The apps will go in app stores and be lost among the hundreds of thousands of apps already there. Because in the case of true disruptive technology, you can answer the question “whose business will you disrupt?” In the case of applications built on APIs like that released by Google , the answer is nobody’s. This may be counter-intuitive, but I think it’s more disruptive to build a high speed rail system than another software company. I have the feeling that American innovation is incremental, rather than earth-shattering. It’s all apps, it’s all software, except maybe in healthcare or biotech. There was very little “disruption” at TCDisrupt. And most of the other startups I see don’t excite me either. One of the reasons people feel so burned out by social media is the constant challenge of seeing all these new applications hit the scene with such a burst that they are difficult to resist.īut at the end of the day, very few of them stick. but the occasional post about my dog makes it over there because some application I tried out and forgot about connected all my Facebook stuff to LinkedIn. ![]() I try very hard not to post inappropriate things to LinkedIn, for example. There’s something to be said about keeping your communications separate. Here’s why I’m not anxious to have my Google posts connected all over the place. In the case of some of my posts, it seems to be “write once read everywhere.” There’s still a space in the universe for those cranky early geeks who existed before the barriers to entry got so low that everybody and his brother-in-law became an application developer, taking data from everywhere and porting it to everywhere else so that people like me can no longer remember where a post originated and where I meant it to be seen. He has a depth of knowledge, a historical view, and a native curiosity about software that makes him worthwhile, in much the same way that Steve Gillmor. More “client” type applications? But what use are they without both-way access?Īt least that’s what I take away from Dave Winer‘s comment about Google not getting it. I trust Dave. A developer can take data out of Google . Or worse, a whole host of new applications built on that API that I don’t know. What I am probably going to get is a way to see Google posts on other services. A way to interact with Google completely on my iPad. (There’s already a Chrome extension that’s better than this). What do I want or need? A way to sent my tweets to Google . I don’t want or need the Google API as I now understand it. Thankfully, Paul Carr reminded the audience that this is probably the last generation that will ever be able to use their mothers as fall guys.Īs one of those perennial fall guys, let me now react to the Google API story this morning. unless they screw up.“We are making this so simple even my mother can use it.” That charming phrase was uttered at TCDisrupt yesterday by the co-founder of, a storage service company. If you think about it as the punctuation to his leadership at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington's first tweet about Bitcasa reads somehow metaphorically: "Bitcasa is a gamechanger. Two: Regardless of Arrington's official affiliation with AOL or TechCrunch-he seems to be settling on "Unpaid Blogger" as a title-readers are upset and their dissatisfaction creates an opening for a competing blog to make an impact. One: Despite the heming and hawing from some insiders that TechCrunch would aggressively disclose any conflicts of interest at play in their coverage of CrunchFund-backed startups, their own writers don't even know about the conflicts when they go to interview those startups. For real," said Rafat Ali, founder of paidContent. Nevermind that Crunchfund is an investor. I swear if you guys keep publishing technically and ethically abhorrent shit like that I will bring back Uncov," declared Ted Dziuba, referring to the now defunct TechCrunch competitor blog that he founded. "Reads like ad copy, then comes the CrunchFund disclaimer," tweeted Valleywag columnist and Gawker tech writer Ryan Tate. ![]() Then came the response from the tech journalism community. Take it or leave it, but that's the truth." "For what it's worth, I had no idea when I interviewed them last week," wrote Perez. Then came the sort of disturbing response from TechCrunch writer Sarah Perez. :\" replied fellow top commenter Max Woolf. ![]() "Unfortunately, I think this might just be the beginning. I mean, come on." said top commenter John S. Then you get to the bottom and learn that CrunchFund is an investor. TechCrunch readers did not appreciate the tone. They click the link to have the file delivered directly to their desktop.Īnd the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap? Sharing files via Bitcasa is simple too: just copy and paste a file's or folder's link (a URL, available on right-click) and send to someone via email, IM or some other service.
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