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How to Make Wealth
May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters .) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word "startup" dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very…
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MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0
Recapping the criticisms made about MongoDB.
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1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month
The Newegg price charts on Camelegg sum this up illustratively:
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Apple and the Kindle
The Amazon Kindle is full of all sorts of amazing, delightful touches — the sort of thing you’d expect from an Apple product. For example, when you first take your Kindle out of its (gorgeous!) box, it boots right up knowing your name and logged into your account. This is actually out-Apple-ing Apple: it’s possible…
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My offer to Google Reader
Like many others, I was curious when Google announced that it would be revamping the Google Reader UI and refactor its social components into Google Plus. To that end, I wrote a brief blog post about what I felt would be a better alternative to stripping out Google Reader's social functionality .
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Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
Google is really taking Indian Market very seriously – According to an announcement today by Google has launched - India Get Your Business...
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The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos
I’m not arguing that making concept videos directly leads to a lack of traction in the current market. I’m arguing that making concept videos is a sign of a company that has a lack of institutional focus on the present and near-present.
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The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange
Searching Google recently it struck me that I rarely see results from Experts Exchange . I used to see a lot of these, because I typically search on things like error messages or programming issues for which the site is a useful source.
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Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt
While I've blogged before about Palantir Technologies (e.g., Beware the Spectacular B-Round Valuation), this will probably be my last post about them because, since leaving MarkLogic, I am no longer terribly involved in the Intelligence Community space nor engaged against them as an indirect competitor. I initially
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Klout Is Odious
The positioning of Klout is gross, turning ordinary social interactions into some sort of game with a competitive score. Of course there are meaningless achievements . But what’s most loathsome is the primary purpose of Klout is to offer “Perks” (aka “ads”) to you based on your Klout score. Yes, I can get a free…
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Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels
Why not something like Newsstand for TV network apps?
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Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation
After what appears to be have been a rapid and widespread take-up of its Google+ social media service, Google has now launched details of its 'Ripples' feature. Significantly, news of the release was made by Fernanda Viegas, one of the most prominent names in the field and co-leader, with Martin Wattenberg, of…
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How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market
To celebrate the v2.0 of my successful and innovative app Word Wizard , and the fact that I’ve made $ 200k on the App Store, I’ve decided t...