December 2010
17 posts
“They use it far more intensely than I thought they would. When people started...”
– Flipboard CEO Mike McCue
“I did a bunch of traveling. I’d be on the plane a lot, and of course all the...”
– Flipboard CEO Mike McCue
“Because they are manual and require people to do work. People hate to do work,...”
– (36) Why haven’t list features on Facebook and/or Twitter caught on? - Quora
“If each of us hosts our own data, companies would be much more likely to...”
– via miz ginevra
Cloud Burst
“The all-or-nothing funding site has had its fair share of successes in the past,...”
– iPod nano Watch Project Makes Kickstarter History
“Having said that, we should be able to create a new golden age of utopian...”
– via matt jones
Utopia - Charlie’s Diary
“But first we need to catch archive fever.”
– My new best friend.
Archive Fever: a love letter to the post real-time web | mattogle.com
“We have wacky mode,” Powell remembers Barthelme saying to his class, a writing...”
– Padgett Powell’s Southern Discomfort - NYTimes.com
“All this is true. But it fails to understand the power of Groupon’s model....”
– Thinking Out Loud: What’s Driving Groupon? - John Battelle’s Searchblog
“And living or dying is important. Games offer fail conditions as well as win...”
– Can’t play, won’t play | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play
“Zuckerman is one of the most respected thinkers and writers on the geopolitical...”
– Investigate if trust is key to kicking off an event cascade.
The Unknown Blogger Who Changed WikiLeaks Coverage - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Increments of Customer Retention
I met Scott Rutherford last week (UserVoice founder), and he had a really interesting take on the main metric you should work on. He said that getting monthly customer retention up from 95% is where a business gets interesting. At that 94.5% level, you’d have a sustained business, but not what he called “Groupon” growth. Doing the iteration necessary to get above that was...
“To keep a platform viable, you need to focus on two tasks: Keep the customer...”
– Mobile Opportunity: What’s really wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it)
“Incidentally, if you’ve got an idea but aren’t particularly...”
– Did Dennis Crowley write the original code for Foursquare (Dodgeball) himself? - Quora
