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Media Physics

Ian Rogers of Yahoo and elsewhere writes that that scale of the web creates media opportunity through the creation of:" . . . a loosely-coupled value chain including users as value creators. The value chain is not owned by a [...]  Read more

Design

Seth Godin writes today about Charles and EJ's latest designs at I'm in like with you:"Given the choice, that teenager you're trying to market to is ignoring you and she's on this site instead. Take it or leave it."Design, functionality, [...]  Read more

Smart venture investing quote

Jeff Nolan writes something very insightful about the potential changed nature of venture investing (which is near and dear to my betaworks heart):"[I]n many ways I recoil at the notion that true invention and innovation matters less today, but it [...]  Read more

Facebook is My Space’s Best Friend

In the context of design and aesthetics, Andrew Chen reminds me that:My Space is alot larger than Facebook in terms of users, pages per visitor, and ads per page viewed; andMy Space has more visits, visitors, page views, and average [...]  Read more

Fichey – better presentation layer?

Design and presentation matter. Billy Chasen is a friend and a highly creative developer we've (betaworks) been working with the past few months. Billy's created a number of great apps, and perhaps I'm biased but I find myself using each [...]  Read more