@mattmcalister
- just added video assets, homepage lineup, editor's picks and more new features to the @openplatform Content API: http://bit.ly/cWvBi7 3 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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- Republishing articles from ProPublica
- Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution
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- Positioning real-time web platforms
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Category Archives: management
Media As A Service
Much like print and tv are becoming marketing vehicles to drive people online, the domain name for an online media service is becoming sort of an abstract utility or maybe just a brand address for media services rather than the … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, attention, feedburner, history, ideas, innovation, journalism, management, marketing, media, models, peer production, process, publishing, rightmedia, rss, strategy, trends, webservices
Tagged casual web, collaborative media, content space, digital universe, distribution technologies, expressions of interest, javascript libraries, many different ways, right place at the right time, yahoo pipes
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Are big product launches necessary?
A commenter in Mark Glaser’s recent post on MediaShift about the USA Today redesign sheds light on a problem that Internet companies seem to struggle with a lot. “I think there may be a lesson to be learned in how … Continue reading
Posted in agile, collaboration, community, creativity, development, innovation, mainstream media, management, marketing, media, msm, peer production, process, publishing, research, socialmedia
Tagged autocracy, crappy web, internet companies, loyal customers, mark glaser, product direction, product roadmap, right question, usa today, usability issues
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Learning from Kodak’s strategic errors
BusinessWeek ran an interesting story on business model innovation this week called “Mistakes Made On The Road To Innovation“. The article focuses on Kodak which reinvented itself yet can’t get ahead in the new markets. Among other things, the article … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, innovation, management, media
Tagged american technology, article talks, business model innovation, business models, heavyweight champ, innovation path, revenue streams, search market, technology innovation, types of engineering
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Decision-making through stories rather than data
John Hagel’s post the other day included a great little nugget: “If executives need lots of data before they feel comfortable making a decision, chances are they will not act until it is way too late. Don’t get me wrong, … Continue reading
Posted in history, john hagel, management
Tagged analysis paralysis, business historians, business rewards, john hagel, operational efficiencies, page model, profit centers, questions internet, quiet giant, web page advertising
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The importance of Hack Day
Last week’s Yahoo! Hack Day was, as usual, an eyeopener. In addition to the creative hacks, I was hugely impressed that the co-founder of the company and CFO among several other key executives spent an uninterrupted afternoon watching and then … Continue reading
Posted in hack day, management, yahoo
Tagged awkward moments, demo format, ground troops, impressive details, jerry yang, pat mcgovern, tangible connection, top brass, yahoo hack, yodel
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The importance of purpose in peer production
What is it about Nick Carr’s recent challenge to Yochai Benkler’s views on the peer production model that feels wrong? He says that peer production exists prior to a commercial market and that a commercial market will break down the … Continue reading
Posted in community, digg, jason calacanis, management, netscape, nick carr, peer production, social, yochai benkler
Tagged digg, flickr, jason calacanis, monetary terms, netscape, nick carr, production model, reddit, value proposition, yochai benkler
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Online media revenues breathe life into print-centric thinking
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
Thoughts about working at Yahoo! after one year
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
Posted in management, yahoo
Tagged asleep at the wheel, brainpower, dawn, diversification, favorite things, mature companies, mistake, public evidence, snapshot, wheel
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What makes a good leader of a participatory community
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
Measuring success through innovation
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