Posts tagged with Services
Slack and Email and the Lowest Common Denominator
a16z is a well-known venture capital firm in the valley. I recently discovered that they produce a weekly podcast, and after a few episodes, have been impressed with the range of topics they're covering. While they have…
The End of Standardized Readability
It started with Instapaper. The idea was to boost efficiency by employing the batching technique to article consumption, particularly mid- to long-form journalism found online. Saving an article for later separates the act of browsing content (say, from an…
Games as a Service
MMORPGs introduced the concept of games as a service almost two decades ago. It was and remains a straight-forward idea: pay $x/month, and we'll run the servers that enable the online game to function as well…
Used Games and the Modern Gaming Economy
As disgusting as it felt, I went out today and sold a bunch of my PS3 games to Gamespot. Then turned around and used that credit to buy a few other games, thus enabling the second-hand gaming market to…
Placing a Real Value on your Time
Most of the people reading this blog are workers whose skills and experience are in demand; we'd all like to think that our time has real value, and that someone using it ought to be paying to use…
Google Reader, the Silent Geek Service
I'm still a bit taken aback by the fervent response to Google's announcement that they're finally going to shut down Google Reader later this year. It has been my rock-solid replacement for Netvibes…
