Archives for September, 2009
Dear Twitter: It’s Not You, It’s Me
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
September 13, 2009: I love Twitter and use it a lot, but I’m tired of developing for the API. It’s not that I don’t think the API team over there do a fantastic job, or that I think the API is bad, it’s a personal thing. It no longer excites me the way it once [...]
Zune: congratulations and condolences
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Back in the day, I had myself a very nice time watching and writing about the release of Microsoft’s first Zune device: Zune: welcome to the gamble Zune’s CNN Train Wreck Zune: this pretty much sums it up Ceci n’est pas une Zune post Zune: when will the hurting stop? Zune: words fail me After [...]
Millions of Blogs are Now…
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
A week ago I wrote the following: Either everybody who’s been gushing about rssCloud “making millions of blogs real-time” is missing the point, or I am. I haven’t worked through it all in my head, but if I had to write a totally speculative, one day after release headline right now I’d go with something [...]
Untitled #470: On Foursquare
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Being a post against the possibility that enough hasn’t yet been enough written about foursquare in the past few days. In the post that launched a thousand VCs on to foursquare, Charlie O’Donnell both neatly outlined a compelling analysis of foursquare’s potential as a real, money-earning business and articulated some areas of concern for that [...]
Aggregation and Accretion
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Aggregation: a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc. Accretion: the growing together of separate parts into a single whole. Bonus definition! Excellence: the state or condition of being excellent. Step One: Aggregation I begin with the proposition that aggregation has been one of the key concepts of the past five years [...]
