First in a three part series on innovation by Dave Pollard. Here’s his introduction: “My modest objective in this presentation is first, to tell you some new, interesting and useful things about innovation, and, second, to persuade you that innovation is the most important determinant of every business’ success, and perhaps even the quality of our lives. I want to…
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Movable Type Tips
Erik J. Heels offers a great list of tips, tricks and resources for installing and customizing Movable Type. Original pointer from Rick Klau.
From IdeaFlow: Compendium of idea generation methods
Here’s a great list of idea generation methods originally compiled by Martin Leith and now maintained by Renee Hopkins.
A prescription for business innovation
Dave Pollard, author of the How to Save the World Weblog, is running a 3-part series on business innovation that contains a lot of good food for thought. This first segment of three introduces Dave’s purpose, which is to evangelize innovation. From: [Innovation Weblog]
Business Plan Archive goes live
A year or so ago I submitted some docs to an academic institute regarding iVendor — my last employer — a dotcom in Silicon Valley that created ecommerce capabilities for sites such as the Oscars, ABC, Fox, et al. Here… From: [JD’s New Media Musings]
5 Specific Ways Subscription Sites
: An interview with Joe Meth, head of the consumer portal SubscriptionConnection.com. He estimates that content subscription services online including niche b-to-b offerings may be as high as 2,500 by the end of 2004. Also, some specific weaknesses in today’s tactics that could be holding back the industry from more profits. From: [PaidContent.org]
John Batelle Groks Furl
“Mike started Furl about a year ago to solve a problem he – and a lot of us – had with bookmarks. Namely, bookmarking is a lame, half-assed, unsearchable, flat, linkrotten approach to recalling that which you’ve seen and care to recall on the web. Now, a lot of folks have made stabs at solving this particular problem, but Mike’s…
More search pointers from John Batelle
Interview with A9’s Manber up on B2.0 John Battelle’s Searchblog: Searching Is Getting More Complicated Google innovates for advertisers
Peter Merholz – saved searches
Amazon has released A9, a search engine that can search both the web, and within its books, simultaneously. Nifty. One thing that’s been getting a lot of press is how it presents your recent searches. Such an idea is hardly new. On August 29, 1999, I pointed out how Microsoft was doing the same with their support knowledge base. From:…
More on Amazon’s A9 search engine
Emergic’s Rajesh Jain has points to the coverage of Amazon’s new A9 search engine. This was originally reported by John Batelle.