Designs of the Week: Blog Ad Space

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a business brand experience consultancy. How do you design web advertising into a blog, without it becoming an eyesore and a bad experience for readers? Naturally, these decisions will be a trade-off. You can’t just get rid of all ads and ignore your revenue stream. But

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I Want To Change TV: Mitch Berman, CEO of ZillionTV (Part 4)

SM: As a result, the user is sitting back as opposed to sitting forward. With that, let’s take the next step into the ecosystem. ZillionTV comes into this universe; is it the only player that has established itself in this frame of reference or are there other players sharing the space? MB: There are many

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There is an ‘I’ in Visionary
(But do they really have to be arrogant egomaniacs?)

By Guest Author Tony Scott Last week I wrote that there should be no ‘I’ in CEO – at least not in successful CEOs. Of course, that was a broad generalization. Plenty of very successful founders/CEOs who are rightly lauded as visionaries are also often described as arrogant egomaniacs by the press and by those

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 6)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. 3Strand’s Concept Features for Wesabe: Support Groups and Scorecard Trying to get your finances under control can be an extremely stressful and overwhelming process. Throw in the worst economic downturn Generation Y has ever faced, and you’ve got

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I Want To Change TV: Mitch Berman, CEO of ZillionTV (Part 3)

SM: At the same time, our iMac screen has almost the same resolution as this TV screen. They are incredibly high-resolution. MB: What is really important for this discussion is to take ourselves out of Silicon Valley to the rank and file television viewer in this country. HDTV, or high definition, is growing in consumer

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The Atlantic: How The Crash Will Reshape America

My friend Barb Rybka forwarded this excellent article from The Atlantic, How The Crash Will Reshape America. Please do spend the time reading this rather long article. It is worthwhile. Among other things, it says: “If anything, our government policies should encourage renting, not buying. Homeownership occupies a central place in the American Dream primarily

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Forbes Column 2009: An Entrepreneur Stimulus Plan

After quite a bit of thought, I have come to the conclusion that the problem with President Obama vis-a-vis entrepreneurship is that he doesn’t have any entrepreneur on his advisory council. This column pushes the issue further: An Entrepreneur Stimulus Plan.

I Want To Change TV: Mitch Berman, CEO of ZillionTV (Part 2)

SM: They are using the Internet connection to download movies to the set-top box and view them from there. MB: Yes. Again, you have three distinct flavors: Internet TV companies going directly to the PC, traditional operators, and independent boxes all providing video services. That is a highly competitive and confused landscape.