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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
The Real Benefit of Subscription-based Revenue Models
Segway on the Fairway, Bring Your Helmet
“Segway Inc. might have inadvertently made golf interesting by increasing the threat of head injury” – Consumerist
Pruning the Beanstalk – Feedreaders Need to Grow With Us
“Odeo will work fine for new subscribers, but as soon as you’ve been subscribed for a few months, it’s impossible to use.” – Michael Mahemoff Michael’s got an excellent point there. If you’ve following my writing, you know I have a similar problem with the 300+ subscriptions in my NetNewsWire (up from 250, up from …
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Success Equals Being Acquired and Losing Control?
Check out this one line in ZDNet’s coverage of TechCrunch’s Arrington web winners/losers list: Winners (got acquired) Now, I don’t know if that’s Arrington’s perspective (I suspect so) or ZDNet’s (also likely), either way the sentiment is disturbing. If this is the mentality of the Valley, then I celebrate every project on the “Very Good …
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With Comments Like These…
Chuck posted a comment (and his response) on a MNStories video he posted. I’ve had my share of baffling comments and well, I generally keep them from you. The most baffling ones are usually drive-bys – without a real url, real name, or real email. Add in a comment that isn’t co-hesive and well, it …
Wanted: More Publishers and Better Filters
David Newberger and I were talking about information filtering models and much of the thinking behind Feedseeder came though as did a couple much larger issues. The conversation was so good, I thought you’d enjoy it as well. David: I was talking with a few people today and each one mentioned Information Overload in the …
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$5 Buys You 2.9% of Brooklyn Center
J paid his $5 and ran for mayor of Brooklyn Center. Yesterday, after the polls closed, he had 2.9% of the vote without campaigning at all. Seems like a pretty good return considering. Congrats J. Update: J’s post-primary write-up
Tivo HD vs Apple iTV
Jen and I talked about Baby Tivo recently. It’s a paltry 40gig, single-tuner. But, sans-cable, it serves us well. Today, Apple announced their iTV, shipping sometime next year. Priced at $300, plays HD video, HDMI ports, wifi, Front Row (or something like it), everything you’d expect (maybe a DVD drive?). Then later today, I received …
I’ve Never Been to New York or New Orleans
Last year’s Katrina disaster in New Orleans is a far more important event in our nation’s history than today’s date. Katrina told us we’re unprepared for predictable, frequent, and common events. That’s bad. Nothing wrong with being unprepared for rare and spectacular events. “In many ways, the success of 9/11 was an anomaly; there were …
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