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Fermenting the Web
“The message is simple and exciting. When the time is right, a very small number of people with a clear vision can build something with huge impact. I’m not talking about making huge numbers show up in their bank accounts.” – Dave Winer (I like to think of this as fermentation)
Something to Do With Our Pennies
Not (Yet) The Worst We’ll Do
“Did our high-frequency trading program have flaws that lead to our company losing 450 million dollars? (that is a tough one to beat, IMHO). Collect your own! It’s fun!” – Dan Milstein “Exactly. It’ll be like, ‘You thought *yesterday* was bad? Well, now you have a enormous metal chicken to deal with. Perspective. Now you …
My Apologies, ‘Users’ is Accurate.
I was riding the LIRR the other day from Queens to Manhattan, and everyone around me was staring into the screen of their smartphone, tapping, typing, clicking. I watched the faces. They looked like the people sitting around in the system lab at the UW Comp Sci Dept in 1978. Same damn thing. Except now …
Dopamine
Brain scan research shows that our brains show more stimulation and activity when we anticipate a reward than when we get one.
Serpent
No matter how much I use [my iPad] to check email, surf the web, or tag photos on Facebook, I’m still gnawed at by a horrifying emptiness that no amount of fiddling with your magical gadget can fill. – Sam Weiner
371t3 Journalism
Want to see the future of investigative journalism in a decentralized, global, marketplace? Here it is: “But just like hacking websites, exposing Chinese frauds has become cliché, if not outright boring. Accordingly, we have turned our attention to several Western companies that may be surprised to find themselves in our crosshairs. We expect to release …
Nothing Ventured
“Along the way, [venture capital] has ceased to be the funder of the future, and instead has become a funder of features, widgets, irrelevances. In large part, it also ceased making money, as the bottom half of venture produced flat to negative return for the past decade.” – Bruce Gibney
Breaking Habits
“What’s sad is that when product managers break stuff, these people blame themselves; my pain is abated by anger, theirs amplified by embarrassment.” – Tim Bray This afternoon, I fought with both an iPhone 4 and an Samsung Galaxy S to find the answer to a question both promised to make easy and straight-forward. Neither …