Comments on: In defense of the echo chamber http://openambition.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/ The juncture of success and meaningful failure Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A Blockbuster closing « Open Ambition http://openambition.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-221 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:20:06 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-221 [...] Netflix created a whole new behavioral model of how you rent and experience movies and tv shows.  Infinite inventory to choose from, your own queue on a website, and they mail your movie to you.  How simple, how convenient.  And as I wrote earlier, this takes time – like a decade. [...]

]]> By: The vulnerability of a big idea « Open Ambition http://openambition.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-210 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:13:26 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-210 [...] months ago, only people in the echo chamber were exposed to the nature of the opportunity.  But today, with Twitter’s explosive growth [...]

]]> By: Peter Zaballos http://openambition.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-196 Thu, 28 May 2009 18:41:16 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-196 That’s a great observation, Marcelo. Something I didn’t touch on was how the business model wrangling can either accelerate or inhibit the adoption. In a lot of respects this is what limited Tivo so dramatically, a business model that created conflict with their distribution strategy (going retail but really needing cable to effectively OEM them). The same issue plays out with the example you describe. Consumer electronics business model + the PC business model + the cable/telco business model = stalemate, and where the consumer suffers as a result.

]]> By: Peter Zaballos http://openambition.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-195 Thu, 28 May 2009 18:37:21 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-195 Thanks Neal, it’s what keeps us all having fun in this business, and relatively sane too!

]]> By: Marcelo Calbucci http://openambition.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-194 Thu, 28 May 2009 17:06:52 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-194 I have a similar feeling about the general personal media storage/delivery space. I have my music, my home-made movies and my pictures, yet, it’s such a pain to access it on multiple devices or store them on the cloud, or index them, or whatever.

The technology exists for a decade, but no one has been able to pull it off. I remembered when we talked about the convergence of TV and PC. That is still 15 years away and it has nothing to do w/ technology (because it’s all here). It has to do with the complexity of the business model of the involved parties and with a significant rate of adoption that justifies those parties to accept change.

I’m still waiting for my centralized media storage with ubiquitous access on all my devices.

]]> By: Neal Hansch http://openambition.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-193 Thu, 28 May 2009 16:55:52 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/in-defense-of-the-echo-chamber/#comment-193 Enjoyed the post and I couldn’t agree more!

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