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| Mar 29, 2024 | Of True Fans And Superfans: The Rise Of An Alternative Business Model To Copyright | One of the commonest arguments from supporters of copyright is that creators need to be rewarded and that copyright is the only realistic way of doing that. The first statement may be true, but the second certainly isn’t. As Walled Culture ... |
| Nov 10, 2023 | Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the colonial vision of a tech industry billionaire | Source: Unsplash/Alexandre Debiève article-article-body
In 1993, Marc Andreessen was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also worked at the US-government-funded National Center for Supercomputing Applic... |
| Jun 10, 2023 | Scaling with soul: startups that find their ‘true fans’ will win in the passion economy
The theory of a thousand true fans
Scaling with soul
Pursuing the passion economy | Operating an early-stage startup comes with enough challenges – you wouldn’t think having too many customers would be one of them. In reality, however, plenty of startups suffer from too many syndrome: too many products, too many channels a... |
| Apr 16, 2023 | Singularity-дайджест — подборка эссе о будущем в эпоху искусственных нейросетей | Китайские комнаты нейросетей на всех парах изрыгают ремиксы и компиляции. За потоком картин в стилях классиков, фактов о лягушках и синтетических мелодий скрывается нечто. Нечто готовое рвануть в превосходящем масштабе ещё до того, как стих... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Copyright Has Been One Of Life’s Certainties: But Will It Always Be? | Copyright seems to be a fixture of our legal, economic and social systems. For 300 years, it has formed the backbone of the structures used to incentivize and remunerate creators. During that time, copyright has been extended repeatedly in ... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | 15 Modern And Unique Ways To Find New Business Leads | The success of any business lies not only in finding the right clients but also in doing so on an ongoing basis. While there’s no shortage of lead generation strategies out there, it can sometimes pay to think outside the box. Taking an unc... |
| Oct 19, 2022 |
The Web3 Guide to Getting Into the Music Industry | It’s hard to break into the music industry and even harder to succeed as an artist in the long term. Traditionally molded by industry gatekeepers, curated Top 40 lists,and contracts with legacy record labels, rejection is a common hurdle fo... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | The Creator Economy, Virtual Communities and The Future Of African Arts | This article was contributed to TechCabal by Toye Sokunbi of Artish.
In 2016, weeks after charting on the Billboard 100 alongside Drake with “One Dance”, Wizkid was unable to make his set at Wireless Festival due to immigration issues. Back... |
| Aug 14, 2022 | Why edge is eating the world | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
More than 10 years ago, Marc Andreesen published his famous “Why Software Is Eating The World” in the Wall Street Journ... |
| May 1, 2022 | С днем рождения, Кевин Келли: еще 103 непрошенных совета | Кевин Келли, создатель журнала WIRED, уже третий год подряд на свой день рождения дарит всем непрошенные советы (вот прошлый перевод на Хабре: 68 непрошеных советов (c ↑+78))
28 апреля ему исполнилось 70 лет и он выкатил еще 103 непрошенных... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | How Musicians Are Using NFTs to Revolutionize Fan Engagement | The band Avenged Sevenfold is leveraging NFTs and Web3 to engage with their audience and activate ... [+] their community of fans. NME |
| Apr 8, 2021 | 3 Tips for Succeeding When Your Industry is Dominated By a Monopoly | April 8, 2021 6 min read
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Technology, above all things, creates monopolies. As Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList and well-known business and life guru says, the internet turns... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | 'More Songs, But Not More Streams': Former Spotify Executive on the Future of Music Technology | dot.LA sat down with Will Page, former chief economist of Spotify, and Ed Buggé, partner at leading L.A. entertainment law firm Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk, to discuss the future of music tech. The two explore livestreaming post-pan... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Mobile phone Subscribe Growth Update, Creative Products Marketplace Tukitaki and Niche on the Internet | Mobile phone subscribers growth bounce back: After a decline in the total number of subscribers between March-June amid the coronavirus pandemic, mobile phone subscription has bounced back with a 2.4% year-on-year growth to 16.81 crore subs... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Creative Products Marketplace Tukitaki and the Power of Niche on the Internet | Meet Tukitaki: Tukitaki is a niche ecommerce marketplace that works with creative entrepreneurs and sells a myriad of creative products from home decor to paintings, artworks, bags, potted plants, toys, jewelry, tableware, books, plant and ... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Making Money Podcasting Is Possible But Not Easy | Podcasting can be profitable, but getting there will take consistency, engagement and effort.getty |
