Microsoft’s Creative Destruction By DICK BRASS (NY Times Op-Ed)
Why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, has failed to bring us the future.(save for the XBox)
Gizmodo’s take on the article:How Innovation Died at Microsoft
My educational experience took place on this street corner. It was the best thing from the iPad computer annoucement from Apple.
A very interesting talk about harnessing solar energy using a Sterling engine and genetic algorithms.
A short FREE ebook on pricing software.
After attending MinneBar this year, I’ve been much more interested in software startups and how to a real business going. I’m working right now with Hardy to get his product out and creating innovative pricing schemes to get the the start up going.
I’m a software hippie by heart. I always have been and probably always will be. I don’t like paying for inferior products and I definitely don’t like overpaying. I’d rather feel like I am a part of a community that is working together to make better tools and products.
This book is a quick read and well worth it if your thinking about pricing your product in a Web 2.0 world.
An interesting history of the computer at TED talk. Also gives a glimpse to the amazing times at Princeton trying to build a computer.
NY Times “Meter Model” Coming in 2011
Slate’s Take on NY Times Announcement
I’m already sick of the Pandora 40 hours a month limit for free use, now the NY Times wants me to meter me too!
It’s not that I want everything for free, although it would be nice, when I pay for something I want something I can keep. I don’t get to keep the songs Pandora streams to me, I can’t even pick a song I want to listen too! If I wanted to rent songs, I do it from a service where I get all the songs I want, like Napster or Rhapsody. I don’t use those services because I can keep the songs I downloaded.
The metering model is like just a subscription service with a really big carrot.
Sorry, NY Times and Pandora, but once the carrot is gone, I’m gone. We’ll see who wins in the end. Right now, I think I’ve got the momentum, and the this new model you’re hoping will work, won’t.
