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,202 | jkopelman | 2007-06-04T02:10:05 | Paul Kedrosky: Favorite Three Questions for Early-Stage Companies | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/06/03/favorite_three.html | 15 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,205 | jkopelman | 2007-06-04T02:21:39 | Marc Andreessen is blogging... | null | http://blog.pmarca.com | 16 | 2 | [
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26,207 | bootload | 2007-06-04T03:04:59 | Amazon's unseemly tags | null | http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/amazons_unseeml.php | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Amazon’s unseemly tags | 2007-05-29T16:04:50+00:00 | by Nick |
I confess: I’m not a natural-born tagger. A while back, when Amazon.com began allowing its customers to tag its products with descriptive labels or keywords, I thought it would be a good way of categorizing and cataloging books I’d come across that I might want to remember in the future. But after tagging a couple of books, I lost interest. It didn’t seem worth the fuss.
Some people, though, are more dedicated. They’ve found creative ways to use tags to label and categorize Amazon’s products – for their own benefit and for the benefit of others with similar interests. I recently received an email from a reader of this blog who described how, in browsing for DVDs at Amazon, he came across some creepy keywords that users had used to categorize movies. The 1985 French coming-of-age film L’Effrontée, for example, had been tagged, as shown in the screen shot below, with such keywords as “child nudity,” “infant nudity,” “young girl,” “bare butt,” and “nymphette”:
If you click on any of those keywords, you get a neatly organized list, sometimes going on for many pages, of other movies that users have tagged with the same label. A lot of the tags on L’Effrontée also appear, for instance, on the Amazon page for the Oscar-nominated 1998 Norwegian movie The Other Side of Sunday:
One possible explanation is that the tags are being added by people who are offended at seeing things like naked babies or bare behinds in movies – and are trying to warn off likeminded folks. But, let’s face it, that’s a stretch, particularly when you view the tags in their totality (or look at the buying patterns that Amazon documents). What’s really going on here, almost certainly, is that weirdos are using keywords to, in effect, set up special little sections of Amazon’s store tailored to their peculiar tastes. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. You don’t have to travel far down the long tail of demand before you start finding unsavory niches. And it certainly could be argued that, however distasteful this kind of tagging may be to most people, no one’s actually being harmed by it, at least not directly. Should we really care what motivates people to watch particular movies in their own homes?
Still, the practice of this sort of communal tagging at a popular mainstream site raises some difficult questions, not least for the site owner. Does Amazon really want to be known as a company that makes it easy for people to find movies labeled as containing “child nudity.” If it were a physical store, would it set up a “child nudity” section in its movie department? I don’t think so.
But there’s another twist to this story. The keywords, it turns out, aren’t actually coming from Amazon’s customers. If you scroll further down on the DVD pages, you find another set of tags which are coming from Amazon users – and are, so far as I can see, fairly inoffensive. The unseemly tags appear to be part of the information on movies that Amazon automatically imports into its site from the popular Internet Movie Database (IMDb) site. Although there’s no indication that the keywords come from IMDb on Amazon’s main product pages – theye tags are described simply as “plot keywords recommended by customers” – if you click deeper into the product information you find an indication that that is where they’re coming from. And, indeed, the user keywords at IMDb precisely match those found on Amazon.
There’s a useful warning here. Commercial site owners don’t just have to keep an eye on the words, pictures, tags, and even categories being added to their pages by their own users. They need to be cognizant of the user-contributed content they’re pulling in from other sites as well. Once it appears on your site, it’s your business. What they say about sexually transmitted diseases seems to apply equally well to data in the Web 2.0 age: You’re not just sleeping with your partner; you’re sleeping with your partner’s partners.
UPDATE: Another twist: In a comment on this post, a reader notes a fact that I missed: IMDb is in fact a subsidiary of Amazon.com, having been acquired back in 1998. I had convinced myself that Amazon was probably unaware of the kinds of tags it was pulling in from IMDb. I guess I was wrong.
