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Links for April 16

In Commentary on 16 April 2008 tagged Amazon.com, Apple, blogs, books, business, cloud computing, Google, links, politics, The Media, Web 2.0 with 3 comments

Michael Coté: Getting “Love” (and Attention) for Your Whizbang 2.0 Application – Fast, Frequent Features. Thoughtful musings on development models, community-related features, and social marketing.
O’Reilly Radar: Publishers Beware: Amazon has you in their sights. I think you have to take what you see in 10K filings with a grain of salt.
Financial Times: Google faces loss of talent. I strongly reject the idea that Apple’s culture is completely top down, it doesn’t fit with any model of how large organizations work.
Waxy.org: Google App Engine ported to Amazon’s EC2. Never mind about the lock-in.
Jay Rosen: The Uncharted: From Off The Bus to Meet the Press. How the Obama small town story was broken in the first place. Scott Rosenberg also has insights into the story.

3 Comments

Apple’s or Google’s?

I don’t think Google’s culture is so much “top-down”. Apple’s culture on the other hand….

Posted by as on 17 April 2008 @ 3pm

The myth (repeated in the article) is that Google is completely bottom up and Apple is completely top down. I imagine the truth is much closer to the middle.

Posted by Rafe on 17 April 2008 @ 4pm

“I think you have to take what you see in 10K filings with a grain of salt”

You don’t need Amazon’s 10K filing to establish that Amazon regards itself as competing with other publishers. Tim O’Reilly is completely right about that.

It’s impressive how many of the thought-free cliches about book publishing (Lulu.com will save us, e-books will save us) surface in the comments to that post. O’Reilly dispatches them all with impressive patience.

Posted by Patrick Nielsen Hayden on 21 April 2008 @ 7am

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