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17 Feb 2006

Jeremy Zawodny expands on a “Web of Data” slide from a Tom Coates presentation.

The enire summary can be boiled down to this:

You are building a platform, whether you believe it or not.

People will use what you create and will break it in new and wonderful ways. Prepare for this. Embrace this. Your product will be better for it.

Jesper
February 17, 2006 11:07 AM

I’m paraphrasing here, but Guy Kawasaki once said that there are two kinds of products, products that people pervert and products that people don’t use.


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