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May 16th, 2008

It’s my attention and I’m tired of sharing it with everyone

Sarah Perez wrote a great, insightful post about the explosion of cool apps and how, really, we can’t do it all:
What Can We Do? It’s hard to say. Early adopters are not going to stop playing with every new service, but it’s clear that we’re getting to a point where tools that centralize, aggregate, but […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

April 17th, 2008

Are better applications the solution to the information firehose?

The information firehose is something that we all suffer from nowadays. I won’t even use the incremented number of Web x.0, that’s just foolish marketing, but we are beginning to try to tame the information beast by pulling more together. Is that the right course and will it save us?
If services won’t save us, will […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

March 27th, 2008

LavaBlast: building on a shoestring, delivering, and earning revenue. We can learn a thing or two.

Thanks to Heri for posting the link to the a series of posts from LavaBlast on how their software for franchise owners was developed.  Here are some of Heri’s comments on what they did…
I like to see once in a while a web company that does things differently. They didn’t take any outside funding, they […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 27th, 2008

Why is Twitter winning when it isn’t the best? It’s the swarm and peeps who win out.

Tim Walker and I were chatting on Twitter this morning about Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce.  It started with my question: “How many folks here also update Pownce and Jaiku? Both have fallen off my radar, eventhough both have more features.”
Sure I could update both Pownce and Jaiku through Twhirl, but why?  I don’t go there […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

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