“There’s this weird area that you can fall into as a social consumer app if you don’t have a million users or more,” Culver said in an interview this week. “You have plenty to keep you busy, but it’s not enough to get advertisers interested, it’s not enough to make venture capital firms interested. So the question becomes: What do you do with a middling social app?” —
Convore is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses — Tech News and Analysis
That’s the siren call of social - and why social is so very, very tempting but rarely works out.
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So awesome!!! Desktop software “Plug Spy” - sends you a Boxcar alert when someone potentially tries to steal your Macbook Air!!!!
Yep. Awesome. #boxcar
BOXCAR!!!!!!
“Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have more will power, more drive, but because they know productivity is a game of cat and mouse versus a childish primal human predilection for pleasure and novelty which can never be excised from the soul. Your effort is better spent outsmarting yourself than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar or setting deadlines for push ups.” — Procrastination « You Are Not So Smart
Coming soon: Boxcat!