In part II of Chris Dixon’s interivew with Birchbox founders Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, Dixon asks if Birchbox fits into what could be considered the trend of subscription commerce. Beauchamp believes they do. Barna meanwhile points out “there are a lot of different flavors” of subscription. In comparison to Diapers.com, Barna says Diapers solves “convenience” and “replenishment” while...
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We are in the early stages of the Internet of Things, the much anticipated era when all manner of devices can talk to each other and to intermediary services. But for this era to achieve its full potential, operators must fundamentally change the way they build and run clouds. Why? Machine-to-machine (M2M) interactions are...
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Benjamin Pollack Benjamin Pollack works for Fog Creek Software. Recent Posts I should be in the middle of an interview right now. About fifteen minutes into it, in fact. About the part of my interview where we stop talking about awesome stuff the candidate has worked on in the past and start diving into...
It feels like this week’s cartoon should commemorate Steve Jobs. But in truth, I drew my tribute to him just after he retired from his job as CEO. I shared my thoughts about his legacy a few days ago on my own blog. And by now, there’s very little to say about Jobs that...
Ground Control to Major You: for a mere $300 you, too, can send a satellite into space. How? Well, a young man from Ithaca, New York (it’s gorges) is planning on sending a box of tiny, self-contained, solar-powered radio transmitters into space – about 300 in all – and watch them as they transmit...
The past week has been quite a roller-coaster for Apple; the company finally ended the 15-month wait for a new iPhone, launching the iPhone 4S with its dual-core A5 processor, 8-megapixel camera, dual-antennae and Siri voice assistant, but also because its visionary co-founder and talismanic leader Steve Jobs finally succumbed to his battle with pancreatic cancer. Whilst the...
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