Twitter revenue: two points and a question
Twitter has proven a bunch of people wrong by generating significant revenue from the service through data licensing deals with Google and Microsoft. Twitter Inc., the San Francisco company that has...
View ArticleMore on software patents: PTO changes standard of patentability with new test
“In its fourth precedential opinion of 2009, an enlarged panel of the BPAI has created a new test for judging whether a claimed machine (or article of manufacture) that takes advantage of a...
View ArticleMore on revenue sources and news content
This is a follow up on this post about Newsday’s 35 paid subscribers 3 months after launching a pay-wall over their news content:...
View ArticleApple iPad
So… what’s it designed to do? http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad/
View ArticleFirst Round Capital launches exchange for their portfolio companies
In what appears to be part of a trend, noted early stage investment firm first round capital has launched an exchange for it’s portfolio companies to trade equity. “This exchange fund was created to...
View ArticleUsing PHP? Take a look at Facebook’s HipHop for PHP
“HipHop for PHP isn’t technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to...
View ArticleJust posted a quick note on Apple’s local advertising move to the Spinnaker blog
http://spinnaker.tumblr.com/post/372643025/is-apple-launching-a-local-advertising-network-for
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OH in the mission: "What I said out loud was not what I said in my head."
OH: “What I said out loud was not what I said in my head.” It never is
View ArticleAJAX, or LAJAX?
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in web site design: flashy ajax-y user interfaces that are actually worse than their full-page-refresh forefathers. The Ajax calls are *synchronous* in nature when they...
View ArticleInteresting reading: Clay Shirky on the collapse of complex business models
The Collapse of Complex Business Models “When the value of complexity turns negative, a society plagued by an inability to react remains as complex as ever, right up to the moment where it becomes...
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