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Opportunities in the Tail

If you haven't yet heard - or used - the phrase 'the long tail,' you're not buzzword compliant for 2005. Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired Magazine, coined the phrase in an article that appeared last fall in that magazine. He's ...READ»

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"The Long Tail" Exists Beyond Amazon

Author Chris Anderson is building an empire from one clever catchphrase, The Long Tail. According to Anderson, the unlimited shelf space of Internet merchants like Amazon and iTunes allows a broad product offering that generates ...READ»

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Microcelebrity Is the Key To Success In Today's Freebie World

"How would you make money if you owned Twitter?" Venture capitalist and CEO of Alltop Guy Kawasaki asked Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson at the closing keynote of SXSW. "That was one of the questions I was ...READ»

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Pop!Tech: Is Larry Page the Ben Bernake of the Internet?

Chris Anderson, author of "The Long Tail," spoke at Pop!Tech about non-monetary economics -- a cheery idea, given the current state of monetary economics.READ»

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Chris Anderson Lifted Wikipedia Passages for 'Free'

The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith: "... ...READ»

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The Unassuming CEO

My Encounters with CEOs of Wikipedia, Digg, and TEDREAD»

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Top 10 Open Source Strategy and Marketing Books for 2010

This is a list of the top 10 Open Source Strategy and Marketing Books to read in  2010. Some are new, some are old but all have a role in open source strategy around:SegmentationPositioningInbound MarketingCommunity ...READ»

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How TED Connects the Idea-Hungry Elite

Inside the World's most exclusive and most accessible club.READ»

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Getting Some Tail

“As anyone who has neglected a gym membership knows, the future-looking self can make virtuous choices that the present self wants little to do with…. When [Nextflix] DVDs arrive in the mail, customers’ present selves are ...READ»

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TED and Teaching Ourselves With Technology

The most recent TED gathering, TEDGlobal in Oxford, highlighted the theme of the future of education--and Chris Anderson's own talk hinted at how TED sees itself as a potential part of that future. Sugata Mitra, of the Hole in the ...READ»

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Behance Best Practices--The 7 Principles of Success

After surveying a large number of successful people, Behance found that those who have made things happen share several common principles. Midway through the conference, Scott Belsky, Behance's CEO, took the stage to summarize them: ...READ»

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Putting the Brakes on the Race to the Bottom

In nearly every business sector, you hear people talking about the dreaded “race to the bottom.” It’s the price-pressured, loyalty-free, profit-reducing phenomenon that is disrupting entire industries and wreaking havoc on ...READ»

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5 Steps To The Conversational Economy

It's no secret that the web is moving to a conversation platform. That's one of the major check boxes for all "Web 2.0" apps online. You can have a 2.0 look (big fonts, clean simple design, and gradient color buttons), but to truly ...READ»

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Curbside Marketing: Blu Dot to Drop Free Chairs on Sidewalk and Track the Takers

Here's one for the annals of experimental marketing: On Wednesday and Thursday a white van carrying a stack of powder-coated Real Good chairs by Blu Dot, a Minneapolis design firm started by three college friends, will patrol ...READ»

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Examining Pro-Ams: Segments, Stats, Brands, Facts

“The ‘Pro-Am’ era [is] a time when professionals and amateurs work side-by-side,” writes Wired Editor, Chris Anderson in his book The Long Tail. “Don’t be surprise if some of the most creative and influential work in the...READ»

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Socially Secure - What I Learned at BlogWorldExpo '07

I attended BlogWorld Expo last year for my company, BlogTalkRadio (I'm VP, Business Development) and enjoyed a number of solid sessions and prime networking. My focus in terms of what I wanted to learn about from the event, ...READ»

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Mediabistro Circus: Conversations on Technology and the Changing Face of Media

Next week, on May 20th and 21st, Mediabistro.com will hold its first conference – Mediabistro Circus. "Most conferences are dry and boring. That's why we're calling ours a circus," says mediabistro.com founder ...READ»

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Bodice Ripping 2.0

The Fast Interview: Harlequin's Brent Lewis on how romance novels are being read -- and written -- on cell phones and why size really doesn't matter.READ»

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Facebook Getting in Your Face

Facebook is ticking off a lot of people with their lack of sincerity regarding our privacy, but are 400 million of us willing to go "cold turkey" and give up our drugs?READ»

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Entrepreneur Interview: Lessons in Free and Digital Community

Chris Anderson points out in his latest book, Free: The Future of Radical Price, we are in an age where internet users can find information for free that was formerly sold for top dollar...READ»

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Former Combat Soldier-Activist Paul Rieckhoff on Wikileaks and Founder Julian Assange

After a "pretty heated discussion" with the man who revealed almost 100,000 classified military documents, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America says he's concerned about Assange's agenda.READ»

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Luxury's Long Tail

Thanks largely to the deluxe-uccinos at Starbucks and the Michael Graves teapot at Target, it's now an article of faith that luxury is within reach of nearly every man, woman and child. But it also raises an enduring question: When a ...READ»

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Embracing the power of abundance in the conceptual economy

The business landscape and the economy as we know it is changing and it is changing fast. What you have is an endless collaborative opportunities, with an abundance of knowledge and free means at your disposal. How can an entrepreneur ...READ»

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Open Sourcing the Playbook for Blue Ocean Marketing

The open source community shares its code and ideas and this blog is designed to open source a playbook on blue ocean marketing and a deliver  “Blue Ocean Ten Point Plan”. I lead marketing for one of the largest ...READ»

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Is TED the New Harvard? Reactions from Around the Web

My story has occasioned a healthy amount of reaction around the web, including from TED and Chris Anderson himself.First, the snark: Maura at The Awl (a commentary site run by ex-Gawkers) calls the story "breathless" and TEDsters ...READ»