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Re: Now Playing: Post-it Wars

JoeLudwig — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:08:26 -0000

Skyline Tower (a block east of Expedia) now features Frogger.

Re: Disruptively Shifting Paradigms Intellectually - And Other Startup Myths

JoeLudwig — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:55:47 -0000

I agree with everything you've written here except your definition of "disruptive technology". The disruption in disruptive innovation (and thus disruptive technology) happens to the industry, not to the end user. Sometimes the user has to change too, as was the case with Amazon.com. However, most (succesful) disruptive technology offers a nice graceful transition to the user: CRT to LCD monitors, the shift from Alta-Vista et al to Google, and the ongoing shift from magnetic hard drives to solid state storage. All the users notice is that the new thing is better than the old thing. The new thing fits into an existing slot in their world. The underlying industry in each case was massively disrupted though. Viewsonic and NEC are basically unheard of in the new world of flat screen monitors.

Re: TechFlash Status Update

JoeLudwig — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:21:00 -0000

Well I've spent a few days trying the new feed and I'm going to unsubscribe. I do most of my blog reading on my phone. When the RSS feed contains a paragraph or less (and often only the caption to a photo) I have to click through on almost every story. When I do click through I am greeted with a site that isn't mobile-friendly. That means the tech-flash RSS feed is now basically worthless to me.

I understand the need to drive traffic to your advertisers, but would have preferred to just have the ads come into the RSS feed.

Re: TechFlash Status Update

JoeLudwig — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:07:17 -0000

Looks like the upgrade removed the actual content from the RSS feed (leaving on the first paragraph or so.) That makes it pretty useless on a phone. Is that the way it is from now on?

Re: What web product does this Google Insight map represent??

JoeLudwig — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:25:44 -0000

Hmm. Something popular in less populous states... It's not just red states, either because New England is over-represented and the south is under-represented. (And it isn't Fox News, which is most popular in the southeast.)

My guess would be some kind of cold-weather sport. Maybe a hockey site?

Re: Virtual goods: Who will be the Amazon.com of virtual item sales?

JoeLudwig — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:39:16 -0000

I don't think there will be an Amazon-like dominant storefront for virtual goods. A huge part of Amazon's power in online retail comes from their incredible proficiency with inventory management, and that disappears entirely with virtual goods.

Of course if someone can provide a microtransaction platform with reasonable overhead at less than a dollar, they will likely become very popular with developers. If they play their cards right they could become the de-facto standard storefront by fir aggregating currency and then aggregating catalogs that use that currency.