July 2011
1 post
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“It is very difficult to make good mistakes”
– Goro Shimura
April 2011
1 post
How to Get a Real Education →
March 2011
3 posts
“The myth of user-generated content. “Those who create are rare; those who cannot...”
– If Chanel Were a Product Designer | Hugo Liu’s Taste Blog (via likesandlaunch)
good point!! the one exception of course is the curator clause.
February 2011
17 posts
Instagram's Real-Time API →
jaredm:
1) Users of the developer’s application: every time a user of an Instagram-linked application posts a photo, the developer’s application will receive a notification. Developers like Foodspotting and sites like Dropbox now both utilize this new functionality.
2) Tags: An application can track a given tag and receive updates every time a new photo is posted with a given tag.
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“Our philosophy is simple—when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple...”
– Steve Jobs Responds To All The Cry-Baby Publishers About Apple’s Subscription Payments
Going to be a fun year.
(via evangotlib)
“The network isn’t crazy about you tweeting. They’re not sure that’s cool,”...”
– Awesome article about Conan’s online presence. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/10/conan-2-0/ (via scottgairdner)
Eating out vs Web Hosting Costs
heykurt:
Let’s say you want to host a simple web app on EC2.
At the most this will cost about $100 a month or $1200 a year.
Machine: $61/mo (Linux) or $86/mo (Windows)
Bandwidth: $10/mo
Storage: $5/mo
Total: $76 to $101/mo or $1200 a year.
Let’s say you lunch out every day.
Assuming you spend $5 a lunch (which is probably low) at 250 work days, your total is $1250 a year.
It’s more...
“Instagram was trying to solve three problems
1. “The first problem we tried to...”
– Lesson learned: Simple questions help make useful products.
(Founder Stories) Instagram CEO: “The Best Products In The World Start Out As Features”
(via likesandlaunch)
“AOL, even after its spinoff from Time Warner in 2009, remains a public company....”
– Arianna Cashes Out (via cheatsheet)
GroupMe Blog: We're growing again! →
jared:
groupme:
It seems like it was just last month that we announced a batch of new hires—oh, wow, it was! Time flies when you’re working hard. Well, we’re back at it again. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the four newest members of Team GroupMe.
Chris Connolly, a good friend of Jared and Steve’s, …
This team is amazing.
HUGE CONGRATS Jared et al. Solid team.
“But I want to give the NFL credit, for imparting the kiss of death upon musical...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Black Eyed Peas At The Super Bowl (via fred-wilson)
Yup. Lefsetz nailed it tonight.
“Mark me down as saying Apple will introduce their own line of televisions that...”
– Caterpillar Cowboy
Smartest thing I’ve read on the internet today.
If they play the sub rate game Netflix et al did, they could easily use the above strategy with astonishing success.
DVD Sales Falling Like Snow On The East Coast →
parislemon:
Wait, but the 30-day windows were supposed to reverse this trend. Remember? That was the whole point. And it was definitely going to work.
Warner Bros. DVD sales down 24 percent year over year. Sony sales down 20 percent. Paramount DVD sales down an excellent 44 percent year over year.
The fundamental problem remains: most movies simply aren’t worth owning. The studios need to...
January 2011
10 posts
Go Mobile: Outfit7 surpasses 60 Million downloads... →
go:
Outift7 announced this week that their Talking Friends collection of iOS and Android apps has just eclipsed 60 million downloads, making it one of the fastest growing mobile application developers. Outfit7’s Talking Friends collection features eight characters that respond to touches, pokes…
How cool would it be if the CHZBURGER team built these for memes?
“I share therefore I am.”
– “Alone Together”: An MIT Professor’s New Book Urges Us to Unplug | Fast Company
HT to M for the link.
(via david-noel)
“Host Gavin MacLeod revealed that even he himself had set up a profile on the...”
– “Sea Captain Dating Site Celebrates Third Anniversary”—The North Country Times
[via the fantastic @michellelegro]
(via markcoatney)
Watchnprfreshair:
What is high-frequency trading? Our friends at Marketplace explain.
Great breakdown!
Can we get Kai Ryssdal and Marketplace on tumblr please?
Thanks.
texturism:
The hardest thing about all of this is to get started. And I think the most important thing that I’ve learned is that you have to - as soon as you have it - get it our of your head, get it on paper. And then to take this one step further just show someone. Just show someone what it looks like on paper. Even code a little bit and show someone the interaction.
Jack Dorsey, the...
“These deals should really be a wake-up call to politicians and regulators. They...”
– yup, that’s exactly what’s going on
The Private IPO - Continuations
The Private IPO →
caterpillarcowboy:
continuations:
Yes, I realize that’s a contradiction, but it seems to capture the essence of deals such as Goldman’s investment in Facebook at a $50B valuation and Groupon’s half-complete $950 million fundraising effort. These deals are designed to provide significant liquidity for insiders (especially early…
Agreed with everything here. Why go through the pain of public...
December 2010
16 posts
“I know if I were CEO at Yahoo I sure as hell would have a Flickr account. In...”
– Thomas Hawk in an Open Letter to Yahoo! CEO, Carol Bartz
svpply:
User Feedback:
“I just added this map I was considering buying for my boyfriend to my “boyfriend” Svpply and then immediately FIVE other people added it to theirs. So I was like, “oh shit,” and bought it.
Damn you, Svpply”
I call this “the Svpply effect”
Continuations: Germany's Successful Labor Subsidy →
continuations:
It’s too soon to know how long Germany’s current apparent economic strength will last or if it is even entirely for real. Nonetheless, there is one interesting aspect of German employment policy that is worth considering because it appears to be working. Germany has the concept of…
Great write up on the stop gap employment benefit coverage Germany has utilized over the...
"The Kennedy"
svpply:
This shoe was featured in Editor’s Pick today and is the collaborative work of New Balance and locally based Cambridge boutique, Concepts. They teamed up to create a JFK-inspired maritime themed shoe. Kennedy grew up sailing, took part in the Navy, and after years of collecting, filled his house with ship models, scrimshaw and sailing trophies. Not sure if it will make its way into...
“While shaving this morning, I noticed the brand name Gillette on my razor....”
– David Noël: Brand Loyalty
Spot on thoughts from David’s own experiences.
Worth reading.
“Our biggest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our biggest fear is that we are...”
– Nelson Mandela (via alanajoy)
john:
August 2010, NY Times calls Tumblr the new rival to Facebook and Twitter:
Meet Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter’s New Rival
Today, NY Times calls Tumblr a niche blogging site and suggests part of a new bubble:
A Silicon Bubble Shows Signs of Reinflating
They had the story right the first time
Behold the double edged sword of building a business in the NYC media market.
“Could it be that Soundcloud could be our real YouTube for Audio? They are making...”
– SoundCloud launches super-cool ability to record on site and in iPhone app (via fred-wilson & david-noel)
November 2010
43 posts
