November 2011
6 posts
"Free" vs "Charge for Access"
Reading through some conference tweets and I can’t quite bring myself to say this.
(Don’t feed the trolls…)
A real calculus of effort, mission, & value is much more interesting than the false dichotomy of “Free” vs “Charge for Access.”
“To get an idea off the ground…over this last decade the barrier to entry...”
–
From This Week in Tech episode 228, a conversation between Digg founder Kevin Rose, host Leo Laporte, and Robert Scoble about how much easier it is to get stuff done now. Quote starts at around 22:00.
Kevin Rose: If you wanted to start a company back in 2000 it was a lot more difficult than it was...
“Teams with healthy idea life cycles are easy to spot: ideas flow
between people...”
– From Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation, page 103.
(Part of a chapter called “Your knows more about innovation than you do.”)
…Sharing with my new friend Jacob Wang.
“This is the 21st century data challenge:
Not transactions.
Not data warehouses...”
– Tim O’Reilly, Keynote from 2010 MySQL conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqLB99dA48k
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A few thoughts about mobile
I was just asked a question about how we should be thinking about “mobile”. The question came with some assertions that made me think the person was thinking about mobile mostly as a content consumption device. This was my very very very quick answer.
[I’ll flesh these out later to get the quotes right.]
Lemme put a pin down on the map with some thoughts to unpack...
