#business

64 bookmarks

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclel...

I feel guilty about shopping with amazon (and other internet-only retailers). Not guilty enough to s...

alasdairw Apr 16, 2012

http://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/today-is-not-...

Solid overview of the state of (e-)publishing for the near-to-medium term.

alasdairw Apr 16, 2012

http://www.splatf.com/2012/02/eggs-basket-index/

Dan Frommer take a look at major tech firms, and what percentage of their revenue is generated from...

alasdairw Feb 06, 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/856558...

I am spittingly furious about this. Fucking PRS shitehawks, screwing the consumer once again. I hav...

alasdairw Jun 10, 2011

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/business-cl...

To any news-publishing company execs who are reading this: I would pay in the region of 25 quid a ye...

alasdairw May 05, 2011

http://postdesk.com/debates/why-startup-britain-is...

I have some interesting in start-ups - I've worked at a couple, and I hope to work at more later in...

alasdairw Apr 04, 2011

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2011/03/twitt...

I would almost certainly not be using twitter today were it not for Twitterific. Regardless of the...

alasdairw Mar 13, 2011

http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/

Here's an interesting thing to think about, particularly in light of the fact, that at my company, f...

alasdairw Dec 15, 2010

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-pay...

Lots in here, but here's the key thing: "This re-engineering suggests that paywalls don’t and can’t...

alasdairw Nov 09, 2010

http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint

Fascinating reading - the former CEO of Websabe, about why his site was beaten (and eventually, clos...

alasdairw Oct 05, 2010

http://al3x.net/2010/09/15/last-thing-about-twitte...

A clear and sensible statement about the need to decentralise services like Twitter, Facebook, and r...

alasdairw Sep 21, 2010

http://www.mikemarcus.co.uk/portraits/

This guy is offering ten quid portrait photography to, essentially, passers-by, so that everyone can...

alasdairw Aug 13, 2010

http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/08/tips_on_buyin...

This is, frankly excellent. It can be boiled down to: expect to pay money, so have an idea how much...

alasdairw Aug 13, 2010

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

Yahoo was somewhere that, ten years ago, I would have love to have worked. I would have loved to ha...

alasdairw Aug 12, 2010