Coined term of the week:
“Democratic pricing”. To create a pricing model that’s priced according to value/financial strength of the recipient opening up your product to a wider market.

So sue me – the blog of Jon Lech Johansen (aka. DVD-Jon)

The Ourhouse Weblog: What is marketing?
“Marketing is the process of getting stakeholders to engage in relationships that create value”.
Cluetrainish!

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Scopeware – the David Gelernter startup – has drasticly reduced their scope of their and produced the new Vision 2.1 release which functions as a file browser, newsreader, etc.

Longhorn Screenshot Galore!. All the intelligence you would want of how Microsoft’s ui of the future is shaping out

Smarter, Simpler, Social – An introduction to online social software [PDF]. Brilliant paper by Lee Bryant

myagent: Virk.dk skifter deres direktør ud [danish]
Lars has the breaking news – a change in management of the virk.dk portal only a couple of months after it was launched.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the US is just naturally exuberant. Irrationally exuberant. All it takes is a bounceback in Nasdaq stocks to bring back the boom. The press is interested again in embryonic businesses. The venture capitalists give ludicrous valuations to Friendster and other frothy companies. The madness is back again.
Nick Denton commenting on his hype style profile in nytimes

The next great divide?
What will happen when double-digit millions of people in the west loose their well paid office work?
Mostly office/service work that is production oriented but increasingly also more creative work like software development and analysts.
Big burden on the economies of the west if this happens – like it has happened in the industrial sector the last 30 years.
HAAS Berkeley: 14 million service jobs in the United States vulnerable.