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Developers In Denial: The Seesmic Case Study

Way back in February the writing was on the wall: Twitter would compete directly with third party developers who were creating Twitter apps. Twitter investor Fred Wilson reiterated that threat just a few days ago when he said most of the apps that third party developers had created were merely “filling holes,” not truly creating [...]

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Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Twitter Fills Its First Hole With An Official BlackBerry App

That didn’t take long. Two days ago, well known VC (and early Twitter investor) Fred Wilson wrote a post telling Twitter startups to stop filling holes in Twitter’s products and to instead look to launch killer apps that start entirely new businesses. That led some third party developers to question if Wilson was hinting that [...]

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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The iPhone’s Peephole

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber wrote what I thought was a good response to my post about Apple’s App Store sexy app policy. While I noted that one of the reasons Apple’s policy was silly was because each iPhone contains two apps, iTunes and Safari (both made by Apple), that grant users access to content much [...]

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Sat, February 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments