Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”.

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too.

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S.

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left.

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature.

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S.

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting.

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund.

This is a quick follow-up to a prior post, “ Another One Bites the Dust: Readers Digest In Bankruptcy .”  It now appears that Fortune Magazine has come under severe financial distress. Consider this recent headline: “ Fortune Magazine To Sharply Cut Publishing Frequency .” First Portfolio, the business magazine launched just two years ago by publishing giant Conde Nast, folded. Then, the largest business magazine in America, BusinessWeek, was sold by its parent company, McGraw-Hill (MHP), to Bloomberg for as little as $3 million plus its subscription liabilities.

‘Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars’ by William Patry – Los Angeles Times – freestuff.shawnadee.com 10/23/2009 ‘Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars’ by William PatryLos Angeles TimesSome just want free stuff, or, citing economist Joseph Schumpeter, say that “creative destruction” accompanies innovation.

“If there is one story that has been largely missed despite the extensive media coverage of Israel, it is that key economic metrics demonstrate that Israel represents the greatest concentration of innovation and entrepreneurship in the world today.” That is the central thesis of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle , by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, out this week.

We are having our 4th and most likely our last after work networking event of the year. So we are going out with a bang by presenting two incredible opportunities for one deserving social entrepreneur: free office and meeting space in Östermalm and a day of sales & venture capital coaching; 8 hours + 2 follow up coaching calls (1 hour). What makes this opportunity even better is that the office space is at The Hub Stockholm, worth between 13,800 to 16,800 SEK; and the coaching is from the experts at Startup Sales Systems worth 40,000 SEK.

Aviary Raises $7 Million From Spark And Jeff Bezos To Crush Adobe Online Oct. 26, 2009, 12:30 AM 270 NYC-area startup Aviary , which makes Web-based creative software, has raised $7 million in Series B financing.

Posted by Avashya – India Web 2.0 News on Oct 26, 2009 in Digital Media News | Subscribe  Just landed on an interesting perspective (based on facts) about how Israeli startups aren’t doing very well in the last 4 years from 2006. From the original post In 2006, 2007 and 2008 there have been very few “exits”. 2009 is not much better. These are sales of companies or initial public offerings in the stock market. Exit(s) is a buzz word in the Israeli start-up sector.

Editor’s Note : Hooi Yen is a corporate lawyer who advises on investments, mergers, acquisitions and general commercial agreements.  She experienced the tumultuous world of start-ups with Zuji and one of the hats she now wears is that of an adjunct associate for entrepreneurship studies at a polytechnic.  She can be reached at chinhooiyen [at] gmail [dot] com. On 13th October, dramatic headlines on the impending death of innovation made its rounds of the news.

There are a considerable number of coaching resources on how to make your pitch, whether to an individual or to a large group. The purpose of this post is to start a conversation on where to pitch. One experienced VC commented to me at a recent large event: “anyone presenting here is probably over-shopped already and hasn’t been able to find money.” This particular person is not based in the city where this event was held, but he makes it his business to work the market and know what deals are coming available.

There are a considerable number of coaching resources on how to make your pitch, whether to an individual or to a large group. The purpose of this post is to start a conversation on where to pitch. One experienced VC commented to me at a recent large event: “anyone presenting here is probably over-shopped already and hasn’t been able to find money.” This particular person is not based in the city where this event was held, but he makes it his business to work the market and know what deals are coming available.

There are a considerable number of coaching resources on how to make your pitch, whether to an individual or to a large group. The purpose of this post is to start a conversation on where to pitch. One experienced VC commented to me at a recent large event: “anyone presenting here is probably over-shopped already and hasn’t been able to find money.” This particular person is not based in the city where this event was held, but he makes it his business to work the market and know what deals are coming available.

My coverage has been pretty nonstop conference-related for the past week and a half or so. I’ve been going back through the Reader to see what I’ve missed. The Web 2.0 conference has generated a huge amount of conversation in the tech space. On the nonprofit side of things, there were a lot of great posts this past week. Here are some of my favorites: Are Markets Moral?: Social Earth contributor Mike Shoemaker writes a very thoughtful piece about the formation of collective narratives and the shifting conversation about business.

