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by mtkd 17y ago
That's a fair point. I was addressing the premiss of the article that Twitter was a "communications mechanism" like email.
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by mtkd 17y ago
The power of Twitter is in it's realtime feed of events (search.twitter.com) I took this grab during that shooting in Germany: http://img.skitch.com/20090511-m1uwngda28df3fjreqgqth1rfs.jp... It's a live feed of citizen reports with a CNN
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by mtkd 17y ago
Twitter is just an 'internet' equivalent of SMS. You can predict that eventually all these forms of communication will unify (email/sms/phone/skype) so you won't need multiple phone numbers/addresses/twitter IDs ... The only thing stopping
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by mtkd 18y ago
There will be a conference call today to discuss the transaction at 5:30 a.m. Pacific time. Investors can listen to the conference call by dialing (719) 234-7870, passcode 923645. A replay will be available for 24 hours after the call ends
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by mtkd 18y ago
2 years in to using Git and I'm still learning workflow stepchanges every week. Scott Chacon touched on this in his SOR talk I think. There will be a vid up for it soon I think.
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by mtkd 18y ago
Not much substance in that post. However you need to control events and not let events control you. If you react to every tiny issue reported you will end up in a cycle of release-issue-fix-release. If the issue is only affecting a minority
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Panics and Booms, a lesson from 1897(optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com)
2 points by mtkd 18y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 18y ago
You absolutely need to do this. If cost is an issue - you can file a single application in a couple of classes in your local country, then broaden it out when funds allow until you cover the main countries you plan to operate. At the compan
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by mtkd 18y ago
Most of the last and current generation of tech university leavers appear to be trying to be the next Facebook - instead of trying to disrupt the enterprise software market. It really bothers me that all these talented kids are outside of t
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by mtkd 18y ago
So you'd rather have 49% of a dangerously under funded company than 4.9% of a well funded company? If you sell equity for investment in to the business the total value of your shareholding has not reduced, but the company is more able to pr
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by mtkd 18y ago
Percentages are irrelevant, once you've lost controlling share it doesn't matter if you have 49% or 4.9% - as 4.9% of something > 49% of nothing.
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by mtkd 18y ago
If there is no solid source to the story then TC must post an immediate retraction and apology.
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by mtkd 18y ago
Imagine a world where patents only last 3 years and all closed source code and research had to be made public in that time too. We'd all have to innovate faster and more consistently to stay ahead of our competition. We would probably have
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by mtkd 18y ago
Don't agree with everything in the article, but I found it a thought provoking read.
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by mtkd 18y ago
Timely line from CS Lewis "And it is essential of the happy life that a man would have almost no mail and never dread the postman's knock." He could never have imagined the black tide of corporate email that washes up on my desk everyday.
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by mtkd 18y ago
The model they have is perfectly viable. The disk allocation was very tight (especially for companies moving legacy repos to it) - it was 3gb space for a 'large' account intended for 25 users and 50 repos.
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by mtkd 18y ago
I suspect History won't look favorably on the last decade.
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by mtkd 18y ago
It has hardly even started yet. Many tech companies have been insulated as they were funded (therefore not relying on revenue for survival). There will be no new funds for many of these companies - so they need revenue - and they have to ac
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by mtkd 18y ago
It's a great service at a great price. I do think they should have picked a different brand name than Amazon for it. We're moving to EC2 at the moment and when explaining it to commercial people it's an unnecessary hurdle to also have to ex
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by mtkd 18y ago
It does work, I've been working from home for almost 2 years - leading a team who partly work in an office and partly work at home. Not everyone may want to work from home though. Campfire + VOIP works well to manage everything. We all run
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by mtkd 18y ago
unregistered domain locator
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WEF 2009: Mark Zuckerberg thinks difficult times require a tie(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by mtkd 18y ago|13 comments
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by mtkd 18y ago
If you're running a serious business you should really be using a dedicated management company for your domains. We use CSC (www.cscprotectsbrands.com) who bought the enterprise domain management business from Register.com I also recommend
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by mtkd 18y ago
This is where startups will be strong next year. The focus of the last couple of years - especially YC type startups - has been on social - which is pretty much saturated now (I laughed/cried at some of the content on that dreamitventures s
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by mtkd 18y ago
Quality site. Really well done.
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by mtkd 18y ago
Don't have a lot of time for Cringely any more. However there is a strong argument for breaking Microsoft up in to smaller units - gaming, office, OS and hardware. If broken up I think the individual units would have a lot more drive, focus
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by mtkd 18y ago
IBM and other major hardware companies will still be living off budget spends that were set in 2007 and 2008 - these will not be reoccuring in 2009. Enterprises now have vast quantities of surplus desktops and servers because of redundancie
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by mtkd 18y ago
Do you not think the competitors are going to have to reduce heads too? There is some denial amongst the startup community at the moment - this recession will be very long, very painful and few will be exempt - those that cut early and cut
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by mtkd 18y ago
An IPO does not guarantee an exit. In the UK - typically founders will be explicitly locked in to 2 years service before they can sell any shares - and even then they will only be allowed to sell through the company's main broker and not di
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by mtkd 18y ago
I agree, this is a worthy cause, but you'll have to prise real cash out of a Debian user's cold dead hands ...

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