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		<title>Twitter’s Happy Problem: It Can’t Meet Advertiser Demand</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/twitter%e2%80%99s-happy-problem-it-can%e2%80%99t-meet-advertiser-demand/2010/12</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter isn’t prepared to say just how well its advertising initiatives are going — as a private company, it doesn’t have to. But days after the micro-blogging phenom said it had accepted a $200 million cash infusion, the company is acknowledging that it literally doesn’t have enough sales people to keep up with voracious advertiser [...]
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		<title>The Long Tail of Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/the-long-tail-of-travel/2009/10</link>
		<comments>http://www.alphaverse.com/the-long-tail-of-travel/2009/10#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Long Tailor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a recent speech to a travel company, we pulled together some data on the changing shape of travel due to low-cost carriers, online travel information and social-media driven word of mouth taking tourists beyond the usual top destinations. As in any industry that democratizes, you should see more diversity and the demand should be [...]
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		<title>Is this how the singularity happens?</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/is-this-how-the-singularity-happens/2009/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Long Tailor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was one of those freaky moments when the future sneaks up and smacks you. I was on a plane earlier this week and took a break from work to watch the movie while they served dinner. It was Terminator Salvation, which once again tells us what happens when Skynet becomes self-aware and the machines [...]
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		<title>Netflix data shows shifting demand down the Long Tail</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/netflix-data-shows-shifting-demand-down-the-long-tail/2009/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Long Tailor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team at Wharton did some Long Tail analysis on the Netflix ratings data the company released for its Netflix Prize. Although I don’t agree with many of the conclusions in their paper (like some other academics, they got confused over definitions of “head” and “tail” and fell into the common trap of doing percentage [...]
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		<title>A New York Times Bestseller!</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/a-new-york-times-bestseller/2009/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you checked out today’s New York Times Book Review section, you’ll see that FREE made the list in its first week of eligibility. It’s #12, tied for #11 (that’s what that little asterisk means). We expect it to dip in its second week due to the free versions of the book cannibalizing sales, then [...]
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		<title>FREE on the Kindle (free); get it while it lasts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FREE audiobook on iTunes (free, natch)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The free audiobook of FREE is now on iTunes, with some very nice front page promotion. Podcast serialized version coming up soon. For those outside the US, you can stream or download the MP3s at wired.com. The Kindle version should be out later this week, along with some other ebook readers. Go to the [...]
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		<title>The priceless rollout continues: Google Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FREE is now available for free on Google Books, too. Like Scribd, this one is a web-based screen reading experience, but it has the added advantage of a live Table of Contents (see above), so you can easily get from chapter to chapter or pull up sidebars without having to page through the book. Like [...]
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson We’re going to be rolling out the free digital forms of FREE over the next two weeks. First up: the Scribd form, right here on the blog (and anywhere else you want—it’s embeddable). This is the whole book! (click “full screen” for a better reading experience). Also released today: [...]
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		<title>Making a physical book free, too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Long Tailor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FREE will be released in the US this week (July 7th in hardcover; July 9th in ebooks) and I’ll be updating this blog with the various ways you can get it for free as they come online. But in the meantime, here’s how we made the physical book free in the UK. Above, you can [...]
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		<title>Dear Malcolm: Why so threatened?</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/dear-malcolm-why-so-threatened/2009/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s now clear that the bane of my next year will be questions about the future of the newspaper industry from journalists. I don’t blame them—newspapers are indeed one of the industries most affected by Free (although that’s just one manifestation of their larger problem: having lost their monopoly on consumer attention). And neither I [...]
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		<title>Corrections in the digital editions of Free</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/corrections-in-the-digital-editions-of-free/2009/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may have seen, VQR rightly spotted that I failed to cite Wikipedia in some passages in Free. This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected in the ebook and digital forms before publication (and in the notes, which will be posted online at the same time the hardcover is [...]
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		<title>Waste is Good. FREE excerpt in Wired</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/waste-is-good-free-excerpt-in-wired/2009/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We published an excerpt from the book in Wired this month. Here’s how it starts: “In 1969, the Neiman Marcus catalog offered the first home PC, a stylish stand-up model called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, priced at $10,600. The picture shows an aproned housewife caressing the machine, with this tag line: &#34;If she can only [...]
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		<title>My Free speech from last weeks Wired Business Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cover competing with free, free gaming models, the newspaper free vs paid debated (actually free vs. freemium) and the antitrust implications of free The slides are below, with apologies for the messed up typeface. It didn’t look that way on the day: Other speeches from the conference are here Go to the feed source [...]
