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A lot of well-known applications are now, like BaseCamp, written by just one programmer. And one guy is more than 10x cheaper than ten, because (a) he won’t waste any time in meetings, and (b) since he’s probably a founder, he can pay himself nothing.
Because starting a startup is so cheap, venture capitalists now often […]

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Dave Winer says:

An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits.

www.clonethegoogleapi.com
Sounds like a great idea. Instead of waiting though, why not just make a common interface now? An API cloner that provides the net with a common way to access all […]

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Jeremy notes “One might conclude that the traffic equals money, which is generally true.”
I guess I’d have to agree with that myself given the places I have AdSense plastered about.
Podfeeder takes the lion’s share by far (which also has the most GB/mon bandwidth), followed pretty much in order by newsrecall, and shrinkr
I’d […]

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I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it is just yahoo.
Every girl that I know that has a yahoo address uses _ to break up first/last (or in some cases middle initial).
Compare that to almost every (maybe every) guy I know who has a yahoo address doesn’t use _ […]

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10 Issues Facing Web 2.0 Today
1. Excessive Hype.
2. Lack of Simple Definition
3. Aging Poster Children.
4. Needing A Permaconnection.
5. Ajax as the Official Web 2.0 Experience.
6. Excessive Attention On The Technology.
7. Really Bad Adherents.
8. Blogging Instead of Doing.
9. Not Facing Hard Truths.
10. Adopting The Lightweight Creation Model.
full text(web2.wsj2.com)

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Dave writes:

Knowledge is something that can be given without loss. You can walk up to someone, trade ideas, and both of you can walk away with more than you arrived with.

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Just in case you were wondering why we aren’t voting today….

In the United States, elections are held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. They therefore fall between November 2 and November 8. In even numbered years, members of the House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms, and about one third of […]

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