Journalist Mark Pupo took a job doing marketing at a tech startup, and realized it was a bad idea.: “I don’t miss the rowing competitions, the beanbag meetings, wearing the team T-shirts or pushing the beer cart.”
Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo? (New York Magazine)
Much as I loved del.icio.us – and I continue to use del.icio.us clone Pinboard.in – del.icio.us was never going to be Facebook- Google- or even Twitter-big. People like images and design; a bare-bones text-only site was always going to be a niche.
(Oh, yeah, is that so, respond Reddit and Craigslist, sarcastically.)
Affluent parents, including many in Silicon Valley who work in tech, are limiting or eliminating their kids’ screen time. “It could happen that the children of poorer and middle-class parents will be raised by screens, while the children of Silicon Valley’s elite will be going back to wooden toys and the luxury of human interaction.” (Nellie Bowles/NYTimes)
Businesses are starting to realize nobody’s interested in VR. Seems like we have to go through this every 10-15 years with whatever technology is hot at the time, starting with text-based MUDs and MUSHes and MOOs in the 80s. (Joshua Topolsky/The Outline)
Alas, the Blockchain Won’t Save Journalism After All (NYTimes)
I’m intrigued by the potential of blockchain. But there are an awful lot of bullshit blockchain business plans out there, and it seems like this plan is one of them. It finds a problem that doesn’t actually exist, and suggests a solution that won’t fix the problem.
