Overheard Online

For the first time in a long time I’m really anticipating the release of a new game. Anticipating it in my bones. This has the potential to be one of the greatest games of whenever the heck it’s launched. Even better than Duke Nukem Forever. If Blizzard sticks to their successful format and doesn’t change the game beyond all recognition.
ArsGeek on Diablo 3

Features, I’ve recently come to realize, can be obstacles. Problems. The more powerful an application is, the more specialized it is, and thus with increased power its intended audience shrinks, and ironically, it becomes more, not less, vulnerable to competition.
Mashable on Features

You wouldn’t believe how many times I have heard “Advertising” when asking a client how they plan to make money with their start up.Scarier yet, most of them are working with less than 25K and no programming experience.They see all the hype behind the latest VC investments and think they can be the next Facebook or YouTube.The fact is that the Facebook’s of the world are simply a fluke. They basically hit the lottery.
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But it’s the singularity of their [Bill Gates and his peers] missions — their obsessions, if you will — that truly makes them special. So special, in fact, that no one currently on the horizon will even come close to replacing them.
GigaOM on Bill Gates

So the question I’m left with is, if Yahoo execs are not really using Flickr in a Web 2.0 sort of way personally, can we really expect them to understand the tremendous innovation that Flickr represents for Web 2.0 in general? If they don’t “get it” first hand. If they don’t eat their own dogfood, so to speak, can we really expect them to truly take Flickr and social sharing in general where it needs to go?
Thomas Hawk on Yahoo

Most folks understand the implications of providing their blog posts with full text (you’re very likely going to get your content shared around and read outside the confines of your website). It’s going to get re-purposed and re-used in a number of ways you never intended or even imagined. Some of it will be for good, and some of it will be for evil. The solution is simple. Roll with the punches.
Mashable on RSS

So, you want to make a Facebook app that taps into the same qualities as WoW? Make it extremely fun to use at first; give users a sense of reward and increasing power/ability; then make the rewards come slower and slower, in less and less value, for the same amount of work. Just like the diminishing returns from a drug addiction… oh, and somehow monetize it.
iron_ball (commenter) on WoW

Right now, the positioning of the Semantic Web is not clear. The name is not clear. The concepts are not clear. The purpose is not clear. This is a shame because with a focus on the mindset and needs of the regular work-a-day developer, this stuff could be very appealing. And with layering, it can be easily understood.
Why Does Everything Suck on the Semantic Web