so THIS is what's been keeping you awake lately...
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Upcoming is just another example: way ahead of its time. Take the number of companies in the events space nowadays. Take the millions of dollars invested or spent in such companies. Lots of meetups happening everyday around the world...
Yahoo! has just let it die instead. It's even hard to argue that Upcoming was off because it was ahead. I can't see why the events on Upcoming wouldn't turn into what meetups are today. All it needed was someone to take care of the product and the community. Gatherings and events have been happening since before Upcoming was created and are now being managed on Meetup, Eventbright, Lanyrd, etc... It isn't the case of these companies creating a new space for them, they just took it from where Upcoming (and others, probably) left.
They bought some of the hottest startups back in the days (Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming...) only to neglect them, shut them or let them die. These were amongst the first companies that had put the user front and centre, leveraging the fabled user generated content. This was of huge value for any company and they let it slip through their fingers.
Also, at Brickhouse they developed Fire Eagle, one of the first services to work with location, and a great take on it too. A central and independent place where you could post your location to and then you'd grant access to other services choosing the level of detail (e.g. you phone was constantly posting your most accurate location and then Twitter could have access to your current City, Facebook to the Country you're in and Dark Sky could access Lat/Lon).
And, of course, they once owned Geocities.
Then they shut some stuff down, closed Brickhouse and I think they stopped hosting Hack Days. I know correlation does not imply causation but I find it very difficult to dissociate these two situations. How can a technology company thrive if they kill their innovation internal cycle?
Yahoo! seems to once have had one of the best innovation cultures in industry only to see it disappear like this. Everything that has been happening since then (like death by acquisitions) looks like part of the plan or the lack of thereof.
"what you already know" being the existing file and the second part being the name of the link to the existing file.
I never got it wrong again.
Windows don't ship with Java preinstalled and it isn't that big of a deal, people install it the first time they need it and that's it.
That's what is going to happen on the Mac.
All the technologies are in the market, some will win and some will lose. The only thing that will define this is adoption, and Apple is adopting the technologies they believe are the best to deliver a great user experience to their customers.
The Authorize.net was just an example where we felt like we couldn't relate to everyone else in the industry when searching for a solution for that problem. Now, we've solved that and "replaced" Authorize.net for one of the european companies that do pretty much the same.
So, my post wasn't focused on that specific problem, but on incorporating in the US, mostly because that's where our clients are and if doing it on Delaware would allow us to save a lot on taxes: great ;)
So, the company we have in Portugal could even not relate to the one we would create in the US, by now it is just the common umbrella under which we're been doing business (both client work and that specific product I've mentioned).
why don't they stop with IE already and start shipping a webkit-based browser? why would they want to always be a couple years behind everyone else on that front?
Oh boy... these feds never learn...
interesting insights, tho.