the function of the Creative Industries? (more)

Stowe Boyd on life as a modern Nomad. I am a modern nomad, carrying the minimum of possessions in service to the maximum of obsessions. Low Drag Life Style.

Steve Blank highlights presentations by Xob Ni and Drop Box that emphasize their Pivot actions. The speed at which you Pivot is inversely proportional to the amount of cash in your bank.

Early Adopter? (more)

Eric Ries on the value of Actionable Metrics: A-B Test, per-customer, funnel, SEO/SEM... (more)

Venkatesh Rao turns the Customer Development/Lean Startup thinking of Steve Blank and Eric Ries into a self-assessment for your Start Up and your life. Interesting gloss. Blank, a veteran serial-entrepreneur, doesn’t actually set out to grill you, like a brutal VC, till you sweat. It just naturally happens... Since I can’t possibly “review” the book, let me try to turn the whole Lean Startup conversation, anchored by this (Steve's) book, into a self-administered inquisition. For the two entrepreneurial ventures I am currently leading, I score a B+ (for ribbonfarm.com) and a B- (for trailmeme.com). So here’s the test, a round-up of the lean startup conversation, and a micro-riff on applying this to your life (Lifestyle Design), since --(planning)-- improvising a life seems to have become an exercise in entrepreneurship in this century... If you feel like your life is currently consumed by a project with deep uncertainties, yet feel driven to continue by some unclear force deep down, you are probably an Entrepreneur of some sort. (more)

Venkatesh Rao gives a brief history of the Corporation. (more)

WebSite that has only 1 page. (more)

a One Page Wiki for an AdHoc Group Discussion to share. Security via URI obscurity, like QuickTopic. In fact, it is QuickTopic, except any of you can go back and edit previous bits. Or you can think of it like an asynch IRC... (Of course, you don't really need a full WikiEngine for what this offers, but it's an interesting downgrade idea...) (more)

controversial place - Urban? (more)

Robert Scoble gives some advice on Internet Marketing For Non-Net SmallCo, specifically his brother's bar (Third Place). My number one advice? Tell a story. (Story Telling)

The OLPC/XO and EeePc are often being compared to each other. (more)

Hewlett Packard (more)

NetBook from AsUs (more)

Thirty7 Signals Contact Management/Sales Force Automation/Issue Tracker WebApp (more)

Some folks thinks the AMA just voted to block commercial (e.g. PharmCo) support of CME (in the sense that "conflicted" people can't be the speakers/teachers/writers). (more)

aka Open Source Warfare, "organized" like a Bazaar

Steve Blank gives a nice CheckList for getting through a Customer Development process in 8 weeks for a WebApp-based Lean Startup.

Charlie Stross has a couple threads going about implications about ending Cheap Oil. He's more optimistic about Nuclear Energy and other things than the Collapse folks.

Ning has merged into the Glam Network. Does anyone care?