Nice post here on several common design problems: We listened to the people, not the problem. The money quote: “When flexibility itself overtakes your solution, or worse, becomes your solution… that’s a problem.” Too often the takeaway from experiences like this is “don’t listen to people”. But this does not capture the subtlety of the […]

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The current battle of the social web is to create the single stream that gets the most attention. Watch the giants copy each other.

Continue Reading: One stream to rule them all (the real Facebook vs. Twitter war)

Fred Destin weighs in on Snapchat and that old no revenues debate after skeptics questioned Facebook’s $3,000,000,000 offer for Snapchat: “A few years down the road, YouTube is clearly a phenomenal acquisition. How would you like to be in the shoes of the company who paid under $2 billion for the world’s largest media and […]

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I don’t think the recent spate of articles on building startups without writing code are a fad. Here’s why.

Continue Reading: Before you write that code…