About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Now, for a socially aspiring middle class family, it wasn’t quite the thing to have a truck parked in front of their house marked “Kensington W.C. Cleaning” or “Brompton Crapper Swabout,” broadcasting the messages: (a) we don’t have staff, and (b) our W.C. is dirty. So some enterprising toilet cleaner stencilled “Telephone Sanitizing” on the …
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“They are the un-Apple or un-Amazon, two companies who never say anything without offering something to buy.” – Dave Winer This is the most important and prescient thing I’ve read in quite a while. Speak When You Have Something to Sell. If memory serves – this point is why my favorite Evil Genius hasn’t published …
After a decade with Speakeasy, I switched to Qwest for my DSL. From what I understand, Qwest has fiber running to the my block with copper the house. Additionally as I understand – this switch from copper to fiber means Qwest is no longer compelled to make bandwidth available to resellers like Speakeasy. The copper …
– John Scalzi – Shmuel
I’ve got a long bet that WiFi will take over our telecom. Voice, video, everything. It’s cheap, it’s unlicensed, it’s nearly ubiquitious and both 802.11[a-z] and the wired broadband to those wireless points is getting faster and faster. For years now I’ve been a fan of T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home program where calls originating within a WiFi …
Emphasis mine. “The Refresh Project accomplished everything a social media program is expected to: Over 80 million votes were registered; almost 3.5 million ‘likes’ on the Pepsi Facebook page; almost 60,000 Twitter followers. The only thing it failed to do was sell Pepsi.“ “It achieved all the false goals and failed to achieve the only …
“In fact, to the extend that the future is shaped by human action, it is not much use in trying to predict it – it is much more useful to understand and work with the people who are engaged in the decisions and actions that bring it into existence” – Saras D. Sarasvathy “The instant …
Today, the NYTimes announced their digital subscription offering. In reading through the 6 major bullet-points describing the subscription offering, my initial reactions as a reader are: This sounds hard and complicated. Can I become a home delivery subscriber and opt out of receiving the paper? Earlier this week, Elko pointed me to NYTimes Chrome – …
“It should be as easy-to-install and easy-to-use as WordPress — easier, actually, would be better. Not-requiring a database at all would be awesome. To be successful, like WordPress it would probably have to be done in PHP, since PHP remains the commonly-installed scripting system on shared webservers.” – Brent Simmons I’m still using WordPress personally, …