Shelfari THE Social Network for Readers

This social network site could really drive Long Tail purchases of the bookshelves of "friends", plus it provides an automatic Amazon Associates payday for active users of the network.

Shelfari could fit well with the concepts of a NewMedia publishing system - For example, Langdon Morris' new book Permanent Innovation is selfpublished through LuLu, but is searchable and listable on Shelfari - very powerful way to get author's works noticed down the Long Tail.



Shelfari

The Pulse Project The Networked Book

Click here to learn more about the Networked Book - this is a good example of using the web as a platform for conversation between the "author" and the audience. The project is being produced by names@work - an internet marketing and SEO service provider.

This project offers a design format for a conversational publishing system.
The Pulse Project � Pulse

Believe your own eyes

A powerful video review of the "facts" of the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center buildings 1, 2 and 7. After seeing the video you, too, may begin to explore the veracity of the "official" version in the 9/11 Commission Report.

Believe your own eyes

MOOSAIC Preview

MOOSAIC Preview
Originally uploaded by sergei.y.

this project, which uses the annotation feature of flickr would be a lot better if it used a larger size image as the base platform for the annotation


Click on the image and check out the annotation features of the map. Nice idea,
but would be much more powerful if the images had meaning like visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

There's PROFIT in going against the grain!

Despair Inc. is a brilliant innovator - as a Contrarian Publisher, I'll bet they will make a fortune by going against the grain of feel good movitational drek. Their poster and calendar catalog came in today's mail and really hit my funny bone. Take a look - and think about ordering a customized Demotivational Calendar for your favorite losers for Xmas.

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Here's the key paragraph of the Despair Inc. business model:

"MOTIVATION. Psychology tells us that motivation- true, lasting motivation- can only come from within. Common sense tells us it can't be manufactured or productized. So how is it that a multi-billion dollar industry thrives through the sale of motivational commodities and services? Because, in our world of instant gratification, people desperately want to believe that there are simple solutions to complex problems. And when desperation has disposable income, market opportunities abound.

AT DESPAIR, INC., we believe motivational products create unrealistic expectations, raising hopes only to dash them. That's why we created our soul-crushingly depressing Demotivators� designs, so you can skip the delusions that motivational products induce and head straight for the disappointments that follow!"

Here's a sample Demotivator