July 2012
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Unless social networks change, they'll die.
Dalton Caldwell recently posted about his experience using Orkut back in the day. It was a great place, until the community changed away from what he wanted. In the rest of the post, he talks about Critical Mass and Network Effects.
In short: In order for a social site to become sustainable, it needs to have critical mass. Users come back, because enough is going on for them to come back....
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I also make music.
Besides my love for technology, I also love music. With my passion for creating things, I also slap some bass, make the beats, and sing now and again.
I’ve released music under old monikers, but Simon Segfault is my latest venture. It’s a solo project of which I’ve released the debut EP earlier this year.
If you like it, go download it on Bandcamp. It is a...
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Elon Musk's Hyperloop and the Manufactured...
How’s that title for some sci-(fi) jargon? My brother linked me an article by Venkatesh Rao talking about Future Nausea. It’s quite a doozy. So take your time. The most fascinating part about the article is Venkatesh’s idea of the manufactured normalcy field. The concept is more simple than it sounds: We aren’t psychologically capable to quickly adapt to the future, and...
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DynamoDB is awesome, but...
So. A few friends and I got together a while ago to build an app for the newly launched APIs for Mxit. We didn’t plan on making it big, just having some fun. So we also decided to learn new stuff across the board. I’ve worked with Heroku in the past, but never EC2. So we got a completely new stack going: EC2, Node.js and DynamoDB.
The first thing we are running into that isn’t...