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26,216 | zemaj | 2007-06-04T05:05:30 | In Silicon Valley, the Crash Seems Like Just Yesterday | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/weekinreview/03rivlin.html?ex=1338523200&en=da0f1e1cf331cabe&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | 18 | 0 | null | null | null | bot_blocked | nytimes.com | null | null | Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker | 2024-11-08T00:36:18 | null | train |
26,226 | danielha | 2007-06-04T07:16:31 | Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03google.html?ex=1338523200&en=f003aaab287c0a72&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | 8 | 1 | [
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26,247 | jcwentz | 2007-06-04T12:16:27 | Videoguide For Hotels: Trivop.com | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/03/videoguide-for-hotels-trivopcom/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,250 | ciordia9 | 2007-06-04T12:53:52 | When is it time to take the plunge? | null | http://blog.nuancelabs.com/2007/06/02/when-is-it-time-to-take-the-plunge/ | 2 | 4 | [
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26,262 | dawie | 2007-06-04T14:21:10 | iPhone Release Date Is June 29 | null | http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,267 | jkush | 2007-06-04T15:05:27 | Scalability and Performance are the Least of your Worries | null | http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/06/getting-your-priorities-straight.html | 9 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,269 | darragjm | 2007-06-04T15:10:05 | Mahalo Director gives an interesting glimpse into the startup life | null | http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/06/04/start-up-life/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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26,280 | gibsonf1 | 2007-06-04T16:05:40 | 9 Great Ways to Make Mind Maps and Flow Charts Online | null | http://www.rev2.org/2007/06/04/9-great-ways-to-make-mind-maps-and-flow-charts-online/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,281 | msgbeepa | 2007-06-04T16:13:02 | Promote Your Company With Australian Business News | null | http://www.avinio.blogspot.com/2007/06/promote-your-company-with-australian.html | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,284 | pg | 2007-06-04T16:26:14 | New startup uses referring urls from google searches (click first result) | null | http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=massive+purple+beverage&btnG=Search | 2 | 9 | [
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26,289 | juwo | 2007-06-04T16:55:50 | How to design your website with style - by Kurt Vonnegut :) | null | http://www.peterstekel.com/PDF-HTML/Kurt%20Vonnegut%20advice%20to%20writers.htm | 10 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,293 | kevinxray | 2007-06-04T17:30:13 | The New Rules of Public Speaking | null | http://stirtzgroup.com/2007/06/04/the-new-rules-of-public-speaking/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,298 | dawie | 2007-06-04T17:44:56 | Salesforce Is Acquisition Bait | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/04/salesforce-is-acquisition-bait/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,306 | keiretsu | 2007-06-04T18:46:45 | When is it time to give up on your web startup? | null | 14 | 21 | [
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26,311 | transburgh | 2007-06-04T19:11:19 | TechCrunch Database and Startup Search | null | http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/2007/06/04/techcrunch-database-and-startup-search/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,321 | andre | 2007-06-04T20:32:13 | Viable Threat to Google Adwords Emerges | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/06/04/yahoo-plots-adwords-death-by-a-1000-cuts/ | 4 | 3 | [
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26,334 | jkopelman | 2007-06-04T21:22:12 | Ask The VC - What are typical compensation numbers? | null | http://www.askthevc.com/2007/06/what_are_typical_compensation.php | 14 | 2 | [
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26,346 | sharpshoot | 2007-06-04T22:27:23 | Mark Zuckerberg Facebook F8 keynote! | null | http://developers.facebook.com/videos.php | 5 | 6 | [
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26,361 | aston | 2007-06-05T00:19:59 | Scribd gets $3.5M in Series A round led by Redpoint | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/04/scribd-banks-35-million-from-redpoint/ | 19 | 8 | [
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26,367 | aaroneous | 2007-06-05T01:41:11 | Study Reveals Payola in Online Tech Coverage | null | http://dailytech.com/Pay+to+Play+Uncovering+Online+Payola/article7510.htm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | timeout | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T09:27:36 | null | train |
26,368 | aaroneous | 2007-06-05T01:43:25 | How to Stop Being Late | null | http://lifehacker.com/software/time-management/how-to-stop-being-late-243745.php | 2 | 1 | [
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26,374 | gibsonf1 | 2007-06-05T02:43:06 | Sure, You Read Me, But Who'll Friend Me? (Facebook) | null | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060301147.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,376 | benhoyt | 2007-06-05T02:57:45 | How did you learn to program? | null | http://blog.micropledge.com/2007/06/how-did-you-learn-to-program/ | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,377 | nickb | 2007-06-05T03:30:42 | Zooomr: Importance of not having any downtime | null | http://www.uncov.com/2007/6/5/zooomr-live-downtime-and-fucking-your-users | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,378 | rms | 2007-06-05T03:51:25 | Lala launches unlimited, free on-demand music | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/04/lala-bets-the-company-on-free-streaming-music/#comments | 3 | 1 | [
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Just launched: LaLa is offering users the ability to listen to an unlimited amount of on-demand streaming music, for free, marking the first time this has been available legally. Their new tag line is “Play albums on demand, buy the ones you love.”
