January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
5 posts
Amazon's Silk is a backdoor attack on Google
Chris Espinoza has a great post on the strategic implications of Amazon’s new cloud proxy based browser, Silk, on Google’s traffic.
[Amazon] use a back-revved version of Android, not Honeycomb; they don’t use Google’s web browser; they can intermediate user click through on Google search results so Google doesn’t see the actual user behavior. Google’s whole play of promoting...
On Android Task Killers
An insightful read on task killers. I remember actively managing RAM on my Quadra 610. I find myself doing the same thing on my Droid Pro with Advanced Task Killer.
Every discussion about Android phones and tablets, and how they manage memory will eventually get to the Task Killer debate, so we’re going to start with it. Simply put — task managers are good; task killers are bad.
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“The things that matter for success: zest, grit, self-control, social...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?src=me&ref=general&gwh=DDC411D405DF20AF047126F899C2D6B3
TS Eliot and Startups
TS Eliot changed the way we think about reading and language forever. He ushered in an era of stories that could only be understood by having read other stories. I wonder if it’s the same with startups. To understand Twitter, you needed to grok Friendster.
May 2011
5 posts
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
5 posts
Structural changes in the US economy in the past...
Some great insight into changes in the US economy and jobs from a Nobel laureate.
Highlights below:
1. Employment growth in the U.S. economy between 1990 and 2008 was substantial, on the order of 27.3 million jobs, off a base in 1990 of 121.9 million.
2. Virtually all (97.7 percent) of the incremental employment stems from the nontradable sector. This occurred despite dramatic labor-saving...
Weekly Tech News for March 13, 2011
Internet 20M users log into XBox Live daily amassing 4B hours of play, about 500M hours per year. AOL cut 20% of its workforce, slashing 900 jobs after the Huffington Post acquisition. Traffic on many core properties fell 50% y/y as the giant struggles to find growth. Twitter revealed 90% of Twitter users use an official client in a statement advising developers to stop building Twitter...
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
14 posts
“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from...”
– “Social Animal”, New Yorker
“The SMB Optimism Index declined 0.6 pts in Dec., to 92.6, vs. 93.2 in Nov. It is...”
– SMBs’ pessimism growing for 2011.
December 2010
3 posts
Weekly Tech News for December 12, 2010
Internet
Google demos Chrome OS on a Cr-48 notebook to rave reviews. The OS features instant on and must be connected to the web to function. There is no locally stored or executed software. Google also announced Chrome is used by 120M people globally.
8% of Americans use Twitter according to a report by Pew Research, but only about 4% check the service every 3 to 5 days or more frequently. In...
Stanford d.School Design Bootleg
Bootcamp Bootleg 2009
November 2010
7 posts
Weekly Tech News for November 14, 2010
Internet
Call of Duty generates $360M on 5.6M units sold in 1 day sales shattering Modern Warfare’s previous record of 4.7M units.
Hulu announced $240M in 2010 revenue, up 122% y/y, 30M uniques in October viewing 260M videos and 800M ads sponsored by 352 advertisers. Hulu’s rapid growth and consumer brand will be essential for its survival as it competes with cable’s...
Gold Rush: Mobile App Statistics from Appcelerator
At the Appcelerator event yesterday, several companies shared insightful data about the mobile app ecosystem. This data paints a picture of a mobile gold rush. Here are my notes:
Mobile App Stats by Flurry
The top mobile social gaming ARPUs (average revenue per paying user per month) has increased from $3 in January to $9 in November. Of the $9, $8 is generated by the 1 to 1.5% of users...