A little while back one of the entrepreneurial leaders in our local community, Jared Goralnick , put on a great day conference at the University of Maryland that imparted some great wisdom on local budding entrepreneurs.  It was a good day with lots of new people and great advice.  Now round 2.  This week Jared is putting on the follow up to the first event.  Unlike the full day conference style, this one is an evening event with some great panels and panelists.

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Perpetual Protection of Traditional Knowledge “Not On Table” at WIPO IP Watch , 22 October 2009 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Protection of traditional knowledge under intellectual property rights may have a time limit, though determining duration of protection measures will be more difficult than it is with Western scientific innovation, World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry said. “I think perpetual protection is not on the table,” Gurry told journalists on 21 October.

Enhancing innovation between scientific and indigenous knowledge: pioneer NGOs in India Maria Costanza Torri and Julie Laplante, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009, 5:29, doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-5-29 This paper focuses on how local communities, in a network of supportive partnerships, draw knowledge from others, combine it with their own knowledge and then innovate in their local practices.

Innovations in the area of sound amplifying technology can go places. We know majors of the sound industry have been doing their bit in getting the best out and offering world class clarity for you and me to buy. Did you know however that innovations in sound can also mean deceptive simplicity in superbly executed designs? True. It is actually possible. A recent entry for the design boom sound innovation competition has shown just that.

On September 28, 2009 Jollibee will start selling its new innovation in Filipino fast food dining – the J ollibee Chicken Barbecu e. All 40 Jollibee stores scattered from north to south of Cebu will be treating their patrons with this Filipino old time favorite – the chicken barbecue. Jollibee Chicken Barbecue The Jollibee Chicken Barbecue is available as a 1-pc. solo meal for P69 and as a 2-pc. solo meal for P119. Value meals, which come with a regular drink, on the other hand, are priced at P89 and P139 for the 1-pc.

Before I get into the tedious specifics, let me get right to the main announcement. Daniel Bartholomew and I are very excited to introduce you to ScriptureLog . ScriptureLog Scripturelog is a free, open source plugin for the popular Wordpress blogging platform that turns Wordpress into a collaborative online LDS scripture study journal . The plugin installs volumes of scripture into Wordpress as hierarchical, inter-linking pages of books, chapters, and verses.

What might you consider to be a good innovation? A good innovation could be recognized as something that is easy and simple, that offers improvement of a particular process. Did you know that you can send and receive faxes using internet fax services? Find out how. A guide to sending faxes using internet fax services ? email to fax services: 2.Attach the document you wish to fax to the e-mail as you would any other attachment. Open a new email message.

Raytheon Wins Space Situational Awareness Prototype Award TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 26, 2009 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) received a $3 million award from the U.S. Air Force Space Command to develop an enterprise sensing prototype architecture for space situational awareness (ESP-SSA). ESP-SSA will prototype an open, service-oriented architecture to integrate Space Command space surveillance sensors with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) sensors into a single sensor enterprise.

PennyOmega.com Hot Stock News & Alerts! ________________________________________ FREE Daily Stock Alerts From PennyOmega.com ________________________________________ Monday October 26, 2009 PennyOmega.com Stock Report! ************************************************************** OceanFirst Financial Corp. (Nasdaq:OCFC) announced today that it expects to offer and sell approximately $50 million of its common stock in an underwritten public offering.

Hello, I need to finish the site content that is here. www.datalogicasys.com I already have 5 of the pages done, I need to finish the following pages. Also, I am going to be focusing things on mobile. I need to finish 1.company 2.services 3.methodology 4.clients 5.version 1 innovation 6.time to market 7.company lifecyle specialization 8. agile development

‘Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars’ by William PatryLos Angeles TimesSome just want free stuff, or, citing economist Joseph Schumpeter, say that “creative destruction” accompanies innovation. Many people simply consider the …

indiDenim , the site that allows you to design your own premium, custom denim online, has just launched an Online Jean Builder (where you can see your design being built), virtual Design Vault (where other’s can buy, rate, comment on your design), and Social Network Integration. With the addition of proprietary cutting-edge design and sharing tools, indiDenim and indiTailored are offering consumers an unmatched tailored apparel solution and design community.

