The way VCs think and act is very dangerous for the whole iPhone platform. My hopes are that the most successful developers that come out of this are truly independent developers and that the market does its best to support them.
Again, fuck the VCs.
”Agree. The challenge for some right now is visibility into the business model - as these are businesses - the “one ring” model had clear economic levers (see Microsoft) and while the realities of the market today may not make those levers attainable, they were understandable. But what is the new model with small pieces loosely joined - is it the same size pie sliced into smaller and smaller (and unsustainable) pieces, or a much larger pie available only to those who come together. And if the latter (which I think is right), how do you structure those economic arrangements now?
This won’t mean as much to those of you that don’t use Tumblr.
But if you do use Tumblr v4 beta then you are going to absolutely love this.
Tumblr now searches your Dashboard. Just click the “all posts” link as if you were going to do a Tumblr 3.0 style filter and then you will see the search box.
This rocks.
The Hype Machine is cool even if you aren’t. The music startup seems really simple: index MP3s linked from popular music blogs and make them easy to find and listen to and brag about to people who haven’t found whatever the Youngs will be sick of before they even hear it. Blame it on cofounder Taylor McKnight (pictured here at Lollapalooza, how retro!) for being so blonde and damn easy to talk to, and for designer Zoya Feldman for the gorgeous little logo. Because you can’t buy cred, but you can buy cute.
