December 2010
cdixon.org – The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy →
Perhaps some startups have no plan and really are just building features, likely with the hope of flipping themselves to larger companies. Good startups, however, think about the whole wedge from the start. They build an initial user base with simple features and then quickly iterate to create products that are enduringly useful, thereby creating companies that have stand-alone, defensible...
Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink —... →
(via @dcancel)
Gamification of Everything? - Gaming Business... →
(via @jesperbylund)
An Open Letter to Business People →
Old but good.
Monitoring America | washingtonpost.com →
Well, hello there 1984 / Stasi.
About.me acquired by AOL. →
… and here I thought it could’ve become something. Oh well. Rats!
My condoleances.
Facebook and Twitter, Toe to Toe (Socially) »... →
(via @jesperbylund)
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Responds To Short... →
(via @henrikt)
Display Advertising's New Wave →
Well written prez. (via @vonsydow)
Weekend Wrapup
A summary of stuff I’ve read over the weekend.
John Battelle writes about What’s Driving Groupon – a great analysis about how Groupon. “Imagine Facebook or Google with 1,000 people who do nothing but talk to customers all day long? Yep, I can hear the laughter from here…”
Joe Moore at Pivotal Labs writes about Organizing with labels in your Pivotal Tracker projects....
Princes Of The Universe - Queen - Spotify →
Theme song of the day @burtcorp
Big ass bootah'
Ok. Some of you got a picture of a huge ass (butt, not donkey) yesterday. It was part of a Tumblr viral that went around yesterday. That picture was involuntarily reblogged to thousands of accounts.
I’m sorry.
But it’s also quite hilarious. ;-)
How to hire a programmer to work on your idea →
Social Networking: Past, Present, Future →
Great post by @msuster about social networking, how it came to be, where it’s at and where it’s going.
Never f*ck with the Internet
Visa and Mastercard is losing money hand over fist today.
As an apparent response to the jailing of Wikileaks spokesperson Julian Assange both Visa and Mastercards sites are under constant DDoS attacks. While the services are being denied they’re losing huge amounts of money.
The holiday period is the most busy online shopping period of the year. Global online sales during the season is...
“Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.”
– via @jakobmattsson
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to...”
The Tree Slider →
A real nifty little piece of code. Watch the video.
How I screwed up my google acquisition →
… I don’t know if sending a few emails to Jonathan and David would have meant the difference between Preezo being acquired or not, but my guess is that it would have significantly increased the chances. …
Always relentlessly pursue what you want.
Re-inauguration post
Hi again!
About a year and a half ago I quit blogging. I didn’t mean to. A lot in my life got turned upside down at that time. Basically I left a ten year personal relationship. My previous blog was both about my personal and my professional life. For a lot of reasons I didn’t want to blog about something that personal. At the same time, I didn’t want to continue blogging about...
Killing Hadoop
Lots of talk today at the offices about killing Hadoop. I like it.
Pretty much since the start of Burt, we’ve been using Hadoop to crunch large amounts of data. However, Map/Reduce is quite complex, uses a LOT of overhead, and often takes a lot of time to finish. And during the data crunching time, when the result is being assembled, the evolving result is inaccessible. Suppose you’d...
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Stack overflow for startups →
The thing I’m the most excited about today is that OnStartups.com have started answers.onstartups.com. It’s a site based on the Stack Overflow engine about startup advice.
Stack Overflow has quickly and deservingly climbed to the top when it comes to good advice for developers. I’m super-excited to see if the OnStartups Stack-exchange will be as great.
Heroku | The Next Level →
The Salesforce.com acquisition of Heroku just got to hurt Amazon. Not because of sales, but because of prestige. Heroku is unquestionably the leader in Cloud app serving. You just know that them selling to Salesforce has got to be a thorn in amazons side.
Also, for sure this means Heroku will eventually move their serving onto Force.com, Salesforce’s cloud platform.