Forbes: “Every era has its prized commodity, cherished for its value and utility–gold in the 1850s, oil in the 1870s, water out West in the 1940s. Ours is data … we present the Masters of Information–those entrepreneurs and companies figuring out how to separate the gold from the gravel on the Web.”
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Reuters reports: Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions, according to a new study from Internet audience measurement company Nielsen//NetRatings. The first-time study from Nielsen//NetRatings found that 21 percent of those Web users now primarily use online versions of newspapers, while 72 percent still read print editions.
Stop what you’re doing (including reading this blog) and read this: 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company. Charlie from Union Square Ventures hits the nail on the head. He put a lot of my own philosophy to "paper" just in a much cleaner, clearer way. Must reading for any entrepreneur or anyone…
Marianne Hudson of the Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld asks: What books or articles have been most helpful to you in your entrepreneurial growth venture? Certainly an interesting question. First, I second her recommendation of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start, which I have suggested to a number of budding entrepreneurs lately. But I would also…
The Top 10 Reasons Why Newspapers Are Sinking Online (Marksonland) (tags: Newspapers) Splashcast: A conversation with Marshall Kirkpatrick about PR approach and lessons learned (tags: podcasting copyright ip) Combined Thomson-Reuters Would Challenge Bloomberg – New York Times (tags: research) Social network marketing to hit $2.5 billion in 2011 | 901am (tags: SocialNetworking advertising) paidContent.org: The…
MediaPost: A University of Missouri J-School experiment with a "citizen journalism" site found Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered ad nauseum by the city’s other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news
Over in the UK, text messaging is taking on new importance as a way to communicate with the parents of school children. From LeedsToday.net: FOR 27,000 parents, a reminder of an upcoming teacher training day, or a message that a school trip is returning late, could soon arrive instantly by text message thanks to Leeds-based…