The top 10 tipping points of things that matter

Author: Jeroen Schaftenaar

4 Jan

Since everyone is doing a top 10 list of greatest things here is my cut. If you don’t know about the tipping point:”It is the moment things get momentum or die out (something like that anyway)”.

My tipping point top 10:

1. Learning Mandarin. After a few months with Chinese people I am starting distinguishing and perceive more sounds. When I first arrived at this place I never had a clue what they were talking about, nowadays nothing has changed except: I hear more, A lot more… Somehow before I was deaf for this Chinese language. I did not experience this with German and Bahasa Indonesia.

2. Dropbox, Twitter and Jaiku for being great services but with lousy business model. Don’t get me wrong these are all great services and they should be cheap. But they have no way to get paid… Almost nobody minds paying for something good but these services have almost none or no payment plans at all.

3. Digsby and Google Chrome for almost being great applications. You guys will be great when you are available for OSX(and Linux). How can you expect to bring something revolutionary when you bring it only to windows? Hurry up with the versions on OSX…

4. My fellow blogger Saiful Rizal with his plan to inspire us all. He is a bit late with the twitter thing but this also tells us twitter still has momentum. He made a list of youtube videos that I found motivating, this made me check his blog once in a while.

5. The book Reality Check of Guy Kawasaki. It is the book I am reading now and it is really good so far and if all the books were this interesting and fun to read at the same time the next point won’t be a problem at all.

6. My plan to read one book a week. My New Year’s resolution, it’s HiDef

7. Arie.nl werkkleding & werkschoenen, Poetsplaza.nl, Baliday.com and some other projects I am working on.

8. Inscorta is the name of an open source project I am starting. It is actually the code behind Arie.nl & Poetsplaza.nl. Until now the development has been done solely by me. It turns out to be a great software package but further development is slow and difficult since I am do it all. That is why I decided a long time ago to make this software public so everyone can use it and help to improve it.

9. Me turning into something usually named blogger. This is not a New Year’s resolution, I just enjoy it.

10. Me turning into an Apple Fanboy! Like the attack some M*$*&*F*#^%*rs did on my villages in Tribalwars, I am afraid there is no stopping to this Bill and Steve.

Ok, this is not exactly a tipping point list.

“Whaddaya gonna do, life goes on” (My favorite quote from The Sopranos)

Filed under: Apple, Books, Endeavors, Entertaining, General, Inscorta, Youtube, top10

11 Responses for "The top 10 tipping points of things that matter"

alfred westerveld January 4th, 2009 at 12:28 pm 1
Yo Yerun, Good list but I have some points to notice:

1. Dropbox, Twitter and Jaiku for being great services but with lousy business model => Google also did not have any business model and look where they are now . Advertising is a big industry and the more users you have the more you can make with advertising. But you are right that some of them could have some paying plans.

2. Digsby and Google Chrome for almost being great applications. You guys will be great when you are available for OSX(and Linux) => Windows has the biggest market so it is expected that they tackle that platform first. They should have made I cross platform in the first place. But don’t you worry. Google chrome and Digsby are going to be supported on more platforms.
Jeroen January 4th, 2009 at 1:59 pm 2
edit: Something went wrong and I accidentally deleted this comment…
Alfred Westerveld January 4th, 2009 at 10:41 pm 3
I it is strange but you don’t need paying plans of a business to make money. Take for example google. They did not have paying plans like for example for every 1000 queries you pay $1. Instead they made a lot of money by there advertisement program(Adsense etc). I bet you Twitter will make there money too by advertising in the near future. They can run for a long time because they allready have sponsoring for more then a million dollars allready by share holders because they believe they will get there money back because of advertisement and I also think they will get there money back that way and even make a lot of money….
Jeroen January 5th, 2009 at 3:30 am 4
Actually google has payment plans. A lot of them. There are people who buy advertisements space. And in turn they sell that again. And showing advertisements is just a way of getting paid. So A when you say you don’t need paying plans that is not entirely true. Yes a lot of sites don’t have payment plans in the form of hard dollars but maybe in advertisements. I am just saying twitter needs a payment plan and dropbox needs more of them(actually not more but more fair options).
Eric January 5th, 2009 at 9:18 pm 5
Google Chrome uses the WebKit renderer just like Safari, it only has a own (and faster) Java VM implementation. So just stick the the best browser on the web, Safari.
And I didn’t know I gave permission to use the In Scorta trademark for an open-source project
Eric January 5th, 2009 at 10:16 pm 6
I mean javascript VM ofcourse keyboard was stuck
alfred westerveld January 5th, 2009 at 10:28 pm 7
Lol eric again your keyboard stuck ? It is not a VM but a javascript engine writter in C++. See http://code.google.com/p/v8/ for more information .
Jeroen January 6th, 2009 at 2:26 am 8
@Eric: Dude! Safari is a good browser but have you ever used Chrome? It beats any other browser in the market today hands down. There is already a version CrossOver Chromium which is a hack of the windows version made to run under Mac. Try it out I would say. I myself are sticking to firefox until google releases Chrome for the Mac.
Jeroen January 6th, 2009 at 3:15 am 9
@Eric: Actually you couldn’t know that I would use Inscorta since I didn’t tell you. I’ll tell you what: If this thing becomes big you will be in on it.
anne October 11th, 2009 at 9:05 am 10
Hey, jeroen, zit je nog op Bali?
Ik heb je net proberen te bellen. M wil graag een afspraak mk om met je te lopen. Ik ben net begonnen aan een cursus fotografie. Kan jij me helpen aan het programma fotoshop?
Hoop snel van je te horen. X Anne
anne July 4th, 2010 at 10:05 am 11
Lieve Jeroen,
Kun je me helpen Norton op mijn computer te zetten?
X
Anne