A must-read. (thanks Sean)

However, over the past 10 years or so, an entrepreneur has implicitly come to mean someone who creates. A maker.

Interesting. The definition that has taken shape in my head is completely the opposite. “Entrepreneur” only means a “maker” to me in the context of a creating a business for an exit. It holds very little to me in terms of being a creator of products, services, etc. As you can imagine, I don’t consider myself an entrepreneur. I think of myself as a developer. But the main reason for that is the attachment to the “maker” concept.

As Dave and I explored this afternoon, “entrepreneur” and “startup” may be words that have very different meanings to different people.

I wasn’t on “teh Twitters” much this week so I missed this when everyone was linking to it. Instead I found it through a Percolate email because Shawn and Brent both linked to it. This is one of the first times Percolate has worked out in the manner for me – definitely a moment of traction.

It was someone from GoDaddy’s abuse department, who informed me that they were “turning off” weebly.com due to a complaint.

That’s scary. (thanks Brad)

How did I now know about this before now? (thanks Charles)

I’m subscribed to The Verge now instead of Gizmodo or Engadget, but the criticism here is pretty fair. Honestly, I’ve never read any of these sites for the prose or viewpoint, I just skim the pictures and facts. By the definition of what they are (broad coverage), the only way they could have strong opinions would be to promote individual writer’s voices that champion/focus on specific verticals and companies.

(thanks Joel)

Reminds me of something I read last week. If your usage of a service/product doesn’t align with the way that service/product makes money, it’s likely your use case isn’t going to be a top priority long term.

Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.

Whether or not this is done in good faith, in practice this kind of ‘exit event’ is a pump-and-dump scheme. The very popularity that attracts a buyer also makes the project financially unsustainable. The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.

This is such a great post. (thanks Scott)

Some users utilizing the iPhone 4S and/or iOS 5 have reported issues connecting their Instagram accounts to Twitter. Please follow these troubleshooting steps in order to fix the issue:

1. Exit Instagram and open the Settings application.
2. Locate the Twitter setting.
3. If there are any accounts listed tap to select them and then tap Delete Account from the bottom of each account’s page.
4. Open Instagram and navigate to Profile > Edit Share Settings > Twitter to connect Twitter again in Instagram.

Why us Instagram the only app on my iPhone with this “problem”?

Real men never define acronyms; they understand them genetically.

(thanks Shawn)

This is brilliant. (thanks Shawn)