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The Barone Godin Smackdown: Is the Torch Being Passed?
Passing the Torch I enjoy reading Seth Godin and Lisa Barone so I found their recent smackdown compelling. For anybody who missed it: Godin launched Brands in Public where he puts up a page for each...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Things Apply As Time Goes By
When new tools create new opportunities it’s important to think about: The eternal truths of the underlying concept How those truths are best applied using the current technologies...
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Slow Growth = Slow Death?
Oracle Rapid Rise Fantastic post today by Joel Spolsky Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? I could feel Joel’s pain. Essentially he was jettisoning the basic premises that had guided him for a decade....
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Large-Scale Content-Creation Sites
Excellent recent articles in the New York Times, TechCrunch, and All Things D have brought some clarity and insight to the issues surrounding large-scale content-creation sites. Here’s an industry...
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Can Stack Overflow Grow Beyond Programming?
[Reminder / Disclosure: I work at Answers.com, which is in some ways a competitor] Congrats to Joel Spolsky on getting funding from an all star team of investment bankers. Having this combination of...
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Demand Media: A Story in 5 Numbers
After almost a year of hype and speculation Demand Media finally had to release some numbers in order to file for their IPO. Demand Media In case you didn’t have time to read all 269 pages, here are...
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Stack Overflow 2010: What’s Working, What’s Not
“Joel Spolsky is changing the world. Maybe not your world, but the world of programmers and software companies and the people who work for them.” Opening lines of Seth Godin’s Tribes When last we left...
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Answers.com Layoffs: The Pain & The Hope
It was a very emotional day at Answers.com, as roughly 2/3 of the Jerusalem employees were let go. I was impressed by how people handled themselves. It was a day filled not with anger but with dark...
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Top 5 Fallacies of AOL’s Vision for Patch
“To not believe in Patch, you have to believe that consumers in a town don’t want local information, they don’t want local advertising or commerce, and they don’t want a platform they can engage on.”...
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Protocols of the Elders of Google
I did an informal survey of the young managers [in Google’s Associate Product Manager program] and asked each to guess if he or she would be working for Google in five years. Not a single one answered...
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