Silicon Valley Musings

Very interesting case study on YouTube’s success, YouTube Case Study: Widget marketing comes of age
Excerpts that are relevant to Widget-based embeddable video players:
Viral customer growth due to widget marketing
YouTube allowed users to easily embed any hosted videos on web pages or blogs. This turned out to be particularly popular with social-networking websites, especially MySpace. The […]

Robert asks what is your default browser page.
My default Web page is set to blank.
My portal of choice is still MyYahoo. The problem with this page is that it doesn’t do a good job of letting you know when new features are available on the rest of the Yahoo property. So I occasionally need to […]

Loren is one of PodTech’s content partners. He is the Dorothy Parker of the Web 2.0 Blogosphere. I try to watch him and Ze Frank every day. In this video, Loren is discussing PodTech’s video player.
Aug-1-2007 UPDATE: Loren’s has taken his show in a new artistic direction. I can no longer recommend watching it.

Robert writes “..it’s dramatically easier to write applications for a runtime-compiler system like Java or .NET.”
To build a reasonable user experience on the iPhone, developers will need libraries to leverage the native iPhone UI components including the new, patented gesture information, access to the local phone book, the ability to record and play voice and […]

My TextMate podcast from Macworld 2007 can be found here.