November 3, 2009

The Wire

samreich: But what was too rich for TV is a work of art on DVD.  DVDs have shown that a TV show doesn’t need to stay on the air in order to have an impact.  I wonder if in the future we’ll see straight-to-DVD TV shows; 50-hour movies from creators and distributors who want to cut out the networks as middlemen.  The way Marlo cut out Prop Joe.

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Speed Law | Mos Def

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November 2, 2009
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Don’t Say Nuthin’ | The Roots

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November 1, 2009
“ In the past 3 years, a wave of U.S. companies have followed the lead of France’s Vente Privee in the business of private sales. Why? Because it’s a great business…The idea of holding private sales of premium merchandise on the Web suddenly seems to be in vogue.

Gilt Groupe Lookalike Rue La La Sells For $350 Million*

Great businesses are built on enduring value propositions, not temporal sourcing arbitrage. Either the entire high-end fashion industry digests a 50 - 80% reduction in gross sales (in which case these are indeed great businesses, but we will need to ditch the ‘high-end’ descriptor), or the rest of the supply chain - Neiman Marcus, Saks, et. all - are going to come calling very soon. Sorry, but this sounds more like Bill Gross’ idea to have Ice.com give away free Tiffany product to attract customers than ProFlowers hyper-efficient grower to consumer direct connection.

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“ Big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. The real story isn’t the business success of these startups. It’s the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success.
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Walk These Streets | Rakim & Maino

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October 31, 2009
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Knuck If You Buck | Crime Mob

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“ I am struggling to understand what is surprising other than how bad this all looks once you break down the numbers. The government sloshed trillions around and yet disposable income is down, jobs are horrendously weak, and the only reason GDP rose is wasteful government spending, cash-for-clunkers and extremely unaffordable housing tax credits whose effect is soon going to start diminishing even though the program was just extended.
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: Market Cheers Over Ugly GDP Report •
October 30, 2009
“ If Sony or HP or Dell builds a netbook based on Chrome OS, they will make money on every search each user initiates. Google, eager to protect its search share and market volume, will gladly pay the ad splits. Microsoft, who already was forced to lower Windows netbook pricing to fend off Linux, will be dancing with a business model inversion of epic proportion – from “you pay me” to “I pay you.
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model •
October 29, 2009
“ I work with some cool people :D http://yfrog.com/708cxj
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October 28, 2009
“ The biggest lie propagated during this crisis is that somehow capitalism failed. To the contrary, capitalism worked perfectly by exposing large players in the financial sector as being bankrupt. Death by derivatives. If we actually had a functioning government for or by the people, last year would have been the beginning of a wonderful new era of decentralization in finance.
The Full Story Of How Tim Geithner Secretly Bailed Out Wall Street And Screwed The Taxpayer Last Fall via Clampit in the comments section. •
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October 27, 2009
“ But what isn’t as well known is that by deciding to pay AIG’s counter-party in full, the Federal Reserve was reversing months of work AIG executives had done to convince the banks to take a haircut on their positions.
How The Federal Reserve Bungled The AIG Rescue, Enriched Bankers And Screwed Taxpayers •
October 26, 2009

@robday: Flavors is amazing. It’s exactly what I’ve wanted for so long - well done on creating such a great product.

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arkhamhearse: I cannot wait until this site is fully up and running. I have a test account and I am in love with it, it is the most convenient thing I’ve ever seen.

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