Category Archives: business

Conspiracy ...

Making excuses for RIM: why it's good that the Storm sucks.

Scruffy ...

Via Jus­tin Kodama and Shai­len­dra Rao’s work on “3D Por­ta­ble Office” design, Unders­tan­ding Office Eco­lo­gies , I found David Kirsh’s The Con­text of Work. This paper is full of insight­ful models, but the sim­plest les­sons are around the dis­tinc­tion bet­ween neat and scruffy office usage “per­so­na­lity types”. I am unde­niably a scruffy, pre­fe­rring to keep infor­ma­tion acces­si­ble than orga­ni­zed. [...]

Bill Gates vs. John Nash ...

It is argua­ble that Apple was more inno­va­tive with tech­no­logy prior to Steve Jobs’s return to power. He dis­sol­ved the ATG, home of the ori­gi­nal Cocoa, and Apple Data Detec­tors, and famously axed the New­ton, con­ti­nued deve­lop­ment of which might have given us the iPhone as a plat­form years ago. But the Newton’s brand had been tain­ted [...]

Seppuku 2.0 ...

Sprout Com­merce has figu­red out how to com­mit sui­cide in the Web 2.0 ecosystem. Imme­dia­tely after Pete Cashmore’s glo­wing review in April I began using MyPic­kList to manage my wish­lists, rather than using the “buy” tag in del.icio.us as I had before (and limi­ting myself to items that have records on Amazon.com is so Web 1.0). Ima­gine my sur­prise, then, [...]

Meat-​​based web services ...

Amazon’s Mecha­ni­cal Turk is one of the most inte­res­ting new busi­ness models this year. The con­cept of a task-​​completion mar­ket­place is not too inno­va­tive, but their model of qua­li­fi­ca­tions and expo­sure of web ser­vi­ces cer­tainly piques my inte­rest. Only time will tell if they can fill their chess­board with enough Sch­lum­ber­gers to keep playing.
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