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Response to Brennan Novak, part II 7 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
On August 10, 2012, I published a blogpost entitled “A response to Brennan Novak”. In that post, I stated that App.net would support a number of interoperable web technologies. As the one-year annive...
Where will Google Reader traffic go? 30 Jun 2013 | 12:57 am
Unless something dramatic happens, Google Reader is shutting down July 1. A few days ago, I posed the question: Has anyone written up their expectations/projections re:how the Google Reader shutdown...
Where will Google Reader traffic go? 30 Jun 2013 | 12:57 am
Unless something dramatic happens, Google Reader is shutting down July 1. A few days ago, I posed the question: Has anyone written up their expectations/projections re:how the Google Reader shutdown...
Y Combinator 17 May 2013 | 05:24 am
From the official Y Combinator blog: We also have five new part-time partners: Michael Seibel, Steve Huffman, Dalton Caldwell, and Andrew Mason. As the name suggests, part-time partners advise startu...
Apps vs. Platforms 15 May 2013 | 09:17 am
Some interesting analysis on “apps” vs. “platforms” from Ben Thompson: An app can afford to be prescriptive about the user experience and means of interaction; in fact, the best apps have a point of ...
Sine waves 17 Mar 2013 | 02:25 am
One thing I have noticed studying web traffic logs is that daily human behavior at scale resembles a sine wave: Over the years, my mind's eye has constructed an image of the daily ebb and flow of web...
Touring by yourself 20 Feb 2013 | 05:01 am
In 2002 I went to see a live show at the coffee house on my college campus. The show featured the band The Microphones. “The Microphones” was a somewhat confusing name for the band because there was ...
The Xbox developer ecosystem 13 Feb 2013 | 08:57 am
Some fascinating insights from the founder of the Xbox project: My gripe is that, as usual, Microsoft has jumped its own shark and is out stomping through the weeds planning and talking about far-flu...
3D printing & the future of retail 10 Feb 2013 | 03:30 am
Marc Andreessen recently made some bold statements about the future of the retail business: “Retail chains are a fundamentally implausible economic structure if there’s a viable alternative,” he says...
OK, Computer 14 Jan 2013 | 12:01 am
Aside: I have been working on a blogpost about the major label marketing machine during the 90s, and thought of this story. Since this anecdote didn’t fit anywhere in my other post, here it is. Some ...
