The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally reveals football's astonishing hidden rules. Fully updated with a new World Cup chapter Football has always been a numbers game: 4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points for a win. But what if up until now we've been focusing on the wrong numbers? What [...]

Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of lo[...]

Examines how, thanks to a drop in the cost of reaching consumers, the marketplace is changing from a one-size-fits-all model to an abundance of variety to appeal to consumers who want more of a choice, and can get it thanks to the commercial viability of distribution, manufacturing, and marketing.[...]

The online economy offers challenges to traditional businesses as well as incredible opportunities. Chris Anderson makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can succeed best by giving away more than they charge for. Known as "Freemium," this combination of free and paid is emerging[...]

Silverlight 5 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform on wh[...]

The ultimate DIY project guide for techie dads raising kids in their own geeky image, in the spirit of The Dangerous Book for Boys

Today's generation of dads grew up more tech-savvy than ever. Rather than joining the Little League team, many grew up playing computer games, Dungeons and D[...]

Shows that the future of business does not lie in hits, but in what used to be regarded as misses - the endlessly long tail of that same curve. This work takes a look at the new economics of the Internet age, showing where business is going and exploring the huge opportunities that exist: for new pr[...]

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the pas[...]

What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free? In his groundbreaking new book, "The Long Tail" author Chris Anderson considers a brave new world where the old eco[...]

Complete summary of Chris Anderson's book: "e;The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More"e;Review of the ideas in "e;The Long Tail"e; shows that the real mother lode of commercial success for twenty-first century businesses will be in multiple-niche marketing r[...]

I både USA og Europa er det blevet stadig sværere at opretholde produktionen, fordi hele industrier, fra tøj til elektronik, har flyttet deres fabrikker til Asien og andre regioner med lave omkostninger. Men ethvert land, som vil bevare en økonomisk råstyrke, er nødt til at fremsti[...]