• Mobile IM vs. SMS: Who Wins? — Can Mobile IM beat SMS? Yes, that is almost certain No, SMS’ simplicity makes it unbeatable Both will co exist Yesterday, the guys from eBuddy sent me a press release (pdf link) that made me wonder: With the rise …

See also: Firefox for mobile: being built to to provide a browser for the GPhone?, Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Stupid cell phone tricks

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• Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard - Continuations — ""As it turns out though, listening to customers is a lot easier said than done." "
• Front Channel: Our Micro Business Model - — Uncover and stream the backchannels of a conference

See also: Simplifying the web, one step at a time, Bad marketer, Shopping Woes, How not to apply for a job

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• Tim Bray: Mobility Blues — "I don’t wanna be a sharecropper on MassaSteve’s plantation. I don’t want to write code for a platform where there’ssomeone else who gets to decide whether I get to play and what I’mallowed to sell, and who can flip my …"

See also: Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Comcast customer disservice, Spam service redux

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• Early YouTube Engineer Tells All — "When we recently heard about the history of YouTube’s growth strategy from CEO Chad Hurley’s point of view, he described it as “hanging onto a rocket.” But an engineer’s take is always going to be a bit less rose-colored and …"

See also: Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Movie marketing on a budget, Comcast customer disservice

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• Learning from “bad” UI

See also: Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Comcast customer disservice, Spam service redux

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