Caterina Fake has posted a hilarious (and somewhat insightful) critique of the current climate for new software startups. My favorite quote- “I see some entrepreneurs in photos from *every single event*. Who’s talking to the users, writing the code, tweaking and retweaking the UI? It ain’t the Chief Party Officer.”
I think this may be true [...]
March 25, 2006
Caterina Fake- “it’s a terrible time to start a company”
March 25, 2006
The folly of the “Vista rewrite” meme
Dave Winer: “You can view the 60-percent-Vista-rewrite story as something of a software development IQ test. Anyone who believes that it’s conceivable is someone who hasn’t got the most basic clue about how software development works.”
Well stated. There are plenty of people squawking about this story that have no clue of what they’re talking about. [...]
March 25, 2006
Web 2.0- From “Partners” to Participants
Don Marti: “From a pre-2.0 point of view, the partner program is what enables companies to interact with you. Start thinking 2.0, though, and the partner program looks more and more like pointless bureaucracy that keeps non-”partner” companies out. Just as you want Googlebot to crawl your product pages, (and some of you will go [...]
