Today’s NYTimes article “With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell” waxes lyrical about the opportunities independent writers smaller publishing houses have found by…
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Yahoo!’s announcement that it is shutting down its Yahoo! Shopping Web Services API should send a cautionary note to anyone relying on the one-time darling…
3 CommentsThis morning’s TechCrunch post and last Friday’s Startup Crawl heralds the public announcement of my new startup – Plato’s Forms. I’ve been working with Darryl…
8 CommentsYahoo! have been mopping up the PR fallout from the stripper show that occurred during the Yahoo! Taiwan 2009 Hack Day (if you missed the…
9 CommentsMetric-orientated user acquisition is definitely the hot topic of the moment here in the Valley (along with “frictionless customer conversion” as my rad friend Ethan…
One CommentGoogle’s GMail blog has some “handy” advice on how pick a good password to project your email account. Don’t use dictionary words, use mixed case,…
25 CommentsI don’t subscribe to the “everything muse be free” meme that basically ignores the intrinsic value a product or service gives you. If a product…
14 CommentsLike many of its counterparts, the BBC News Website maintains two distinct versions of it’s front page – a ‘domestic’ orientated front page and an…
26 CommentsMuch hyped Wolfram|Alpha is due to launch later tonight (or later) but I managed to ‘sneak in via the back-door’… essentially query the site directly…
2 CommentsHere at SxSW we’ve just launched a glimpse into some future product direction we’re working on at Seesmic. During the Facebook panel, we announced Seesmic…
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