There’s not much description required here: the concept is simple, and executed elegantly. We Are Hunted is a great site for a Friday - a fun and fresh way to explore new music, filtered by Twitter. You can listen to everything, and follow purchase links to iTunes, Amazon, and “InSound.” I’m having a great time… »
The CNN has a typically dewey-eyed article today about Ning - “the Future of Social Networking.” I just want to point out very quickly (short on time today) that the impressive-looking stats that CNN quotes effectively paint Ning as a ghost town with a few… »
Over the years that I’ve intermittently poured energy into this blog, I’ve commented on or reviewed a fair number of websites. Every once in a while, I like to check-up on some of them - to see if my predictions of doom or success were… »
I try and write this blog with a mature, reasoned voice - but Sony brings out the exasperation in me. So, I apologize if this post reads “annoyed.” Its justified though: Sony has systematically self-immolated - going from leadership positions in console gaming and mobile entertainment, to billion dollar losses and slowly bleeding product families.
IMHO,… »
The internet provides such a fascinating legal environment: because we can, should we? Britain asked this about retaining IP logs and answered “yes.” Bad, bad, idea. France has now done the same for the question of piracy - if we can identify pirates, should they be stopped? That’s a “yes” too, apparently. And I agree… »
Edit: Good discussion at Reddit. There are two differences between Microsoft and GM: Microsoft doesn’t have GM’s debt issues, and MS isn’t labouring under onerous union contracts. Otherwise, the two are eerily similar: both have significant product perception challenges, have bloated product & brand portfolios, and seem to be wildly out of touch with their… »
Earlier today I posted about the NYT Reader desktop app and the shift that I (and others) perceive away from browsers and towards the “app” model that Apple pioneered. Enabled by business-model-friendliness, advanced IDE’s and low-cost coding, and (potentially) superior user experiences, there’s a lot to be said for apps as a desktop paradigm.
Which begs… »
EDIT: When your done reading this, you should read the follow-up post “Where are the desktop App Stores?”
This article on the NYT’s Adobe Air newspaper reader I think highlights a trend that iTunes started: pulling applications and content back out of the browser. It makes sense:
Apps can provide a better user experience than generalist browsers.
Apps… »
A quick link for a busy Saturday: Joshua Porter at Bokardo cleary explains what an “everyday” app is, how LinkedIn is not one, and why it may be important for your business model to become… »
Rupert Murdoch sounds off on expanding the WSJ model of pay-wall websites to other News Corp. web properties. The summary is the same old story: traditional media, watching their revenue decline, seek to reclaim profitability by looking to online subscriptions to form a revenue stream.
What I would suggest, however, is that Murdoch’s assertion that “content”… »
http://kumo.com/search?q=how%20many%20users%20on%20twitter&form=QBRE
Apparently Kumo is up and running and being tested. The domain is blank for me,… »
I’m sure this has been written about elsewhere, but I was saddened today, upon revisiting Cambrian House, to see that the experiment is over. Cambrian House began as an internet crowd sourcing platform where communities could form around ideas submitted by anyone, with execution moderated by Cambrian House, and profit sharing for all.
Out of the… »
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