Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”

Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown. Marc Andreessen has the same advice for old media companies: “Burn the boats.” Yesterday, Andreessen was in New York City and we met up. We got to talking about how media companies are handling the digital disruption of the Internet when he brought up the Cortes analogy View...

Duckshead Revisited: Apple Approves DuckPhone App After Minor Changes

Remember that guy who made the DuckPhone iPhone app ? And how his app was rejected due to “Minimum User Functionality?” Well, Apple just approved his app after he added some news streams and a twitter feed from the stars of Jersey Shore . Go here to read the rest: Duckshead Revisited: Apple Approves DuckPhone App After Minor...

The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What?

Oh the Associated Press, our most favorite banned new source. It seems almost monthly they do something that defies logic and/or looks to be a suicidal act. Originally posted here: The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait....

The New App Store Rules: No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No Innuendo

Over the last few days we’ve been tracking Apple’s recent decision to remove all sexual content from the App Store. It’s an alarming move on Apple’s part, if only because it shows that the company is willing to throw developers (and their livelihoods) under the bus without any notice at all. Now developers are left wondering: just what exactly is allowed on the App Store? Read the original here:  The New App Store Rules: No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No...

Gowalla Gets An Early Native Android App. Prettier, More Social Than iPhone Version.

In November of last year, Gowalla finally extended its reach beyond its iPhone app with a version of its app that worked on the mobile web for Android (and the iPhone’s Safari browser). It was a pretty good web app but had some limitations, which founder Josh Williams accepted because his team was at work on a native app for Android as well. That wait is over Read the rest here: Gowalla Gets An Early Native Android App. Prettier, More Social Than iPhone...