FeedFlix, a Netflix API service, says that Netflix is losing 0.3% of DVDs it is shipping. GameFly, which gives the same Netflix-style service for video games, is unhappy about ~1.0% loss rates for the DVDs it is shipping. Probably for that reason and some others, they filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission. USPS [...]

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Google Reader started offering a new sorting method for blog posts: Sort by magic. While many tech evangelists have already declared RSS-reading dead and migrated to Twitter-style micro-sharing, I still think RSS is by-far the most effective learning tool/platform on earth (maybe on par with the courses I am taking in Stanford GSB). There is a [...]

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Future of filmed entertainment will not be that different from what it is today – in terms of complexity and number of players participating. But, as the pie is large, there are lots of hopeful and agressive firms out there trying to close a prime estate in the white space. This post is by no [...]

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For the last 72 hours, I have spent a good amount of time on discovering the inner workings of pay-to-bid auctions, and Swoopo in particular. I must be one of the early inquirers into the subject, as there is still no wikipedia article or reference to this novel auction method (or I am just inept [...]

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I wonder why there is no comScore-like coverage in blog world. While RSS is extremely suitable to run advanced analytics on it, there is little offered for publishers and consumers to understand the leaders and readership drivers in this space. One good, but not impressive, information source is Google Reader’s reading trends section. For the [...]

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