February 2008
9 posts
The Tipping Point
Ok, I know its a little weird that a book about the virality of ideas would have a major life-changing effect on me but The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell definitely did.
For me, its like the missing link between coming up with good ideas and getting them to work on a large scale. Always been good at the former but never knew how to efficiently execute on the latter.
So many marketing ideas...
Flock
Why couldn’t they just make Flock a pack of extensions for firefox? Why does this have to be its own browser? As a developer, makes me nervous.
Hmm.. I guess mainstream users won’t get the concept of an extension pack. At first I thought “eh thats gonna flop”, but now I think it will probably do quite well. Kids looove social networking…
I imagine this and...
Joost
Lets just say from the day I heard of it, I knew it was going to be a flop…
Another of my unfinished dubstep snippets.. The...
Two days in a row now, the girl at the Peets coffee has been giving me my coffee for free. I don’t understand why, but its pretty cool…
here’s a snip of one of those unfinished...
Commuter Feed
Commuter Feed has done incredibly well. Ben and Josh did such an amazing job with the site, and now we’ve had a writeup on every tech blog on the planet I feel like its time to take the experiment up a notch.
Gotta say I think it would be pretty cool to break it out into a business, unlock it from its Twitter binds and take it to the next level. Just need some cash to do it…
Dubstep
Really fascinated by the rapid evolution of dubstep, particularly artists emerging as a reaction to Burial.
Just bought the Hotflush “Space & Time” compilation on Bleep. (Probably the only person who supports that site much, with the proliferation of mp3 purchase sites, I’m still very loyal. I just don’t trust other sites with the DRM crap.)
Really wished I had time...
Web evolutionary phase cycle
Web 1.0: Published Content Web 2.0: Socially Generated Content Web 3.0: Machine Generated Content Web 4.0: The Singularity*
We’ll never hit v5.0, it will just BE.*
*Disclaimer: OK, I could be really wrong. But I’m pretty sure about Web 3.0.
One other thing to note is that each phase is non-exclusive. Published and socially generated content will always exist, and elements of each...