From David Altig , via Mark Thoma . This statistic, the percentage of job losses that are permanent, is a useful way to distinguish Keynesian recessions from Recalculations. In a Keynesian recession, you are temporarily laid off because of excess inventories and deficient aggregate demand. You wait to be recalled by your firm. This was true of recessions from the end of the second World War through the 1980 recession.

Filed under: Japan , Videos , Toys/Games Gran Turismo PSP Commercial – Click above to watch the video after the break Don’t worry, this video is totally safe for work. But we’re saying revolting because we can remember back years ago we watched Clint Eastwood’s Pink Cadillac with a friend’s father who happened to restore muscle cars for a living. Anywho, as you might imagine the 1959 Cadillac gets pretty dinged up throughout the course of the film – fairly often, too.

Filed under: Japan , Videos , Toys/Games Gran Turismo PSP Commercial – Click above to watch the video after the break Don’t worry, this video is totally safe for work. But we’re saying revolting because we can remember back years ago we watched Clint Eastwood’s Pink Cadillac with a friend’s father who happened to restore muscle cars for a living. Anywho, as you might imagine the 1959 Cadillac gets pretty dinged up throughout the course of the film – fairly often, too.

Filed under: Japan , Videos , Toys/Games Gran Turismo PSP Commercial – Click above to watch the video after the break Don’t worry, this video is totally safe for work. But we’re saying revolting because we can remember back years ago we watched Clint Eastwood’s Pink Cadillac with a friend’s father who happened to restore muscle cars for a living. Anywho, as you might imagine the 1959 Cadillac gets pretty dinged up throughout the course of the film – fairly often, too.

Filed under: Japan, Videos, Toys/GamesGran Turismo PSP Commercial – Click above to watch the video after the break Don’t worry, this video is totally safe for work. But we’re saying revolting because we can remember back years ago we watched Clint Eastwood’s Pink Cadillac with a friend’s father who happened to restore muscle cars for a living. Anywho, as you might imagine the 1959 Cadillac gets pretty dinged up throughout the course of the film – fairly often, too.

…the iceman cometh but there was no celebration…looked like someone already took the punchbowl away. While the major indices remain above their 40/50 day moving averages, a lot of individual stocks are now straddling them…that can’t be good, can it? Starting to see some of the earnings coming in beating by a penny…TB always worries about that…just too close. Lilly beat on cost-cutting but raised forecast due to their ongoing ‘plan’ of more layoffs and plant closings…hmmmm.

Economists and policy makers agree that a major contributing factor to Japan’s 10-year “Heisei Malaise” was the prevalence of “zombie finance”, where Japanese banks continued to provide support for highly inefficient, debt-ridden companies, commonly referred as zombie companies, and the government effectively allowed the banks to simply ignore their festering bad loans with lax accounting practices, including the absence of mark-to-market.

RedState Morning Briefing For October 21, 2009 Go to http://www.redstate.com/action/ for the name and phone number of your Senator. Call your Senator and demand opposition to the Baucus health care plan. 1. Senate Set to Cast First Vote on Obamacare. GOP Assisting the Democrats 2. Holder DOJ: Whites Will Only Vote for Blacks If They Are Democrats 3. Act now against Net Neutrality 4. AP Headline: ‘Higher jobless rates could be the new normal’ 5.

If you’re an entrepreneur launching a start-up, there are plenty of places online to find advice – some good, some bad. Given this plethora of information, can a book about starting your own web startup still provide value in 2009? If that book is “The Web Startup Success Guide,” the answer is a resounding yes. Despite all the information scattered around the Internet, Bob Walsh’s new book presents a more coherent story, from start to finish.

Now that Windows 7 is being met with mostly positive reviews and green-lighting by software professionals, no doubt many will be making the switch to Microsoft’s new operating system in the next couple of weeks. Which is a bit of a pain if you stuck with Windows XP and skipped Vista altogether, because then the best thing for you to do is perform a complete clean install after backing up your data and programs. Wiping out your data is one thing, but you’ll also need to install all your applications from scratch again once you get Windows 7 up and running on your computer.

Seasoned Executive Brings Deep Experience in Complex Search and Display Platforms and Digital Monetization to Help Grow the Aggregate Knowledge Discovery Platform SAN MATEO, Calif. – Aggregate Knowledge, the leading provider of real-time personalization and display optimization solutions, announced David Jakubowski as its new chief revenue officer and general manager. Jakubowski, who was most recently senior vice president of Specific Media, will be responsible for strategic planning, direction, growth, and profitability of Aggregate Knowledge.