We wrote about this product a week ago, although the final launch product has additional features we did not cover in that post. The service is available here.
The company is pursuing music licensing deals with labels and will make music available as those deals are closed. Warner Music is their first partner, and will make their full digital catalog available.
The new LaLa is aimed squarely at iTunes. Users can listen to full songs as often as they like. They can buy the physical CD with a couple of clicks, or they can (in a week or so) download the song. The songs are DRM-free, but are downloaded directly to the iPod. The only way for a user to then remove them is to hack the iPod. So while the songs do not contain DRM, the user is effectively barred from consuming the song cross-platform. The company says that future versions of the service will allow CD burning as well.
Prices for song downloads will be $0.99, the company says, but will vary for high-use users. If you listen to a lot of music on LaLa and participate in the community, song prices will be lower.
The digital tracks will be watermarked .aac files. They won’t stop you from transferring the songs to friends iPods, but the service will only allow one licensed copy of that watermarked file to work on Lala at a time.
The service launch is part of huge bet Lala is making on the future of online music. Licensing fees alone are expected to cost the company $140 million over the next two years. They’ll need an average revenue of $65 per user per year to cover the cost. But Lala sees the new service as an essential update to the way we experience and purchase music.
Lala’s bet is based on two beliefs: people want to own their music, and they want to sample it in the most interactive way possible. They saw the radio’s passive sampling experience evolving into Napster’s on demand experience. But Napster was illegal, and didn’t let you easily sync music where you wanted it. Lala’s new service promises a higher quality and more comprehensive service than has ever come before.
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26,383 | bootload | 2007-06-05T04:38:32 | Killing Jacks (pick a focus and dive in) | null | http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/killing-jacks/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,385 | far33d | 2007-06-05T05:11:29 | The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity | null | http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid.html | 25 | 2 | [
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Author practices jumping rope with seaweed while work awaits.
``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. I am working on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time. All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact. The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile tasks to perform lower down on the list. Doing these tasks becomes a way of not doing the things higher up on the list. With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.
The most perfect situation for structured procrastination that I ever had was when my wife and I served as Resident Fellows in Soto House, a Stanford dormitory. In the evening, faced with papers to grade, lectures to prepare, committee work to be done, I would leave our cottage next to the dorm and go over to the lounge and play ping-pong with the residents, or talk over things with them in their rooms, or just sit there and read the paper. I got a reputation for being a terrific Resident Fellow, and one of the rare profs on campus who spent time with undergraduates and got to know them. What a set up: play ping pong as a way of not doing more important things, and get a reputation as Mr. Chips.
Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done. But this goes contrary to the basic nature of the procrastinator and destroys his most important source of motivation. The few tasks on his list will be by definition the most important, and the only way to avoid doing them will be to do nothing. This is a way to become a couch potato, not an effective human being.
At this point you may be asking, "How about the important tasks at the top of the list, that one never does?" Admittedly, there is a potential problem here.
