Presentations by Oren Teich of Heroku on cloud services and hacker advocate Abraham Williams on minimalism in feature design shared a common theme: simplicity is key - both for applications and the infrastructure, tools and languages that are used to build them. With the immediacy of social tech, increasing mobility, and intense app competition, fast and easy is the new imperative.
With the whole cloud taking off and more and more services switching to a push it into the cloud, leave it there until you need it, and pull it out model. I can only imagine what will be switching to this model soon. Oh wait. I can imagine.
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Reading an article about how Avril Lavigne is supposed to have a $2 million check "appear" in her mailbox because of the absurd number of streams her videos get from YouTube got me thinking about creator compensation. The problem Avril is having is, a) Google wants to keep the money, and b) Google is having trouble figuring out how to monetize video streams. But on a grander scale it is whoever puts the ads on the page that gets the money not the content creator.
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Reading an article about how Avril Lavigne is supposed to have a $2 million check "appear" in her mailbox because of the absurd number of streams her videos get from YouTube got me thinking about creator compensation. The problem Avril is having is, a) Google wants to keep the money, and b) Google is having trouble figuring out how to monetize video streams. But on a grander scale it is whoever puts the ads on the page that gets the money not the content creator.
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