Archives for the month of: December, 2008

I’m Such an Information Junkie!

December 29, 08 //
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Ok, so it’s just after christmas and after putting together toys, reading books, and playing video games with my girls… it’s time for me to play with one of my new toys… my new Garmin Nuvi 205 GPS.

Now, do I need such a device?  No… not really.  I typically travel from work to home and pretty much know most of the streets around my relatively small town (or at least know how to get ).

But, it fulfills another obsession of mine… information.  I’m an information junkie!  Thanks to my Blackberry, I can email, IM, Tweet, or check the news from anywhere.  I have a weather station at my house to make sure I know exactly how cold it is at my house (-9° F in case you’re wondering).  I have stats setup on this blog so I can find out EXACTLY how many people aren’t reading this post. This now gives me situational awareness at all times.  Again, Do I NEED it? No… but it’s a sickness.

My wife on the other hand… Well, she gets lost in the grocery store (literally) :) 

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A Revenue Model (or two) for Twitter

December 24, 08 //
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Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial rock for the past year or so, you’ve probably realized that Twitter has been one of the biggest influences on web culture in years.  It’s changed the way we communicate, how we think scaling applications, and launched countless startups based on it’s api.

Now, there have been countless blog posts, articles, and essays on this subject, so I’m obviously not breaking any ground here.  But, I thought it would be interesting to put my own two cents into the mix and propose a revenue model of my own.

Build Now, Pay Later

One thing Twitter hasn’t been able to nail down (at least publicly) is a revenue model.   They’re the poster-child of the web 2.0 “build now, monetize later” strategy so typical of startups in the past few years.  But, in today’s economy, this simply won’t fly.

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