By Deon Roberts, Online Editor Today, I attended a biotech forum at The Roosevelt Hotel, where James Greenwood, president and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based Biotechnology Industry Organization, was one of the speakers. One of the things Greenwood said that struck me concerned how Louisiana could help its life sciences industry (by the way, experts say that biotech and life sciences are pretty much  interchangeable terms, so forgive me if I switch back and forth).

Skyline Solar wouldn’t seem to have the best timing. The startup, which makes concentrating photovoltaic systems, launched out of stealth mode in the midst of a solar shakeout. But the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup is finding the silver lining of the economic downturn: reduced demand in the automotive industry, which has opened up manufacturing capacity at plants that require minimal retooling to produce Skyline’s systems.

Eric Ries , the man behind the Lean Startup methodology, is coming to Helsinki on 10th of November to provide practical and insightful ideas that should give you a whole new practical toolbox to build your startup into a successful business. For those that don’t know Eric Ries and haven’t heard about the Lean Startup I strongly recommend to listen up and get familiar with Eric’s popular blog at http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/ The Lean Startup methodology is literally spreading like a wild fire and its a very hot topic in the Silicon Valley.

Dr. Marcia K. McNutt was nominated by Pres. Obama in July 2009 to serve as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey and as science advisor to the Secretary of Interior.  Her nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last night. The Senate also confirmed Dr. Arun Majumdar as Director of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E).  This new agency, modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will focus on disruptive energy technology research.  It will focus on high risk, high potential return research using approaches pioneered in the venture capital industry.

One of my goals with One Day, One Job is to get more interactive. I’d like to get more feedback from you, the readers, on what you want to see, and I’d also like to use the collective wisdom of thousands of college aged job seekers to develop better content. The best way to do that is through reader surveys, which is why I recently signed up with SurveyMonkey . They’re a Menlo Park, CA (formerly Portland, OR) based “startup” that has been helping people run online surveys for the last decade.

I think that going into business with my buddies is a pretty daring thing to do.  However, I know that we all have a vision that will be met with the right amount of determination and luck.  We got into this whole thing because of a startup blog that we read talking about how how to raise venture capital and the benefits of going into business for yourself.  We all knew there would be tough times, but also knew that it was going to be possible.

The French-born version of YouTube, DailyMotion – which has now grown into a global site with 60 million users – has officially confirmed its latest fundraising of €17 million, which was early reported as €15 million earlier this month . The new information is that there was an undisclosed €7.5 million investor in the round which turns out to be a French state-backed investment fund. According to Atlas VC Fred Destin on his blog today, Atlas Venture has participated “above pro-rata in this round and grows ownership”.

It was about this time a year ago when it became clear to me that that the Obama campaign’s fact sheet called Connecting and Empowering All Americans Through Technology and Innovation implied developing a government collaboration platform based on Linked Data . Shortly after the election in November and while serving as an invited expert on W3C’s electronic government interest group I wrote the Open Government: Linked Open Data use case that called for “new set of information technology

PC World The FCC voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with the debate in an effort to formalize net neutrality guidelines. Senator John McCain followed up by introducing a bill that would prohibit the FCC from governing communications. In the wake of FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s initial announcement of his intent to pursue formal net neutrality rules, a group of GOP lawmakers already initiated a similar attempt. However, that amendment was retracted almost as quickly as it was filed.

Volkswagen built this piano stairway in Stockholm, Sweden as part of their fun theory project , which aims to change people’s behavior for the better through fun. That is a great strategy. Related: Water Pump Merry-go-Round – Fold.it – the Protein Folding Game – Engineers Should Follow Their Hearts – Using Capitalism to Make a Better World – Toyota Robots

I recently came across a great article on creativity from Patrick Leoncini that I wanted to share.  In case you don’t know, Patrick is an incredible author and a great speaker on the subject of leadership and business.  His books include: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , Silos Politics and Turfwars , The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family , and Death by Meeting . I highly recommend subscribing to his free email newsletter called Pat’s Point of View .  You can sign up on The Table Group’s homepage .

