Reality time sets in
The theme of these links will be “getting a check on reality”. I’m sitting here working through my list fo 150 things we need to get done with PeopleAggregator - and what order to do them in. This is being said, while also knowing that we’ve got to listen to our end-users, read feedback and give our customers what they want.
Good news is - they’ll all very vocal and articulate - so that won’t be a problem for us to hear them.
But Tara Hunt is shocked - I mean SHOCKED that people digg articles without reading them! Oh my god, perhaps we’d better let Tara know that Santa Claus ain’t real and that the goof fairy doesn’t really care about whetehr she lost a tooth or her shoe. Once public behavior can be used to vote and judge things, the feedback look totally distorts reality. The only thing that is real are page hits, and those aren’t very real either.
Meanwhile poor Richard MacManus is starting to see the beast that is known as Microsoft as not necessarily a consistent logical being. On one side you have execs quitting out of frustration, while other execs (the boss even) is acting like everything is fine and dandy and they know exactly what they’re doing. I suspect the truth is both.
Meanwhile I ran into Chris Espinoza at lunch with some old Apple folks like Scott Knaster. It was ”business as usual” for these folks in their attutude and smugness and red pill-state of mind as they basked in the glow of Leopard.
“But Chris” I asked. “Desktop based OSes are completely dead! How many of those 4,200 WWDC Apple developers are making any money off of being Mac developers?” “Dude - its all up in the cloud nowadays - nobody is gonna tie their app or service into a specific Mac desktop OS!”
Yet - I gotta tell yah - as far as Apple is concerned - they’re right, we’re all wrong and just keep buying those iPods and Mac Books folks. To me - that’s a reality distortion field - if there ever was one.
Who’s wrong? I just bought another iPod and another Mac. What should I have bought? A cloud? Not only that–I even buy apps. What am I thinking? OK, so I’m out of it. But not so out of it that I don’t read your blog. Dr. what do you advise?
Who’s wrong? I just bought another iPod and another Mac. What should I have bought? A cloud? Not only that–I even buy apps. What am I thinking? OK, so I’m out of it. But not so out of it that I don’t read your blog. Dr. what do you advise?
Who’s wrong? I just bought another iPod and another Mac. What should I have bought? A cloud? Not only that–I even buy apps. What am I thinking? OK, so I’m out of it. But not so out of it that I don’t read your blog. Dr. what do you advise?
I wasn’t really that shocked. I know all of this stuff is gamable. I think the next thing to do is to predict the demise of DIGG et al, because fakesters aren’t lasters.
I wasn’t really that shocked. I know all of this stuff is gamable. I think the next thing to do is to predict the demise of DIGG et al, because fakesters aren’t lasters.
I wasn’t really that shocked. I know all of this stuff is gamable. I think the next thing to do is to predict the demise of DIGG et al, because fakesters aren’t lasters.
I think it’s telling that people pay for their mac software, but that very few pay for any of the new Web 2.0 services. I bought omnigaffle and have paid for numerous bits of shareware.
I think it’s telling that people pay for their mac software, but that very few pay for any of the new Web 2.0 services. I bought omnigaffle and have paid for numerous bits of shareware.
I think it’s telling that people pay for their mac software, but that very few pay for any of the new Web 2.0 services. I bought omnigaffle and have paid for numerous bits of shareware.