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20060605 Monday June 05, 2006

It's all about finding people and stickiness From Malcom Gladwell's "The Tipping Point":

The Law of the Few says that there are a few exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. The lesson of stickiness is the same. There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

Posted in Java at Jun 05 2006, 08:45:13 AM MDT 4 Comments

Comments:

Wow - you read it! I was pretty worried that it wasn't a very cool thing to give (very risky) but thought you have proven to be one of those exceptional folks that seems to have figured out what it takes as proven by the success of appfuse. What I thought was cool about that book is how it points out how small things can make a big difference through several great examples. BTW 1.9.2 looks awesome :-) Can't wait to start playing around with it but we are way swamped with stuff right now and can't get the time. All the best - ron

Posted by Ron on June 05, 2006 at 01:06 PM MDT #

I'm not actually finished with it yet, the above quote marks the last words I read. I figured it was a good stopping point. ;-) It really is a good book - thanks for hooking me up Ron!

Posted by Matt Raible on June 05, 2006 at 04:29 PM MDT #

Can you imagine what Hani would do with this entry?

Posted by Solomon on June 06, 2006 at 06:09 AM MDT #

I've read this book and now I'm reading Gladwell's second book, Blink. I found The Tipping Point to be an extraordinary book in the way that it truly identifies and analyzes the anatomy of trends. Applying Gladwell's analysis to other trends throughout society seemed to hold true as well, in the open source world and elsewhere. Consider the uphill battle fought by Linux and now the wider topic of open source and examples abound. The Tipping Point was a very good read and I highly recommend it.

Posted by Bruce Snyder on June 08, 2006 at 09:12 PM MDT #

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