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Most of the startup learning curve is a learn-on-the-job endeavor. Nothing replaces the real experience of managing your own company; however there are some lessons that are worth learning ahead of time.
Smart entrepreneurs learn to pick out which teachings should be followed and which should be discarded.
This is my common response I send when friends ask for a book list. I actually think blogs are far more important because they're real-time and often include comments that can help the reader learn the subtleties and exceptions of an argument. As I've said before, instead of reading this blog, I highly recommend these:
But there's something nice about books. Books are consumed in a different setting. They linger on bookshelfs. They get highlighted and earmarked. If you're new to the startup world, I would recommend reading and re-reading the following 6 books. In fact, I would go farther and say that you should not start your company until you read through this list:
The 6 best startup books to read before starting your company
A lot of this book is understanding how to put luck on your side. I put this book as first though because it can help you understand if you want to be an founder or a manager. Founders are a special breed. Peabody claims it's the B- players that like to hack systems so that they get 80% of the result for 20% of the efforts. Managers are early employees, A+ players, that can take a founders vision and create something remarkable. It's helpful to understand which one you are. And it's helpful to know how luck and intelligence work together.
As he says: "I was smart enough to realize I was getting lucky"
If you've never built a product or if you're a non-technical MBA, start here. The purpose is to learn the basics of agile development early on.
The m.o. of 37 Signals is:
"We believe software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much to learn. Our products do less than the competition – intentionally. We build products that work smarter, feel better, allow you to do things your way, and are easier to use."
Guy will show you how to start the company and how to raise money. This is your replacement for whatever textbook you used in your entrepreneurship class. It's a nuts and bolts guide to what you do at each stage of start-up process. Kawasaki is great about helping you understand how investors will view you.
One great example, he directs you against putting a competitive profile slide in your pitching deck that shows your features vs. their features. He's seen this enough times to know it's a useless cliche: the entrepreneur always claims to have more features than the competition. His solution is to list out your unfair advantages and their unfair advantages in order to prove you have a reasonable perspective on your market. Good stuff.
From my vantage point, Steve Blank is this year's favourite author, blogger, professor, and speaker. I know that some venture capitalists give his book out to all newly-funded management teams.
Blank outlines a method called customer development. In his words:
"Your startup is an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Your job as a founder is to quickly validate whether the model is correct by seeing if customers behave as your model predicts. Most of the time the darn customers don’t behave as you predicted."
Rework is a collection of essays from their wonderful blog, Signals vs. Noise. Reading it as a whole is a nice way to learn about how to think of your startup as a business that needs to make money. These guys are pro-bootstrapping, pro-profits, and anti-venture investing. They're a nice counterpoint to much of the startup literature that focuses on how to raise money as the primary goal in the early part of a company.
This is a good last book for this list because it gives you insight into founder culture. One of the most interesting (and unexpected) aspects of being in Y Combinator is that we got to see so many other founders working on their startups. Entrepreneurship can be a lonely endeavor and it's nice to have some perspective on how other founders manage ups and downs while executing at very high levels. The early days of the startup are the most interesting and unlike anything that comes afterward.
In her words:
Quote:
"This is what productivity looks like. This is the Formula 1 racecar. It looks weird but it goes fast."
Those are my 6. Would love to hear in the comments what other books you recommend.
It's nearing on two years since I wrote my editorial complaining about the state of the gaming review system. I still believe it's just as broken as it was two years ago, but I'd like to tack this addendum to the piece how you, the average gamer, are helping continue this system of back-slapping and journalistic mind-melding.
Lately, Internet forums have gone into DEFCON 5 over several magazines and high-profile reviewers that have bucked the norm and given popular franchises less than stellar write-ups. When one writer takes the time to play a game and post their thoughts to their respective websites and tell you, the reader, what they really thought of the game, many readers seem to ignore this and scroll directly to the bottom of the page. When they see that their favorite franchise has been saddled with the tragic score of 5/10, they immediately begin to hyperventilate and Outlook.exe files across the land begin to fire up in preparation for an assault on that reviewer after what obviously was a lapse of judgement on his part or full-blown mental retardation, depending on whom you ask.
In most reviews, writers point out their likes and dislikes in each game and while I steadfastly believe that they do a rather poor job of maintaining a reasonable level of expectation for what a game can and should be to a player, breaking down a game's contents is of the things they do pretty well, all considering. Yet few pay attention to this in favor of fawning over Metacritic and GameRankings. Both are useful tools in their own right because they put multiple reviews at the tip of your fingers in just minutes, but the aggregate score itself is only second fiddle to content. What does it tell you? It boils down hundreds of thousands of words of text into a number that means little on its own. One reviewer may love the story of Final Fantasy, another may hate it. One may hate the gameplay while the other loves it. Both may score it 7/10. What did you learn from that aggregate score? Here's a hint: absolutely nothing.
Let us admit a simple fact: reviewers are human beings. They have an opinion on something, just like you or I. They will hate games that you enjoy and list as one of your all-time favorites. They will score games 4/10 that you would give a perfect score. I hear people scream about how reviewers should conform to some kind of mysterious standard. What does that even mean? Being disingenuous with their own opinion while reviewing a game is the last thing we should wish for as a gaming populous. That leads to the very problem we're facing now, which is that game reviewers have largely gone the way of groupthink and rarely have the courage to stand up and say that they didn't like a game because most of their peers have already shot it into the 85+ spectrum of Metacritic.
