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Much has been written about the freemium business model since Fred Wilson wrote about it over a few years ago and Chris Anderson wrote his book about Free! Free for the bulk of your users is all fine and dandy when advertising is a legitimate business model; What happens when advertising revenue on the web [...]

Since August, I’ve been working on a project in an office on the 4th floor. I sit in front of a 30″ LCD screen working on wireframes and product roadmaps for the majority of the day. People walk by and comment on the screen “holy @#$%, that’s the biggest screen ever!” — “You are kinda [...]

Cookie Monster Originally uploaded by neilbetter Alan Cooper drops some awesome knowledge on us that tells us why we need to have empathy in designing stuff, (like Bettr@) Most digital products today emerge from the development process like a monster emerging from a bubbling tank. Developers, instead of planning and executing with their users in [...]

In creating Bettr@, sometimes I talk to people who aren’t exactly motivated to improve themselves. They just don’t get it. Maybe their kids need to learn new things, but they don’t have the time to with everything else going on in their busy lives. Here’s the rub. People are living longer than ever, and are [...]

Kevin Kelly — The Technium (tags: technology singularity philosophy internet)

John Crace questions whether ministers will support report calling for different approach in schools | Education | The Guardian (tags: schools innovation education collaboration)

Digitally Speaking wiki – This wiki is designed to introduce us… (tags: wiki technology education learning)

Futures of Learning (tags: technology research new_media media learning)

::sigh:: Dave introduced me to this money quote the other day by Yves Behar: “Advertising is the price you pay for being unoriginal”. The price in Microsoft’s case, $300 million. fail.

http://www.angelblog.net/Startups_The_Essential_To_Do_List.html?RSS (tags: startup list structure venture)

in light of recent *cough* national events surrounding wall street, i just wanted to point out that the word “ussr” is used more often in common language than the word “innovation”. do your part and send your favorite hedge fund manager or ibanker exec a singing telegram: *you don’t know how lucky you are, boy* [...]

This summer, I was at bar called Weeds here in Chicago with some friends when a guy came up to us with a styrofoam container that had a handle on it like a cooler and said “Tamales?” No, he didn’t work at the bar, and no he didn’t speak the greatest English so I wasn’t [...]