Bookmarks for October 5, 2010
- Why Wesabe Lost to Mint – Marc Hedlund's blog
Fascinating reading – the former CEO of Websabe, about why his site was beaten (and eventually, closed down) by his major competitor. Very honest, and quite a clear eyed look at his own mistakes. (I note in passing that I am still (eagerly) waiting for the UK version of Mint or Websabe.)
- Open Data for the Arts – Human Scale Data and Synecdoche – Blog – BERG
I would love for our client to allow us to make some of the data generated by their various systems open. I've no idea what the result would be, possibly nothing, but I'd be interested to see, especially as I've been thinking about the vast aggregate of similar data we've got across several clients…