Courtesy of our very own VGC poster Kasz, here is a great quote from Roger Ebert regarding movie critics:
"I have quoted countless times a sentence by the critic Robert Warshow (1917-1955), who wrote: "A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man." If my admiration for a movie is inspired by populism, politics, personal experience, generic conventions or even lust, I must say so. I cannot walk out of a movie that engaged me and deny that it did. I must certainly never lower it from three to 2.5 so I can look better on the Metacritic scale.
I cringe when people say, "How could you give that movie four stars?" I reply, "What in my review did you disagree with?" Invariably, they're stuck for an answer. One thing I try to do is provide an accurate account of what you will see, and how I feel about it. I cannot speak for you. Any worthwhile review is subjective. If we completely disagree, my words might nevertheless be useful or provocative. If you disagree with what I write, be my guest. If you disagree with how many stars I gave it, you can mail your opinion to where the sun don't shine."
Instead of taking that reasonable approach to reviewers and their opinions, gamers swear off Edge Magazine because they recently gave a big-budget game a 5/10 which is, under their scale, an “average” game. Instead of embracing the review sites that have the courage to say what they believe instead of deferring to a Metacritic aggregate in an attempt to fit in, gamers revolt and throw childish tantrums across gaming forums throughout the world. These gamers are so short-sighted that they fail to realize that these people are the ones we should look up to, not crucify, boycott, and complain about for months on end. Do we have to agree with their scores and reviews? Hell no, but at least they're putting themselves out there instead of white-washing a game's faults because their parent company depends on thousands of dollars of ad revenue from the publisher of said game.
To put it in Old West terms, many of you are actively cheering for the man in the black hat, you just never stopped complaining long enough to realize it.
In a final point, let's take a look at the movie industry and their review system. It's not unusual for one reviewer to award a movie with a 95 score while three others punish it with a 60 or below. In fact, it's the norm within the industry. Let's take a look at a few examples:
Inglourious Basterds was nominated for Best Picture by the Academy and will surely enter cult film status within a decade. What did it score on Metacritic? A whopping 68 out of 100. How did it rate so low? It's simple; eight reviewers rated the movie at 50 or below. They pointed out their likes and dislikes and surely informed many people about why they didn't care for the movie. That's the way it's supposed to work. It should also be noted that five other reviewers gave the movie a perfect score.
But wait, didn't they expand the Best Picture list this year? Maybe Inglourious Basterds isn't that great of a movie. So let's browse through a few of the recent movies that have won the Best Picture award:
• Slumdog Millionaire: 86 Metacritic, one score at 50 or below.
• No Country For Old Men : 91 Metacritic, two scores at 50 or below, including one 38.
• The Departed: 86 Metacritic, two scores at 50 or below, including one 40.
• Crash: 69 Metacritic, 13 (!) scores at 50 or below.
• Million Dollar Baby: 86 Metacritic, 3 scores at 50 or below, including two 20s!
Not only are reviewers more scattershot across the movie board, which leaves me to believe that they're not so bloody afraid to give their real opinion of a movie, but look at those scores! Those are the “Best Pictures” of their respective years as voted on by the most powerful film organization in the world and one of them can't even pull a 70 in an aggregate system.
Do you know how many video games Metacriticed over 90 in 2009? According to Metacritic, across the six major platforms, 12 games were better than the average Best Picture of the past five years. That's one year of gaming and that is only including multi-platform titles once. There's something wrong with this system but not all the blame can be put on the reviewers. We, the gaming population, have to rise above these childish antics and stop score-whoring every game that releases. In fact, I'm of the opinion that no Metacritic score should be used for anything ever again, period. We should stop blasting reviewers for having an opinion and breaking a game down piece-by-piece in their writing merely because they didn't give the score “we” wanted for that game. If you can't spend enough time to read a review to see if the reviewer marked off points for a game element that you consider to be a plus, you should really just shut the hell up and not talk about the review. Or maybe you should read the piece and argue the validity of its points. That would be a novel concept.
For those of you who can't be bothered to read this editorial, let me summarize the above paragraphs so you can go back to bitching about a reviewer having the courage to state his or her opinion:
RTFA.
Edit: Thank you for all the comments on this editorial, both affirmation and criticism, but I have one thing that seems to be misunderstood and unfortunately, VGC has come under some fire for a few things that were said. Some of you have construed this piece as an attack on meta scoring systems. This is not the case. Meta systems are simply a purveyor of information and do not, nor should not, control any of the information that comes to you, the reader. They relay information, nothing more, and therefore the fault lies in the review system. Proof of this lies in the fact that Metacritic has scaled their gaming review green-yellow-red system differently than other forms of media. That's not an indictment of Metacritic, that's an indictment of the gaming press.
Personally, I do not agree with the way much of the gaming public views aggregation sites and their numbers. On the other hand, I think aggregation sites do a pretty damned good job of putting many sources of review at our fingertips, which was a point I made early in my editorial.
Anyone who knows me understands that I would never write this unless I fully believed it. I do. My original piece did not differentiate my criticisms well enough. That fault lays in my hands, the writer, and no one else. I'm not apologizing for my opinion, only that I did not state it clearly enough.
After years of rumors, speculation, and leaks, Apple today announced its long-await tablet, the iPad.
Chief executive Steve Jobs complemented the introduction of the new device with a new e-bookstore, called iBooks, together with partnerships with four major publishers, and showed off new versions of its iWork application and third-party applications.
Jobs kicked off the company's launch event in San Francisco on Wednesday by highlighting the history of the company's mobile products. "We're the largest mobile device company in the world," he told the audience, showcasing the iPhone and the company's line of MacBook products.
