chapter four – my 30s
Interesting article from the Guardian last week talking about the Irish News online pay wall and how they’ve set up a paywall last year with the choice of £5 for one week’s editions, £15 for a month’s and £150 for a year’s subscription but only managed to get “just 1,215 paid subscriptions: 525 weekly, 370 [...]
I read this article from Dan Lyons about switching from an iPhone to an Android and the news about the Android outselling the iPhone in the US and looked down and my blackberry and laughed. Don’t get it twisted, I really like Google and respect the Android OS, I love Apple and love working on [...]
For a while I held the belief that I should only accept Linkedin requests from people I know well and have actually worked with. This was due to the fact that I didn’t want to be asked for recommendations or introductions from and to people that I didn’t really know. I’ve changed my mind this [...]
One of my least favourite sayings is that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. I really hate the idea that someone at any time stops learning. Or that someone can’t possibly learn the skills they need to be able to do something big. At the same time I really hate it when people [...]
Today’s word of the day is “Equanimous”, and is brought to you by my good friend (and the Bee’s cousin) Tasleem Thawar. I can’t remember the exact context in which Tasleem introduced me and the Bee to being equanimous but it’s been a term that has stuck with me for while. According to multiple free [...]
I’ve always believed in the idea that you should leave a place in better shape than you found it. From when I go to a fast food restaurant and make sure I give the table a good wipe before I take off to my professional career. So with tomorrow – my last day at Yahoo [...]
I really like Spotify, so much so that I give them 100 quid a year to be able to listen to the service on my iPod and in Switzerland. I also like thinking about metrics and measurement. Which is why this whole kafuffle about Spotify not paying artists enough or how the creative industries needs [...]
So Twitter’s announced their monetisation model, “promoted tweets” will be seen from search queries around brands. To a lot of journos this looks a lot like ad sense / search engine monetisation that the likes of Overture / Google introduced years ago. But there’s more to this with Twitter. People forget that social media allows [...]
So news came out recently that Aol was looking at either shutting down or selling of Bebo, the UK based social network that they bought a couple of years ago for about $850 Million for. I used bebo for about a day, but nevertheless I’m quite sad about how this is turning out. Aol and [...]
There’s an interesting discussion off of Jason Calacanis’s latest This Week in Start Ups with David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) of 37signals about running a company and scaling. In a nutshell, Jason’s point is that there is finance available and companies should try and raise money to “swing for the fences”. DHH say’s that’s crap, companies [...]