T-Mobile must realize they are now in the platform business, not the carrier business, and adjust their business priorities accordingly.
Business
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“Challenge questions” on websites reduce security.
Computer challenge questions for websites make us less secure, not more.
When neighborhood institutions die
When your locally owned stores shut down to make way for national chains, you lose the character and individuality of a neighborhood.
Look out Comcast: Apple soon to disrupt cable industry!
Apple computer is poised to unveil wireless, untethered video, which will require no WiFi connection, and no monthly subscription. If ever the cable industry should be worried, it’s now. This is a disruptive technology.
Do pirated info products increase overall sales?
Giving stuff away for free doesn’t increase sales, unless you’re Cory Doctorow.
Please don’t steal my products.
If you steal products, you motivate the quality producers to leave the market. I just saw my product posted on a file sharing board. I’m not flattered, I’m just pissed.
Facebook’s new UI: Productive? Failure?
The new The new Facebook interface fails the basic test of a user interface: can people use the new profile to do what they want to do on the site?
Authenticity? Hogwash.
Authenticity on the internet is hogwash. The medium isn’t authentic. Authenticity doesn’t matter for commerce, and impressions can be manipulated.
Negotiating equity with a co-founder.
Dividing up equity and deciding who gets what is a critical decision made in most startups. Establish your value-added first, then find where you have leverage.
My prediction for the 2010s
The 2000s were about a shift from computing power to usability. The 2010s will be another shift, away from total connectedness.