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FYI - Your Guide to India's Acronym Blizzard
I'm loving the acronym blizzard here in India (every country has its own set). Kind of cool to be able to understand somebody when they say "The TG for this product requires a SIP-based EMI of not more than INR500." So here's a somewhat flippant post on acronyms in India. Feel free to add mor...
staggering growth !
thanks for drawing the distinction, great times ahead
Mobile: A Walk Down Memory Lane, 2000 to 2011
We've come a long way in mobile from 2000 to 2011 and I'm excited about where the industry is heading. Going forward, I believe many challenges endure, including multi-platform global distribution, monetization, retention, mobile enterprise, payments and networks of apps/services. And these ...
Great post Auren !
The Entrepreneur vs. The Strategy Consultant
The Entrepreneur is very different from the typical McKinsey-esque strategy consultant. Both are extremely smart, driven, persistent, creative, and determined. But I have found that there are some major differences. First, entrepreneurs tend to take more ownership of their jobs. My de...
Diego, great article about a great car !
Can't wait to see one, and in due course of life - own one !
Your closing sentence says it all - why be beautiful when you can be interesting
The new Ferrari FF and the return of jolie laide
Ferrari just announced a new, four-seat, four wheel drive car called the FF. It sounds great and looks awesome: The FF is the first design in a long time from Ferrari to break new aesthetic ground. The recent 458 Italia is a truly gorgeous and wondeful car, and I'd love to have one waiting fo...
thanks for the compilation Dev, very handy.
Useful Books for Founders
[Originally posted in November 2010, updated in March 2014] Photo source: Otis Wheeler "The Babel fish" said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is a small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe... The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick ...
Ivan, Dev:
from my experience, the challenge is getting the operators to understand the value of building a platform that allows apps to leverage location as a context. they often get wrapped up in the value of different forms of data, and start to count the beans too early in the process.
for a persistent locationing model, the charging paradigm shouldnt be based on every dip (or push), but should rather be a CPA style revenue share. this allows some innovation to see the light of day and bring in some revenues, versus pricing it out of the park and getting nothing.
Advertising is often a good first application, and doing a hyperlocal ad network (pull only, not push ...from user p.o.v) is a good starting point to make the economics work for both sides. Keep in mind, the netbook and USB dongle sales are growing pretty rapidly and the ad inventory available there is significant to generate meaningful ARPU for the operator.
Why Geofencing & Opt-in Notifications Could Save Foursquare
Source: Psiaki Last week at CTIA, I moderated a panel on location-based advertising - it was a pleasure to have a conversation with Fred Boos of Rocketbux, Anne Bezancon of Placecast, Dan Gilmartin of Where, Rip Gerber of Loc-Aid and Lisa Petersen of Neustar. The panel got me thinking about ...
Dev, thanks for writing a thoughtful article about the different slices of the pie.
Your call for persistent-locationing, in my view, can best be delivered by the conduit i.e. the network. The question that comes to mind is how you can distribute this context in an elegant fashion (while keeping consumer privacy at the forefront).
Operators have long spoken about developer API's but none have delivered an interesting platform to attract the bleeding edge entrepreneurs.
if every HTTP request had location in it, that would make life very interesting.
Why Geofencing & Opt-in Notifications Could Save Foursquare
Source: Psiaki Last week at CTIA, I moderated a panel on location-based advertising - it was a pleasure to have a conversation with Fred Boos of Rocketbux, Anne Bezancon of Placecast, Dan Gilmartin of Where, Rip Gerber of Loc-Aid and Lisa Petersen of Neustar. The panel got me thinking about ...
same here Dev ...waiting patiently since 11 days ;-)
What About.me's launch says about the rise of the Professional Web
Tony Conrad's announcement this past week of About.me got me thinking that it's about time we gathered up all these threads of the Professional Web, as I call it, and interlaced them together into a metaphorical rope. Before I continue, let me define what I call the Professional Web. As wor...
Solid observations Dev, this is clearly the way I try to learn about people before interacting with them.
services like About.Me serve as a good aggregation function.
What About.me's launch says about the rise of the Professional Web
Tony Conrad's announcement this past week of About.me got me thinking that it's about time we gathered up all these threads of the Professional Web, as I call it, and interlaced them together into a metaphorical rope. Before I continue, let me define what I call the Professional Web. As wor...
Steve, your definition of generative is more befitting the underlying meme of this discussion.
A platform that creates a level playing field for participants of all sizes while delivering a great customer experience (or value of some form) is the key ingredient for it to be generative.
the success of a platform (whether the iphone OS, or the Internet) depends largely on customer adoption ...and not on a set of legalese that protects one side over another. customer adoption directly depends on the customer experience which includes many things outside of the developer agreements.
Apple is doing a great job of moderating all the above thus far.
-Miten
What Does "Generative" Mean Anyway?
Today's Sunday New York Times included a column of mine in the business section which tried to think about the App Store's tremendous rate of innovation over the past two years, and the clear benefit it has had for small developers. My general point was that, while many of us have worked under t...
Joe, thanks for the extensive coverage. Reading the post gave me a complete overview of the proceedings without actually being there.
interesting to see a larger focus on privacy - than i have noticed in earlier years.
Notes from UbiComp 2009
Having earlier posted some notes from the pre-conference Doctoral Colloquium and Hybrid Design Practices workshop, I've finally gotten around to compiling - and augmenting - some notes from the main technical program of UbiComp 2009, the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, h...
no San Fran?
My fall speaking schedule
Here's the lineup for this fall -- it's going to be a busy one! If you're in any of these locales, drop by and say hello... September 21 Princeton, NJ The Myth of the Echo Chamber: Politics in the Age of the Participatory Web The Stafford Little Lecture at Princeton University. September 24 O...
Steven: I cannot agree more with your the following sentence:
"it’s not that people now tell stories using branching hypertext links: it’s that we actively miss those links when we pick up an old-fashioned book."
the interactivity of hypertext is addictive. i often find myself wander off to different threads of thought while reading a book; since my web-browser is sitting right next to me; albeit stimulated by the physical book.
makes it terribly hard to power through a book.
hoping to try to the kindle soon, perhaps it will bind me to a virtual dictionary & wikipedia - and not let me wander off elsewhere.
thanks
Skim and Plunge
The editors at Yale University Press were nice enough to invite me to edit this year's edition of Best Technology Writing. It's a great collection of essays, by some of my very favorite writers, and I encourage you to pick up a copy. I wrote an opening essay for the book that tries to wrestle ...
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