May 2010
99 posts
April 2010
111 posts
“Rather than simply pitch us that it was a good idea to work with them on this,...”
– blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: Now this is how you pitch your product to an open source company
RT @ejgertz: RT @NRDC: Obama: No expansion of offshore drilling until spill is investigated http://bit.ly/bMPD36 #gulf #oilspill
“Don’t hide what you’re doing. If you think you’re doing something interesting,...”
– When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt)
“We are seeing people experimenting with multiple ARM cores on a chip. They have...”
– ARM-Based Servers Expected by 2011
RT @Flowtown: Help @Kiva win $1M by tweeting this message today - @SamsClub #Sams4Kiva - Please RT! /via @danmartell
Watchcatbird:
Whiney G’s uber-provocative (and swear-laden) speech on the state of online music/music writing, delivered at the 140 Characters conference the other day.
Not to point too fine a point on it, but I do want to just mention that Whiney speaks about Hype Machine without much nuance (”Don’t Believe The Hype Machine!”), which I don’t think is really fair to Anthony and the rest of the Hype...
“a big chunk of his criticism could be equally applied to Apple’s own...”
– Hoopty Rides: Searching and Replacing Jobs’ Flash Statement
RT @BDBbrooklyn: Teachers are heros. RT @BarackObama: Honoring 2010’s National Teacher of the Year in the Rose Garden at 1:40 p.m. ET. …
just loved Lorenzo Jovanotti - Temporale http://awe.sm/55beC on @hypem
“We’re giving people another reason to buy what they want. If you feel...”
– Why You Should Love the Most Hated Man on Facebook: Tech + Design: Details
Sorry all of you PST’ers http://twitpic.com/1jfawv
“Becoming attached to anything outside the norm, you run the risk of being...”
– The Commute | Orion Magazine
“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future,...”
– Steve Jobs (Thoughts on Flash)
“ALTER TABLE takes an unreasonably long time, so we can’t add or removed indexes...”
– Craigslist ready to leapfrog? (via I Want a New Data Store « Jeremy Zawodny’s blog)
RT @RepowerAmerica: Reid: “The energy bill is ready. We will move to that more quickly than a bill we don’t have.” http://j.mp/bOPgkf
fluffed:
miakodameiqi:
Comptine D’un Autre Été...
RT @mokoyfman: for all you music geeks out there, trntbl is sweet: http://www.trntbl.me/mokoyfman
“For some reason, iTunes does something to every file it plays, changing the...”
– This sort of behavior needs more transparency before we can really move storage to the cloud. Wondering when we will see a shift to local cache plus sync a la dropbox… (via Kirkville » iTunes 9.1 Modifies All AAC Files it Plays)
“Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
– Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com
“So time to connect to a lightly-loaded remote host on a nearby network would...”
– http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/humor/500_mile_email.txt
Wow. Just trying @getcloudapp, seems like the next @dropbox. So easy and so useful.
“a healthy New York is one in which the most ambitious people WANT TO START...”
– What NYC Needs: A New Narrative - The Metamorphosis
Seems like all the big movers in sustainability are ex-bankers.
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said Internet users shouldn’t worry about...”
– Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses • The Register
“id”: “1009069”,”
– http://graph.facebook.com/gsiener
“This is the kind of technology I like; a simple effect, instantly...”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · Bump!
For the record, I said the tuition is “comparable,” not “comfortable.” http://bit.ly/bteLFT
A note for non-geeks on the new Facebook features →
As of today, if you visit sites like CNN or IMDB you can now “Like” or “Recommend” articles, products, movies, etc. directly from their site. If you do, these actions show up on your Profile (under Info | Pages) and cannot be filtered with your privacy settings.
lessin: so, i am not at F8 for the first time, but... →
(via lessin)
“Basically all the features of RSS attached to a tweet, with the same ability for...”
– Greetings from Des Moines! (Scripting News) (via fred-wilson)
“Ballmer and Ozzie should find a way to get Zuck to buy Microsoft and they should...”
– Scripting News: 4/21/2010
“Lonely Planet, who makes a lot of really good city guides, are offering several...”
– PSA: *Free Stuff* Free “Lonely Planet” travel guides for iPhone (Thanks Volcano) - Ars Technica OpenForum
Huge news: World Bank frees up development data: http://data.worldbank.org/ (via @Dumpita)
“I fail to understand why the allocation for books is up sharply, but other media...”
– Questions for Candidates for Manhasset Public Library Trustee