Monthly Archives: July 2006

Designing for the future

Posted on July 29, 2006 by

There’s a great presentation by William McDonough speaking at the Bioneers Conference back in 2000 about designing for the future available via Google Video (thanks Metafilter). He has a revolutionary perspective on how humanity needs to think about its current … Continue reading →

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Open source software as a customer capture tool

Posted on July 23, 2006 by

I just started messing around with a product called SugarCRM which is an open source sales contact management tool much like Salesforce.com. They’ve done a really clever thing which is to build a revenue model around the added services rather … Continue reading →

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Online media revenues breathe life into print-centric thinking

Posted on July 21, 2006 by

Media executives are admitting publicly that the print publishing model doesn’t appear to have a happy ending to the heavy beating it keeps taking. Folio ran a story this week titled “The Revenue Tipping Point“. It refers to the point … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about working at Yahoo! after one year

Posted on July 19, 2006 by

UPDATE (10/17/2007) — Things have changed a lot since this was originally written in July 2006. A few have found this post through a search and made the mistake of thinking it’s relevant still, but this snapshot in time looks … Continue reading →

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Video for education (or Really Simple Video)

Posted on July 14, 2006 by

I had some fun putting together a screencast recently to showcase an internal Yahoo! technology that my team is working on. I downloaded Camtasia, wrote a short script and then produced what turned out to be somewhat high quality video … Continue reading →

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What makes a good leader of a participatory community

Posted on July 14, 2006 by

I’m very interested in what leadership lessons we can learn from the people who drive the successful peer production models on the Internet. What is it about Craig Newmark, Jimmy Wales, Rob Malda, Stewart Butterfield and the other pioneers of … Continue reading →

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Measuring success through innovation

Posted on July 13, 2006 by

Product roadmaps can often become innovation roadblocks. If the roadmap gets translated into a timeline, then the team is forced into an the awkward position of having expectations against which they can only fail. Photo: Baron von Flickrhoffen The time … Continue reading →

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The fashion of business

Posted on July 6, 2006 by

Umair Haque equates the poor investment Americans make in their personal fashion with the cultural emphasis on productivity. He argues that people who are “stylish” are perceived as frivolous and unproductive in America. In a comment on Umair’s post Russell … Continue reading →

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