The trick is to pick the right sorts of projects for the top of the list. The ideal sorts of things have two characteristics, First, they seem to have clear deadlines (but really don't). Second, they seem awfully important (but really aren't). Luckily, life abounds with such tasks. In universities the vast majority of tasks fall into this category, and I'm sure the same is true for most other large institutions. Take for example the item right at the top of my list right now. This is finishing an essay for a volume in the philosophy of language. It was supposed to be done eleven months ago. I have accomplished an enormous number of important things as a way of not working on it. A couple of months ago, bothered by guilt, I wrote a letter to the editor saying how sorry I was to be so late and expressing my good intentions to get to work. Writing the letter was, of course, a way of not working on the article. It turned out that I really wasn't much further behind schedule than anyone else. And how important is this article anyway? Not so important that at some point something that seems more important won't come along. Then I'll get to work on it.
Another example is book order forms. I write this in June. In October, I will teach a class on Epistemology. The book order forms are already overdue at the book store. It is easy to take this as an important task with a pressing deadline (for you non-procrastinators, I will observe that deadlines really start to press a week or two after they pass.) I get almost daily reminders from the department secretary, students sometimes ask me what we will be reading, and the unfilled order form sits right in the middle of my desk, right under the wrapping from the sandwich I ate last Wednesday. This task is near the top of my list; it bothers me, and motivates me to do other useful but superficially less important things. But in fact, the book store is plenty busy with forms already filed by non-procrastinators. I can get mine in mid-Summer and things will be fine. I just need to order popular well-known books from efficient publishers. I will accept some other, apparently more important, task sometime between now and, say, August 1st. Then my psyche will feel comfortable about filling out the order forms as a way of not doing this new task.
The observant reader may feel at this point that structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, since one is in effect constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself. Exactly. One needs to be able to recognize and commit oneself to tasks with inflated importance and unreal deadlines, while making oneself feel that they are important and urgent. This is not a problem, because virtually all procrastinators have excellent self-deceptive skills also. And what could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another?
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Each financing option – bootstrapping, small business loan, bank loan, angel money, venture capital, etc. – has its place.
So which one is right for your business?
The type of business
The type of business you’re starting makes a big difference. A lifestyle company shouldn’t require huge amounts of venture capital; VCs won’t invest anyway, because a lifestyle company won’t give them the big returns they need.
A lifestyle company is one that supports a good living for you, but isn’t designed for an exit (i.e. selling to another company, IPO, etc.) Lifestyle companies are typically smaller, built around the expertise and skill set of the individual founder(s).
You may need a small loan to get started with a lifestyle company, but more than likely you’ll bootstrap it.
The complexity of the business
Web 2.0 startups are all about simplicity. The Y Combinator model has shown that you can start a business with very little money and create success. But not every business is a Web 2.0 technology company.
Biotech companies often spend years on research and development before they have a product they can sell. It takes a lot of investment to bring a new medicine or biotech product to market.
Work-at-home businesses usually don’t involve any R&D and they can be easy to setup (although that doesn’t mean they don’t require a learning curve!)
The status of the founders
Recently, a debate was raging across the blogosphere about the perfect age to be an entrepreneur. It was centered around tech startups, where the age of many founders getting funding is in the 20s.
20-year olds starting out for the first time, perhaps still at school, don’t need to pay themselves much (if anything) and they have minimum living expenses. Typically, the older you get (until you hit the age of retirement), the pricier life gets, so as you enter your 30s, get married, have kids, etc. you can’t live in a basement apartment on macaroni and cheese. You can, but you probably won’t want to…
When you start a business, you should expect to take a pay cut. Even if you weren’t working before, you’ll probably put money in versus take money out. And if you’re coming from a paying job, don’t plan on earning the same amount. Nevertheless, as you attain a certain lifestyle, you’ll want to maintain what you can, and your funding decisions may reflect that.
Go big or go home
“Go big or go home,” is the philosophy behind Standout Jobs. It’s not the way every startup should be imagined or run but it works for what we’re doing.
What’s critical for any startup is to find your own philosophy and approach. Believe it. Focus on it. Live it. Drive everything towards it.
