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Total Immersion: How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days and You Can Too - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss - http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog...
Karen Padham Taylor, Daniel Dulitz, Dave Dash and 14 other people liked this
Yet another life changed by Total Immersion. In November of 2007, I could not swim 100 meters without sucking wind. 10 days ago I completed an Ironman (2.4 mile swim). TI is swimming for geeks.
- Christopher Sacca
from Bookmarklet
Application Rewrites after Acquisitions: How Large Software Companies Destroy Startup Value - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
Jon Galloway, Andy Britcliffe, Yuvi and 3 other people liked this
Good article Dare. I agree with a lot of what you say in there. However, from what I've seen, this cuts both ways. Many many times a startup will have a great idea and momentum but the code and the people will be below the bar of what is sustainable and acceptable at the large company. You yourself know so well all of the taxes that come with writing software for a big company. When a small product is integrated those taxes come due.
- Joe Beda
In addition, a lot of times the M&A value add proposition is based on integration with other products. One example you cite is Feedburner. This is exactly the type of thing that is complicated by an impedence mismatch of technologies. Integration is never easy, but it is even harder with an acquisition. 3 reasons to buy a company: 1. People 2. Technology 3. Market. Perhaps buying the market is the most successful (Hotmail, YouTube, DoubleClick)?
- Joe Beda
Aiming for the "dream" by doing a rewrite is often a sign of trouble. M&A or not. I do agree, though, that most products that are acquired die away. That's OK. It's what you do with the challenges ahead that matter--not just what you did yesterday.
- Loren Heiny
There are other other causes of product stagnation when a startup is acquired: The startup gets entangled in big company politics. The startup is required to pay a strategy tax on entry (integrate with X, Y and Z). The acquired employees don't have the skills and experience required to work effectively in a large organization. The startup is acquired for the people, not the product.
- gburd
I start my morning getting info from Friendfeed before anywhere else.
Tamar Weinberg, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Mohamed J and 41 other people liked this
I start to more and more do the same: 1. Friendfeed 2. Jaiku 3. GReader
- Niclas Strandh
from Alert Thingy
First I consult the oracle that is my coffee cup, and then FF and Reader,
- FFing Enigma
Google Reader for information. Then FriendFeed for information and discussion.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
You can add feeds using imaginary friends
- Jeremiah Owyang
I always start with FriendFeed, then Reader, and then, and only if I don't decide to blog, I'll glance at my email.
- Kevin Gamble
Start with email (need to deal with fires that occur overnight) then GReader then friendfeed.
- Jon Erickson
Coffee first before FriendFeed :D
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
I think we all do. :) FriendFeed before breakfast. :D
- Daynah
Ditto.. but I have a coke first
- Dave Peck
FF first.
- kamla bhatt
This last week being away from the PC has seen me use Facebook the most out of all the sites I frequent!
- Joe Dawson
Me too. A long way to go before a "More people get their news from FriendFeed than from any other source" tag though.
- Ben Wern
Same here.
- Mattb4rd
i start w/GR and then FF
- R. Ferguson
FF is my home page. i go FF, reader, and then a few MSM news sites.
- Morgan
I have a feeling that I'm not getting all the news because I'm relying on FriendFeed as the source.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I always start with DrudgeReport and then move to Huffington. Then I open FF.
- iTad
Email > Reader > FriendFeed > Social Median
- Louis Gray
I wake up at 2pm, so I don't have a morning. email > twitter > rss > FF
- Louie
Coffee<>Friendfeed<>Facebook<>News<>Then I get yelled at by my wife =0)
- Jonathan.Rivera
+1 louis. rinse and repeat
- Christian Anderson
Friendfeed has moved to the top of the list, even before my email
- Pascal
1. NetNewsWire, 2. Internal Wikis, 3. eMails, 4. elsewhere (friendfeed et al.)
- Gerrit Eicker
Morning:Techmeme,FriendFeed,Twitter
- Igor Poltavskiy
I woke up to some very loud snoring. Wasn't me. Wasn't the wife. Wasn't the dog. Was the cat.
Tanath, scott willeke, Steve Rubel and 10 other people liked this
Nothing like cat's snoring to wake you up at 4am...
- Amit Morson
Building a Software Company: How to sell your software for $20,000 - http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008...
jakebf, Andy Britcliffe, Robert Cooper and 7 other people liked this
good advice that most people will never take
- Jeremy Zawodny
I'd rather sell $20 software to 10000 customers
- Igor Sereda
I'd rather sell $1 billion software to 1 customer
- Ken Norton
i'd rather give software away and spread as widely as possible, but charged for service :)
- 9000
I'd rather go with @9000... :-)
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
and we do sell HW but technically have no pricetag for SW bundled with - Nokia Tablets :)
- Отборнейший бред
non-sexy software development I guess. If we were in it for the money, we would. But we're really not, most of us.