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		<title>Time to Cash Out: Why Paper Money Hurts the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Hasbro came out with an electronic version of Monopoly. Want to buy a house? Just put your debit card into the mag-stripe reader. Bing! No more pastel-colored cash tucked under the board. Turns out it wasn&#8217;t Lehman Brothers but Parker Brothers that could smell the future. At least, that&#8217;s what participants at [...]
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		<title>A tragic tale of Free gone horribly wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/a-tragic-tale-of-free-gone-horribly-wrong-2/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Lund, the head of the Danish Internet Advertising Bureau, and I had dinner in Norway last week and he told me the chilling story of the crazy free newspaper war in Denmark that almost killed everyone involved. I thought it was an important cautionary tale of Free gone wrong, and I encouraged him to [...]
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		<title>Terrific survey of free business models online</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/terrific-survey-of-free-business-models-online-2/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Box UK, a survey of business models used by the top Web apps, most of them variations of ad-supported Free and Freemium. In the chart below, the largest segment (ITA) is ad-supported, the second largest (ISV) is Freemium. After that is referral (ITR) and then the sale of virtual goods (IPV), such as the [...]
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		<title>My Letter to the Economist</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/my-letter-to-the-economist-2/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the Editor, As a former Economist technology writer, I understand the attractions of “simplify, then exaggerate”. But in the case of your article on freeconomics (“The end of free lunch—again”, March 19th), you have done a bit too much of both. First, where is your evidence that online advertising is a failing model?  To [...]
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		<title>I Am the Long Tail &#8211; the movie</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/i-am-the-long-tailthe-movie-2/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has just released a seven-minute movie called “I Am the Long Tail”. Here’s an excerpt of their description: Analysts estimate there are as many as 1.2 million Web sites that support themselves by selling advertising, through their own sales forces or ad networks. Most of them constitute the vaunted &#34;long [...]
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		<title>Open source is a company; social media is a country</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Sourceforge breakfast this morning we got some questions on what the organizational differences are between open source and social media. Here’s my answer: One of the paradoxes of early 20th Century management was the observation that companies are best run as dictatorships, while countries are best run as democracies. Why was this? Management [...]
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		<title>My Two Cents on Charging for Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time, the New York Times and others with their back against the economic wall are now reconsidering that whole free thing. Ann Moore, the CEO of Time Inc, told a British newspaper: “Who started this rumour that all information should be free and why didn&#039;t we challenge this when it first came out? I say [...]
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		<title>Now I can die happy</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/now-i-can-die-happy/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been dissed in a nerdcore rap song about SWSX, at which I am speaking. ….. Fuck the panels, there ain&#039;t one girl ta talk to I didn&#039;t fly here to see some Wired dude You want The Long Tail? Well that&#039;s the wrong tail Imma take these geek girls back to ma hotel [...]
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		<title>Announcing The Free! Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Masnick beats me to it: “As regular readers of this site know, I&#039;m pretty passionate about how businesses need to understand the economics of &#34;free&#34; in figuring out how to create business models that work. So, I&#039;m excited to announce that I&#039;ll be hosting and emceeing the newly announced Free! Summit, to be held [...]
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		<title>The Rise and Fall of the Gaussian Copula Function</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felix Salmon has a terrific cover story in this month’s Wired on the all-too-seductive Gaussian Copula function, which made it easy to calculate risk on Wall Street. Take a big basket of financial instruments, each with their own risks, through them into the Copula function, and presto: you get the net risk. It was so [...]
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		<title>Matter: Marketing by sending people free stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain’s Royal Mail is trying something new with direct mail: sending people a box of free stuff. Called “Matter”, the first one went out in mid-December to 30,000 people who had signed up to receive it. The box contained books, DVDs, CDs, shower products, a candybar, a pre-paid SIM card and a few other goodies. [...]
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		<title>Taleb&#8217;s map of &#8216;The Limits of Statistics&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voor als de schemering precies de juiste gloed van roze heeft; raadpleeg deze essay van Taleb. Het gaat het over allerlei &#8216;fallacies&#8217; (drogredenen) en valkuilen waar men te maken heeft in sociale situaties: o.a. de problemen met het bepalen van de juiste distributies (in bepaalde sociale situaties waar men foutief de normale distributie veronderstelt)  confirmation bias &#8216;silent [...]
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