| Sep 21, 2020 | 'We Blew It.' Douglas Rushkoff's Take on the Future of the Web | Douglas Rushkoff is a futurist, author, early cypherpunk and professor of media studies at Queens College. His early writings on the internet paved the way for thinking about the web in revolutionary terms, as a tool to enfranchise and conn... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Internet and Entrepreneurship: How Internet Has Driven Down the Cost of Starting and Building Business | Welcome to our new series Possible If You Want, powered by Grameenphone, exploring the power and possibilities of the internet. Over the perhaps last 20 years, the internet has reshaped our world. Today, we communicate and connect different... |
| May 31, 2019 | Last Week In Venture: Women-Focused Tech Vendors, Publisher CRMs, AI Trainers, And A Path For Smart Cities | 19 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| Oct 16, 2018 | Checklist for Quitting Your Day Job | The entrepreneur’s hero journey sounds like this: Quit big-time job (substitute “drop out of Stanford” if you prefer). Raise 50k from friends, family, and fools. Build a prototype. Mega launch party. Raise VC money. Hockey stick growth. Exi... |
| May 25, 2018 | AI marks the beginning of the Age of Thinking Machines | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Every day brings considerable AI news, from break... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Kevin Kelly | Our guest for episode 119 is Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape our Future. Kevin and I share many views – from skepticism about t... |
| Mar 4, 2016 | 5 Lessons To Take Away From Kevin Kelly: Of Startups and The Future of Technology | Kevin Kelly co-founded the internationally recognized Wired magazine in 1993 and served as the executive editor of it for the initial 7 years of its run. He authored various books including “The Silver Cord” ; a coming-of-age graphic novel ... |
| Jun 25, 2015 | Sell Features, Not Songs | The recording is old news. Last century. Dead. The Access versus Ownership debate should have finished 10 years ago, but we’re still bickering. Access models (eg. streaming) are not supposed to replace Ownership models. They’re supposed to ... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | How Limited Edition Scarves Fit Into Ryan Leslie’s Plans To Take His Music Straight To Fans | In the recent debates about how the business model for musicians and other creative artists is changing, one of the commonly repeated ideas is that you no longer have to reach a mass audience in order to make money — instead, you just need ... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Dylan's Desk: Our phones have a constitutional right to privacy. It's up to us to use it | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Supreme Court ruling yesterday that police cannot search your phone without a warrant is a recognition of what most of us already k... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Dylan's Desk: Our phones have a constitutional right to privacy. It's up to us to use it | The Supreme Court ruling yesterday that police cannot search your phone without a warrant is a recognition of what most of us already know intuitively: Our phones are deeply personal extensions of ourselves. As such, they deserve the same l... |
| Dec 17, 2013 | New site gives Internet creatives the hope of a regular paycheck | Two custom posters that SMBC creator Zach Weinersmith plans to ship to patrons after crossing the $4,000/month mark. reader comments 43 with 39 posters participating
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| Aug 19, 2013 | Becoming customer obsessed | Why you should grow organically, not artificially
In early-stage tech startups, there are two major phases your business goes through.
First up, there’s that portion during which you figure everything out, "Discovery mode." And af... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | Meet your future ‘quantified self’ | Lifelogging. Geotracking. DNA sequencing. The trend of collecting data on yourself is becoming more prevalent every day. And with smartphones and self-monitoring devices collecting more personal data than ever, the potential of this deluge ... |
| Sep 2, 2012 | Welcome to the jungle: The best tech when going off the grid | Daniel Noll, half of the Uncornered Market travel team, used an iPhone to locate himself outside Srimongal, Bangladesh
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| Aug 14, 2012 | Gantto Helps Managers Chart a Way Around Project Delays | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Say you’re making pasta with fresh marinara sauce for dinner. “It’s not uncommon to see a young, new cook spend 10 minutes chopping the vegetables and then 10 minutes cooking ... |
| Aug 5, 2012 | Computer, Walk With Me | Editor’s note: Gentry Underwood is a software designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Orchestra, Bring a Trailer, and formerly led the Knowledge Sharing domain at IDEO. You can find him on Twitter at @gentry.
Let’s start with the obvious: ... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Authentic happiness, the maker movement, and the future | A few thoughts on where we are heading
A few years ago (back when I used an AOL email account over a dial-up connection) I stumbled across a mailing list called "Authentic Happiness Coaching". I don't remember exactly how I got in... |
| Jan 21, 2012 | Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012 | The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2012, as we noted in our recent summary of the Consumer Electronics Show.
