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According to founder Mike McCauley, Amazon’s Locker program poses the greatest threat competitively, but he actually sees it as an advantage. “They opened up a whole new market for us because they have 30 percent of the commerce volume,” McCauley … [Continue reading]
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Post a photo of a Shake Shack burger to Instagram, Path, Google , Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foodspotting and now Medium, plus perhaps I still use Flickr or a service like Picturelife. The restaurant might collect those photos via Chute or Olapic. I … [Continue reading]
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We’ve only said this 9,000 times, but market share numbers do not mean that Android users are buying apps. Until Android users buy more apps (and Android isn’t a cesspool of malware and piracy and fragmentation), developers will continue to ship for … [Continue reading]
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Ben Brown: I think an even better solution would be to remove the password completely, allowing users to login with only an email address. Each time a user needs to login, they enter their email address and receive a login link via email. Clever … [Continue reading]
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in an interview on WSJ.com: In its events push, Mr. Costolo said Twitter is vying to “more closely tie the shared experience on Twitter to the actual event that is happening.” As Twitter burnishes its platform, … [Continue reading]
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Iceland could at least for the west become the main place for data centers. Dan Frommer for ReadWriteWeb: The biggest costs of running data centers are electricity and electricity. Running the servers and keeping them from overheating consumes a lot … [Continue reading]
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Fred Wilson (with Union Square Ventures investor in Twitter, Delicious before its sale to Yahoo, Tumblr, Zynga, Etsy and others) on free main components in business models: Wikipedia, Craigslist, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, … [Continue reading]
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What is a web platform? The term that is being used by lots of people to describe web services new and old is actually not understood by many. A portal like Yahoo is not a platform. eBay is a platform. Amazons core business as an online retailer … [Continue reading]
