Best Links week 10

1. What Is Twitter’s Problem? No, It’s Not the Product (link)
Great read about product development and business model innovation. "One of the biggest problem these days is that most entrepreneurial decisions are seen through one lens: product (and product functionality). “There is a very pervasive product-centric thinking,” he said. “There needs to be more of a business-model-centric approach.”
Related: TheNextWeb, Baekdal, Bloomberg

2. Is This The Future of Mobile Money and Markets? (link)
"Zaarly aims to tap into the vast potential to buy and sell things that, until now, haven't explicitly had a market. It's a little bit eBay and a little bit Craigslist, but it's mobile, real-time, and location-based."

3. Foursquare's Google Moment: Recommendations Launch Tonight (link)
"Inside every "where should I go?" question there are other big questions, like: What should I eat? What should I buy? What should I do with my leisure time plus expendable income? What should I do with my life? Foursquare would love to be a service that regularly answers those questions for millions of people."
Related: Foursquare blog, GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb, Foursquare Merchant Platform

4. What’s a Post-PC device? (link)
Horace Dediu discusses generational shifts in computing, and concludes that the consequences of each shift are:
1. Consumption increases
2. Skill required decreases
3. Support required decreases
4. There are new applications and use cases
5. The economics are not favorable for incumbents
6. The economics are favorable for new entrants
7. The older generation slowly fades through diminished growth but never disappears

5. Why iPad 2 Won’t Have Much Competition In 2011—Unless It’s From Amazon (link)
Forrester analyst makes the case for an Amazon Kindle tablet.
Related: Investorplace, GigaOm

6. The Like Log Study (link)
Yahoo Labs report that asks the question: "What can we learn from Facebook reactions to online news?"
Related: GigaOm, Forrester Research

7. Google Really, Officially, Finally Is A Media Company (link)
Youtube/Google has acquired Next New Networks, a NYC-based startup in the online video production industry.

8. Media Unbundling: How Will TV Get “Everywhere”? (link)
The barrier to media unbundling isn’t so much resistance to unbundling itself as it is figuring out how to make money if you do unbundle. How do you find, build, and retain audiences big enough to make money while surviving the assault of ever more fragmented distribution and marketing inefficiency?

9. The Hashable Pivot (link)
"I'm a big believer in using real world interactions to build a social graph that reflects your real relationships. That in a nutshell is what Hashable is all about."

10. Five Must-See Panels @ SXSW (link)
The connected car, Coming of age social, The music of interaction design, I never get anything done, and Designing ideas not objects.
Semi-related: Mashable