Your view is taking all the amazing things physics *does* allow us to do now, without having to enter 3 sigma conditions of temperature, for granted.
Yes sir. Why do we even bother trying to invent anything else when we have so much. Maybe the good Lord intended such things to be so hard to achieve because he wants us to simply be thankful for what we have?
The universe has existed for more than 6,000 years. So, What make you think we'll ever find the answer to these questions so quickly?
Jeff Clavier has a very interesting counter to this argument.
An exerpt:
http://blog.softtechvc.com/2005/06/stealth_start up.html
I fully agree that involving users as early as possible in the development process is an absolute must, but doing it too early can also be "the kiss of death". There are so many applications, services, cool web sites out there - crying for our eyeballs and attention - that launching something in front of users that is half baked, limited or too unstable might turn them off for a while, or for good. And will certainly not generate the positive buzz that is required for viral marketing to work.
The second argument for laying low is that your ideas might not be unique, but your overall product approach, and implementation, might be - for a period of time. Since very early stage startups generally don't have a lot of development "manpower", coming out of the closet too early might make it very easy for competitors to replicate some of these (good) ideas.
There might cases where Mark's suggestion is applicable, but I don't see them as being majority. And then I would ask whether these companies are the ones that are "built to flip".
So, on Google, they're ahead of Apple. On Yahoo! and MSN they aren't even in the first 100 results, so how could Apple have been responsible. Might as well sue Tiger Woods also.
Wow. This article is waaaay of the mark. Looks like the author really hasn't done much actual research of the content aggregation world.
News aggregation is the way the whole market is going. Nielson//NetRatings has shown that sites like Yahoo! News and others are now ahead of the news sites in popularity.
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001562.php
I work for a company, Moreover Technologies, that has been in the online news aggregation business since 1998. As mentioned in the previous thread, the publishers love us because we offer more distribution for their content. We simply then redirect clicks back to their pages and they are able to realize the monetization from their site. They could shut us down, but why? It all a distribution game, more is always better.
In the online web portal world MSN News bot does this. Yahoo! does this. So why can't Google? I think the answer really is that Google is too busy on other areas that make more money. Search monetization is far more lucrative than news.
Slashdot Mirror
make.. the... pain.. stop...
joking. sorry i didn't put the <satire> tags on the post
Your view is taking all the amazing things physics *does* allow us to do now, without having to enter 3 sigma conditions of temperature, for granted.
Yes sir. Why do we even bother trying to invent anything else when we have so much. Maybe the good Lord intended such things to be so hard to achieve because he wants us to simply be thankful for what we have?
The universe has existed for more than 6,000 years. So, What make you think we'll ever find the answer to these questions so quickly?
An exerpt:t up.html
http://blog.softtechvc.com/2005/06/stealth_star
I fully agree that involving users as early as possible in the development process is an absolute must, but doing it too early can also be "the kiss of death". There are so many applications, services, cool web sites out there - crying for our eyeballs and attention - that launching something in front of users that is half baked, limited or too unstable might turn them off for a while, or for good. And will certainly not generate the positive buzz that is required for viral marketing to work.
The second argument for laying low is that your ideas might not be unique, but your overall product approach, and implementation, might be - for a period of time. Since very early stage startups generally don't have a lot of development "manpower", coming out of the closet too early might make it very easy for competitors to replicate some of these (good) ideas.
There might cases where Mark's suggestion is applicable, but I don't see them as being majority. And then I would ask whether these companies are the ones that are "built to flip".
and it's a half block from my apartment.
there goes my rent...
"...has adversely affected its ranking amongst the Internet's largest search engines..."
A statement totally without any merit. In fact the reality proves otherwise.
A quick search result analysis for the query term 'tiger':
TigerDirect Tiger MacOS
1. Google 2 3
2. Yahoo! >100 1
3. MSN >100 6
So, on Google, they're ahead of Apple. On Yahoo! and MSN they aren't even in the first 100 results, so how could Apple have been responsible. Might as well sue Tiger Woods also.
With integrated RSS aggregator/reader, kiss goodbye to Newsgator, Pluck, FeedDemon and all of the other RSS applications.
i have a theory: but maybe it's a fark topic?
News aggregation is the way the whole market is going. Nielson//NetRatings has shown that sites like Yahoo! News and others are now ahead of the news sites in popularity.
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001562.php
I work for a company, Moreover Technologies, that has been in the online news aggregation business since 1998. As mentioned in the previous thread, the publishers love us because we offer more distribution for their content. We simply then redirect clicks back to their pages and they are able to realize the monetization from their site. They could shut us down, but why? It all a distribution game, more is always better.
In the online web portal world MSN News bot does this. Yahoo! does this. So why can't Google? I think the answer really is that Google is too busy on other areas that make more money. Search monetization is far more lucrative than news.