What Non Technical Internet-related Books Are You Reading?

Non Technical Internet-related Books

[webconnoisseur]

Anyone reading any good Internet Visionary Books? If so, what is the name of it and what is it about?

[Nick_W]

"Getting All That You Can Out Of All That You've Got" - Not strictly web, but easily related. Smashing book, can't remember the author and can't wake the missus up getting the book ;)

Nick

[JamesR]

Jay Abraham - it's on the reading list :)

[GoogleGuy]

For me, it's all about "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at Work." Anybody else got a stressful job? :)

[Visit Thailand]

Stress is my middle name, but Losing my Virginity I find an highly motivational read. Great book, by of course Sir Richard Branson.

[Brett_Tabke]

Design for Community by Derek M. Powazek.

...whenever people refer to community features as free content, my rates immediatly double. It is clear they have no idea what is involved.

Seeing your users' contributions as "free content" is missing the point entirely. It's not content -- it's conversation, and that means you have to stay involved.

...and when your reach that magical moment when your community really takes on a life of its own, you'll know it. And not just because a lot of people will be there, but because the community will begin to lead you, instead of the other way around.

I'm driving, who's got the map?

[mat_bastian]

Information Architechture For the world wide web.

Designing Large-Scale Wenb Sites

By: Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville

An O'Reilly Book

also just finished up,

Back To The User; Creating User-Focused Websites

By Tammy Sachs and Gary McClain Ph. D.

A New Riders Book

[curlykarl]

The Blue Nowhere : Jeff Deaver

"When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself anew— by taking his methodology to a higher level, and aiming at bigger targets"

Just finished reading it :)

Mint :)

[atadams]

GoogleGuy: For me, it's all about "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at Work."

GG, you don't consider hitting that update button "small stuff", do you?

[BlobFisk]

I've just finished "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. A very interesting read. Moving on to the aforemention O'Rielly "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web".

[webconnoisseur]

These are great. Keep them coming. The books don't have to be one's you are reading right now. I'm interested in all visionary books created in the past couple of year (they can be one's you already read).

[linkshark]

future consumer.com -- a good read, visionary in nature

mind control marketing.com -- interesting

customers.com -- reading it now

Yes, I read books that have titles ending other than .com

:-)

Want to read "the perfect store" it's on my list.

[ziggystardust]

"boo hoo - $135 million, 18 months... a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe"

pretty entertaining... you could probably learn what (not) to do as well.

[pearl]

Best business book is "Built To Last" by James Collins and Jerry Porras.

You will quit asking "which one" and will be asking "why not some of each".

[andreasfriedrich]

A really nice web related book ;) is The Spider´s Web by Joseph Roth. This one´s not web related but by the same author and a great read athough it will only last for an evening: Confesions of a Murderer.

Andreas

[mat_bastian]

Information architecture is a must read for this profession. I strongly recommend it.:)

[redlion]

I read "Inside Yahoo! Reinvention and the Road Ahead" last year.

It was an interesting look back to the days of the portals with everybody trying to buy every new type of site that got eyeballs (dating sites, classifieds, shopping engines etc).

Intersting to read of Yahoo coming through that, of the deal making and of the crazy amounts paid for sites. Excite bought e-card site Blue Mountain for $780 million while Yahoo built their own for $10,000! That figure always stays with me.

I hope the author will update it after the Inktomi/OAF deals have bedded down.