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There’s been a lot of talk about whether interviewees should insist on email interviews with journalists, to avoid their being misquoted, quoted out of context, ambushed with a question they were not ready for or whether an interview took place at all. In short, the likes of Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine believe that journalists have exerted power too long by conducting voice interviews and that interviewees are clawing back some control by insisting on email interviews.
This is what I think. I agree the game is too heavily tilted in favor of journalists, many of whom seem to think they have a God-given right to interview anyone they like when they like and on whatever they like. Interviewees decline interviews, they don’t refuse them.
But let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Interviews aren’t just a series of questions. They are
an interaction between two or more people, where interviewees can be interrupted, asked to repeat things that are complicated, and where hand gestures and napkin-based demonstrations are part of the menu.
an exploration on the part of the journalist of the subject, the person, and anything else that may come up
a chance to not only understand but to capture the excitement, character and tone of the interviewee. Great quotes are not just about a fancy expression, but ones that capture the ideas of the story being expressed in the vernacular — short, pithy, eyecatching phrases that stand in beautiful contrast to the prose around it. These quotes, I find, often come outside the usual run of the interview, when the food arrives and the interview shifts to a more informal discussion, or when someone gets up to visit the bathroom. Unpredictable and unguarded, yes, but a good journalist will ensure the quote reflects the more thoroughly articulated points the interviewee has made.
So we should separate up what both sides want to keep and what they should give up. Interviewees fear being misquoted. Fair enough, and there’s no real excuse for this. But as I’ve blathered on about before, there’s being misquoted and being misquoted. Everyone thinks they’ve been misquoted, even if you show them the instant messaging text chat record. When people say they’ve been misquoted more often than not they mean the main idea they wanted to convey wasn’t what the journalist focused on or chose from the interview. That’s tough, but it’s not wrong. And it’s not misquoting.
This is where perhaps the problem lies. When the interviewee talks about control, are they talking about ensuring their words are not distorted, or are they talking about wanting the journalist to take a particular angle. If so, then they have to let go. Everyone has an agenda, and the piece is the journalist’s agenda (or, more likely, their editor’s.) I sometimes have no idea what my agenda/angle is until I’ve started writing, but don’t tell my editors that; they would assume the story is pretty much cut and dried from the get-go (this is what proposals are for.)
This is where interviewees, I think, want to have their cake and eat it. If they want an email interview, they will have just eschewed the opportunity of persuading the journalist of taking the story in another direction, since a journalist is much less likely to be persuaded by the written word than by a face to face interview. So demanding both an email interview and a chance to influence the journalist away from their preconceptions is asking for the impossible. You can’t have both.
What interviewees fear, above all, is the unpredictabilty of the interview. They want to rid themselves of the uncertainty and danger of talking to someone who will consider anything they say fair game. True. It’s unnerving, and I’ve had a taste of it myself in a mild dosage. But that brings me to what I think should happen: Recording.
Take this example from Lawrence Lessig’s blog:
After my debate last week at CISAC (at Google Video here), The Register published a piece (archived) about the event. I’ve received a bunch of angry email about what was reported in that piece. The relevant quotes offered in the Register’s article, however, are not correct.
First, The Register writes that I said: “I have two lives,” he said. “One is in Creative Commons…the other is in litigation against authors.”
In fact, I said: “I have two lives in this. One is leading Creative Commons. And the other [is leading] litigation which is , I’m sure, in conflict with the views of many people about copyright.” Listen to the clip here: mp3, ogg.
I don’t know whether The Register has a retraction to make here, or an apology, or a broadside. I can’t find anything on The Register to indicate they’re considering a response. But I do know Lessig’s version of things, and more importantly, I can listen to a recording of it.
This is what I think interviewees need to do: record their interviews. It’s simple enough, and I am surprised that someone as tech savvy as Jarvis doesn’t do it as a matter of course. It’s not just about defending yourself; sometimes your best ideas come out of a conversation — even one with a journalist.
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More About Marc
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies.
Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018.
