April 2011
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Root ideas, categories & adjective verticals -...
Here are some notes as I tried to fit Groupon’s rapid growth into a pattern of some of the previous internet blockbusters we’ve seen.
The blockbuster models created ‘root ideas’ and were the horizontals in the new category which spawned ecosystems, copycats and derivatives that were adjective verticals.
Blockbuster - Category - Root idea
Google - search - keywords
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January 2011
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the nodejs bird flies over the appengine cloud...
Looking at the cloud computing landscape how does appengine maintain its value proposition in a world where nodejs provides dramatically better request response times and a slew of nosql databases wait in line to replace and take on BigTable.
Lets take all their recent enhancements
- Always On, Warm Up, 10 minute task limit (all of these are improving internal constraints that don’t...
June 2010
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The shorturl squeeze and loosening of the 140-belt
t.co was announced today and with that the rapid growth of the shorturl the bitly-bubble has burst.
Twitter is ‘asserting control’ over its link dominion. Every link, repeat “every link’ will now be wrapped in a t.co link wrapper that will redirect the user to the original link posted and since t.co links are of a predictable size the 140-character computation will be...
The death of the hashtag! At #tanhf the hashtag...
At #tanhf the hashtag was diagnosed with ‘annotanitis’ a terminal illness, I’d give it 3 months said the tweet-doctor…
The storied hashtag that grew to prominence in a few short years has now been diagnosed with annotanitis.
This is a fatal illness that grows insiduously within the system. The first signs of annotatis are ‘attributii’ these are parasites...
November 2009
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We need: A programmable [feature-pluggable app...
rsscloud:
Unix had a shell language. DOS had a batch language. Lotus 1-2-3 had its macro language. Emacs is a programming tool as much as it is a text editor. We have gotten out of the habit of making programmable end-user products, but they are still just as important today as they were a couple of decades ago.
- In the near future where there are
multiple shout servers (the subset of all...
August 2009
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Hello (Hackathon) World!
We’ve entered the era of the 2 day Hackathons, were you conceive an idea, form a team (or go solo), build an app and get it vetted by a savvy group, launch, go viral and start all over again 30 20 days later. We’ve moved from startups to experiments that yield results at a breathtaking pace and allow one to leverage trial and error to find and follow the rich veins. Startups need...