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 did, [...]
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 reading a bit about the latest Zune HD, [...]
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 along the [...]
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 business. [...]
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 or so—a period that [...]
