28 August 2009 ~ Comments

Digital Advertising and Nike

There’s a good article about digital advertising and Nike and how they are approaching the shifting landscape.  Some key points to the article:

TV and traditional ad spending for Nike is down 80% over the past 4 years where as digital spend is up 200%.  They want to go where the consumers are and more and [...]

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06 June 2009 ~ Comments

Elsewhere USA is a good book

A few months ago i read the book Elsewhere USA at danah boyd’s suggestion.  It didn’t disappoint.  While it wasn’t as good as last year’s Generation Me (which i couldn’t stop blogging about), it did have some good insights.
The point of the book is the strange paradox that is occuring in America.  People used to [...]

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22 May 2009 ~ Comments

A Breakfast with Nolan Bushnell

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Last Saturday i was part of the METal group that had breakfast with Nolan Bushnell.  It was a really thought provoking.  My favorite part was the beginning of the speech which he came out and said:
Ideas don’t mean shit.  Everyone has good ideas.  Some better than others.  Only over time and [...]

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08 January 2009 ~ Comments

Porsche Made a Killing on VW

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This is a great little post about how Porshe made over 7 billion Euros through it’s manangement (and manipulation) of VW’s stock.  It’s quite clever.
Related articles:

Porsche Takes Majority Of Volkswagen
German billionaire kills himself

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26 July 2008 ~ Comments

Coase's Law: Cost of Collaboration

One of the interesting things i read in Wikinomics is Coase’s Law. I had never heard of it. Here’s the deal:
Many companies today are turning to collaborative b2B models where consumers, employees, partners, and even competitors co-create value for a company. This is all happening due to the declining cost of collaborating.
It began [...]

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