About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Dave Winer asks “…how long before the money jumps the gap and Twitter buys a struggling news organization.” If we say Facebook needs to buy Sony for the entertainment capture, promotion, and distribution synergies. Then who’s a likely acquisition target for Twitter? How about a small and medium market newspaper company like Media General? Makes …
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“Yes, that’s right, we were rejected on the grounds that unVerse is “not very useful”. Hmm. Strangely, an app that plays a sound of an airplane appears to have more use than our generative music system. Anyway.” – Yann Seznec From an essay I wrote in 1999: “Generative music allows the musician to compose like …
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“Why isn’t a block out after it’s knocked down? Because kubb is a silly, silly game, that’s why.”
“The best solution is not to need money. The less you need investor money, (a) the more investors like you, in all markets, and (b) the less you’re harmed by bad markets” – Paul Graham
“The newspaper’s value is in explaining a story in detail, rather than the bare headline, and putting it in a context. It’s also in choosing what to report and write about. By only including what they believe is important and worth knowing about, they make it manageable for readers to comprehend the totality of a …
Whoever comes is the right peoplereminds participants that they don’t need the CEO and 100 people to get something done, you need people who care. And, absent the direction or control exerted in a traditional meeting, that’s who shows up in the various breakout sessions of an Open Space meeting. Whenever it starts is the …
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“News that activates your mind. Gives you new information and perspectives. Causes you to think of solutions. Causes you to feel that there is something you can do to make the world better.” – Dave Winer
For decades, Apple was perceived a premium brand with premium products. Products that just worked – with price tags fanatics aspired to. Ironically, Apple’s most successful products – the iPhone and iPad – have completely removed the brand cache. At a glance – I can tell if a laptop is the latest MacBook Air. There’s …