Superb analysis on how to profit from “FREE”

photo credit: Jon Ã…slund Kevin Kelly — The Technium There are a number of qualities that can’t be copied. Consider “trust.” Trust cannot be copied. You can’t purchase it. Trust must be earned, over time. It cannot be downloaded. Or faked. Or counterfeited (at least for long). If everything else is equal, you’ll always prefer [...]

An amazing collection of beautiful Asian photos

Asia Grace is a showcase for the textures and traditions of Asia. Volume 1 features all the photographs that appeared in the book Asia Grace, which I photographed, designed, and produced. This oversized coffee-table book was published by Taschen in 2002. Only 30,000 copies were printed, and all have been sold, so the only way [...]

Timelapse animation: 8 years of facial evolution

If the future is “free” for consumers, who picks up the tab and still make a profit?

In 2006, the site earned an estimated $40 million from the few things it charges for. That’s about 12 percent of the $326 million by which classified ad revenue declined that year. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free

Capitalism eventually consumes itself

In the nonrelenting pursuit of maximum efficiencies, capitalism self destructs when too much wealth is gone to one side of the scales of society: CharityFocus Blog: Parable of the Shoe Salesman Before wrestling over solutions, we as business people must first sit with the uncomfortable truth: The growing disparity of wealth is not some accidental [...]

Who owns what where? Confusion, courts and credit holders

Some good news for the “little guy” at the end of the mortgage note. Bloomberg.com: Exclusive “Loans were mass produced and short cuts were taken,” White said. “A lot of the paperwork is done in the name of the original lender and a lot of the original lenders aren’t around anymore.”

Why SEO is better than PPC, explained in lay man terms

Inbound Marketing Strategy: Why SEO Is Better Than PPC Summary: Once you put in all the brilliant hard work to get leads and customers via SEO, it’s much harder for others to take that advantage away. And, even if they do, you’re much less likely to be completely blind-sided by it, as you would be [...]

25 Questions to Think About Before Your Next Job Interview

photo credit: c h e e s e roc The Simple Dollar » 25 Questions to Think About Before Your Next Job Interview A great interview question reveals the nature of the person you’re hiring – honesty, reliability, ability to communicate intelligently and quickly, and so on. Over time, I’ve collected a pretty good pile [...]

Apple shares falling

Apple Shares Rolling Downhill “The first place they cut back is on entertainment purchases, and the second is on home improvements,”

Biflation?

photo credit: pfala I think what we’re seeing is Biflation. We’re seeing price increases on commodities which we compete for on the world markets (wheat, oil, etc) and price decreases on things which require credit to buy (houses now and eventually cars). To some extent price increases on the necessities of life (like food and [...]