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Twitter failure: Call the irony squad

by Mathew on April 21, 2008 · View Comments

Update 2: Via a Twitter post from Engtech (which I found on FriendFeed), I came across a suggestion from this guy about how to re-enable your Twitter cache. I tried it and it seems to have worked. And now — finally — there is a Twitter blog post about the difficulties (hat tip to Frederic [...]

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Fiddling while the music industry burned

by Mathew on January 12, 2008 · View Comments

There’s a nice overview of the music industry’s dilemma in the current issue of The Economist. Nothing that surprising, but some worthwhile points — including a telling anecdote to start the piece, in which one of the major record labels has an epiphany about where the CD business is going: “At the end of the [...]

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Learning from Kiko’s failure

by Mathew on August 18, 2006 · View Comments

Just a short post to note something that I think every current or prospective Web 2.0 startup should probably read — or actually, several things, all of which are related to the demise of Kiko, an AJAX-driven online calendar that got its start in Paul Graham’s YCombinator summer camp for geeks. Kiko has effectively shut [...]

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