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Category Archives: Economy

Why Netflix Gets It and Blockbuster Does Not

23-Feb-07

So I attempted to cancel my Blockbuster.com subscription a few moments ago because of a bad experience, and had to fill out a survey to get it done. There was a comment field where they asked “How Can We Improve? Would you mind taking a minute to explain why you’ve decided to cancel your account?” […]

YouTube - Day of the Longtail

31-Jul-06

Day of the Longtail - This video gives a bit of an overview of the struggles the media and entertainment giants are having with the community of bloggers. The “Longtail” itself as a term has been around awhile and the statistical phenom probably since the beginning of time.
Wikipedia Has this:
The phrase The Long Tail, as […]

Running small teams… a different philosophy

26-Jun-06

Jason Fried Video
A plenary address at the Collaborative Technologies Conference on Tuesday was delivered by Jason Fried, the CEO of 37Signals. His lecture was titled, “Small Is Beautiful.” Here’s the lecture, in its entirety.
I am not a huge fan of Jason Fried in particular (has made some real blunders when commenting on his and […]