QUOTE.fm’s Read Service Leaves Beta to Answer the “Why” of Social Reading
pandodaily.comReaders are trying to answer three questions: What they should read, why they might be interested, and how they should read it. Twitter answers the “what” and services like Instapaper solve the “how” – Quote.fm is the only service I’ve found that does both, and also addresses the “why.”
Estimated reading time: 3 min
Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a product
pandodaily.comBut I had to make my computer do so. In a perfect syncing scenario, my laptop would know what I had been doing on my desktop and would offer to open up the right windows for me, preferably in the identical places on the screen—but Dropdox doesn’t do that.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
Amazon’s brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2
pandodaily.comWhat’s going on here? Considering that Apple is selling new iPad 2s for $399, how can Amazon afford to shell out up to $390 for your old one? What’s it doing with all the iPads it’s buying? Is Jeff Bezos running a charity? Nope. There’s one catch to Amazon’s trade-in program, and it’s brilliant.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
iMessages + FaceTime + Open Standard = Win For All
pandodaily.comWhy is this a plus for Apple? Currently, the carriers stand between Apple and customers as a cumbersome third-party. With the reduction in power, Apple (and Google, Microsoft, etc.) would all be freer to innovate and to sell phones on their own terms.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Travis Shrugged: The creepy, dangerous ideology behind Silicon Valley’s Cult of Disruption
pandodaily.comAlmost seven decades in fact, since Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” first put her on the radar of every spoiled trust fund brat looking for an excuse to embrace his or her inner asshole. (For a delightful essay on that subject, I recommend Jason Heller’s “I Was A Teenage Randroid.”)
Estimated reading time: 10 min
The last day
pandodaily.comHe picked up a pen and crossed out “CEO” scribbling over it “unemployed.”
Estimated reading time: 3 min
Free transportation for life
pandodaily.comSo, you’re going to buy half as many cars and you’re going to drive for free for the rest of your life. The punch line to all this? We could have been doing it in the 80s or 90s, and we could rush this technology to mass adoption in the next five years if we wanted.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Why Silicon Valley innovation has stalled
pandodaily.comFor the most part, entrepreneurs in the consumer internet, mobile app, and light enterprise space aren’t working anywhere near the forefront of technology. Increasingly, entrepreneurs in this space are like guys who took a vocational course in medical billing and opened a chain of clinics. They might have a good business model and they might provide a good service, but they’re not going to push the technical envelope because they’re not even close to working or possessing the knowledge at the edge of the current envelope.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He?
pandodaily.comGiving away the razor to make money on the blades is a well-known strategy. But giving away the razor and the blades in order to make money on a subscription loyalty program as a way to sell everything else? Is that Amazon’s real goal with the Kindle—is Amazon in the device business only to sell Prime subscriptions, which the company sees as a key accelerant for sales across the rest of its site?
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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