Month: October 2012
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Maybe I’m getting good at this…
I have two distinct phases of my career at TokBox split between working in the engineering group, and then transitioning into product once we launched OpenTok. Building the prototype of the OpenTok platform is both the marker of the transition, and the high point of my career in engineering. I call it the high point […]
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Don’t blame Twitter. Platforms are hard (re-posted from Rainbow Hat Guy)
Dalton Caldwell has really stirred the pot about Twitter failing the Tim Berners-Lee vision of an open web by abandoning their platform strategy, failing to be data portable, and accepting ads as a business model. I wish him luck as he embarks on his journey with app.net to right those wrongs, but the truth is that Twitter […]
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Building consumer tools instead of consumer products (re-posted from Rainbow Hat Guy)
I want to be able to simplify the interactions I have in a given day to a single purpose. As an example, I’d like to claim that the hammer is there to work with nails. But the hammer isn’t that simple of a product. Similarly when people ask me what’s the purpose of a given […]
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What happened to AboutMyDive.com?
I wanted to do a post-mortem on aboutmydive.com. This was my first attempt at building something that I hoped would become more than a project. It didn’t, and I think it failed for a few simple reasons that I wanted to share here. 1) No audience interest I thought that because I wanted to log […]