July 2010
3 posts
Is Quora a hole that Twitter can fill?
A while back, Fred Wilson wrote a post about the Twitter platform inflection point, with a takeaway that “much of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter product”, and that eventually Twitter would take care of filling those holes rather than on relying other companies to do so (see also: the inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps).
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Push me
Note to self, as the web shifts to more touch-able interfaces, make use of buttons that look like they want to be touched, pushed, etc…
Fake work: the fuel that powers the Internet
Paul Graham recently shared a post called How to Lose Time and Money and he explained the dangers of losing time and money via “Fake Work”, which is something that feels like work because it isn’t fun, but it isn’t real work in a sense that it’s not necessarily taking you towards any meaningful destinations:
If I spent a whole day watching TV I’d feel like I...
