WarpShare™

Introduction to Tarzan

We’ve been quiet here lately because we’ve been hyper-focused on fundraising, but I wanted to take a moment to properly introduce some code we open-sourced last spring, known as Tarzan. (more…)

Categories: Tarzan, The Future and What we're doing

A slimmer, faster Tarzan

For those are are interested in, or have been using our Tarzan API for interacting with Amazon’s web services stack, I’ve spent the past two solid days writing and debugging new code that finally unshackles Tarzan from the PEAR classes it was using for fetching remote data and calculating HMAC hashes. (more…)

Categories: Announcements, Tarzan and What we're doing

It’s The Audience

While mainstream media argues, “people need to learn the value of music”; digital media lays bare a cold reality: Media has no value (fungible) without people — it inherits value from the size and influence of its audience.

None of this is new. What’s changed is the business. Crappy entertainment no longer garners attention simply by occupying a place in the distribution channel. Simultaneously, good stuff wins an audience via many zero-cost channels.

So let’s leave behind the “manual grain counting” business and replace it with something that will “feed the world”. This is probably the biggest lesson from Google’s success: “More value can be harvested from aggregated attention and interaction than from tit-for-tat transactions.”

Categories: Industry Thoughts