Flyover Country

Ryan Carson on TechCrunch wrote a great run-through on monetizing your web application yesterday. It’s chock full of useful, high level information on topics relating to figuring out who your target audience will be, determining how you make money, examining traditional options for pulling in the green, and so forth. If you have thoughts of building the [...]

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I just read something on MSNBC that reminded me of Penny Arcade’s John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Essentially, a 400 pound woman didn’t realize she was pregnant until two days before she gave birth to a perfectly healthy child. You know what: there’s no reason to mock her, to say things like “A pig [...]

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Hillel Cooperman (who is one of my heroes, by the way) writes what I think is the best-and most sobering-blog post I’ve read in a very long time. Bear in mind that when I say “sobering,” I don’t mean it in a ’screw your startup dreams and go become an accountant’ sort of way. Instead, [...]

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Or so I hear. I’ve never actually taken the time to watch one, as I’m absolutely opposed to his employer’s name on grounds of taste.
 Also, I’m happy to hear that Maryam has banned Robert from discussing Twitter. This is a relief. I had gotten into the habit of shift-deleting Scoble posts after a couple [...]

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I made eight predictions at the end of last year. With 2007 now about 18% finished, how am I doing?

Apple has not released Leopard yet. We’ll see what happens. I have a sneaking suspicion that its UI will actually end up looking very much like the iPhone demo we saw in January, which means I’ll [...]

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