Posts Tagged Internet

Microformats: What’s the Big Deal?

Microformats are semantic markup systems that “tag” your content (post/photo/video) in the context of related knowledge. Examples are hCard (contact details) and hRecipe (food recipes). Microformats help people and machines understand what your content is “about”. This metadata helps search engines and humans to better understand your message in the context of related information. Emily Lewis explains [...]

Morgan Stanley Report: “Mobile Internet will create/destroy more wealth than Desktop Internet”

Morgan Stanley’s 2009 report on trends in the mobile Internet marketplace makes for an important read for anyone doing business in 2010 and beyond. By anyone, I mean not only hardware, software, and wireless companies, but all small, medium, and large businesses including plumbers and dentists. They forecast that the Internet boom of the past [...]

NetFlix’s Amazing Culture Document

As company’s grow, they tend to suck more. We see this happen every, single, day. Yet some companies continue to innovate and do the right thing. What principles set these companies apart? We need to study the principles that keep good companies from turning into sucky ones. Here’s an internal NetFlix document that goes a long [...]