"There is room for something in the middle," he told the crowd. "If there's gonna be a third category, it has to be better at [Web browsing, e-mail, photos, video, music, games, and e-book reader]—otherwise it has no reason for being."
While netbooks have attempted to address the space, Jobs added, "netbooks aren't better than anything…They're just cheap laptops."
The key, he insisted is the tablet—a new device the company has christened the "iPad," one of several rumored names, including the "iSlate" and, simply, the "Apple Tablet." The iPad features a 9.7-inch, full capacitive multi-touch IPS display, weighs 1.5 pounds and measures 0.5 inches thick—"thinner and lighter than any netbook," according to Jobs.
Pricing for the iPad starts at $499 – far lower than the early $1,000 projections of many analysts. The 16-, 32-, and 64-GB devices run $499, $599, $699 – with an additional $130 for 3G capability. The device will begin shipping in March.
For the chipset, the company went in-house, designing a 1-GHz Apple A4, contrary to rumors that the device would be powered by an Intel or Samsung chip. The iPad comes in three capacities: 16-, 32, and 64GB. It features built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, an accelerometer, company, speaker, and microphone.
The iPad has a built-in iTunes store, for music playback. Itcan also do video, naturally, either via iTunes for movies and TV shows, or via third-party apps like YouTube and YouTube HD. The device syncs to Macs and PCs via USB, in much the same manner as the iPhone, so users can transfer content like movies and music from iTunes.
According to Jobs, the device gets 10 hours of battery life. "I can take a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo and watch video the whole time." It also features a month of standby time on a single charge, he said.
Apple is offering two 3G data plans for the device: $14.99 a month for 250-MB or $29.99 for unlimited data. "Data plans usually cost about $60 a month," Jobs told the crowd.
Contrary to early Verizon partnership rumors, the plan is available solely through AT&T. No contract is required. "International plans will be in place by June," Jobs added. Those uninterested in 3G data will be able to use the device with Wi-Fi, of course.
Jobs surrendered the stage to a number of content providers. First off, Mark Hickey from video game publisher Gameloft showcased a first person shooter for the device called Nova.
Travis Boatman from EA showcased a the upcoming title: "Need For Speed: Shift". "Building for the iPad is like holding an HD display up to your face," he told the crowd.
Martin Nisenholtz from The New York Times took the stage to show off "something special for the iPad." The paper's layout on the device mimics a standard newspaper. "We think we've captured the essence of reading the newspaper," he told the crowd. "A superior experience in a native application." The application also lets users play video, making newspaper reading a multi-media experience.
Developer Steve Sprang showcased an application called Brushes, which is already available as an iPhone app. In iPad form, the application takes advantage of the device's significantly increased real-estate, offering a deep artistic canvas experience. The app, according to Sprang, will be available when the iPad launches. Chad Evans from MLB.com also showcased a new app for the device featuring live video.
Jobs came back on stage to take a shot at Amazon's successful Kindle. "Amazon has done a great job of pioneering [e-readers]," Jobs told the crowd. "We're going to stand on their shoulders for this." The new e-book reader for the iPad is titled, fittingly enough, iBooks. Apple partnered with a slew of major publishers, including Penguin, Harper-Collings, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and the Hachette Book Group to provide content for the device's online book store called the iBookStore.
Unlike the Kindle, the iPad displays titles in full color. The screen's animation lets users flip quickly through the pages of the book. Users can even change the font of the books they're reading. The device utilizes the nearly universal ePub format for its titles.
For more business-minded users Apple has developed a special iPad version of iWork, making it possible to create and view spreadsheets on the device. The device can also view slides in Keynote and PDF files via Adobe Acrobat. iWork applications will run $9.99 a piece and will be compatible with Macs and projectors.
Apple is also offering a number of accessories for the device, including two docks. The first is a picture dock, which lets the device stand upright for video and image viewing. The other has a built-in keyboard, transforming the iPad into a more fully functioning netbook of sorts. Apple's case also lets the device stand upright.
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RIM has announced the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 to the world today, and TechRadar got some good face-time with the new phone at the press conference in Germany.
The new Bold is a remodelled version of the original model - the Bold 9000 - meaning it once again packs 3G connectivity, which most in the BlackBerry range don't have.
It's been downsized quite significantly over the original Bold, which may be an issue for fans of the original - many were attracted to the larger screen and well-spaced keyboard.
RIM has announced the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 to the world today, and TechRadar got some good face-time with the new phone at the press conference in Germany. The new Bold is a remodelled version of the original model - the Bold 9000[ - meaning it once again packs 3G connectivity, which most in the BlackBerry range don't have. It'sbeen downsized quite significantly over the original Bold, which may bean issue for fans of the original - many were attracted to the largerscreen and well-spaced keyboard. Inpractice, we didn't find it much of an issue. The keyboard is nicelyraised for easy keystrikes, and while we might have been a tiny bitless accurate inputting text, the Bold 9700's svelte frame more thanmade up for it by sitting more comfortably in the palm. Anotherbig update is the loss of the trackball - it's been replaced with thesame optical trackpad seen on the Curve 8520 and some Samsung handsetstoo. It'sa nice update to the hardware, and while BlackBerry is extolling theimproved feel and accuracy of the optical trackpad, the main sellingpoint is there will be no more broken trackballs - something whichanecdotally has affected a fairly high number of phones. The outside of the phone is also similar to the Curve 8520,with rubberised buttons for the volume, camera shutter and functionkeys. The headphone jack has also been recessed into the curvedchassis, which we felt wasn't as nice as a flat port, as the 3.5mm pinsticks out slightly on the new Bold 9700. We'renot huge fans of the faux-leather rear either - it's an odd one as RIMclearly favours it for the BlackBerry range, being used on the previousBold as well. Ituses microUSB with an open port on the side for charging and PCconnection (BlackBerry Media Sync is included for connection to iTunesand Windows Media Player) so you might need to watch out for dust andother such nasties collecting in there when in the pocket.
