@mattmcalister
- just added video assets, homepage lineup, editor's picks and more new features to the @openplatform Content API: http://bit.ly/cWvBi7 4 hrs ago
- celebrating our youngest's 1st bday. the baby years are finally coming to a close for us all. very happy. 5 days ago
- Time's Top 50: 'as other British newspapers go behind paywalls, the Guardian opens up its content for developers' http://is.gd/eDIUy 6 days ago
- inspiring essay on purpose in business by Gary Hamel http://instapaper.com/zkmpos51n 1 week ago
- gave my blog a refresh while fixing security holes. now need a good picture for the header. http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/ 1 week ago
- congrats, Don! “@donlbe: just joined @typekit.” 1 week ago
- tweaked my twitter lists a bit to see how paper.li will react. this is becoming a good read now http://paper.li/mattmcalister/noticers 1 week ago
- good fun yesterday w guardian tech team at Bletchley Park and then Inception. thanks @leftback! 1 week ago
- turning diminishing returns into increasing returns and other great insights by @jhagel on new ways of working http://bit.ly/azZ8yU 2 weeks ago
- the web is more like an awkward teenager with cuter younger sibblings than something fading into oblivion: http://bit.ly/aMLHBy 2 weeks ago
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- How to hail a London cabbie using Twitter
- Republishing articles from ProPublica
- Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution
- Socially linked data
- Positioning real-time web platforms
- The thinking behind the Activate Summit event
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Leadership lessons from China
There are some interesting leadership and management lessons from some of the Chinese manufacturing systems that can be applied at all levels of an organization to make it more innovation-friendly. The contrast between leading and managing may be subtle to … Continue reading
Posted in gtd, leadership, management, manufacturing, theory
Tagged design blueprints, design drawings, internet economy, john seely brown, leadership lessons, management lessons, management tactics, paced internet, performance parameters, rough design
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Media needs to reflect attention, not collect attention
The “Edge” economists generated a swirl of activity over the last couple of weeks inspired by an attention economy paper apparently written in 1997 and referenced by Esther Dyson in a WSJ article. Photo: eva8 In this paper, Michael Goldhaber … Continue reading
I’m turning into a mumbling idiot
I was comparing my feed collection with Micah Laaker the other day, and I realized that the scope of my intake just keeps getting narrower and narrower. Looking at other user’s lists in the Share your OPML system, it seems … Continue reading
Posted in aggregation, funny, opml
Tagged acting, circle of influence, hell, israel, micah laaker, phrase, scope, universe
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Dotcom business ideas over a pint or two
Photo: SimonD I think everyone has had the experience of brainstorming a “great” dotcom business idea over drinks with friends. There were more than a few good and bad ideas thrown around the offices of The Industry Standard as the … Continue reading
Posted in business, creativity, funny, ideas, models
Tagged business idea, business ideas, directory members, distribution system, exchange network, member networks, pint, queue, user submitted videos, wikipedia
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Reach vs target marketing: how to reduce the waste
There are 2 somewhat opposing forces that advertisers are always trying to reconcile: broader reach higher precision Search marketing solves the former. And niche publishing solves the latter. It seems to me that there are ways everyone could benefit from … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, cpl, marketing, screencast, webcast, white paper
Tagged accela, generation activities, john hagel, john seely brown, marketable data, niche publishing, on24, precision search, simple self, target marketing
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“Loosley Coupled” does not mean “Easy to build”
The concept of “Loose Coupling” is great on so many levels. I’ve used it to describe different types of things in ideal worlds, but I’m starting to see that there is a lot of gray area there that can be … Continue reading
IDG’s private-label CPC ad system
Most publishers are either looking to capitalize on the CPC text link advertisement bidding concept or they already have a plan for implementing something in this space. IDG found their private-label CPC bidding tool solution with Quigo, a competitor of … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, cpc, idg, models
Tagged better luck, cpc, disintermediation, enterprise database systems, google, link advertisement, parent organization, tool solution, value opportunities, water down
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