Google Calendar Kills Kiko : Google Reader Doesnt Kill Rojo.
Rye lost today by a kick against Dromana and the big Dees game tomorrow Ill be at with Strawbs vs Kinger's Kangas. Paul Graham in his infinite intelligence, or more specifically one of his investment's intelligence, didnt see Gmail/Gcalendar integration. Or more so, didnt see it being successful.
Look at Google and Google Reader : No one uses it, and it hasnt stopped Rojo et al. Google just happened to nail Calendar. It also shows there wasnt much of a survival business model in Kiko, which is symptomatic of many built to flip horizontal widget'ish plays. (and i like kiko - impressive technology) They just seem to lack your basic McKInsey economics screen.
I just dont like a business model based on giving it away and putting contextual ads in there and compete against all the other wannabe O/S players, and The O/S playaz themselves.
The inability to build an attractive audience and deliver enough relevant ads to them is too indirect a business for me : Unless you are a scale player or have some very kewl contextual ad technology; Build it and Google will come.
Hopefully Kiko fought all the way to see it through. Or easy in, easy out. As Paul says "There's both less and more than meets the eye here." Or maybe, as us non-Americans are taught about why Americans are successful is they embrace failure. It is seen as a positive trait not a bad one. But maybe having come all this way, it's worth staying around for just a bit more of a fight. Or onto the next venture. ("Y Combinator funded their new idea yesterday.") Land of dreams. Where luckily some think different.
Paul Graham : "The killer, unforseen by the Kikos and by us, was Google Calendar's integration with Gmail. The Kikos can't very well write their own Gmail to compete. While I don't think this case implies the party's over for web startups, it is significant in one respect. It seems to be the first example of Google benefiting from the Microsoft Office effect. In the 80s and 90s, Microsoft gradually killed off the competitors of its individual applications by making them tightly integrated. Obviously this works for web apps too."
Look at Google and Google Reader : No one uses it, and it hasnt stopped Rojo et al. Google just happened to nail Calendar. It also shows there wasnt much of a survival business model in Kiko, which is symptomatic of many built to flip horizontal widget'ish plays. (and i like kiko - impressive technology) They just seem to lack your basic McKInsey economics screen.
I just dont like a business model based on giving it away and putting contextual ads in there and compete against all the other wannabe O/S players, and The O/S playaz themselves.
The inability to build an attractive audience and deliver enough relevant ads to them is too indirect a business for me : Unless you are a scale player or have some very kewl contextual ad technology; Build it and Google will come.
Hopefully Kiko fought all the way to see it through. Or easy in, easy out. As Paul says "There's both less and more than meets the eye here." Or maybe, as us non-Americans are taught about why Americans are successful is they embrace failure. It is seen as a positive trait not a bad one. But maybe having come all this way, it's worth staying around for just a bit more of a fight. Or onto the next venture. ("Y Combinator funded their new idea yesterday.") Land of dreams. Where luckily some think different.
Paul Graham : "The killer, unforseen by the Kikos and by us, was Google Calendar's integration with Gmail. The Kikos can't very well write their own Gmail to compete. While I don't think this case implies the party's over for web startups, it is significant in one respect. It seems to be the first example of Google benefiting from the Microsoft Office effect. In the 80s and 90s, Microsoft gradually killed off the competitors of its individual applications by making them tightly integrated. Obviously this works for web apps too."
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