Thescreen is bright and vibrant though, with the BlackBerry 5 OS workingnicely with a good layout. The home screen isn't going to be anythingnew to BB fans, but at least the new user will be able to work outwhat's going on instantly. Onenice element to the Bold 9700 is the 624MHz processor under the hood -it's not in the same league as the Snapdragon 1GHz from Qualcomm butthe interface really zips along with the new Bold. GoogleMaps was very quick to load up for instance, and generally opening andshutting applications was as fast as you can hope for, with the littlepausing timer icon a rarity to see. Andwhile the screen may have been reduced to 2.44-inches for the Bold9700, video looks phenomenal and high resolution, despite only beingHVGA in terms of the number of pixels. Overall,we were impressed with the new Bold 9700 - it's not a game changer byany stretch of the imagination for RIM, but the company has built areputation on slowly releasing ever better handsets (with the Storm perhaps an exception, although the new release does go some way to tempering that). Givena UK release date for the start of November, we're awaiting news ofwhich vendors will be carrying it, with O2 reportedly at the head ofthe queue.
The Roberts solarDAB Radio is one of the best innovations I've seen in the DAB radio market for sometime. Whilst most radio makers try and compete with the iPod by offering you the ability to stream music from your computer Roberts has taken a step back and produced a radio that's proud to live up to it's DAB title with a little twist.
As I said this is a true DAB radio with one special feature, a solar panel. Whilst at first it may sound gimmicky it's actually quite useful. Once you get the radio you'll need to leave it to charge for 24 hours then your set to go. Leaving it in a sunny spot for a few hours won't use any of it's internal battery, just as long as you have enough solar 'juice'. A handy level indicator on the display shows the power level generated by the solar panel.
From a design standpoint the solarDAB is very functional and good looking. With five buttons and two giant rubberised knobs this would be a great gift to give to a family member who isn't much of a techie. Whilst it's been pointed out to me that the screen is a little small it does make up in clarity and brightness and you'll have no problem using this out in the garden without having to cover the screen to see what you're looking at.
The aerial is detachable which is great for people who travel and comes with a standard headphone jack and a line in socket for iPod playback.
The speaker is good for a small radio and like most Roberts radios the sound is rich and warm. The radio is best suited for people who leave radio 4 on all day.
Whilst the green ECO badge isn't officially accredited mark it's certainly a lot cheaper to run than any other DAB radio on the market today.
You can pick up the solarDAB radio in white, black, red, green and of course the obligatory pink. Amazon are currently selling the radio for £68.00 but you'll be able to get a better deal on the web if you do you do a bit of digging.
I'm really impressed with the solarDAB and whilst I have a few niggles I'll defiantly be recommending this radio to all and sundry. This is a clear step away from the norm for Roberts who are synonymous with making those 'old' looking DAB radios and this can only be a good thing for a company renowned for it's excellent sounding radios.
The Good
One of the best looking radio's I've seen in a long time.
Being able to charge the device whilst using it at the same time.
The retractable ariel, great for taking the device away on holiday.
The Bad
It's only DAB, no FM which isn't great if you plan on taking it abroad.
The small screen can be an issue for some people.
We live in Britain, so finding sufficient sunlight can be an issue.
Specifications
Does the solarDAB work? Yes it does. There's a little sliding scalethat appears on the display when the product is exposed to usablesunlight, with the number of bars displayed representing the amount ofpower being delivered by the unit’s solar panel. Roberts says if lessthan half the ten bars are showing, then there's enough power beingprovided to assist the unit’s rechargeable batteries, and the radiowill operate for longer than it would if just relying on therechargeable batteries alone. If more than half the bars are illuminated, then the photovoltaiccells can power the radio on its own and have some juice left over torecharge the batteries too. If all the little LED bars are lit, well,you're laughing. The radio can operate without the battery pack at all,but this doesn't produce very satisfactory results.
We found that the panel was pretty sensitive. We placed it behind aheavily frosted window on a moderately sunny day and there was stillaround half the bars showing. Indeed, a nice sunny windowsill is theradio's preferred spot. But it is outside that it really comes into itsown. Even moderate sunlight means the radio can keep going for reallylong periods of time, even at a decent volume. On its own, withoutassistance from the panel, the radio can manage around a quoted andbasically accurate 27 hours of playback. If the weather is really good,it can keep going as long as the sun shines, in theory at least. Links
The past few weeks have come with two major reveals for the weirdoswho follow online social networks. The first was big news. Twitter’sinternal documents leaked and the identity-crisis of earth’s most popular start-up is now public. The second was more under the radar but just as important. In a memo that went out to staff, the CEO of MySpace admitted that their users are caught between three competing notions of what MySpace is or should be.
Twitter and Myspace are different companies in different markets butthere is a lot of evidence to suggest that they share, and will alwaysshare, the exact same problem. MySpace and Twitter are hugely popular for uses neither company anticipated.The mission of each company is so vague that their products arestretched and molded into a variety of different uses. Instead oftargeting and building their business around one of these users they take their sudden popularity as a sign they have a killer product. They don’t.
