Backup of David's Google+ Posts

I was amused to read the Eric Ries interview in Wired, "don't launch your product or have major releases, just do continuous development" and then Joel Spolsky's article (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/09/15.html), "Don't do continuous releases, prime friendly media under embargo, then do a big launch, because you're only news the once."