Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success
I’d go with that assessment. Connect has made identity/authentication so much easier for third party app providers and at the same time has struck a serious blow to Google in that these relationships are not transactional and it is a zero sum game. With FB adoption where it is and so much momentum on the [...]
Protect the Abusers By Punishing the Rule Following Majority
There’s a lot of this going around this year.
An FDA panel’s recommendation to withdraw Vicodin, Percocet, and other opioid-plus-acetaminophen painkillers seems calculated to “sacrifice the interests of consumers who follow instructions for the sake of consumers who don’t”, says Jacob Sullum.[From “”If you keep track of what you’re taking, none of this is [...]
Why Did I Unfollow You
I’ve been cleaning up my Twitter-roll and unfollowing a bunch of people, here’s why:
1) You don’t tweet. I don’t think anyone really needs to pump out 50 tweets a day to be interesting… but the corollary is true as well, if the only tweet you have posted in the last 2 months is “going for [...]
Tyrannosaurus Debt
via The Corner
What Went Wrong With Joost?
Om very succinctly yet thoroughly lays out what has led to the demise of Joost. One point that I disagree with my good friend Om on is that a white label strategy is the last refuge of a failed strategy when you don’t set out from the beginning to become a white label business… Brightcove [...]
Standardized Power Chargers
This is a great idea, I would love to see a standard sized device charger (doesn’t have to be limited to mobile phones) adopted by hardware manufacturers much in the same way that USB was embraced. Not only would this be convenient for consumers, but the charger could be unbundled from the device, as in [...]
The (il)Logic of Krugman
Paul Krugman echoes President Obama’s rhetorical attack on critics of government run healthcare (and that’s pretty much what happens when the Federal government determines what care you are eligible for) as an example of the brilliant side of the President.
Both Baracks were on display in the president’s press conference earlier this week. First, [...]
Media Strategy 3.0
Really interesting summation of how media has evolved rapidly into the digital distribution age and what the current generation capabilities and shortcomings portend for the next generation.
This third stage is about the balance between targeting, which reduces waste and increases campaign efficiency, and creativity, which takes into account the message and the placement [...]
Lonnie Johnson, Inventor
I love interviews with inventors, it’s a rare window into the mind of someone who just things differently than the rest of us. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview with the inventor of the Super Soaker, but there was one response that really captured the essence of why this guy is so brilliant.
There are [...]
Blogging Has Been Light
For no particular reason, I just haven’t felt compelled to write in spite of finding a bunch of really interesting nuggets in the daily news. I think my writers block is passing… today’s post is a compilation of the small items that have caught my attention this last week.
California Eggs, Consumer Protections and Special Interest [...]
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