As everything analog shifts to digital, we can collect a huge amount of data about ourselves. As I noted in our earlie... |
| Jan 21, 2012 | Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2... |
| Aug 29, 2011 | The Hive Mind Needs More Women | Kevin Kelly wrote a thought-provoking post about how “the impossible” is happening more often nowadays, thanks in no small part to large scale collaboration over the Internet. In other words, the hive mind. He cites eBay and Wikipedia as tw... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Open Question: What Tech Stories Do YOU Want to Read? | Yesterday I wrote about the lack of big ideas in tech media, in response to a New York Times op-ed about the “post-idea world.” I basically complained that there is too much mindless pap on Techmeme these days, most of it about business dea... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Is Copyright Needed To Stop Plagiarism? | Whenever I speak about Free Culture at schools, I’m asked "what about plagiarism?" Copying and plagiarism are two quite different things, and you don’t need copyright to deal with plagiarism. To make this clearer, I made a one-min... |
| May 28, 2011 | Ima Fish's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | This week’s favorites post come from Ima Fish, who, when not using an assumed name, is an IP lawyer… |
| Apr 28, 2011 | When Will People Stop Exploiting Google? | I assume you’ve been hearing all about how sites like the Huffington Post are exploiting workers like a slave master by having them work for free. It’s all, as Nick Carr has noted, digital sharecropping, as “free” is really all about exploi... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Kevin Kelly’s six verbs for the new web | Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired (and now its senior maverick), kicked off the Web 2.0 Expo conference today with a talk about what he called the “six verbs of the web.” In attempt to describe the latest tech trends, he rattled off some... |
| Mar 18, 2011 | How Dance Music Producer/DJs Connect With Their Producer/DJ Fans | One of the spectacular developments in music in the last 20 years or so, has been the democratization of the means to produce music. Combined with the internet and the social web, this democratization has enabled a lot of people to create a... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Cheap eBook Authors Realize Even Cheaper Is Even Better | We’ve been covering how more indie authors are discovering that just releasing their works as incredibly cheap ebooks can be amazingly profitable. But just how cheap? Kevin Kelly highlights how JA Konrath, who is the leading experimenter in... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Jetpens: Japanese pens for fun and profit | My dad has been hounding me to get him some gel pens so when I was in Japan two weeks ago I bought him three of them. I should have just hit up Jetpens. This odd little webstore features all sorts of Japanese gel pens along with accessories... |
| May 11, 2010 | iCitizen 2010 Symposium: Recap | So, one week later, I was going to recap the iCitizen Symposium by highlighting all the presentations that took place, but I came to the conclusion that I couldn’t possibly do a better job documenting the event than the event blog did all b... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | Have We Reached The Limits Of Silicon? | The growing demand for greater mobile computing power is rapidly transforming how the semiconductor industry needs to think about designing chips to meet the performance requirements for mobile devices. With GHz-level processor speeds and s... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Institutions Will Seek To Preserve The Problem For Which They Are The Solution | We already wrote a detailed analysis of Clay Shirky’s recent writeup on complex business models. However, a few of you have sent over Kevin Kelly’s recent post about Shirky’s piece that also compares it to Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s ... |
| Apr 8, 2010 | If 'Piracy' Is Killing Filmmaking, Why Do Nigeria, China And India Have Thriving Movie Businesses? | We keep hearing from Hollywood folks that “piracy” is killing the movie business, yet there seems to be little evidence of that. The number of films being made each year continues to grow, and the box office keeps setting attendance and rev... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | FastPencil lets thought leaders publish books without the hassle of writing them | Self-publishing site FastPencil has launched a new program aimed at helping aspiring thought leaders publish the books in their heads.