H ere’s something I’ve been chewing over for the past few weeks:  How do you capture succinctly the idea of developing innovative new approaches to identifying, assessing, managing and otherwise dealing with risks to human health? What I’ve ended up with is “Risk Innovation” – but I’m not convinced it works.

Today’s poor growth figures for the UK throw something rather stark into relief.  Those countries that have spent the last decade claiming that financial innovation, low tax, ultra-flexible labour markets, laissez faire industrial policy and popular asset ownership have driven their “economic miracle” are now not only the source of the world’s economic troubles but are actually lagging behind those countries which remained more sceptical of the whole approach.

Every week I read thousands of blog posts. Here, for your weekend enjoyment, are some highlights from my recent reading, for you. On Starting Up… http://www.undertheradarblog.com/blog/the-series-a-term-sheet-5-terms-founders-should-focus-on/ Series A fundraising and the 5 terms every founder should know.     On Design & Product Experience… http://www.fubiz.net/2009/10/19/facebook-facelift/ Facebook gets another facelift.

Lexmark Impact S305 Wireless 3-in-1 Color Inkjet Printer Features Tomorrow’s Wireless Technology Today Uses your home WiFi network for speedy, seamless printing from anywhere you have a signal. Plus, setup is easy and automatic. Individual Ink Cartridges Lexmark innovation at its best: you’ll change only the color you need. It’s easier on you, your budget, and the environment.

These posters were created for two conferences in September, 2009, to provide general information about the study on the reception of entertainment in engagings with virtual worlds.  Along with general information, preliminary quantitative analysis is provided on how interpretation of the engaging related to experience levels. This first poster, structured as a PowerPoint, provides the most detailed information.  It was prepared for the ECREA subdivision conference, Transforming Audiences 2, held in London September 2-4.

John M. Mason- Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech the other night and set off somewhat of a storm…at least across the pond. It is a discussion that needs to be heard here in America. Not only did it get a lot of play in the press, but it elicited an immediate response from Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, his Chancellor of the Exchequer.

There’s a story about the demise of Facebook in the Washington Post: Worldwide ebb for Facebook. I like the logic–when a company’s been around long enough for someone to make a movie out of it, then it’s probably on the downhill slide, even if they do get Justin Timberlake. That people are interested in something new shouldn’t be surprising to anyone in business, marketing or evolutionary psychology. Same ol’, same ol’ won’t cut it, especially in a world where expectations about the speed of change have reached new highs.

On the basis of a completely non-scientific survey, it appears to me that Microsoft’s relatively new search engine Bing is doing a better job at finding stuff than Google. Just a short while ago Google would find posts to blogs or small web sites within hours of their appearance. Now it seems to take the Goliath of search a week to find posts from small sites.Why this is happening, assuming my impression is right, is hard to know. It may be that Google’s parabola from birth to death will turn out to be very rapid.

Obama’s career up to now, lucky as it was, had been wanting in singular achievements for which he alone was responsible. His experience seems not to have taught him the law of natural selection in politics by which majorities are put together out of remainders. Any act that achieves something concrete will leave small multitudes of the disappointed keening but unheard. There are hurt feelings in politics, which only time can cure if anything can.

In memoriam… Economist Joseph Schumpeter is famous for popularizing the term, “Creative Destruction” to talk about the way economic progress relentlessly grinds down the old to make way for the new in a never-ending cycle of “reinvent yourself or die”. For instance, buggy whip companies were driven out of business by Henry Ford’s horseless carriages which, being horseless, did not not need to be whipped quite as often. (They also pooped less).

    To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends,  We hate to sound like a broken record, but have you built an earnings model, one which allows you to easily drop in new assumptions to see what they do to your earnings?  Everyone we talked to at the Convention is making lots of money, all were very bullish, and none ever uttered a word about having planned for the day when someone takes away the punch bowl.  Have your CFO work on that soon!  It might scare you to see what happens if

Fahey has a very interesting editorial up on GamesIndustry.biz. Fahey separates the “Game Industry” from the gamers, of the industry and the customer-base. Why we do not hear more talk about the customer-base and where they are headed in ‘business discussions’ about the “Game Industry” has always astonished me. Customers are the reasons why businesses exist, businesses do not exist because of “business models” and “marketing strategies”.

