FeedAFever and RackSpace Cloud

Hosted apps have unique objections to overcome to be adopted by a customer. Here are common objections to hosted apps and a hybrid approach that addresses those concerns.
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@adamwride followers in last 3 months

Taking a look at TwitterCounter today (we'll be using some of the functions in BigBrassBand) and noticed a trend in followers.

There is a very clear battle going on between Twitter and Twitter spam accounts. They join up, then Twitter whacks them. Then the cycle continues. Until it doesn't.

Either Twitter figured out how to keep spammy followers out OR they just haven't done it since the first of the year. What's amazing is how consistent they were for about 3 months (or maybe more, I just don't have data) and then it changes so immediately. Read More

App Store for Web Apps

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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The "app store" concept has been very successful for Apple (iTunes App Store) and Google (Android Market) in the mobile space. But, what would an app store for web apps mean? During Google's announcement for Chrome OS, Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management, said "the Web offers hundreds of millions of applications" and that Google's job will be "to make people aware of them." (starts around 48:38). "Hundreds of millions" is a big number but in the context of 1.7 billion Internet users worldwide (with many users using multiple applications) the arithmetic "smells right." So, what would a web app store do? The purpose of any app store is to reduce the friction of connecting a user to applications. What are the areas of friction that can be greased? Read More

How do you react?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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How do you react when the startup (you've been working on for several months because no one out there does what you need) shows up?Read More

WHAT DO WE DO?

Your business is spitting out lots of data that you either ignore or spend too much time looking through.

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1) do the things you need to be doing to be successful,
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3) have more time to spend building your product, going to conferences, or playing with your kids.