"Over the last few years, Uber and Airbnb have come to be known as leaders of something called the sharing economy.
Give their founders credit for this feat of mostly misplaced nomenclature. The companies help people sell rides in cars and rent stays in homes; they deserve no more credit for promoting a skill learned in preschool than Marriott or taxi companies."
NYTMagazine article about Twitter that doesn't mention TXTMob. Whoops.
Via Marcel. Interesting looking book by an early Google Brand/Marketing director.
Funny stuff. I still can't believe that a company called "Assos" is the producer of one of the most widely used anti-butt-chaffing creams.
Description of Conway's law.. also referred to as the "mirror hypothesis" in the management literature.
I believe the number but I think it's not true to say that each C&D letter translates into payment. My general understanding is that these letters are being used as a way of getting ISPs to turn users off, not to extra money directly.
I have no idea how this got into my open tabs. I disagree a lot. But it's good rant.
Interesting in relation to the FSF lawsuit.
The Economist takes up the issue of network services and autonomy!
"Trying to shift the burden of proof back onto themselves, I asked why they don't contribute to the open-source projects from which they derive so much value. Many indicated that it's too hard to contribute back to open-source projects due to internal legal issues and the high bar to knowing how to contribute. They suggested that they would instead prefer to pay the open-source companies to do that work for them."
