Amazon Joins Major Asian Backers of Android Creator's New Phone (more)

Jesse Singal: How the Internet got the ‘Google memo’ wrong (more)

Template for summarizing your Business Model on 1 page. (more)

book by Alex Osterwalder and others on defining your Business Model (or more precisely, on generating variations on your Business Model to consider). ISBN:8126533676 (more)

Teresa Torres: How to Improve Your Experiment Design (And Build Trust in Your Product Experiments). If you’ve been following along with the growth of the Lean Startup and other experimental methods, you’ve probably come across this hypothesis format: (more)

Tim Bray does a reality-check on Web Services/SOA standards complexity. So, if you believed in history, where would you look for the future of "Web Services?" You'd look at the people who are doing them in a rough-and-ready fashion out there on the Net. The names that come to my mind are Amazon, Google, EBay, SalesforceCom, maybe SABRE. Whatever they're doing, that's Web Services or SOA or the Services Fabric or whatever you want to call it. Anything they don't need, maybe it isn't going to be real important. (Worse Is Better)

Arnold Kling on (Andy Kessler's article on) Self Publishing. I finished writing it on Jan. 31, 2003. The Web helped me find everything else I needed. In February, I had it edited by two women in Texas, while a couple in Florida put together the cover, dropping in a Jeff Danziger illustration. ISBN numbers, bar codes, Bowker databases and Library of Congress numbers, no sweat. I found a printer near Boston that could turn out thousands of copies in two weeks. A printer in Michigan took four weeks but, for two bucks each, produced tens of thousands of stitched-binding, store-quality copies. Ready or not, I was now in the publishing business. I opened an Advantage account on Amazon.com and had "Wall Street Meat" for sale on March 17. This is about the book Wall Street Meat ISBN:0972783210. (more)

Excellent Cory Doctorow interview going on. (more)

One line in a probably-terse Outline.

Phil Jones takes issue with Chris Dent's claim that Purple Numbers should have no meaning (such as sequence), making the excellent point that a key strength of the Wiki concept is the use of a Wiki Name as a URI. Some random thoughts... (more)

Will Richardson sees 3 Narratives about whether we need School Reform (and what kind). (more)

Venkatesh Rao encourages a "Foxy" approach to Systems Thinking (contra Hedgehog Concept). (more)

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aka Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, novel by Robin Sloan, ISBN:1250037751 https://www.robinsloan.com/books/penumbra/ (more)

Writer. https://twitter.com/tcarmody https://tcarmody.contently.com/ (more)

Tim Carmody thinks that the historical Virtual World-s built so far don't compare to the World Of Jesus in Robin Sloan's Annabel Scheme. The character who plays the game believes in this world and his place in it: his religious faith and his technological faith are one and the same, turning a mechanical ritual into treasures in heaven. And so we believe in it, because it’s a reflexive, self-allegorizing move too: for the reader, the fictional San Fran­cisco of Scheme and Hu is just as much a virtual world, with its own entice­ments, traps, rules (Game Rule) and ways to break them, as “World of Jesus” is for them. Dreams within dreams, virtualized virtuality. Real World Game? (Remember what Bill Hicks says: it's just a ride.)

Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device (more)

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