Building markets out of data
I’m intrigued by the various ways people view ‘value’. There seem to be 2 camps: 1) people who view the world in terms of competition for finite resources and 2) people who see ways to create new forms...
View ArticleA handy music playlist tool
I’ve been looking for a way to share playlists on my blog and elsewhere online for a long time. It’s been surprisingly hard to find a really convenient way to do it. # DRM and industry lockdown have...
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Creating leverage at the data layer
There’s a reason that the world fully embraced HTTP but not Gopher or Telnet or even FTP. That’s because the power of the Internet is best expressed through the concept of a network, lots of...
View ArticleUsing fantasy football to drive network effects
Network effects accelerate when services are accessible wherever the user is engaged. That leap has been made in many different contexts in online media from advertising (AdSense) to participation and...
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Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution
When I came to the Guardian two years ago, I brought with me some crazy California talk about open strategies and APIs and platforms. Little did I know the Guardian already understood openness. It’s...
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An open community news platform: n0tice.com
The last several weeks I’ve been working on a new project, a SoLoMo initiative, as John Doerr or Mary Meeker would call it. # Noticeboard photo by Jer*ry It’s a mobile publishing platform that...
View ArticleThe importance of co-dependency on the Internet
The thing that still blows my mind about the Internet is that through all the dramatic changes over the last 2 or 3 decades it remains a mostly open public commons that everyone can use. # There are...
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Calling your web site a ‘property’ deprives it of something bigger
BBC offered another history of London documentary the other night, a sort of people’s perspective on how the character of the city has changed over time, obviously inspired by Danny Boyle’s Opening...
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Orchestrating streams of data from across the Internet
The liveblog was a revelation for us at the Guardian. The sports desk had been doing them for years experimenting with different styles, methods and tone. And then about 3 years ago the news desk...
View ArticleEternal transitions
Market transitions in digital media can be absolutely fascinating both as a bystander and as a participant. # I’ve been on both the frontfoot and the backfoot as part of media businesses trying to...
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