Scale is Everything
When an industry is in transition or an idea like ‘social networking’ is still being fleshed out, getting explosively popular without knowing the nuances of why is a curse.Twitter is young but in my opinion, it’s already too late. It has growntoo big, too fast, for too many different purposes. It will take 2 orthree years but Twitter will be lapped by a variety of similar services with focus and actual business models; how Facebook developed in response to MySpace sheds light on what kind.
How MySpace Scaled
Since its inception MySpace has gone after users as if they werePokemon’. MySpace managers ran competitions on sign ups and theemployes used a slew of methods to capture. The result was a sprawlingnetwork of users but by 2005, it seemed to be working. If you looked at the stats, MySpace was an utter phenomena. It destroyed Friendster and after it was purchased by Murdoch it was getting all types of press and valuations. What the raw stats didn’t tell you is that user habits on the site looked something like this:
The problem with this way of scaling is simple. When a new cultural practice, like ’social networking’, is in the grass roots stages of development you can’t assume that people are going to your site because they like it.Your competition doesn’t really exist yet. What they might like are certain aspects of your productor they might be using parts of it in ways you never designed. The onlyway to address this is to study your users obsessively, focus on aparticular experience, then update your product accordingly.
Because MySpace grew in so many different markets at a single timeand gave users so much space to use the service how they liked, they’ve never been in a position to either watch or effectively control this experience. How do you update a product without knowing its target? You don’t. MySpace at its height and the current MySpace look remarkably similar, it lost control to its users. It has gone from being hailed as one of the best acquisitions ever made to a drain on News Corps portfolio. The results look like this:
How Facebook Scaled
When it comes down to it the mechanisms of MySpace and Facebook are not that different.Thepieces and concept are nearly the same. Both are constructed of userprofiles, avatars, walls, interest spaces, groups, photo capabilities,and a friend confirmation/listing process.
Facebook distinguished itself philosophically and pragmatically. Zuckerberg’s biggest insight into designing the site was that you are online who you are in real life. Facebook was one of the first social networks to emphasize genuine identityinsofar asthey required full names, university email addresses, and deleted accounts that used aliases. The second was pragmatic. Facebook launched in a single target market. In this case, of course, it was Harvard.
What this enabled was a less abstract more manageable mission.Instead of having to define what an ‘online social networking space’was supposed to be for everyone, Zuckerburg just had to answer forHarvard. As Facebook became popular on campus, he was able to see directly into how his peers interacted with the site and was able to update the product to help them use it more efficiently. Becausethey were all college students, the feedback he was getting was focusedand nuanced. Having less users also meant they could redesign theirentire product without pissing off disparate subsections. The resultwas an incremental evolution. The Facbeook that started at Harvard looks radically different than the one we use today. It worked.
How Twitter Scaled
Twitter grew much like MySpace. It ran competition for signing upusers, aliases were allowed, and it grew in multiple markets at theexact same time. Twitter started as a group SMS texting service then became popular for something wholly different. By restricting the length of a message the site inadvertently addressed one of the oldest problems in group communication. How do you hear many voices at a single time? Twitter’s answer is dead simple. 140.
This little restriction has produced a fascinating, highly-addictive product. If you look at the stats, Twitter seems to be working. It’s one of the most popular websites in the world and now has an excess of 44 million members.For those who invested or employees that had stock options, it must bean incredible feeling. I have grown to love Twitter but in my opinion we are rapidly approaching its peak.Its parallels toMySpace in 2006 are explicit. Twitterhas been bootstrapped for a vast number of uses and while its exciting to watch, its service is not containable . Like MySpace, Twitter is getting pulled in a variety of directions:
Why Twitter Will Dissolve and Turn into Detroit
The ability to hear and communicate messages with a group is what brought Twitter its initial wave of users but the real allure of Twitter, the reason it has caught the imagination of the press and millions of users, is something much more abstract. On Twitter, you can hear a public. Of course, there isn’t just one public, there is an infinite number.Whether it’s your country, your college, your city, or a shared nicheinterest like nyc media,everyone belongs to many publics and most everyone has a natural curiosity about what’s happening inside of them.
Twitter offers a way to manage how you see these publics. The problem is that its 140 character restriction is a blunt instrument. The site does not reflect the potential or nuance in which a public can speak to itself online.
Twitter as a network is an ungodly mess. From the onset, the site has allowed users to register aliases on custom URLs and because of it, usernames are inconsistent and confusing. It’s hard to find people who you know and its often even difficult to deduct wether that person is who they claim to be. Twitter is mobbed by impersonators,some of them hilarious, others manipulating. Twitter addresses thisissue recently by creating a ‘Verified Account’ stamp, its sloppy butmore importantly, perpetually incomplete.
There are a host of other problems related to reputation and maintaing users but the biggest issue concerns its identity, which is also where the leaked documentsgot interesting. Twitter employees are so clearly uncertain about whattheir product is even doing. Shots at it swayed from, “Twitter is fordiscovering and sharing what is happening right now,” to, “Twitter makes you smarter, faster, more efficient and more powerful.”
Twitter became popular before it had a mission. What this means is that its employees and investors will forever be trapped in boardrooms having these inane cyclical discussions about its identity. Twitter will either perpetually be simple insofar as its millions of users will have to hack the service to reflect their own values or it will roll the dice on a focus, put the site through chronic redesigns, and risk a mass user exodus.Either way its top talent will likely get frustrated and leave thecompany. Its top users will drift to something else then jump.