Don’t forget to book your place @ Mobile: My Remote Control for Life 28th October 2009 What are the deliverables of our mobile marketing day? 1. Achieve a comprehensive understanding of how to drive business success – by better understanding; the logic and the language of the networked society, and how that effects the ways in which we connect, communicate, share knowledge and information, and how that fundamentally changes the way you think about marketing strategies are conceived and executed .

http://www.az-safe.com/files/documents/2/OKSAFE_Position_Paper_on_PPPs.pdf   OK-SAFE, Inc.   (Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise, Inc., at www.ok-safe.com) Position Paper on Public-Private Partnerships, aka Government Sanctioned Monopolies Brief PPP Overview Public-Private Partnerships, (PPPs or P3s), and initiatives supporting them, are a recent trend in the United States, often touted as ‘innovative financing’, and are of great concern to conservatives and those who support the U.S.

One of our favorite blogs, Creative Destruction , has up some great out-of-the-box ideas on how to get a great first show. Getting your first show can be quite an intimidating process and making it work is even harder. Check out a great read.

People probably already know that BusinessWeek, after 80 years with McGraw-Hill, has been sold to Bloomberg. I’m hoping to be able to continue this blog–I’ll let you all know how things are shaking out. View Source Article Related posts:Creative destruction and Michael Bloomberg: Why being fired in New York ain’t always so terribleWill the Republicans or [...] Related posts: Creative destruction and Michael Bloomberg: Why being fired in New York ain’t always so terrible Will the Republicans or the Democrats be the ‘Party of Growth’?

Startup 7 Degrees is launching PeopleMaps, a social business application that aims to give professionals direct visibility into how they are connected to any person or company. Basically, PeopleMaps sifts through educational, social and business information to determine personal and professional relationships between people. PeopleMaps allows users to automatically search their personal contacts from Outlook, LinkedIn, Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo, while simultaneously searching data from public Internet sources.

I’m still not sure if the Twitter stream is the right place to be for advertising, but with the way the company set out to make it easy for developers to build upon their platform with open APIs, it’s no wonder so many ad networks have sprung up since it got started. Its massive growth and the fact that the San Francisco startup is a media and celebrity darling probably helped in that regard, too.

Contrary to what you may have heard elsewhere, venture capital investment is still growing, at least according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Yes, that’s pretty much the exact opposite of what Dow Jones VentureSource concluded last week — that a potential VC rebound had stalled.

Contrary to what you may have heard elsewhere, venture capital investment is still growing, at least according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Yes, that’s pretty much the exact opposite of what Dow Jones VentureSource concluded last week — that a potential VC rebound had stalled.

Jive, the maker of a all-in-one social enterprise software, has raised $12 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital. Jive previously raised $15 million in Series A funding from Sequoia in August of 2007. Modeled to offer Facebook-like features to enterprises, Jive combines computing with social collaboration. Its suite of applications help businesses collaborate on a variety of tasks, including holding discussions, sharing documents, blogging, running polls, and social networking features and more.

Kosmix , the reference engine that dynamically generates comprehensive topic pages as soon as you search for them, has just acquired a small startup called Cruxlux . Cruxlux has spent the last two years building an engine that can take any two people, places, or things and tell you how they’re related. Terms of the deals were not disclosed, other than that that it was in both cash and stock. If you’re a fan of the classic game ‘ Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ‘, you’ll love the Cruxlux engine.

I’ll be live blogging the AlwaysOn OnDC Summit for the next 2 1/2 days. Tony Perkins, founder of the Churchill Club, Upside Magazine, Red Herring, and Always On took the stage to welcome the attendees. Tony is telling how he grew up in Portola Valley not far from where the Home Brew Computer Club met. He showed a picture of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak before they were 20. Tony recently read Barack Obama’s innovation policy and it sounded like a poetic version of what he stands for — promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.

Tech and Entrepreneurship Events at Stanford, silicon valley, San francisco, and the bay area Table of contents: Welcome Table of Contents Highlights Events 10/12 – 10/19 Feedback, Suggestions, Contact Info, and Even More Events 1. Welcome Hi everyone and welcome to my third addition of the Stanford Events Digest! For everyone new to the Digest here is where I publish the best tech and entrepreneurship events from BASES, Stanford, and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area.

