Tag Archives: viral
Parasites, failure, and useful ideas
1. Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes: If you work with people on ideas, you’ve probably seen it happen many times before: a bad idea is introduced, the team goes with it, and somewhere along the line, we realize it’s all about to go very badly. Ideas replicate (especially bad ones) with a mind of their own. Kill the bad ones, and keep the good ones. 2. From J.K. Rowlings’ talk on the benefits of failing, and the importance of imagination: “Given a time machine or …
Read Full Post
Differentiating Your Social Networking Website (Part 1)
In what’s becoming a crowded space (though don’t get me wrong, there is still much seating and standing room), social networking websites in mass have “officially” arrived. Sure, the industry powerhouses have been around for some time now, but over the last couple of years it’s feeling like “Star Wars — Attack of the Clones” with all of the social networking websites cropping up around this niche and that specialty and those demographics. It’s similar to the domain name explosion or the rise of e-commerce; more often than not if …
Read Full Post