How Twitter will Resolve
The first thing to realize is that thereprobably isn’t going to be just one product to replace Twitter, therewill be several and they will battle it out or find niches. I see theirdesign following two trends with a potential for a hybrid.
The first trend is a service with the most minimal centralization possible. Both Dave Winer and Anil Dash have discussed plans for such a product. Winer calls his the RSSCloud and Dash describes the project more generally as the Push Button web. The RSSCloud grew from discussions with Jay Rosen over frustrations with Twitter and how its users have been bootstrapping. The line of thought is that your data belongs to you, not Twitter, and you should be able to use your data how you like with as little brand interference as possible. The proposal is to build RSSCloud, a loosely coupled service that will push your data to any website in real time.
The second is a product that is centralized but has an elegant way of organizingits content and attracting users. This is a product that would look andscale much like Facebook. It would start in a single target market anddevelop as a place for users to hear and communicate to thatpublic. Ideally it would begin in a cloistered network like auniversity where establishing members is as easy as checking their .eduemail address.
Addressing what’s wrong with Twitter isn’t going to come from thin air. It’s going to take a lot of time, development, and platform competition.
Many will soon be working on this, myself included. What will fill the blank is likely to define modern news production.
Maybe videogames are hazardous to our health — just not in the waypeople usually think. Since the success of the Wii and its motioncontrollers, companies looking to cash in on the videogame fitnesscraze have concocted loads of accessories and controllers designed toget players jumping and flailing around the room.
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets a Wiimote in the eye.Here are the game accessories we think have the greatest potential fordamage.
10. Wi-Bowl
(CTA Digital)
As if enough televisions haven’t already been destroyed byoverzealous Wii bowlers, here comes Wi-Bowl. According to themanufacturer, the accessory lets you “mimic all the critical motions a’striking’ performance requires” and is modeled after a real bowlingball. Though the company advises that you securely fasten the wriststrap, we have a nagging feeling the real feel of the bowling ball willcause some players to forget they’re not at AMF Lanes and let go.(Watch out for Grandma’s two-handed toss, too.)
9. Wii Boxing Gloves
(Everlast)
These officially licensed gloves are meant to intensify your Punch-Out!!experience.But we worry that the padding on these gloves, which attach to the Wiiremote and Nunchuk, will give people the idea that it’s OK to punchtheir real-life opponents. The gloves come in black or red, the perfectcolors to match your kid brother’s shiny black eye.
8. Tony Hawk: Ride Skateboard Controller
(Activision, October 2009)
The new game in the popular skateboarding series will be the firstto include an actual skateboard peripheral. This sounds like a greatidea, but then again, isn’t the whole point of skateboard games to avoidthe injuries that real skateboarders endure? If you flip out on theboard controller, you can get skinned knees and take crotch shots inthe comfort of your own home. We’re waiting for the YouTube videos ofgamers grinding coffee tables and board-sliding down the basementstaircase. (Not to mention some of our suggested games for the Ride board.)
7. Dual Glow Sabers for Wii
(Dreamgear)
Yeah, like you’re not going to be smashing these together while making wreeeoooow noises with your mouth.
6. The Wii Balance Board
(Nintendo)
The Balance Board looks innocuous enough, but it asks players to perform physical feats they may not be used to. Games such as Wii Fit certainly test your balance with risky exercises like the one-legged yoga tree pose. EA Sports Activehas you doing karate kicks while standing on the thing. Some personaltrainers warn that the Balance Board can be dangerous if you don’t knowwhat you’re doing and, like Wii Tennis elbow, some gamers have beguncomplaining about “Wii knee” from using the board too much.
5. Music Orchestra for Wii Music (Dreamgear)
This just makes our heads hurt, actually.
4. Bass Pro Shops Fishing Pole Peripheral
(Griffin International, fall 2009)
In order to bring a realistic fishing experience to consoles,Griffin International decided that we needed controllers shaped likefishing poles. And just like in real-life, if you cast too vigorouslywith people nearby, there’s a chance that your big catch of the daymight be someone’s nostril. Also, there’s no strap on this one to keepyour pole in place — casters, take caution.
3. Wii 8-in-1 Weapons Bundle
(Dragon)
OK, seriously? This bundle of Wii peripherals includescontroller attachments in the shapes of swords, knives, axes, guns and,thankfully, a shield. Anyone who doesn’t cringe just a little bit whenthey look at this should switch to playing Tetris for a while.
2. Project Natal
(Microsoft, release TBD)
Project Natal isn’t close to being released, but we can alreadyenvision all the injurious possibilities the advanced motion controllerwill present. Microsoft made fun of Wii’s “pre-canned waggle gestures”at E3, but at least you don’t run all around the room using theWiimote. Natal seems like it will let players exert themselves in allsorts of ways, asking them to flail their limbs in different directionsfor certain games. Nintendo decided to sell a protective plastic condomthat fits over the Wiimote; what will Microsoft make us wear whenplaying Natal?
1. The Wii Car-Lighter Adapter
(Dragon)
Gaming in vehicles shouldn’t be restricted to handheld devices. Whynot bring your whole Wii? With the Wii car-lighter adapter, you can setup your console in the car, allowing passengers to play games on theroad. Because we’re sure swinging Wii remotes won’t be a distraction towhoever’s driving. Hell, why not live even more dangerously and bringalong the Wii bowling ball?
Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch. Oneof the game's biggest financial institutions lost a significant chunkof its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank.
