December 2009
5 posts
MagicPrefs →
Great little pref app to customize your Magic Mouse
How Bit.ly makes money
I wrote this as a satire of Bit.ly’s non-existant revenue model! It is not real. Everything in this article is a mixture of half truths and my own deranged ideas. Hell, I cited Mark Gormley and Snopes as a source! :)
How does Bit.ly make money, and what’s the future for URL shorteners? I’d like to set everyone straight.
Intro
URL shorteners have been toyed around with since...
“In Atlanta, he is posed as The Thinker, adorned with a Nike hat, promoting...”
– At Accenture, It’s as if Tiger Woods Were Never There - NYTimes.com
Gary Hamel: Management’s Dirty Little Secret →
Here’s what the researchers discovered: barely one-fifth (21%) of employees are truly engaged in their work, in the sense that they would “go the extra mile” for their employer. Nearly four out of ten (38%) are mostly or entirely disengaged, while the rest are in the tepid middle. There’s no way to sugarcoat it—this data represents a stinging indictment of the legacy management practices found...
Music Business Heads into the Virtual World -... →
“If you ask anybody today, they’ll tell you, ‘I need to own it.’ But once you have these services, you get to the point of, ‘Why would I own it, because I have access to everything?’ ”
I’m getting to that point myself. My previous approach was to spend hours downloading classic albums, but now I find myself spending more time on HypeMachine, and rarely going back to my ridiculously huge,...