Facebook's Mobile Problem, Three Weeks In
Three weeks after Facebook's IPO, the stock is tanking and everyone's suddenly asking the uncomfortable question: how does a company make money on phones?
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The Facebook Hangover: Three Weeks In
Three weeks after Facebook's disastrous IPO, the questions aren't about its business—they're about whether anyone actually learned what a company is worth.
Facebook's mobile ad problem is worse than you think
Two weeks into Facebook's disastrous public life, the real issue isn't investor hype—it's that their entire advertising model is broken on phones.
Facebook's IPO Isn't a Tech Story
Two weeks after Facebook's IPO disaster, the real issue isn't hype or bad timing—it's that we still don't know how to make money from mobile.
The Part of the Facebook IPO Story Nobody's Talking About
The Facebook stock drop isn't the real story from its IPO. The real story is that Morgan Stanley quietly cut its revenue estimates and only told its big clients before the shares even started trading.
I Watched a Robot Arm Catch a Spaceship Before Coffee
I got up early to watch SpaceX's Dragon capsule get grabbed by the ISS's robot arm, and it was a much better tech story than another week of Facebook stock headlines.
Two 3 A.M. Alarms for One Rocket Launch
Two 3 AM alarms this week for one Falcon 9 launch, a scrub half a second before liftoff, and why I think SpaceX's Dragon flight deserves more attention than it's getting.
3 AM and a Dragon Left the Pad
I woke up at 3 AM to watch SpaceX launch the Dragon capsule live, three days after the first attempt aborted with half a second left on the clock.
Half a Second From Liftoff
I got up at 4:15 a.m. to watch SpaceX try to launch Dragon to the ISS, and it aborted half a second before liftoff. Some thoughts on that, plus a Diablo III error 37 rant.
Error 37 and Why I Needed the Internet to Play Alone
A rant about Diablo III's launch-night Error 37 mess and why a mostly single-player game needing a constant server connection still feels wrong.
Error 37 Is the Only Boss I Fought Last Night
Diablo III launched yesterday and Battle.net basically fell over. A rundown of Error 37, why always-online single-player is a bad idea, and how I spent launch night staring at a login screen instead of killing anything.
Error 37 and the Longest Tuesday
Diablo III launched today and immediately buckled under Error 37, and a mandatory-online single-player game turned out to be a bad combination with an overloaded login queue.