BusinessWeek Online recently published an interview with Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, in which he reflects on the innovative nature of the company’s culture, his plans for accelerating innovation at Amazon.com and the worldwide climate for innovation. Here are some of the more notable quotes from this fascinating conversation with one of the world’s most creative businesspeople.
Don’t imitate — innovate!
There’s an excellent column by Jeffrey Pfeffer in the September issue of Business 2.0 magazine that encourages companies to trust their own insights about their customers’ needs and say no to conventional wisdom and management gurus, as a strategy to succeed in even the worst industries. In other words, your best bet is to dare to be different!
Lucas Gonze: RSS Enclosures
Lucas Gonze is thinking about best practices for RSS enclosures. Lucas is the creator of the very cool Webjay system, putting him right in the thick of the Internet media revolution.
Ludicorp’s new photo Organizr looks hot
Stewart Butterfield, founder of Ludicorp, announces Organizr for digital photos. I’m speechless. The same folks who brought us Flickr, a photo sharing service. I just watched the videos, but in talking with Stewart, I know this rocks. I’ll try it out over the weekend. Anyone already using it?
Bricklin: What is RSS?
I forgot how great this page Dan Bricklin wrote about RSS is — especially for non-techy people. It explains RSS newsfeeds simply, talks about what he’s doing with ListGarden, mentions Feedster. Don’t miss it.
The Future of Media, MIT-Style
A peek at the future of media…
From Scripting News: RSSCalendar
Here’s an example feed from RSSCalendar. Looks pretty good.
Here’s my wish: reBlog integrated into Bloglines
I’m a reBlogger. I don’t post much original content and that was never my intention in the first place. My weblog was meant to be a repository of information. I’m a curator, a distributor of relevant content mostly for myself and maybe others who have similar interests. With that in mind, I have been looking for an easy way to…
Search, And Ye Shall Maybe Find
A little bit o’ company promotion here. Jeff and Darcy recently published “Site Content Search: A User Experience Analysis”, an in-depth review of search engine interfaces, what works, what doesn’t. Boatloads of examples, screenshots, etc. Use the coupon code SEARCHDEAL to get 15% off your whole order, as long as the search report is in it. To get a taste,…
Information routing
Everybody processes a ton of email. And nowadays, some of us also process a ton of RSS feeds. In both cases, inbound items fall into three categories …