Only in America could a guy like Dahl take advantage of so many people. I know I have probably paid for dumb things in my lifetime, like Keds shoes or canned beets, but seriously, a rock?
Creating a World Without Poverty - 1 views
Philanthrocapitalism - 0 views
AutoTrader Puts Digital First, Shifting £463 Million Away From Print | paidCo... - 0 views
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I just thought this was an interesting example of how companies are beginning to digitize vs. produce things in print. They follow the consumers, and more and more are going online.
Uh-merican: Pet Rocks - 0 views
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Have you ever heard of pet rocks? Thinking about FarmVille and all the services you pay actual money for online for virtual things made me think of them. Check out this blog post about them, and tell me it's not ridiculous.
$2 billion buys a lot of nothing | Dayton Daily News Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET - 0 views
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This is the scary view of the "virtual" world. It is the point when you know you are spending too much time online. Go outside! Go Hiking! Take someone to a restaurant! Spend your money on something TANGIBLE!
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Addresses the current market within virtual economies and how people are spending REAL money for non-existing goods/services.
Economic ideas regarding internet and other "free" things - 4 views
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Recommended to me by dr. burton. "turns many conventional economic ideas upside down". this should be good.
NNDB Mapper: Tracking the Entire World - information aesthetics - 0 views
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Fascinating... this seems similar to the picture that Professor Zapalla showed us in class the other day.
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Possible digital literace lab - 0 views
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online karaoke site
Choosing a smart password - Official Gmail Blog - 3 views
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This is a informative, brief, and relevant blog post with good advice on how to protect your interent security
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It is interesting... often feel stuck in the delimea of making up a new password for each new website that I will have to remember or reuse an old password.
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My digital literacy lab - 0 views
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Free music sharing website. great digital literacy lab.
How to Update Your Insecure Passwords and Make Them Easy to Use - 0 views
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A very informative blog post on password security. Some great suggestions are given.
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A VC: Freemium and Freeconomics - 1 views
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the Internet allows an entrrepreneur to enter a market with a free offering because the costs of doing so are not astronomical. And most entrpreneurs who take this approach will maintain an attractive free offering of their basic service forever. But that doesn't mean that everything they offer will be free. That's the whole point of freemium. Free gets you to a place where you can ask to get paid. But if you don't start with free on the Internet, most companies will never get paid.
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Not everything in the world will be free in a "free economy". "Free" is just a ploy to get you into a position where you will want to buy better things to work with.
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Blog Article about Chris Anderson's book "Free" with some great insights on freemiums and what they will do to the economy.
Government 2.0: The Currents Of Our Time - 0 views
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Speech from the Government 2.0 Summit (Washington D.C. Sept 7, 2010) by Carl Malamud
We Are Visible - SIGN UP SPEAK OUT BE SEEN - helping you connect to the social world - 0 views
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This site is a diving board for people who are homeless to begin using social media. It advocates the use of social media to give these people a voice in a community that is more apt to ignore them. People don't often listen to people who "look" homeless, but because with social media they can blog/tweet/status update from their hearts and be judged only on the basis of what they say without being preempted by something else, people listen.
Masters of Media » The Customer is Always Right (or at least able to convince... - 0 views
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This is a fascinating article about how web 2.0 and social media are already HUGELY affecting our economy. Do we even have a choice about where our economy is going or is a leviathan of a different kind taking over?
Are You Indispensable? An Interview with Seth Godin - The Personal MBA: Master the Art ... - 0 views
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An interesting interview with a guy who firmly believes in the gift economy. A guide to "making a profit" in a gift economy, in a sense.
On Generosity - Feministe - 0 views
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Illustrates some of the potential problems with a gift economy.
Participating in a gift economy: Are you giving enough? | opensource.com - 0 views
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Illustrates more clearly how a gift economy could be applied to actually making a living.
Making Capitalism More Creative - 0 views
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Great article by time magazine by Bill Gates about the modern issues of capitalism and areas for improvement
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