bulletin board system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

Mostly about connectivity, but also the services. (more)

MindVox was an early Internet service provider (ISP) in New York City. The service was referred to as "the Hells Angels of Cyberspace"[1] — it was founded in 1991 by Bruce Fancher (Dead Lord) and Patrick Kroupa (Lord Digital), two former members of the Legion of Doom hacker group.[2] The system was partially online by March 1992, and open to the public in November of that year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindVox

aka Mainstream Media (more)

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off. Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about. (more)

as of Dec'2023 the most advanced version of GPT

aka AT&T, giant TelCo (more)

Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality Fan Fiction story. (more)

Demonstration. cf prototype, demo or die, mother of all demos

Cedric Chin: Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously. A couple of weeks ago, Frederik Gieschen published a summary of the Nomad Investment Partnership letters. (more)

Cedric Chin: MsOffice case - Suite Success. Pre-1995, however, Office was nowhere near as dominant. Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect — not Excel and Word — were the respective market leaders in the spreadsheet and word processing application categories (more)

Cedric Chin: Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking. Let us pretend that you are a laminate manufacturer. (more)

Cedric Chin case PayPal - The Beamers Didn't Come. The PayPal we are familiar with evolved out of a 1998 technology startup named Fieldlink. Its co-founders, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek, were initially focused on providing security services for enterprise customers with handheld devices. (more)

Cedric Chin Instagram case - The Bigger Picture. Instagram’s origins may be traced back to the personal life of its co-founder Kevin Systrom. As a junior at Stanford, Systrom built a side project called Photobox — a website that allowed people to upload images for sharing or printing. It was often used at Systrom’s fraternity parties. (more)

Cedric Chin case AmazonPrime - Burn to Grow. Amazon’s growth story hit an unexpected snag in Q3 of 2004. Its online retail store was still growing, but at a slower pace compared to Q3 of the previous year (more)

Cedric Chin: The Idea Maze. A good founder is thus capable of anticipating which turns lead to treasure and which lead to certain death... What is the Idea Maze? In a sentence: the Idea Maze is the process of exploration required to nail down all the components of a successful product. (more)

Cedric Chin case: The iPhone Keyboard - Make It or Break It. The first ever iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in 2007, (more)

Cedric Chin: Brief Notes on the Idea Maze. In this piece, I want to talk a little about what’s leapt out to me while I wrote and researched these cases. (2022-08-23-ChinTheIdeaMazeCases) (more)

Cedric Chin TikTok case - One Very Long Year. It’s clear that TikTok has captured global attention. As of press time in 2022, they have about 1.6 billion monthly active users. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Shape of a Technological Window. Regard this (extremely opinionated) synthesis piece as a prompt, to prime you to come up with your own set of opinions. (see also (2022-11-29) Chin Technological Windows) (more)