Techdirt In The Interview Hotseat
It's apparently interview season, as two separate interviews that were done with me about Techdirt were just published. The first was conducted by Glyn Moody and appears in today's Guardian over in...
View ArticleLooking For A Few Big Brains
If you're knowledgeable about technology, business or finance and aren't already a member of the Techdirt Insight Community, then you're missing out on plenty of chances to make serious cash for being...
View ArticleReliability Requires Redundancy
Slate has an interesting column by Jacob Leibenluft that compares the relative reliability of Yahoo! Answers and Wikipedia. He notes that unlike Google Answers, which was shuttered last year, Yahoo's...
View ArticleCalling Scottish Business Experts: Techdirt Greenhouse Idea Workshop In...
As some of you know, we've done a few "Techdirt Greenhouse" events over the past few years with tremendously positive feedback. These idea workshops were the basis for our Insight Community offering...
View ArticleTechdirt Announcements: Smart Dossiers And Thomson Financial Partnership
We're in New York City today making a couple of exciting announcements that I wanted to share with everyone. First up, we're launching a new offering as part of the Techdirt Insight Community called...
View ArticleWhy Smart Dossiers Matter
Two weeks ago in New York, we announced our new Smart Dossiers product, that leverages the best members of the Techdirt Insight Community to provide multiple quick, cost effective analytical looks at...
View ArticleAbundance And Scarcity In The Insight Market
Last week, after I wrote about some of the theory behind the Insight Community and the Smart Dossiers offering (which is a subset of the Insight Community), someone asked how my writings on economics...
View ArticleWill A Psychologist Beat The Computer Science Geeks To The Netflix Prize?
One of the key things that we expected would be useful when we created the Techdirt Insight Community, was the fact that our customers would be getting very different perspectives from the members of...
View ArticleHelp Define The Future Of Storage With The Techdirt Insight Community And Dell
It's been a little while since we last updated you on the Techdirt Insight Community, but there's plenty happening there that you're missing out on, if you're not a member. First, we've put together a...
View ArticleTechdirt Moves On Up To The 64th Floor: Some Changes Around Here
We've got a bunch of announcements today (and a few more coming up as well), but I wanted to start off with the big one: Techdirt, the company, is becoming Floor64, the company -- while Techdirt, the...
View ArticleWe're Hiring In Sales
As we continue to evolve and grow our business, we've been looking to hire an experienced sales exec to focus on selling the Insight Community. We've been interviewing a variety of candidates, but...
View ArticleWhat You've Been Missing Over At The Insight Community
We've been pretty busy on a bunch of fronts and haven't had much of a chance to mention some of what's going on over at the Insight Community lately, and wanted to pass along some of the cool things...
View ArticleCwF + RtB = Techdirt
Techdirt's CwF + RtB Time for a little experimenting from Techdirt... For years, we've been talking about various new business models in the digital era, and how they can work. More recently, we've...
View ArticleIdeas For CwF+RtB Promotions
As you know, we've been running our CwF+RtB experiment for a few weeks now. We're looking to do new promotions and special "this week only" types of offerings, on a regular basis. Two weeks ago, the...
View ArticleWired Reveals First Buyer Of The Techdirt Reviews Your Business Plan Offering
Wired's Epicenter blog has a nice writeup all about our Connecting with Fans Experiment, and got to break the news about the first buyer of the Techdirt Reviews Your Business Model offering, Didier...
View ArticleHacked Recap
As mentioned over the weekend, we were briefly hacked on Saturday evening. We've put in a bit of time to figure out what happened, clean up the mess and correct the problems (and harden some other...
View ArticleResults From Our CwF+RtB Business Model Experiment
Before getting into the "meat" of this post about how our CwF+RtB experiment worked out, I want to announce that we've "replenished" the store with some new t-shirts and hoodies. These are brand new...
View ArticleKey Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice
We've talked a lot about how copyright law and the DMCA can be abused to take down legitimate, non-infringing content, interfering with one's free speech rights. And we're always brushed off by...
View ArticleCompany That Issued Bogus Takedown Says It Was All A Mistake, Apologizes
So, yesterday, as you may have heard, we wrote about how a totally bogus DMCA takedown notice, coming from an "anti-piracy" firm called Armovore, deleted a key Techdirt blog post about SOPA/PIPA from...
View ArticleTechdirt Threatened With Defamation Suit Over Story On Feds Getting Royalty...
We recently wrote about a very strange case, in which the US government apparently ended up with a 10% royalty in a soon to be produced Hollywood movie that is being billed as the "prequel" to Passion...
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