- Napster: The Inside Story and Lessons for Entrepreneurs (The Next Big Thing) – Don Dodge was a VP at Napster (he now runs Microsofts emerging business unit) and he gives a brief inside look at what happened to Napster in 2000 and lessons that entrepreneurs can learn from that experience.
- Medical Data Wants to Be Free (Business 2.0) – Business 2.0 points to Fred Wilson’s blog (A VC) where he states that "[I am] convinced that we are on the cusp of a revolution in the way
medical information is collected, shared, and used…We
need control of our data so we can secure it, put it in a place where
it will be available in a crisis like Katrina, so that we can continue
to get the care we need. The public doesn’t understand this yet. But
some people do. . . . So my bet is that medical data is about to start
moving out of the hospitals, doctors offices, and health care plans,
into the hands of consumer and the intermediaries they authorize to
handle their data for them. This is a big opportunity." - The Economics of Peer Production (Business 2.0) – Erick Schonfeld writes a very interesting "Future Boy" column about the emergence of peer production as a replacement (complement?) for companies and markets as an organizing structure in the information realm. Example of peer production: Wikipedia.
- Yahoo! Print (Business 2.0) – Yahoo1 is taking a different tack than Google when it comes to indexing and searching books. For one thing they’re concentrating on books already in the public realm.
- Networking (New York Times) – This piece ties in nicely with the "Economics of Peer Production" piece. Basically it says that the next wave of productivity improvements in business will come from the collaborative information environments (distributed networks) that businesses are investing in.
- ‘Folksonomy’ Carries Classifieds Beyond ‘SWF’ and ‘For Sale’ (New York Times) – This article focuses on three web services that allow people to self-organize based on their interests.
- The Long Tail of Social Software (The Long Tail) – New services like Ning and JotSpot offer opportunities to expand the web’s application explosion.
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How about Moneyball?
You know I haven’t read it (if you’re referring to the book), but I’ve been meaning to.
One of my new challenges is keeping up with the books my mom sends me. She’s working in a book store and my bedside pile is just enormous.
I think I’ll add it to the pile.
I live in G’boro and commute to Clemmons (Topsider Homes). Audible.com has been great. I listen to books and read others at night.
Since you are somewhat of a consultant, (I think.), Moneyball is the story of Oakland A’s GM-Billy Beene. He has baseball’s second lowest budget and highest winning percentage in the last 6 or 7 years. Michael Lewis, a financial writer, shows how Beene thinks outside the box (Baseball traditions) in order get a competitive edge.