Marc holds a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Marc serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Applied Intuition, Carta, Coinbase, Dialpad, Flow, Golden, Honor, OpenGov, Samsara, Simple Things, and TipTop Labs. He is also on the board of Meta.
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Last year, I wrote about our series B investment in Applied Intuition, which builds simulation software and infrastructure tools to safely test and validate autonomous vehicles at scale. Now, just a little over a year la...
A wide-ranging Q&A all about education, from the purpose, past, and present of education; the economics of education (student loans & the debt crisis, government funding, cost disease, accreditation capture); tradeoffs of "hard" and "soft" degrees; and whether or not to drop out and go straight to field or startup. What's the best advice for students and others contemplating change in their careers... how do you get noticed?
This interview was recorded earlier this year and originally appeared on The Observer Effect; it has only been lightly edited for formatting here.
Marc Andreessen reads out loud IT'S TIME TO BUILD
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Gaming has gone from a niche hobby to a massive global industry across all demographics and well beyond outdated, narrow stereotypes of “gamers”. In fact, games are not even just “games” any longer, but a form of enterta...
Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives -- and it's just the beginning.
In this conversation from our 2019 innovation summit, Kevin Kelly (Founding Executive Editor, WIRED magazine) and Marc Andreessen sit down to discuss the evolution of technology, key trends, and why they're the most optimistic people in the room.
The creator of hit shows like Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and others, writer and executive producer Shonda Rhimes shares lessons she's learned about pitching ideas, storytelling, leadership, and scaling a business across mediums.
In this special guest hosted episode -- cross-posted from the new show Starting Greatness (featuring interviews with startup builders before they were successful, hosted by Mike Maples jr) -- Marc Andreessen shares some rare, behind-the-scenes details of his story from 0 to 1... from the University of Illinois and Mosaic to Netscape.
Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives -- and it's just the beginning. In this conversation from our 2019 innovation summit, Ke...
It used to be that the only way for humanity to grow — and progress — was through destroying the environment. But is this interplay between human growth vs. environment really a zero-sum game? Even if it were true in history, is it true today? If capitalism is not responsible for environmental degradation, than who or what is? And where does (and doesn’t) technology come in? @pmarca and @smc90 interview MIT economist @amcafee about all this and more, given his new book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources — and What Happens Next.
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What can we learn from the history of the internet for the future of crypto? In this episode of the a16z Podcast, general partner Katie Haun interviews a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen -- and co-founder of Netscape, which...
It's the oldest rule of disruption: People inside the company almost always see the next thing coming, but have a hard time being heard or driving actual change.
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26,450 | jkush | 2007-06-05T14:32:58 | 10 ways to procrastinate and still be productive | null | http://themicrobusinessexperiment.blogspot.com/2007/04/10-ways-to-procrastinate-and-still-be.html | 1 | 1 | [
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26,454 | abstractbill | 2007-06-05T14:43:25 | Immigrant Startups Continue to Grow | null | http://www.inc.com/news/articles/200705/startups.html?partner=rss | 4 | 3 | [
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26,456 | transburgh | 2007-06-05T15:07:30 | What your Startup Company Boss Really Wants from You | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/6/5/what-your-startup-company-boss-really-wants-from-you/10163/view.aspx | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,462 | budu3 | 2007-06-05T15:50:49 | Ex-Cisco Executive to Lead Joost, Internet TV Provider | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/technology/05joost.html?ex=1338696000&en=b55676fdc9a86248&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | 4 | 2 | [
