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Nearing Profitability, YouTube Hits 500 Million Promoted Video Views(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mjfern 16y ago|0 comments
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by mjfern 16y ago
My biggest issue with Feedburner is that the feed count seems erratic (and often inaccurate). After I post a new article to my blog, the Feedburner count sometimes jumps dramatically, and then within about 24 hours drops by 50% or more.
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by mjfern 16y ago
Sony has trailed in digital music, online video, and casual/social gaming. I'm glad that Sony is trying something different to get ahead of the curve as portable gaming converges with smartphones. There are several reasons, however, why I t
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Ask HN: Legal risk of signing up on a competitor's website?
6 points by mjfern 16y ago|6 comments
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Second-gen JooJoo tablet will be built on Android(geek.com)
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by mjfern 16y ago
Perhaps HN isn't a significant threat, but it still poses a threat; each new service likely eats away at Digg's share of the market, assuming that people have limited time to use social media. As an anecdote, I was using Digg substantially
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by mjfern 16y ago
Digg is facing issues on two fronts. First, it’s struggling with delivering unique value to its customers. When Digg launched in December 2004, it faced limited direct competition in the market of social media aggregation. Since its launch,
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Why Reputation Matters(fernstrategy.com)
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by mjfern 16y ago
I think reputation is one of the most important assets that a company controls. Let me explain why. The two most important factors that determine the success of a product are: (1) the perceived value that the product delivers to customers;
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Will the Mac App Store have enough to sell?(gdgt.com)
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Netflix testing $7.99 and $8.99 streaming-only plans(engadget.com)
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ABC, CBS, And NBC Shut Out Google TV: Fox And MTV Still Available(techcrunch.com)
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by mjfern 16y ago
Does anyone have any data that they can share on the following -- as a company, if I licensed the latest generation ARM processor (e.g., Cortex-A15) and then factored in any additional design and manufacturing costs (e.g., via a foundry), w
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Mobile Apps Showdown 2010(mobileappsshowdown.com)
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by mjfern 16y ago
Indeed, this was a typo. Thank you! It's now corrected.
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by mjfern 16y ago
Good point on the whole chips versus the cores. Does anyone have any rough estimates on this? As a company, if I licensed the latest generation ARM processor (e.g., Cortex-A15) and then factored in any additional design and manufacturing co
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The End of x86?(fernstrategy.com)
203 points by mjfern 16y ago|115 comments
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by mjfern 16y ago
That Apple is deploying older generation CPUs in its latest generation MacBook Air is a further sign that the x86 architecture is in the early stages of being disrupted. Drawing on work by Clayton Christensen, the classic signs of disruptio
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by mjfern 16y ago
In addition to your points above, Microsoft needs to: 1. Make it easier for developers to port apps from iOS and Android to WP7. 2. Allow OEMs to customize WP7 and the hardware to some extent so they can effectively compete with differentia
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by mjfern 16y ago
This move is consistent with Apple's corporate strategy; a transition away from desktop computing and physical media, to a range of thin devices accessing online media via the cloud. The elimination of the optical drive facilitates smaller
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A Broader View on Apple’s “Back to the Mac” Event(fernstrategy.com)
2 points by mjfern 16y ago|1 comments
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by mjfern 16y ago
Today, Apple announced four key products at its “Back to the Mac” event: - An application store for OS X - Facetime for the Mac, which links with Facetime on other Apple devices - An instant-on MacBook Air, 11” and 13” models, starting at $
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by mjfern 16y ago
Sorry, that wasn't my attention. I tried to research Azure online, looking for hard numbers on its performance in the cloud computing market (e.g., # of companies using Azure, adoption rates, etc.), but I was unable to find any concrete dat
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by mjfern 16y ago
To your points above: a) In Microsoft's 2010 fiscal year (which has ended), its Entertainment and Devices Division (which includes the Xbox 360) generated $8.5 billion in revenues and just $679 million in operating income. Considering Micro
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by mjfern 16y ago
Good points, but let me offer a few counterpoints: - All three consoles started from nothing just a few short years ago, and in fact the XBox 360 had a year head start on the PS3 and the Wii (launching at the end of 2005 versus end of 2006
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Is Microsoft in trouble?(fernstrategy.com)
115 points by mjfern 16y ago|85 comments
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by mjfern 16y ago
Given Ray Ozzie was the mastermind behind Windows Azure (launched in 2010), Microsoft's cloud computing offering that competes with Amazon's Web Services and Google's App Engine (and Google Docs), this can't be a good sign. In fact, this is
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by mjfern 16y ago
This article by Fred Wilson (AVC) highlights the rise of Android and ARM as the dominant players (and standard) in the next wave of computing (along with Apple and others as strong niche players). For the last several decades, the Wintel st
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Armdroid(fernstrategy.com)
54 points by mjfern 16y ago|10 comments
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Intel and the Big Squeeze(fernstrategy.com)
1 points by mjfern 16y ago|0 comments

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