Random Articles

• 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.
• Postponed Due to Lack of Vision I’ve been fighting with one aspect of FeedSeeder for quite a while now. None of the approaches I’ve taken ended up solving the problem in a useful way - many of them just mucked it up worse. The imaginary screen in my head that tells me ‘what it should be’ was blank and it was
• And Nobody Cares About You More Than You “…in a world where everyone is a publication, you just can’t play favorites, you have to find a way to spread the news on your own, without help from middlemen….No reason you can’t cover your own rollout. It requires that you understand your product, have an idea how people will see it.” - Dave Winer
• Re-Tweeting FeedSeeder If you’ve been reading my twitterings over the past week or so, then you’re already read this stuff. I’m posting it here to include it in the FeedSeeder category archive fer later. “…there are only very few instances where unsub’ing from a feed makes sense.” “@swirlspice - exactly. the real issue is how always find the relevant/intersting
• Aggregate Trust, Filter Relevance “I want to subscribe to other people who I can trust, and also, who I can dial down a little” - Eric Rice I like and trust Eric Rice…though I’m not as psyched about Second Life as he is. Same with Mark Cuban and basketball. Same with Doc Searls and photography. Same with Dave Slusher and