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] | null | null | missing_parsing | Ex-Cisco Executive to Lead Joost, Internet TV Provider | 2007-06-05T04:00:00.000Z | Brad Stone | AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJune 5, 2007Michelangelo Volpi spent 5 of his 13 years at Cisco Systems selling networking equipment to the companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable that bring television into living rooms.Now he is trying to do an end run around those same companies.The high-profile Internet start-up Joost plans to announce today that it has hired Mr. Volpi, 40, as its new chief executive. Joost, which is based in London, is building a global television network of full-length TV shows and movies and sending it to viewers over the Internet.Joost is still testing its technology with half a million viewers who can watch about 100 channels. The Joost player, which users must download to their PCs, now provides access to niche material like “The Martial Arts Channel,” as well as programs from better-known channels like CNN, MTV and the Cartoon Network that are properties of the media companies Time Warner and Viacom. Both were early investors in Joost.The challenge for Mr. Volpi, who is known as Mike, will be to build the service into something that regular people will want to watch, and to make it available wherever they want to watch it — meaning places other than their computer screens.“Traditional television as we know it is gradually going to go away,” Mr. Volpi said in his first interview as Joost’s chief executive. “We hope to capture the hearts and minds of users who have turned away from TV as a form of entertainment.”Mr. Volpi said that Joost would ultimately be available in many places. “Joost is a piece of software and it can reside on a variety of platforms,” he said. “It could be on a television set-top box. Or potentially it could be imbedded in a TV set with an Ethernet connection, or on a mobile phone, or in some alternative device that might come out in the future. The flexibility is really high.”ImageMike Volpi, who worked for Cisco Systems for 13 years, is joining Joost as its chief.Credit...Jeffrey NewburyJoost was founded last year by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, creators of the Internet telephone company Skype. Five years ago, as an executive at Cisco, Mr. Volpi flew to London to meet the young founders and was intrigued by the way Skype circumvented traditional phone companies. He joined the Skype board in the fall of 2004 and left after the company was sold to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Last year, citing the spread of speedy broadband Internet service and the opportunity to build a global TV network, the pair from Skype started Joost, originally known as the Venice Project.In an interview, Mr. Friis said that Mr. Volpi was the only candidate they considered to head their new company. “What you really want in these kinds of situations is someone you have had a good relationship with, who you’ve known for years, who you can trust and get along with,” he said.Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive, which invested in Joost, said that Mr. Volpi is “pound for pound one of the best operators in Silicon Valley.” He added: “It is a huge win for Joost and a great tribute to them that they landed him.”Mr. Volpi was born in Milan and grew up in Japan. As head of Cisco’s mergers and acquisitions team for seven years, he was responsible for the company’s first 70 acquisitions. Before he left Cisco this year, he was frequently mentioned as a possible successor to the chief executive, John Chambers.His border-crossing résumé is appropriate for Joost, a service that aspires to weave together programs from around the globe. Joost carries shows from incongruous sources like the Bollywood network Saavn; the Brazilian Music Channel; Fútbol de Nicaragua, and the National Hockey League, and it lets users personalize their channel listings.“People in China might want to watch ‘Survivor,’ ” Mr. Volpi said “People in Japan might be interested in the latest episodes of ‘C.S.I.’ We offer that capability in a much easier way than it has historically been offered,”.ImageA scene from a Joost program, “Off the Fence.” The Joost player, which users must download to their PCs, provides access to niche material.Credit...JoostThough his family is moving to London, Mr. Volpi said he would spend most of his time on a plane, shuttling among Joost’s offices in Amsterdam, London and New York. One challenge: trying to forge closer ties among Joost’s 100 employees, many of whom come from the disparate worlds of media and technology. Another challenge Mr. Volpi will face is finding other major media companies to distribute their shows on Joost alongside those of Viacom and Time Warner. “Eventually our hope is that other prime-time providers like NBC, Fox and Disney will come on board, because we are an attractive place given the numbers of users we have,” Mr. Volpi said. “Content owners don’t care where content is distributed so long as it reaches a larger number of users who can be monetized.”Mr. Volpi said he expected Joost to remain in test mode for the rest of this year, growing to around a million viewers, and then to open its doors more broadly next year.One focus for the company will be advertising. The company has signed partnerships with companies like United Airlines, Microsoft and Sony Electronics. In addition to showing 15- or 30-second ads during programs (the commercials cannot be skipped “for now,” Mr. Volpi said), Joost will focus on tailoring ads to individual users based partly on the information they provide when they sign up for the service.The company will also try some creative experiments. For example, after a 15-second commercial for toothpaste, a small graphic called an “ad bug” will float in the corner of the screen reminding users of the brand that was just advertised. If users click on the graphic, a new browser window will open to the Web site of the product.