@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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- Captivating Arcade Fire video shows what HTML5 can do
- Understanding your behaviors to prioritize your inbox
- Paper.li: Guardian Technology – now available as a newspaper, online!
- Video highlights from Activate 2010
- 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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Category Archives: economics
Building markets out of data
I’m intrigued by the various ways people view ‘value’. There seem to be 2 camps: 1) people who view the world in terms of competition for finite resources and 2) people who see ways to create new forms of value … Continue reading
Posted in business, data, economics, edge, google, media, strategy, umairhaque
Tagged business practices, constituencies, control distribution, domination, fact data, finite resources, google, karp, Media business, mindset
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Ad networks vs ad exchanges
I spent yesterday at the Right Media Open event in Half Moon Bay at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Right Media assembled an impressive list of executives and innovators including John Battelle of Federated Media, David Rosenblatt of DoubleClick, Scott Howe … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, doubleclick, economics, exchange, google, jerryyang, johnbattelle, market, rightmedia, yahoo
Tagged david rosenblatt, efficient frontiers, ellen siminoff, half moon bay, john battelle, jonathan shapiro, mike walrath, pat mccarthy, randall rothenberg, ritz carlton hotel
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Why Outside.in may have the local solution
The recent blog frenzy over hyperlocal media inspired me to have a look at Outside.in again. It’s not just the high profile backers and the intense competitive set that make Outside.in worth a second look. There’s something very compelling in … Continue reading
Posted in 94107, advertising, aggregation, blogging, citizen media, citizenjournalism, collaboration, community, economics, edge, journalism, local, media, network effects, outside.in, participation, peer production, platform, potrero hill, publishing, san francisco, semanticweb, social media, tagging
Tagged dominant player, dotcoms, human discovery, jon udell, local solution, media brands, school music, time school, topix net, yelp
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Is attention finite?
John Hagel explores the economics of attention and describes the issues for today’s business leaders: “Attention economics starts with the observation that, as products and information proliferate, attention becomes the scarce resource … we each have only 24 hours in … Continue reading