February 2009
10 posts
Losers of the Web
I brain-scribed this list 2 minutes ago, and thought it was worth converting into blog-scribe.
A list of companies/products/shows which had the web in their fingertips (as in, being the hot thing of a particular moment), and lost it (as in, didn’t sell out or get big, or had to shutdown in their particular form).
Napster
Friendster
Technorati
Rocketboom
Cuil
Muxtape
…and...
Watchrickyv:
Charlie Rose interviews Marc Andreessen.
What a seriously smart guy. Though I must say I disagree that the NYTimes should immediately shut down its print edition. I think it’s possible for a company to innovate while simultaneously harvesting the money to do so from a non-growing cash business.
“Count your life by smiles not tears, count your age by friends not years.”
– Happy Valentine’s Day!
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“Love and money… You have mixed them both.”
– I never knew that this was the official tagline of Slumdog — sums it up perfectly.
January 2009
40 posts
“Today’s news is tomorrow’s toilet paper.”
– This might seem like an obvious quote, but I heard it for the first time today and it kind of stuck.