F or the last two weeks, I’ve been mulling this concept of market correction as it pertains to the web. There are a variety of stories that have been related, in addition to signatory bubble characteristics that I have observed for some time, but it’s all coming into a lot more focus as time has gone on. A market correction is an economic term describes a natural occurrence when a certain market sector becomes “over sold” or hyperinflated, or when a sector becomes irrelevant to the market and is put out of its misery, or re-capitalized.

Breaking news….If you are a startup pursuing funding, you have more in common with a politician or athlete caught behaving badly then you might think.  A politician caught misbehaving, an athlete photographed doing something he or she shouldn’t be doing, or a celebrity who finds that one heated moment has turned into tabloid fodder for weeks on end all have one thing in common – how they communicate will likely determine whether the incident is a speed bump or a career ender.

Recently, several utilities and corporations—“ Apple, Exelon, PNM Resources, Pacific Gas and Electric and Levi Strauss & Co ” —departed from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a business-lobbying organization, over the Chamber’s views over greenhouse-gas regulation. Particularly, the Chamber “ is calling greenhouse-gas regulation ‘a job killer’ that would ‘completely shut the country down’ and ‘virtually destroy the United States,’ [although] . . .

YouTube announced this week that it’s launching a real-time search engine for video comments. Or, as I’m calling it, the worst idea of the week (and, as that post points out, this is Balloon Boy week… so that’s really saying something). YouTube is likely looking for a way to keep up with the buzzwordiest term of the month, “Real-Time”, and while it already has features to let you see new videos in real-time, giving its users the ability to search through recent comments as soon as they are posted might have been the next logical step.

The Florida State Department’s Division of Cultural Affairs has awarded the Key West Literary Seminar a grant for more than $20,000. The award, part of the DCA’s Culture Builds Florida Grant Program, is designated for the expansion and enhancement of the KWLS Audio Archives Project . Begun in late 2007, the Audio Archives Project aims to preserve and promote the recorded history of the Key West Literary Seminar, which contain more than 20 years of unique presentations by some of the world’s most influential writers.

side note: Thank you Newsweek for saying what most of the new media has been saying for a long time….FOX news is un-American! They promote hate, racism and just plain anger people for the sake of ratings….which in their world equates to advertising revenue. It’s sad when I see that FOX dominates the news ratings…..it shows you why that moron dubya was elected twice, and why that other dimwit Palin almost ended up as our VP! By Jacob Weisberg NEWSWEEK Fox News isn’t just bad. It’s un-American.

Many tech transfer offices are stuck in reactive mode. They dutifully receive invention disclosures from faculty, assess them for commercial potential, file patents and provisionals, and seek licensees. This reactive strategy, while understandable given staff shortages and time constraints, does not even attempt to address one very critical factor in successful research commercialization efforts: what does the market want? Recognizing this, a growing number of TTOs have moved away from traditional and reactive “market push” strategies toward a more proactive “market pull” approach.

Image via CrunchBase This is fairly long but really worth the watch if you have some time – or just leave it playing on your desktop while you work on other stuff like I did The piece was filmed at the 140 twitter conference in LA and features the people behind the @ on brands such as Starbucks , Comcast as well as some independent consultants. Growing Your Brand on Twitter: Strategies and Tactics From the Trenches from Parnassus Group on Vimeo .

By Alexandr Krulik author of Magic submit article . Read more on article marketing center blog. ‘Are you getting irritated with the pimples growing in your face? Why don’t you try the newly discovered facial soap? This will be distinguished for those who take their heaviness of pimples’. .. Cut! This is just a commercial. Advertising one’s product is quite difficult. Your major goal is to attract the attention of your audience. To convince them to patronize your products is important.

  With all of the recent articles and conversation surrounding the browser ballot screen that may come to fruition for Windows 7 versions shipped in Europe, It had me thinking of which browser I would select had my version of Windows 7 shipped with a selection screen. Typically, I end up defaulting to Internet Explorer 8 because it’s pre-installed and because it’s the browser that I need to use all day at work because of compatibility reasons.

