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- Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends at FISTFULAYEN fistfulayen.com · Archived on
A brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music.
Five alternative models for selling music, many of which are actually being tested by artists, entrepreneurs, and even the major record labels themselves.
- The Information Architect as Change Agent - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
How many projects have you worked on where the implementation team gave any consideration to the way people would be affected by the changes the new system would impose on them?
- Nine Inch Nails Help Seal Record Industry’s Coffin techcrunch.com
Highly popular Industrial Rock Band Nine Inch Nails have announced that as of today they are free agents, and will not be using the services of a record company in the future.
- BBC NEWS | Business | BBC Worldwide buys Lonely Planet news.bbc.co.uk
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has bought the travel guide publisher, Lonely Planet.
Great ideas are only great if they fit a purpose, as such it is important to be clear from the outset what your site’s core user proposition is.
- Streamlining HP - Sam Lucente - Design - Blackbird fastcompany.com
"The "attitude," as it came to be known, was built around three core attributes: inspired, genuine, trusted. Innocuous as they seem, they were vivid enough for a group of designers to begin to articulate a common visual language."
Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat.
- Adactio: Journal - Microsoft in London adactio.com
Microsoft threw an invite-only gathering at its London offices: something about start-ups and Web 2.0. [...] Here are the notes I took…
- Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics « Web Worker Daily webworkerdaily.com
Whatever your skills as software developer or web designer (or whatever your web work career entails), you need to also understand the basics of estimating.
- AGILE IN ACTION: Fixed-price contracts don't work think-box.co.uk
If you think it's possible to identify a single date, somewhere off in the future, upon which you'll receive everything you've requested and for a fixed price, then you're setting yourself up for failure and disappointment.
There is, by my estimation something of the order of twenty, possibly up to fifty times as much money to be made in the retrieval and reissue of lost gems as there is in releasing new recordings by new artists.
Ask them what they're doing. Then ask them why they're doing it, and keep asking until you get to a reason your customers would understand.
- @Second Chance Tuesday: Last.fm - the "conviction entrepreneurs" | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | Guardian Unlimited blogs.guardian.co.uk
The first time Martin Stiksel and Felix Miller, Last.fm's founders, have spoken publicly on the acquisition of their site since it was purchased by CBS in May
- TuneCore: Welcome tunecore.com
TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns.
- Founder's Syndrome: How Corporations Suffer -- and Can Recover managementhelp.org
This syndrome occurs when, rather than working toward its overall mission, the organization operates primarily according to the personality of a prominent person in the organization, for example, the founder, board chair/president, chief executive, etc
We all [...] hope for the quick success of a Twitter instead of the starting and stopping of a flickr (started as a game). ImThere is a startup that started and stopped, and David Gorman documents their eventual success.
- Test Early » Fire your best people…reward the lazy ones testearly.com
It’s the difference between troubleshooters and troublepreventors.
These tips are for kickstarting a low cost and high impact website, however some tips are general principals rather than recommendations for all cases.
- Are Big Ad Agencies So Clueless That Corporations Should Avoid Them? businessweek.com
I've been spending much time with ad agencies and focus groups lately and can only conclude that--with some exceptions--they are mostly clueless.
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- Digital Web Magazine - Contract Killers digital-web.com
The tricky situation of quoting for web design and development projects, and the various types of contracts you can agree upon.
- Secrets to Amazon's success - (37signals) 37signals.com
"High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees." Some great tips in here.
- How To Bootstrap Your Startup readwriteweb.com
"What skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation you'll need, and much
We will generate and launch multiple products. Does that mean we have no focus? If you have to ask that question, you’re still not getting it.
- Managing Humans - An Introduction managinghumans.com
This book isn't just about management, it's about creating places where people can comfortably build stuff.
easyOffice, owned and operated by the easyGroup, will open in High Street Kensington in London on 28 November 2007, and is already taking bookings.
- The wiki way | Technology | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work.
From 2005. Background.
It may very well be that Second Life is over-hyped or ill-conceived for business purposes. Even if so, however, it’s not due to the five provably bogus claims.
The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.
- Starting out: Creatives clued in to 'Generation C' | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
"It was a leap of faith. By mid-2006, Matt Webb and Jack Schulze had been meandering along, doing a few jobs together and talking about "crazy ideas"."
Client wants a website, Agency wants a client, but Client wants something for nothing and to see other agencies. What’s Agency to do?
- Sleep Overrated sleepoverrated.tumblr.com
Podcast on agile business. [Scott] pulled out some interesting points
- Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | by Chip and Dan Heath madetostick.com · Archived on
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?
- Web Professionals portfolio and profile - Professional On The Web professionalontheweb.com
A portfolio directory for web agencies and freelancers
- Ask the Wizard: How and What to Measure burningdoor.com
Successful businesses measure and count things [...] unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.
- Xchangeteam - Freelancer of the Year xchangeteam.com
Designed to showcase freelance talent and reward those consultants who have demonstrated that they have added real value to a client’s business.
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews articles.techrepublic.com.com
"Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much (or too little) p
- Six ways Twitter can make money - Download Squad downloadsquad.com
If you do like rants and have an interest in creating websites that work for as many people as possible, you might enjoy this.