Horace Dediu at Asymco: [C]ustomers (advertisers) have felt that the product (user behavior from reading licensed content) is commoditized. There is much more value in looking at patterns in Facebook or search. But those rich fields of data are under the control of competitors. This is the core problem with Yahoo’s business and it’s been [...]
MG Siegler on the latest brou-ha-ha regarding TechCrunch and its founder Michael Arrington: But ultimately there is only one thing that matters: information. People don’t care how they get it, just that they get it. If they don’t think they can trust it from one source, they’ll find another way to get it. It really [...]
A lot of people have been pointing out how ridiculous Microsoft’s new Windows Explorer UI looks but Laurie Voss is the first person I’ve seen that points out the craziest thing about the design: Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the [...]
Is there a tablet market or an iPad market? Will the iPad be the iPod or the iPhone of the tablet world? These are the questions that keep tech pundits up at night (or at least me, it’s 3.30 in the morning and I can’t sleep). In order to answer these questions it seems to [...]
Chris Dixon, Hunch co-founder, clearly sets out Google’s options when it comes to deciding a social strategy.
A week or so ago I emailed Ben Brooks in response to a post that he had written about editing the post slug in WordPress1. My question was what point there was in having post slugs in a blog at all. I understand the use it would have in the context of a regular website, [...]
Great post by Wil Shipley on the difference between starting a company to create a great product and starting a company to win the lottery. This, however, was perhaps my favourite part: Consider, for instance, a man who is heavily vested in Amazon stock. He’s a billionaire. He has a new venture he’s looking at; [...]
Carlye Adler writing for Wired: Chen dropped the concert idea, but later he wondered: What if he had asked people to pay in advance? If enough had coughed up, he could have paid for the band without fronting anything out of his own pocket; if not, he’d have known there wasn’t enough interest and could [...]
Work recently provided me with a Blackberry Bold, and while some things about it are really cool, some things remind you how shitty phones are. People complain about the fascist-like App Store Apple runs for the iPhone but sometimes the level of frustration you experience with other phones makes you beg to be put into [...]