Topic: Chris Anderson

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»

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»

"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»

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»

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»

• Pop!Tech: Cellphones Used to Fight AIDS in South Africa
• Pop!Tech: Scarcity and Abundance in Camden

The Unassuming CEO

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

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

• Is Facebook Helping or Hurting Your Love Life?

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»

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»

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»

Viva la Freedom of Music

If the music industry can't figure out how to make a profit, they might as well just give their music away for free. The major labels have done little to innovate the industry. One innovation, however, that just might work (and one ...READ»

Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in Wikipedia's Numbers

Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated ...READ»

Wikipedia and 'The New York Times' Suppress Facts to Save Kidnapped Journo

Last week, journalist David Rohde escaped after a seven-month kidnap by the Taliban. It's fabulous news, and it's been partly attributed to the fact that The New York Times suppressed it in the first place. But today we learn that ...READ»