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Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
I'm starting to resent Apps like I resented CD-ROMs. I started playing this ...
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 594 posts.
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A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
On 8 June, a Scottish banker named Alexander Fordyce shorted the collapsing Company's shares in the London markets. But a momentary bounce-back in the stock…
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ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
by Paul Hontz
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The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Twitter and Me
This is the story of Twitter and the last four years of my life. It's a pretty long story, but one that needs to be told.
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Ode to the App Review team
I wasn’t always a fan of Apple’s requirement that all App Store submissions be reviewed by a fairly opaque process before release, which often led to confusing or unfair rejections.
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When free markets make it worse: new TLDs
Free markets don't always produce optimal results, or even desirable ones. As entrepreneurs, our job shouldn't only be to create profits, but to do something useful in the world.
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iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill Windows
Apple’s announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function -- killing Microsoft. Here is the money line…
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New Khan Academy Exercise Framework Is Live
Today we’re pushing live a complete rewrite of the Khan Academy Exercise framework ( live demo ).
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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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Martin Fowler on Software Patents
a bliki entry for Software Patent
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Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar?
I recently moved all of my domains away from GoDaddy, because they’re terrible. 1
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You Can’t Make Money Charging $1 Per Month
Photo by Images of Money I recently received the following question from a reader: When we spoke at a recent conference] I had been thinking of a $1/month price point [for my product aimed at teachers] to make it a “no-brainer,” and you strongly advised against it, suggesting $5-7 at a mini
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