Jason's Business By Bootstraps

Category: Business

  • The rules of product placement on 24

    OK, if your character is making a 911 call, then yes, show the network logo on the phone: However, if your character is arming an explosive device via his cell phone, then no, do not show any branding: Lastly, if a mobile phone is being used to detonate explosives, take the whole faceplate off just […]

  • Thoughts on another RIAA lawsuit

    In lieu of something significant (has it been a month already? I swear, between blogging and bathing, I don’t know how anyone gets anything done,) I found the Google ads around the feed around this story about being sued by the RIAA somewhat amusing (bear in mind I’m in Canada): It’s been about a month […]

  • Today’s capital against yesteryear’s problems

    Suppose it’s the early 1730s, just after the discovery of electrical conduction.  Installation of power lines won’t take place until the 1880s, and the first long distance telephone line won’t be installed until 1877 (which puts it in the wrong order, chronilogically, but that surprised me so much I won’t edit this paragraph.) In this […]

  • The hyperlocal web: still doomed

    Tom from the office (our office, not The Office) sent me a link to a NYTimes article about hyperlocal sites.  Surprisingly, I had to log in to the site to read it, which I don’t remember having to do in a while.  More on that in another post. I hadn’t been tracking this area in […]

  • Free, like all business books, works except where it doesn’t

    I haven’t been following Chris Anderson’s work too closely.  I read (and enjoyed) The Long Tail, and I caught his intro piece on Free in Wired a while back, but I don’t read his blog regularly and most of the news I get these days comes from Twitter, which skews differently on any given day. […]

  • How to use Craigslist to hire effectively

    So it looks like Scoble’s discovered the joys of hiring via Craigslist: the signal to noise ratio is off the charts bad.  I don’t know if this is the first time he’s tried it, but judging from the helpful list of tips for job seekers, he probably went through the standard emotional ride: Step 1) […]

  • All of this has happened before and will happen again

    Excerpted from a 1972 comic book page of ads:  Excerpted from a Google search result page (silly border added to highlight that it’s a screen shot): Insert comment about distribution and target markets here… On a related note, I’d love to see an e-commerce interface design based on those full page ads with the x-ray […]

  • We need PricingCamp

    I managed to catch Democamp18 last night (or as Joey called it, Democamp “barely legal”) – the place was packed, so I spent the first half just outside the main speaking area with the rest of the crowd behind me steadily escalating the volume of chatter.  The net result was Democamp – audio edition (since […]

  • Carsonified: lessons learned while building web apps

    This has been sitting in a tab for way too long, so here it is: Ryan Carson on 12 Things You Wish You’d Known Before Building a Web App. Blog post here, slide deck here, audio here. The audio seems to be for a slightly different deck, but it more or less meshes. Lots of […]