- Peter
Diary of a Failed Startup - http://www.reddit.com/goto...
Nenad Nikolic, Gabor Cselle, AJ Batac (/-_-) and 31 other people liked this
Great quote - "It's very, very difficult to wear both the developer and the evangelist hats at the same time: being a developer requires that you be very pessimistic, so you can see and fix all the problems in your design, while being an evangelist requires that you be very optimistic, so others can feed off your passion. I suspect that if I tried to do both, the cost would be my sanity"
- Eric Kerr
"Linux started as a terminal emulator".. !!!? Or not.
- Nick Lothian
Definitely a lot of points that rang true for me, especially the "Chicken and Egg" point.
- Adam Thorsen
I myself have worked on two start-up concepts and a revitalization effort, each of which bombed, but each one taught me something different. I finally threw in the towel on my last start-up and picked up a full-time day-job because I couldn't find anyone willing to share hats. We were already incorporated, so I was the CEO, book keeper, technology evangelist, sales guy, support tech,...
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- Chris Stewart
from twhirl
Haven't read the article yet, Nick, but Linux didn't start out as a terminal emulator. Linus Torvalds deliberately started working on implementing a "practice OS" called "Minix" from a book, and it grew from there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Phil Glockner
@J. Phil - exactly my point.
- Nick Lothian
Amazon went down, Twitter is down. My fault. I kicked the plug out.
Andy Britcliffe liked this
You're fired!
- Dimitri Glazkov
can you please plug it back in please Scott :-) I need to twitter
- Andy Britcliffe
Susan Beebe, Jeanette Bosman, mike "glemak" dunn and 27 other people liked this
Ha, ha, ha! That is really ridiculous!
- Skye Miller
LMAO! Crocs really are silly looking... (imo)
- Czar
I'd venture a guess that the cat would look even more stupid wearing big converse sneakers. She'd need a clown nose and a beanie to complete the look.
- Kevin Fox
For those interested in the technical discussion, see @al3x's post: Twittering about Architecture: http://dev.twitter.com/2008...
Atul Arora, gburd and Andy Britcliffe liked this
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Note to Web 2.0 Companies: Early Adopters are not the Mass Market - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
Andy Britcliffe, Liz Polay-Wettengel, Deva Hazarika and 5 other people liked this
another bark at the wrong tree, a mainstream perspective. hm, so because most people don't have or don't want freezers, we shouldn't bother with inventing or making ice-cream?
- Adriana Lukas
Good comment in response. I have to respond myself.
- Robert Scoble
incredibly backward looking article. I can't find a better analogy that Adriana's but echo the sentiment
- PaulJohnson
I could swear people were saying the same thing about social networks. Why have web-based networks when we have friends and a phone?
- Rob Diana
why doesn't friendfeed aggregate the comments around the same link from different people? as for the post itself, i feel the smartest companies look at what kind of technologies and concepts work for the early adopter crowd and then adapt, repackage, and market them in a way that has mass appeal. It's rarely the first one in the space that is the big winner.
- Deva Hazarika
Additionally, he almost by definition includes all "web 2.0" companies as relevant to the mass market by writing "Everyone likes to communicate with their social circle. Everyone wants to find information about topics they interested in or find out what's going on around them."
- Deva Hazarika
Gmail Designer Talks About His Philosophy and Desk - http://www.fastcompany.tv/video...
Peter Cattell, travispuk, Vince DeGeorge and 16 other people liked this
Scoble is doing his best to give me a big, big, fat head.
- Kevin Fox
Promoting the things you really like is an art. Scoble knows what he's doing.
- Louis Gray
Don't worry, Kevin...your head looked just fine in the video.
- Trent Olson
from Alert Thingy
Maybe its my Mac but the audio of these (and most other) cell phone video stinks. more VOLUME please.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
It's not you, the audio sucks hardcore for me too (On any PC I've been on). I really like some of these interviews, but some of them you should really take the time to get a real camera/mic setup. I know many are just happening on-the-go and that is cool, but preparation and better equipment for some would actually make me want to watch these (I've tried in the past, but the audio was not tolerable. Some worked ok though, like your first FriendFeed interview which was great )
- Bartek Ciszkowski
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