08/19/2010
Checking In: Foursquare, you’re just a feature…
I’m up to something else and haven’t been blogging lately. However, the Facebook Places news made me log in and post.
The part of the news cycle I found most interesting was the response from Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley.
The core of Foursquare is check-ins — getting people off the couch and into the world to [...]
04/12/2010
Developers Are Divas + Platform Primer
Software platforms are a dime a dozen these days. Still, there are only a handful that matter. For companies that can deliver a winning platform, the economic model is possibly the greatest that capitalism has ever seen. The reasons are many. First, network effects create a competitive advantage that reinforces itself. [...]
03/09/2010
The Problem With Ad-Supported Web Properties
FireFox popularized extensions to the browsers that allow users to prevent ads from being displayed when they visit web sites. It’s become somewhat of a cool thing amongst geeks to claim they have the latest and greatest ad blocker. Others point to privacy concerns as a reason for blocking ads. There’s some [...]
01/22/2010
Are apps the new music single?
Apps stores – they’re popping up everywhere. The mobile space is littered with them. Now they’re creeping into the living room and your HD television. The question is will they last? Will there be 2-3 winners? Dozens of niche players? Will they all die?
Amazon is launching an app store [...]
12/18/2009
Palm Ares: Browser-Based Mobile Phone SDK
Palm’s new Ares SDK lets you build mobile applications for the Palm Pre. The core development environment is web-based and there is plenty of drag and drop goodness. This thing is so accessible it made think. Does developer friction (on a device people actually want) actually increase opportunity for software vendors?
Palm will [...]
12/16/2009
Employee CM Matters
I’m a big 37Signals fan. That’s why this blog post struck me as odd. The title of the post describes their main point:
How Basecamp helped Design Extensions grow from a 1 man shop doing under $50k/year to a 5 man shop doing over $250k/year
I’m looking at that and saying so what! Each [...]
