End of Sept ‘08 blogging
What’s our solution to Microsoft’s lock-in Cloud _+ Client strategy? The Open Mesh!
Doc on the LiveWeb = who’s son actually named it. Here’s Doc (right) with his son Allen.)
Yahoo’s social network is not a social network - it’s Y! OS - the whole thing.
Who cares what it’s called - moving software and storage off of your shoulders and onto someone else’s is a good thing. Cloiud, schoud, dowd, who cares what it’s called. Yet another example of buzzword du jour mentality.
I LOVE this notion of the user-centric web that Vysr is taking. Ideally they’d support more than just OpenSocial apps. Any widget should be able to be accessed - anywhere. Right on to Vysr - a key implementation of the ‘open mesh’.
I decided long ago to fight patents and to NEVER apply for one. I believe in Open Ideas and that’s what I’m doing with my book. NOTE: I really like Read/Write’s new ‘multi-page’ format. Triples the page views!
We’re gritty and cash flow positive. Are you?
Crowdsourcing translationYoung software people - go to Dubai - there is gold in them thar hills!
September 30th, 2008 at 6:30 am
[...] post info By Jason Categories: Uncategorized Tags: advice, fail, failure, lessons learned, ringside, ringside networks, startup Failure. I had to get that out of the way, first. Failing is not fun. Jason Calacanis recently wrote about startup conditions in (The) Startup Depression. That write-up really resonated with me. As a parent, I understand there are some things that can really only be understood by experiencing them (parenthood being one of them, IMHO), and startup lessons may be one of those things. However, as a founder of Ringside Networks, I feel the need to “purge” and also to respond to some of the things written about Our Fine Company yesterday, as Bob Bickel’s blog on the topic made the rounds in the blogosphere. [...]