Category Archives: Economics

Google: So Bad, It’s Good

June 5, 2006 – 9:06 pm

Google’s coming out with a web-based spreadsheet and Tom Foremski is not amused:
[Is] it okay for Google to compete with many smaller companies, using its massive scale, integrating the applications into its platform - and not even bother to try and monetize those applications? And it is not even in its mission?
It is certainly not […]

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Banality: The Curse of Economic Success

March 14, 2006 – 2:08 pm

In response to Seth Godin’s proposal that bloggers blog too much, Umair Haque laments Americans fixation on usefulness. Then he takes aim at simplistic applications of economics:
It’s the naive culture of the market taken to an absurd extreme: the old economists’ notion of utility. By itself, utility is deeply insightful. It lets us understand decision-making […]

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Entrepreneurial Economics and Global Social Problems

March 13, 2006 – 3:15 pm

How does economics model entrepreneurialism? What implications does this have for Web 2.0 startups? And where might we expect to see the next wave of innovation in the creation and use of online services? Perhaps we ought to look at the nonprofit and NGO community for radical breakthroughs in the use of Web technology.
The current […]

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Business Week Gets Blogging

March 4, 2006 – 6:42 pm

One of my favorite new blogs comes from a mainstream media outfit, Business Week. It’s their Working Parents blog. They’ve gotten together five moms and two dads to write regularly about issues that impact parents trying to combine work and family. These issues affect every family with kids at home, because even when one parent […]

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Doomed

January 29, 2006 – 1:42 pm

Dave Winer offers his suggestions for reforming the VC industry. Mathew Ingram disagrees with Dave and says “venture capital didn’t create the bubble.” Other opinions from the bloke-o-sphere can be found here, here, here and… oh, why don’t you just go look on tech.memeorandum for the latest.
I’m sure you’ve been wondering, “what does Anne […]

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