August 6th, 2008 at 5:40 pm by Ari Shohat
I am going to paste this post from Umair Haque below. It’s just about full length, but it’s important to get the ideas out there:
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Today’s corporate picture looks darker and bleaker than ever. And especially among those of us in our 20s and 30s, the feeling that business as usual cannot go on is growing.
But [...]
August 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pm by Ari Shohat
Reports are on the web about Social.fm - the word is that it has closed shop.
I’ve heard of Mercora before, of course, but have not actually used it. It was supposed to be one of those music discovery services. Recently Mercora re-branded as Social.fm, going into the me-too game of trying to be a social [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 6:42 pm by Ari Shohat
So, this is another personal post. Do pretend you care just a little please.
It’s coming around to almost two weeks that I have moved my family to California’s Bay Area. To be more precise, my family is my wife, two little kids, and mom in law (let’s leave the jokes aside okay).
After being about 18 [...]
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:45 pm by Ari Shohat
Andrew Chen had a great post up a few days ago titled “Social network death spiral: How Metcalfe’s Law can work against you.” I do recommend you read the entire pose, but if you’re short on time here’s a recap:
Metcalfe’s Law
Does everyone remember Metcalfe’s Law? It was formulated by Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet [...]
May 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm by Ari Shohat
I was reading this interesting post about Zappos the other day. If you are not in the know, Zappos sells a billion worth of shoes and other stuff online these days.
It’s got great other info, but this part stood out:
So when Zappos hires new employees, it provides a four-week training period that immerses them in [...]
May 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am by Ari Shohat
The Freemium business model is when you give away roughly 99% of your service away for free, but charge the rest of the folks for upgrades to some Premium features or services.
The free portion of the service can still be monetized, via ads for example, but it’s still free to be used by anyone.
I’ve been [...]
April 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pm by Ari Shohat
I am glad to see Webcast Metrics is back with publishing stats again. They just released their March 2008 Webcast Metrics Ratings.
As you can see from the snapshot below, our very own Digitally Imported network made it quite high as usual. Being somewhere between ClearChannel and CBS Radio is not a bad place to be for [...]
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 am by Ari Shohat
Consider this:
The price of oil jumped from $117 to $120 within the last 24 hours or so.
Home values around San Francisco Bay area have dropped by over 10% in the last year. In other parts of the country even much much more than that.
Japan ran out of butter, among other things coming up.
Sam’s Club, the [...]