January 2009
“Resolutions are roadmaps for procrastinators. 2009 has 365 todays, but only 1...”
– Jeffrey Kalmikoff
Jeffrey has a great post about why you should strive to live every day as if it were your last.
Not sure if the only way to obtain that kind of clarity is by having a near-death experience or not. Either way, Take advantage.
“Great companies are defined by the great people behind them. There are no great...”
– Alex Iskold, Are YOU Replaceable? - ReadWriteWeb (via factoryjoe)
December 2008
“What’s interesting about the new breed of search engines is that they weren’t...”
– The Year in Search and Social Media - reprisemedia (via betaworks)
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Search on content sites like twitter/tumblr/facebook arent about efficiency they are about discovery. Sites that allow the user to get immersed in their search terms will be successful. I think one of the reasons why Etsy is...
Vermont is the new Delaware →
If you are an internet business, odds are you are incorporated in Delaware. In 2009 Vermont is getting in on the startup action.
Vermont plans to charge fees of up to $275 a year for each virtual company registered, with state income taxes applying only to income generated in Vermont itself. The hope is to mimic the success of Delaware, which collects some $700 million a year in incorporation...
“It should be a passion play; best used to activate the brainpower of either a...”
– Jeffrey Kalmikoff
Explaining The fine line between laziness and crowdsourcing
2 Camps
thor:
It seems like there are 2 camps: People that view their Twitter/FB connections as relationships and those that consider them audiences.
“Technology is intimidating to people and often serve more as a barrier to...”
– You design the system, people provide the content (via danw) (via mikehudack)
“In a famous 1960 article called “Marketing Myopia,” Theodore Levitt held up the...”
– James Surowiecki, “News You Can Lose” (via seantice)
Yes. (via mikehudack)
The Future of Ephemeral Conversation →
Lots of great quotes in this article you should just read the entire post.
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered...
Amazon.com 2008 Holiday Facts →
Amazon.com 2008 Holiday Facts
Amazon.com sold enough “Breaking Dawn” books that stacked end to end they would reach the summit of Mt. Everest eight times.
During the period from Nov. 15 - Dec. 10, Amazon sold one copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 every 2.5 minutes.
The weight of all GPS devices sold from Black Friday through December equals the combined weight of 151...
WatchImportance of Immediacy
Reggie Watts makes a great point about the importance of immediacy in todays world and how he hasnt made videos in awhile b/c it took too long to upload from his phone. But he very much enjoys the immediacy of posting pictures to tumblr from his phone.
I believe that one day the internet will not exist. I dont mean to scare you, but the point I’m trying to make is...
The Madoff Double Bluff →
So why plead guilty? The answer is simple. Look on the net and you will see that because this case is being labelled a fraud, it would appear that investors are going to be able to claim their investment back under the US government’s financial fraud protection scheme.
…but if the CEO admits to fraud they get their money back as compensation from the US tax payer, just as they are...
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AutoPagerize is Awesome
My life has changed dramatically b/c of AutoPagerize.
It allows me to consume more content quicker.
If you are on a webpage that has multiple pages; as you scroll to the bottom of the page the next one is already loaded for you. Saving you the need to click the next button and wait for the page to load.
It works wonders on the tumblr dashboard, twitter, flickr, & the google.
I’m not...
The Microwave Aint Shit
mikehudack:
peterwknox:
Consider the invention of the microwave. Has anything else accelerated our culture more than that one single thing? Think about the implications of having to cook everything conventionally - it would immediately slow down our entire way of life and change everything at once, sitting down to breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Consider the invention of the mortgage and the...
Watch(demo video) When on WSJ.com and they ask you to subscribe to read more all you have to do is click the digg icon and then click link on digg for the full article.
“technology is not technology to these kids. It’s like the air”
– Don Tapscott
RE: kid’s reliance on technology
via Vox Stimuli - BusinessWeek
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to...”
– Bob Dylan
(via babydeer) (via radarchive)
The Anti-Patterns of Bootstrapping →
Simeon Simeonov, Entrepenuer turned VC turned CTO/VC, has an interesting post about the most common bootstrapping mistakes he has observed. Here are the 3 most common:
Setting the wrong bootstrapping objectives.
Miscalculating the opportunity cost of bootstrapping.
Getting the wrong type of customers.
He has a tangent on 1 that I found of interest
One particularly common mistake is failing...
There’s something going down on Facebook. →
Facebook group squatters have the potential to collect lots of data from innocent groupies. This isnt the first time I heard of this but as facebook continues to grow these kind of actions become more prevalent. I place the blame on advertisers for instigating these actions
Why everyone on Orkut is Brazilian
superamit:
In the earliest days of Orkut (Google’s also-ran entry into social networking), the property managers featured a fun little widget at the top of the site: a country-counter, showing members’ geographical origins. Cute, right? Harmless, certainly. Google had no way of knowing, however, that the entire population of Brazil would make it a point of national pride to push their country to...
“Traditions are comforting. But comfort, I think, tends not to breed innovation....”
– John Gruber
Daring Fireball
Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror... →
somewhatfrank:
An Egyptian engineering student was sentenced in the United States on Thursday to 15 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to uploading a 12-minute video to YouTube that demonstrated how to convert a remote-control toy car into a bomb detonator.
File this under: The Power of YouTube
Ten Things Milton Glaser Learned →
1. YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE 2. IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB 3. SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM 4. PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT 5. LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE 6. STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED 7. HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN 8. DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY 9. ON AGING 10. TELL THE TRUTH
via Dens
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...”
– Albert Einstein
via Leslie Chicoine
“In times of adversity, maintaining perspective and an espirit-de-corps is even...”
– Josh Kopelman (via entrepreneurwisdom)
“The pressure for sharing in a hyperconnected world is too strong to resist. It’s...”
– Umair.
betaworks could not agree more strongly (via betaworks)
Singing Happy Birthday in Public Is Copyright...
According to United States copyright law in United States Code, Title 17 §106, authors of works such as musical compositions have the exclusive right “to perform the copyrighted work publicly.” In United States Code, Title 17 §101, the law defines publicly performing a work as “to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of...
Watchrickyv:
MTV, drunk on profits from The Hills, decided to give us our own TV show.
We’re excited. More details to come, obviously.
Congrats to the whole CollegeHumor crew ; but arent you guys bigger than MTV? Why not start your own cable channel? Dont bother I hear the internets are bigger than the tv in 2009