Attachment 12206 I’ve lived long enough to have learned The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned But that won’t happen to us ‘Cause it’s always been a matter of trust ~Billy Joel, Matter of Trust read more

An excerpt of the ‘findings’ from an impossibly long report from the Columbia School Of Journalism : The Reconstruction of American Journalism By Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson October 19, 2009 … What needs to be done to support independent news reporting? We are not recommending a government bailout of newspapers, nor any of the various direct subsidies that governments give newspapers in many European countries, although those subsidies have not had a noticeably chilling effect on newspapers’ willingness to print criticism of those governments.

Don’t forget to book your place @ Mobile: My Remote Control for Life 28th October 2009 What are the deliverables of our mobile marketing day? 1. Achieve a comprehensive understanding of how to drive business success – by better understanding; the logic and the language of the networked society, and how that effects the ways in which we connect, communicate, share knowledge and information, and how that fundamentally changes the way you think about marketing strategies are conceived and executed .

http://www.az-safe.com/files/documents/2/OKSAFE_Position_Paper_on_PPPs.pdf   OK-SAFE, Inc.   (Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise, Inc., at www.ok-safe.com) Position Paper on Public-Private Partnerships, aka Government Sanctioned Monopolies Brief PPP Overview Public-Private Partnerships, (PPPs or P3s), and initiatives supporting them, are a recent trend in the United States, often touted as ‘innovative financing’, and are of great concern to conservatives and those who support the U.S.

One of our favorite blogs, Creative Destruction , has up some great out-of-the-box ideas on how to get a great first show. Getting your first show can be quite an intimidating process and making it work is even harder. Check out a great read.

People probably already know that BusinessWeek, after 80 years with McGraw-Hill, has been sold to Bloomberg. I’m hoping to be able to continue this blog–I’ll let you all know how things are shaking out. View Source Article Related posts:Creative destruction and Michael Bloomberg: Why being fired in New York ain’t always so terribleWill the Republicans or [...] Related posts: Creative destruction and Michael Bloomberg: Why being fired in New York ain’t always so terrible Will the Republicans or the Democrats be the ‘Party of Growth’?

Simon JohnsonLast week we solicited questions for Simon Johnson, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a contributor to Economix. His second batch of responses is below. The first batch is here.Q.What governmental policies should the United States adopt to reinvigorate its manufacturing base and spur increased innovation in this country? — Tom KrebsbachA.Tom, the major danger faced by our manufacturing base is that we’ll have another major financial crisis, further disrupting the flow of credit and leading – one way or another – to higher taxes on entrepreneurs and workers.

Creative Destruction: Deleting Avatar Accounts in Virtual Worlds – Dusan Writer Hathaway Opens Up About Her Decision to Leave White House, Cyber Coordinator Future Role – Jason Miller, Federal News Radio Saudi to Jail, Fine Internet Law Breakers – Maktoob Spam Culture, Part II: Russia – Amir Lev, ComputerWorld Martha Lane Fox: Over 10 Million in UK Never Been Online – Emma Barnett, Telegraph China Strikes at Internet Freedom Tool – David Talbot, MIT Technology Review

The Daily Reckoning Everyone and everything is getting higher and higher. Led by the investment banks, U.S. stocks are reporting earnings that “beat analyst’s expectations.” The Dow is over 10,000 again. Even oil is trading at $75. Keep in mind most of the earnings news is garbage. Earnings are whatever an accountant wants them to be. Compared to last year – which was a shocker – this year’s earnings are bound to be better.

Everyone and everything is getting higher and higher. Led by the investment banks, U.S. stocks are reporting earnings that “beat analyst’s expectations.” The Dow is over 10,000 again. Even oil is trading at $75. Keep in mind most of the earnings news is garbage. Earnings are whatever an accountant wants them to be. Compared to last year – which was a shocker – this year’s earnings are bound to be better.

We’ll be attending TEDx Detroit on October 21st. Although we’ll certainly be open and ready to listen first, we thought we’d be prepared with a few questions for the presenters who are scheduled to be there. Here are some initial formulations. If you’d like to help frame our questions, or if you’d like to ask your own, note them in the comments! Richard B. Sheridan President, CEO and co-founder of Menlo Innovations In your company website, you speak of “creative destruction” as a core value.

Are virtual worlds like company towns you cannot leave? What’s the price of just deleting your account and starting over? Have we become so interconnected that we can’t just pull the plug and start over? There’s nothing wrong with being part of a culture, or even a support group, which is often what it feels like [...]