It’s been years since Amazon began allowing authors to sell their self-published books. Wired magazine sa... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | FastPencil lets thought leaders publish books without the hassle of writing them | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Self-publishing site FastPencil has launched a ne... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | 3D Circuits To Keep Up With Moore's Law | The limits of Moore’s Law won’t start closing in until about 2020-2030, according to reports from Intel researchers, when either silicon-based chips are expected to be made using 10-15 nanometer scale manufacturing processes or chipmakers f... |
| Jul 24, 2009 | On The Inevitability Of Exponential Progress In Technology | Kevin Kelly has written up yet another must read discussion — this one looking into the inevitability of Moore’s Law. In it, he looks not just at Moore’s Law, but how a variety of different technologies have all found similar “laws” where t... |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Focus On Attention First, And The Money Will Follow | Kevin Kelly’s latest post tackles a pretty common subject around here, about how the most important thing in a business model is getting attention, and from there, the money will follow. It’s a response to those who insist that everything n... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | GoBidet makes butt-washing simple | Joel at BBG discovered this delightfully simple bidet system, called the GoBidet. You simply move the handle into place when needed and shoot a little water up there. Dead simple.
I’ve been waiting for GoBidet (HA!) ever since my aborted at... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | Things I Was Wrong About | A friend just sent me a great blog post by Kevin Kelly where he talks about some online things he was completely wrong about — including products or companies he thought would flop that succeeded, as well as those he thought would succeed w... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Success in the Long Tail Depends on “True Fans” | The always interesting Kevin Kelly published a long post yesterday detailing how any artist — musical or otherwise — can make money operating in the long tail. His idea centers around finding 1,000 “true fans,” which he defines as people wh... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | The Path To Success As A Content Creator: Building Up Your True Fans | Here’s a story that follows nicely on our recent post about Trent Reznor quickly selling out his $300 “Ultra-Deluxe” limited edition offering on his new album. As we noted, just because Nine Inch Nails is a recognized act, it doesn’t mean t... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | Buying The DVD: Unhelpful And Unethical | Whether it’s the stupor-inducing gambling channels dedicated to parting fools from their money, the late-night pseudo-porn selling premium-rate phone sex, or the corrupt ‘competition’ call-ins plaguing the UK’s prime-time (even that Holy of... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | Why Smart Dossiers Matter | Two weeks ago in New York, we announced our new Smart Dossiers product, that leverages the best members of the Techdirt Insight Community to provide multiple quick, cost effective analytical looks at any company. After launching it, I recei... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | Kevin Kelly's Eight Key Scarcities | One of the coolest things in writing out my own economic theories on new business models has been seeing some other, much smarter, folks coming up with similar thoughts at the same time. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | Author Gives Away Book, Admits Obscurity A Much Bigger Problem Than Piracy | Doc was the first of a few of you to send in the news that author Charles Sheehan-Miles is the latest of a bunch of new authors who are happily giving away their new books for free. Sheehan-Miles is also making sure to give it away in as ma... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | Rite In The Rain Notebooks | Hey hey hey! Before the computer, people used things called pencils and notebooks. Problem is with notebooks, just like their computer counterparts, when you leave them in the rain, they get soaked and destroyed. Not fun.
Lucky for us, we h... |
| Jul 16, 2007 | Trikke – Three Wheels of Fury | Now that you’re well into your 30s and feeling like an old fart, it’s time to reinvigorate yourself with something new. If you enjoyed rollerblading, cycling, or straight up tom foolery as a teenager, I’m sure you’ll enjoy Trikke. It’s a de... |
| Sep 14, 2006 | LightInSight Puts Traffic Lights In Sight | This is on the low-end side of tech, but it’s still a pretty useful little idea. Sometimes you end up right under traffic lights, whether it be the city’s fault or yours (probably yours). When this happens, you have to stick your neck out a... |
| 71-year-old shares the 22 ‘most useful’ life lessons for young people—‘how much to tip’ and handling ‘rude people’ | A few years ago, I decided to write down bits of advice I wish I knew earlier in life, and then share them with my adult children. To my surprise, I had more to say than I thought.
At 71 years old, I’ve accomplished a lot. I helped launch a... |
| Rise Of The Machines: Bots Are Taking Over In Indian Banks To Hospitals To Hospitality | Image Credits
“Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.” -James Altucher
In the months from November 2016 to January 2017, the Indian banking system quietly saw the beginning of ye... |
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What Are Music NFTs? | Although many people associate non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with digital pictures sold as blockchain-based assets, there are many other applicable categories. One fast-growing ecosystem in the NFT industry is music NFTs.
On the surface, music... |
| Seis verbos para os próximos vinte anos do mundo conectado | Muita gente se pergunta (e me pergunta) sobre tendências. Isso sim é uma grande coisa tendenciosa! Ok, não foi engraçado. Agora imagina quantas vezes o Kevin Kelly já fez ou respondeu a esta pergunta.
Quem? Ele co-fundou a revista Wired em ... |