One of the bank's controllers stole about 200bn kredits and swapped them for real world cash of £3,115.
As news of the theft spread, many of the bank's customers rushed to remove their virtual cash.
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Space scandal Thetheft from EBank took place in early June but only now have detailsemerged about the amount of money stolen and why it was taken.
Thetheft was carried out by EBank's chief executive, a player known asRicdic, now known to be a 27-year-old Australian who works in thetechnology industry. His full identity has not been revealed save thathis first name is Richard.
The stolen kredits amounted to 8% of the 2.6tn that Ebank had in its virtual vaults.
"Basicallythis character was one of the people who had been running EBank for awhile. He took a bunch of (virtual) money out of the bank, and tradedit away for real money," Ned Coker, of Icelandic company CCP which runsEve, told the Reuters news agency.
Eve Online has about 300,000players all of whom inhabit the same online universe. The game revolvesaround trade, mining asteroids and the efforts of differentplayer-controlled corporations to take control of swathes of virtualspace.
It has now emerged that Ricdic used the cash to put down a deposit on a house and to pay medical bills.
"I'mnot proud of it at all, that's why I didn't brag about it," Ricdic toldReuters. "But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would'vechosen the same path based on the same situation."
Ricdic has now been thrown out of the game as trading in-game cash for real money is against Eve Online's terms and conditions.
Therules governing play within Eve would not have sanctioned Ricdic if hehad simply stolen the cash and used it in the game, nor if he hadbought kredits with real dollars.
The scandal is not the firstto play out in Eve Online. In early 2009 one of the game's biggestcorporations, called Band of Brothers, was brought down by industrialespionage.
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Nokia PHONES
Nokia N97......................$350 usd
Nokia N96..............$ 250
Nokia N96 16GB ............$300
NokiaN95 ....................$200
Nokia N95 8GB ................$220
Nokia 6085 ...................$170
Nokia 8800 Sirocco ...........$200
NOKIA 9500....................$200
NOKIA 9300....................$160
Nokia N70.....................$180
Nokia N71 ....................$180
Nokia N72 ....................$180
Nokia N73.....................$180
Nokia N75 ....................$180
Nokia N76 ....................$180
Nokia N77 ....................$180
Nokia N80.....................$180
Nokia N81.....................$180
Nokia N90.....................$200
Nokia N91.....................$200
Nokia N92.....................$200
Nokia N93.....................$200
Nokia N93i ...................$220
Nokia 9300i ..................$210
Nokia 6110 Navigator .........$250
Nokia 6290 ...................$170
Nokia 7370 ...................$180
Nokia E61.....................$180
Nokia E63 ....................$160
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GADGET Electronics Ltd is a specialized supplier of
Mobile phones (GSM and CDMA), Video Games , Apple Ipods , Iphone , Laptops and Games.
With high quality products, best service and good reputation, we have won a great support from customers, and become stronger and more powerful. Therefore, the scale has been expanded, and we now have our own Trading Branch Offices.
Specifically, we can supply Mobile phones (GSM and CDMA),
Video Games ,Apple Ipods , Iphone , HTC, Nokia / Sony Ericsson.
If you are interested, forward your questions and inquires to us via email your order and shipping details. we give 1 year warranty for every product sold out to our costumers, our product are company class 1 tested and approved by global standard organization of wireless industries, Brand new merchandise with complete accessories, extra charger and battery.
We look forward in placing your Order with Us
and giving you the most competent services as we are Using this
Medium to Look For Buyers Of Various Electronics Product we Stock.
PRODUCT LIST:
Apple iphone 3G------$280
Apple iPhone 4GB --- $200
Apple iPhone 8GB --- $220
Apple iphone 16GB----$250
Apple iphone 32GB----$400
NOKIA PHONES:
Nokia PHONES
Nokia N97......................$350 usd
Nokia N96..............$ 250
Nokia N96 16GB ............$300
NokiaN95 ....................$200
Nokia N95 8GB ................$220
Nokia 6085 ...................$170
Nokia 8800 Sirocco ...........$200
NOKIA 9500....................$200
NOKIA 9300....................$160
Nokia N70.....................$180
Nokia N71 ....................$180
Nokia N72 ....................$180
Nokia N73.....................$180
Nokia N75 ....................$180
Nokia N76 ....................$180
Nokia N77 ....................$180
Nokia N80.....................$180
Nokia N81.....................$180
Nokia N90.....................$200
Nokia N91.....................$200
Nokia N92.....................$200
Nokia N93.....................$200
Nokia N93i ...................$220
Nokia 9300i ..................$210
Nokia 6110 Navigator .........$250
Nokia 6290 ...................$170
Nokia 7370 ...................$180
Nokia E61.....................$180
Nokia E63 ....................$160
Nokia E90....................$250
Nokia E65i....................$170
Nokia E61i ...................$160
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LG KE770 Shine@ 150
LG KE850 Prada @250
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TomTom GO GPS Car Navigation System @ 170
TomTom Go 910 GPS Car Navigation System @150
TomTom Go 510 GPS @ 180
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Palm Treo 750v (open box) @260
Palm Treo 750 Unlocked Cingular @220
Palm Treo 680 (Graphite) @ 180
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Samsung i900 Omnia (Unlocked)@$390
Samsung Z720 @ 150
Samsung Ultra Edition 5.9 @ 270
Samsung SGH-P310 @ 155
Samsung SGH-i830 @ 190
