February 2011
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Feb 1st
January 2011
27 posts
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“It takes a great deal of work to platformize a product. I would guess 10x more...”
– Of Platforms, Operating Systems and Ecosystems | asymco
Jan 31st
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“A digital magazine or newspaper should feel like a media app, not like a PDF...”
– iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint
Jan 30th
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“very engineering driven culture. ”product managers are essentially useless here.”
– How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink
Jan 30th
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“If you’re starting a new company, the best thing you can do is keep your...”
– Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality? - Quora - Isaac Hall, Founder of Recurly.com
Jan 29th
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“BBC management says its online department will not launch its own social...”
– BBC cutting 360 jobs in online department » Realscreen
Jan 24th
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“strategy is always made in a vacuum of data. It is just an unfortunate fact of...”
– Why Eric Schmidt had to go: Google’s innovation dilemma | asymco
Jan 24th
Jan 24th
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“from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing...”
– Daring Fireball
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
Jan 22nd
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New York Times Paywall to Cost Less Than $20 a... →
This is significantly less than the $11.70 a week which is the price for the printed edition, and also less than $19.99 which is the price for a monthly subscription to NYT on Amazon’s Kindle
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Tim Caswell on Node.js →
… the Node.js sweet spot. Is it for basic web development or is it geared towards more complex, real-time scalability problems?  Tim discusses the perks and challenges of Node.js in any development undertaking.
Jan 20th
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“American writing, for example, beguiles and exasperates in equal measure. Its...”
– As he departs for the Middle East, BBC Correspondent Kevin Connolly reflects on three years spent in the United States. (via futurejournalismproject)
Jan 19th
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Publishing defined. Not.  →
dominicduffy: Increasingly, as brands recognize the inherent marketing value of their own content, many are investigating the viability of producing their own brand communications - fulfilling the role normally undertaken by content or publishing agencies. In effect, they are looking at becoming publishers.  
Jan 19th
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The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace →
Girl with Curious Hair is one of my favorite
Jan 19th
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To “Appify” Old Media, We Need a New Approach →
In the B2B space that means creating apps that embed themselves into the entire content chain of their readership. Not entirely sure what the author means by “embed” or “content chain”, though certainly business readers want to get at relevant content quickly and conveniently. To do that they probably want to stay within their familiar contexts (email, browser, maybe...
Jan 18th
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Gentle Pay Walls May Not Be a Traffic Killer →
futurejournalismproject: Journalism Online, creators of the Press+ ecommerce solution for publishers, suggests that pay walls are not significantly reducing site traffic. Via ReadWriteWeb: It’s worth noting that the sample size for Journalism Online’s data was small - only about 2 dozen small- and medium-sized newspapers - but the findings suggest that these newspapers were successful with...
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which...”
– Tim Cook, Acting Apple CEO from Apple Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 12/27/08) Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha and asymco: The Cook Doctrine
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“You learn that things you thought you needed you actually didn’t.”
– Measuring Measures - Three Design Hacks from Apple
Jan 17th
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Google Trends chart for “app” puts Canada in first...
Canada is first for countries and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is first for cities. Not surprising that Waterloo is a leader when it comes to technology, after all they have their own Communitech Hub for digital media startups. It is surprising that it’s first of all cities in the world. It’s also surprising that Waterloo beats out Toronto. Canada either has a lot of people interested in the field...
Jan 17th
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Soup: The Death of Platforms →
soupsoup: I don’t think we will ever see the death of platforms and the rise of the networked individual. Agreed.
Jan 17th
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Princeton study shows that easy fonts make things... →
Jan 17th