this is one of the first articles i've seen shedding any light whatsoever on some of the thing that niniane has been working on over at google. - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
"I don't think I would say these statistics lie. I think they're just easy to misinterpret. In the earlier days of the web, people got really excited about pageviews. Then they realized there were more meaningful ways to track audience engagement (7-day actives, 30-day actives, unique users per month, etc) - crude tools like pageviews and installs are only good for first-order guesses as to how well a service is doing. I'd argue the statistics you cite (installs, followers, etc) allow lazy people to stay lazy if they choose to rely solely on those without asking more questions about the underlying level of activity." - Charles Hudson
Found this courtesy of Paul Kedrosky's blog. Very interesting take on the final days of Bear Stearns - first time I've heard an in-depth analysis that includes the role that CNBC might have played in fanning the flames. - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
This doesn't take into account the impact of Yahoo Instant Messenger - still a bleak picture, though - Charles Hudson
0.68% market share for fantasy baseball? 1% market share for Yahoo sports? 0.89% market share for Yahoo image search? Those figures are off by multiple orders of magnitude. - Jonathan
"Thirty-five percent say they're still on dial-up because broadband prices are too high, while another 19 percent say nothing would persuade them to upgrade. The remainder have other reasons or do not know." - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
"Greg, I agree - I think the right end goal for most true generalists is to be the "business founder" of his or her own company at some point. A lot of the generalist track for someone with that ambition is about skill acquisition - knowing enough about a variety of functions to be able to get them done capably until a full team is hired. I think there are two things that seem to set successful true generalists apart: 1. Enough successful experience in a number of core functions to be able to credibly "stop gap" multiple functions until the company needs a dedicated person. To me, this normally takes a stint or two in each of the core functions and a mastery of the basic tools (how to run a marketing campaign, how to negotiate a deal, how to write a PRD, etc). 2. Enough self awareness to realize that there is always a time to cede part of his or her sphere of tasks to a specialist. Part of what makes being a generalist fun is that you get to do a bit or most of everything. At some..." - Charles Hudson
"That said, it isn't a problem that seems to be causing Mr. Harris sleepless nights. "Law firms are likely to continue making lawyers unhappy for years to come," he says." - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
In the ultimate irony, I suspect more people are willing to do this for their WoW accounts than their online banking accounts. - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
