RT @inadarei: The dangers of taking what [potential] customers tell you they want at the face value:

@goshangai Just saw this: — may be relevant to you :)

Android article . Fav comment describes Craigslist: "they are knocking down sand castles like a big kid on beach"

RT @bartclaeys "Take as much risk as you can as early in life as you can" from

Blog post: Acquia product strategy and vision

"Entrepreneurs are all screwed up." Amen! /cc @arrington @techcrunch #startup

Yes, HTML5 is an open standard. Yes, the W3C process can be frustrating. But Apple is a W3C member, and more importantly, it has a product in Safari / WebKit that not only tracks the standard, but drives it. WebKit has been a leader in modern web technology adoption for years. Apple happily gives its improvements back to the public WebKit branch, because leading is the next best thing after owning.

Commercial entities have no advantage in releasing concept products the likes of which they hope to subsequently sell. If the conceptual piece truthfully captures their “best” it can only tell their competitors how advanced they are and where they fall short. If it camouflages their true capabilities in an effort to mislead their competitors, then what value is it to others? In fact, the intention to mislead competitors is really the only effective reason for a commercial entity to publicly release concept products.

Apple would gain nothing from telegraphing its intentions and capabilities by releasing public conceptual products. The company is being more than prudent by not displaying their unconstrained fantasies to competitors, media, investors or customers.

As counterintuitive as it may seem, this inexorably leads us to Kontra’s law:

A commercial company’s ability to innovate is inversely proportional to its proclivity to publicly release conceptual products.

Excellent reference to point to when explaining open source as a way to run your business.