“From an advertising point of view, this is a paradigm shift,” Mr. Volpi said. “It is not a banner ad or a text ad or a 15-second spot that used to be shown on television. It’s a hybrid that allows you to target the ad to individual viewers and let them act on it.” Mr. Volpi said he had other opportunities after leaving Cisco, but was drawn to the wide-open frontier of Internet television. “Television is a massive market, and when you put it together with the Internet, and to be on the ground floor of that, there weren’t many other opportunities to do something this big.”AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT | 2024-11-08T20:25:06 | null | train |
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26,484 | dawie | 2007-06-05T17:47:14 | Movable Type 4.0 Beta Launches, Platform To Be Open Sourced | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/05/movable-type-40-beta-launches-platform-to-be-open-sourced/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
26,486 | nostrademons | 2007-06-05T18:07:26 | Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them | null | http://bokardo.com/archives/common-pitfalls-of-building-social-web-applications/ | 9 | 1 | [
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26,516 | transburgh | 2007-06-05T22:16:21 | How to Kill a Great Idea - Friendster - Socializr | null | http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070601/features-how-to-kill-a-great-idea.html?loc=interstitialskip | 2 | 1 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | How to Kill a Great Idea! | Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:33:08 -0400 | Max Chafkin | Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley's best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed out spectacularly. What went wrong?By , Features editor, Bloomberg Businessweek @chafkinJun 1, 2007Jason MadaraIt's not easy being the brains behind one of the biggest disappointments in Internet history. Sure, there are those who describe you as a visionary, but in the same breath they'll deride you as a lousy businessman. Bloggers attack you, call you "a real asshole" and "a very lucky idiot savant." Former investors badmouth you. Other entrepreneurs copy your ideas without giving you credit. The New York Times makes reference to your "ballooning ego" and the local Fox affiliate can't even get your name right.Jonathan Abrams--founder of Friendster, the first online social network, and a pioneer of one of today's hottest trends on the Web--tries his best not to think about these things. And with two new companies, he has plenty to distract him. Last September he opened Slide, a stylish basement lounge in downtown San Francisco. And in March, he launched a new bid to make it big on the Web--Socializr, a website that lets users invite people to parties and other events.And yet the story of how Friendster, once the hottest start-up in America, became the butt of a business joke continues to preoccupy him. And no wonder. By the rules of Silicon Valley, Friendster--a bold idea backed by experienced investors and the best managers money could buy--was destined for greatness. Instead, it failed spectacularly. "I did what you're always told to do as a young entrepreneur," Abrams says. "I brought on experienced investors to help Friendster fulfill its potential. But the all-star team was the curse of death."If he had invented something as mundane as a brilliant customer relations management application, no one would know Jonathan Abrams's name. But as the creator of the first online social network, Abrams promised something truly exciting: to change the way people communicated with one another. As Fortune put it in October 2003, "There may be a new kind of Internet emerging--one more about connecting people to people than people to websites." In the months following its launch earlier that year, Friendster garnered millions of devotees, who used its name as both a verb and a noun. By the end of 2003, the company Abrams founded in his San Francisco apartment had raised $13 million from the same investors who'd backed Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) and had appeared in scores of major magazines and newspapers. Friendster was a company the world could understand, participate in, and dream on. It was the next big thing.Friendster is among the few start-ups that changed the world--but not as its founder had hoped. During March 2007, one out of every five Americans visited MySpace.com, a copycat site that was built in 2003 by Intermix and sold to News Corp. (NYSE:NWS) two years later for half a billion dollars. Those MySpace visitors listened to music, scoped out crushes, made plans with friends, decided that Stephen Colbert was cool--and in the process altered the way we think about and use the Internet. Meanwhile, Friendster fell to 13th place among social networks in the U.S. and saw its market share decline to 0.3 percent.A refreshed look at leadership from the desk of CEO and chief content officer Stephanie Mehta | 2024-11-07T09:40:19 | en | train |
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