Samsung SGH-i718 @ 190
Samsung SGH-i600 @180
Samsung SGH-F700 @ 200
Samsung SGH-B600 @ 300
Samsung i760 @ 250
Samsung F500 @ 200
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X1 Solid Black@500usd
Sony Ericsson G700..$400
Sony Ericsson F305..$430
Sony Ericsson S302..$220
Sony Ericsson C905..$520
Sony Ericsson G502..$250
Sony Ericsson Z780...$380
Sony Ericsson T303...$220
Sony Ericsson C702..$240
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HTC TOUCH PRO@$350
HTC OMNI COST@$300
HTC Advantage X7510 (unlocked)@$500
HTCTouch Diamond@$300
HTC Touch Cruise@$220
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Sony Vaio Laptops
SONY VAIO A217S-- 100GB-- 512MB RAM-- XP HOME, 1.5GHZ $400
SONY VAIO B1VP-- 40GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP PRO, 1.2GHZ........$350
SONY VAIO T370P/L-- 60GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP, 1.2GHZ............$350
SONY VAIO A397XP-- 80GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP, 2GHZ............$600
SONY VAIO B100B08 60GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP, 1.5GHZ..............$400
SONY VAIO FS295VP 80GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP, 1.7GHZ.............$450
SONY VAIO FS215Z 100GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP, 1.8GHZ..............$550
SONY VAIO A417M 80GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP, 1.8GHZ................$500
SONY VAIO B1VP-- 40GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP PRO, 901MHZ........$200
SONY VAIO T370P/L-- 60GB HD-- 512MB RAM-- XP PRO, 1.7GHZ...$500
SONY VAIO LAPTOP-- VGN-A117S, 100GB HD, 1GB RAM, 2GHZ..........$500
SONY VAIO LAPTOP-- VGN-S1XP, 120GB HD, 1GB RAM, 3GHZ............$600
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NEW PIONEER CDJ-1000 MP3 MK3 PLAYER........$450
NEW PIONEER CDJ-800 MP3 MK3 PLAYER .........$320
NEW PIONEER CDJ-800 MP3 MK2 PLAYER .........$280
NEW PIONEER DJM 1000...$700
NEW PIONEER DJM 800.....$600
NEW PIONEER DJM 600....$500
NEW Pioneer DVJ-X1 DVD .....................$700
ORDER INFORMATION :
Minimum Order : 1-3units
Shipping Method : FedEx and UPS.
Delivery Time : 48 Hours Delivery To Your Door Step.
EMAIL:renier.sg@rock.com
PAYMENT METHOD:
Western Union Money Transfer:
Money Gram:
Bank To Bank(T/T):
WARRANTY
We give 1 year warranty for every product sold out to our costumers, our products are company class 1 tested and approved by Global standard organization of wireless industries.
RETURN POLICY
Your satisfaction is our Goal. Please inspect your order upon delivery. If
for any reason you are not satisfied with your purchase, please return your
merchandise within 90 days for a prompt and courteous exchange or refund,
whichever you prefer. Please note: the item returned must be in its original
packaging in salable condition.
CONTACT PERSON: annh john
Place your order today and have a taste of our services.
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" At the time, Apple was beginning the transition to LED backlights in its laptop line, and what we found was the display was incrementally better than the company's previous offerings in this size and offered a decent platform for assessing and doing basic adjusting of pictures in the field. "
I cried a little when the glossy screens came out. because as you read on the once fantastic matte screens have now been replaced by these craptastic glossy screens. Sadly a company that rarely bent to what consumers thought looked cool has done so & now the real end users for a macbook pro have to suffer.
Okay first of if your making a touch device there are only so many things you can do to interact with the device. If your going to start this then you could say that apple ripped of minority report & so on & so forth.
Palm have a solid idea & could make a nice alternative to the iPhone, the keyboard is the winning factor for me at the moment. However the interface needs to be perfect, giving the level of polish the iphone has. The last thing palm needs is to follow the blackberry storm or lg prada.
On a tangent what is it with hacks & jobs. Apple is not jobs. It takes more than one person to make a product. The company will survive without him. If you took jobs out of apple the only thing that would fall over would be jobs.
After a year of duty, the PowerShot A470 is finally withdrawing from the retail market. In its stead, Canon has announced the 10 megapixel A480. It's 25% smaller than its predecessor and features a 3.3x optical zoom (up to 4x digital), 2.5-inch LCD screen, and a DIGIC III processor. The company is also touting a simplified button scheme and a choice of four colors to match your fashion tastes: red, blue, black, and silver. No definitive word on a US release, but Europeans can look forward to these in February for around £129.00 (US$188).
Thoughts? Do you like the design? Like the old one better?
Hate Powershots in general?
In case you missed the keynote, Palm took some special moments to let everyone know that they're not trying to compete with Apple -- which is of course exactly what they're doing with the Pre and webOS. Sure, there's plenty of room in the market for multiple operating systems and manufacturers, as both companies have pointed out, but we can't help but think that Palm took a long hard look at where Apple was at with its ultra-successful mobile OS and what they could improve upon, and we would like to assume that Apple is looking very carefully at webOS right now (and hopefully the Pre's physical keyboard, but we're dreamers) and comparing it with its current iPhone OS. So, if you'll indulge us, let's look at a few of the iPhone's existing shortcomings that Apple might try and shore up -- or perhaps already has fixes in the works for -- now that there's some very serious competition on the scene. Plus, with Steve on the sidelines, we can imagine there's some extra pressure on the company to prove that innovation at Apple is not just about one man.
They look very similar, do you think the design was stolen?
