Fast Fooled

“What is the Fast Web? It’s the out of control web. The oh my god there’s so much stuff and I can’t possibly keep up web. It’s the spend two dozen times a day checking web. The in one end out the other web. The web designed to appeal to the basest of our intellectual palettes, the salt, sugar and fat of online content web. It’s the scale hard and fast web. The create a destination for billions of people web. The you have two hundred twenty six new updates web. Keep up or be lost. Click me. Like me. Tweet me. Share me. The Fast Web demands that you do things and do them now. The Fast Web is a cruel wonderland of shiny shiny things.” – Jackie Cheng

Projecting

“At that point it hit me: the notion of this idea as a ‘startup’ was holding this idea back. What if I dropped all of the pretense and just built the best thing I could think of? What would the idea look like?” – Kyle Shank

On Open Loop #1 Jamie and I discuss dive into this topic, and the word ‘project’ that I use to describe it. Give it a listen:

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“How long before Twitter carries exclusive content.”

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 Buffet’s purchase so much more interesting.

Rejected on Grounds of Perceived Uselesness

“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 an urban planner, designating themes and setting limitations, making the broad strokes.”

I think it would have more truthful for Apple to reject it on grounds unVerse competed with the iTunes Music Store.