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• Short Message Silo  Jaiku’s growth strategy is getting Twitter’s overflow. But only if you look at it from a winner-take-all, one-silo-for-everyone, perspective. Look at email. I like Apple’s Mail.app. Lots of other people like Gmail. I still know people that swear by Eudora. Despite the different applications, we all still get the messages from each other. The short
• Where to Draw the Line on the Freemium Business Model  I’ve been thinking about “freemium” - Fred Wilson’s Favorite Business Model the last couple days, and sketched up where the boundaries feel right for me. How do these feel to you? Jason Fried on freemium-ish.
• Barrier to Entry  “Nobody’s going to “steal” your ideas, any more than they can steal your cerebrum. You’re the source. Authority over the idea begins with you.” - Doc Searls
• Advice to Web Developers: Forget the Password  This weekend while wandering down the aisles of our local Super Target, we found a dinner table and a side board we though would go great in our living/dining room. After checking out, a couple of teenage boys wheeled the still flat-packed pieces to our awaiting PT Cruiser. Now, after flattening the inside of the
• Ad-proaching a Singularity  This weekend, stuck in the land of dial-up, I paged through a print motorcycle magazine and compared the articles against the advertisments. All the ads were for gear, motorcycle shops, or vehicles to haul your motorcycles. Essentially, indistinguishable from the articles themselves. You can do the same with any reasonably niche dead tree publication. The closer