Archive for July, 2008

Decision Making

There is an over-emphasis on the individual when it comes to responsibility and rationality in decision making. I rarely agree with David Brooks, but I found this paragraph in his op-ed today to hit the nail on the head:
Decision-making — whether it’s taking out a loan or deciding whom to marry — isn’t a [...]

The Watchmen

When I have a point of view about something in pop culture that can easily be summed up in 140 characters, I like searching for it on search.twitter.com to see how original or unoriginal my point of view is relative to other internet geeks.
For example, after watching The Watchmen trailer today, I was really worried [...]

Retire This Analogy

Marco quoted the following paragraph from an article on MacUser. The article bemoans users expectations that web services and software be free. See the quote:
Despite the recent advent of ad-supported programs, people have been paying for software for years. And developers put no less time and energy into writing software than a woodworker [...]

Greg Yardley recently published the following breakdown of Apple’s iPhone App Store applications listed at various pricing tiers. His insight was that “free” was no longer the most popular application price. Instead, $0.99 was the most popular application price. See below:

Many of the companies in the Union Square Ventures portfolio offer their services [...]