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Why charging for access to news sites won't work
I wish them good luck with this, and I mean that sincerely, but I believe this is a fundamentally flawed strategy.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,898 posts.
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The Internet Is Alive And Well (As An Investment)
James Altucher penned a column in today's WSJ titled The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment). James is a fund manager and well read columnist on investing and he is entitled to his opinion. He puts his money where his mouth is. But so do I and since we continue to invest heavily in the […]
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Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles when a publisher had second thoughts about online distribution.
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Serious doubts about the App Store
Update: Thanks, Fake Steve Jobs ! I’ve always wanted to be yelled at and berated by the real Steve Jobs, but this is probably as close as I’m going to get. On with the original post:
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The Principles of Product Development Flow
If you've ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean ...
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Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context
The future of computing probably is in the direction of thin clients connecting to network services for storage and software, but my hunch is that Chrome OS is too thin.
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Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
Version 5.0 of Microsoft’s flagship spreadsheet program Excel came out in 1993. It was positively huge: it required a whole 15 megabytes of hard drive space. In those days we could still reme…
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Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Gmail is out of beta
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups
Allan lists 10 things that every startup should value.