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How Entire Industries Become Unethical

Every office building in New York City grows by a few percent per year. Each stuffy pre-war tower, art-deco complex and shiny corporate center. They’re all growing, like those Kafkaesque SimTower projects that added a few lone offices to the roof each quarter when the rent came in. Except they’re not actually growing — just [ READ MORE ]

Is Tumblr the new 4chan?

I’m not sure anyone who reads Startup Adventures has been paying attention to the sad story of Jessi Slaughter, 4chan’s latest tween meme-toy, but you can read about it on KnowYourMeme here or ED here (NSFW). It’s a fascinating story about the fluidity and power of the anonymous web, but a couple points in the [ READ MORE ]

The Future of Gaming

I write a lot about where the gaming industry is headed — specifically as it relates to building game mechanics into non-game apps. Past posts have talked about serious problems in the current thinking about “gameification” and the next game mechanics to be implemented across the internet. Next week, some of these thoughts will be [ READ MORE ]

Welcome to New York, Paul Carr

If you haven’t read Paul Carr’s piece on his experience at New York Internet Week, go read it now. If don’t have time, I’ll summarize. Paul’s interaction with New York went something like this: 1. Media tool gets invited to New York by other media tools 2. Media tool goes to an internet week party [ READ MORE ]

Spend for your Next Job

Lots of people talk about startup burn rates. But there isn’t quite as much said about personal burn rates. But if you want to accomplish anything in your life, managing your personal burn is far more critical. Lack of control over personal finances is the biggest reason why people who want to start companies don’t. [ READ MORE ]

Diaspora: Think about Brand

Charlie O’Donnell had an interesting post this morning on what Diaspora should do with their Kickstarter riches. One thing he didn’t mention? Figure out your market positioning and brand. Let’s think of this in terms of the possible likely outcomes of Diaspora’s work: Low: The team / product / initiative falls apart for some reason [ READ MORE ]

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