January 2011
Introspection 18 months later, are you an... →
If you’re planning on building a business, at some point in your life you’ve gotta ask yourself a few hard questions:
1. Can I build my own destiny? The how is not as important at the start…
Marco.org: Speculation on the next MacBook Pro →
marco:
Given how awesome the new MacBook Air is, I’m interested to see what Apple does with the other laptops in the lineup. I’ve had three 13” laptops (including the first-generation and current-generation Airs) and two 15” laptops, and I’ve previously been torn between these two sizes: the 15” always…
How about a question and answer plugin for blogs? →
Instead of one size fits all web services that try and cram all attention and input through a single portal, why not develop thousands or millions of community question and answer hubs? The…
The joy of function chaining and callbacks with... →
What language features do you rely on while coding? In my own work and others’ code (while wearing my app developer hat) I look for the following utilities:
readability (minimize line noise…
Dynamic scripting with static speed, the best of... →
Many dream of success. A rare few focus on grand visions to reshape the future. Me, I fantasize about ideal software structures*.
Just a few days back I dreamt of middleware that would take…
What do people usually do after they run a failed... →
This morning’s riff is an answer to a Quora question, and while Roger Ehrenberg gave a rich answer*, it felt good to contribute my own perspective.
I can describe my personal experience…
David Noël: New York City →
david-noel:
Suit up, New York. Noël’s coming to town Feb 7-14. Can’t wait to finally meet some of you cats in person. My schedule is filling up nicely so if you’d like to meet, email me. Current loose schedule as follows:
Mon 7: free for the day, lunch booked, will be in the Union Square area
Tue…
Identity Aggregator →
After reading Robert Scoble’s post on Angry Birds as a serious identity provider, I couldn’t resist writing up my thoughts. Big network solutions will never be big enough to include everyone…
The Motivation for Contributing to User Generated... →
Why post to Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News or Reddit? Why blog on Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr or Posterous? Why answer questions on Quora? All of these activities can be traced back to social…
Stowe Boyd: Liquid Email →
stoweboyd:
We are rapidly detouring into the web of flow, leaving the static web of pages behind. (Or more accurately, covering the web of pages with a layer of liquid media, so that we will increasingly not notice the static URLs down there, except as IDs that can be used to fetch content, and yank it…
Carter's Tumblr: Subject Line: Intern for Art.sy’s... →
carterac:
Below is an email to some friends about Art.sy’s new internship position. It’s a job opportunity I would have KILLED for when I was younger. I hope you will consider it for yourself or your friends.
ps Read more about Art.sy here: …
Continuations: Rooting for Larry and the Internet →
continuations:
I am thrilled to see Larry Page take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt. In a post a few months back I had expressed my worry that Google was headed the way of Yahoo under too much “professional management” and not enough visionary founder leadership (contrasting it at the time with Facebook). …
Hands on Intro to CouchDB by Max Ogden →
If you’re interested in learning more about using CouchDB then you’ve come to the right place. Max Ogden recently joined Code for America and has a gift for introducing complicated concepts in an…
Information Arbitrage: What are the questions... →
informationarbitrage:
I’ve been on both sides of the table, but here are the hard questions I’d ask my deal lead at a firm from which I’m considering taking venture investment: 1. Is this a core investment or something in which you have interest but would walk away from if things get difficult? 2. Does this…
Mesmerizing 3D Fractal Surface →
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railsready: Setup script to get Ruby and Rails... →
thechangelog:
How would you like to get a full Ruby on Rails stack up on Ubuntu with one command?
Now you can by running Rails Ready. Rails Ready is a setup script that gets Ruby and Rails running on a fresh install of Ubuntu with one command (Tested on Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS (Long-term Support)).
This is a brand new project by Josh Frye that he uses all the time to setup VMs, but there’s...
“Warning: A lot of the advice you get from experienced entrepreneurs is delivered...”
– About Pitching at StartupRiot « I’m an Undertaker. I take things Under. (via wensing)
Brian K Balfour: Core Peer Groups: How I Found a... →
brianbalfour:
The $5M Keg
In 2007 I was 23 years old, working full time as a product manager at ZoomInfo while moonlighting on a number of entrepreneurial side projects. I had previously started a few companies with angel funding and a couple small exits, but certainly nothing of scale. In a whirlwind of a…
Stowe Boyd: Social Spirituality →
stoweboyd:
[In memory of Martin Luther King, Jr]
The social web has a profound effect on everything it has touched, and its impacts have a tendency to work in similar ways on what seem to be very different spheres of human interaction, like media, politics, marketing, entertainment, and, yes, even religion.
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
“A characteristic of many contemporary minds is susceptibility to the...”
– George Will, in The charlatans’ response to the Tucson tragedy (via andyswan)
Information Arbitrage: Why I like USV's... →
informationarbitrage:
First, kudos to my friends at Union Square Ventures. They are great investors, great people and provide awesome support for their companies.
Their recent fund announcement was particularly interesting to me as we discuss this issue at IA Ventures all the time: how to reconcile being a…
rapt: Platform game in HTML5, Canvas, and jQuery →
thechangelog:
Ask ten people to define HTML5 and you’d probably get a dozen definitions. For Evan Wallace, Justin Ardini, and Kayle Gishen, it means gaming. The trio has released Robots Are People, Too (R.A.P.T), a platform game built using HTML5’s <canvas> API and jQuery. RAPT offers multiplayer gameplay and a level editor so you can extend the gameplay with your own creations.
Here’s a...
tweetanium: JavaScript-powered native Twitter... →
thechangelog:
The folks over at Appcelerator have been busy, recently releasing version 1.5 of their Titanium Mobile platform that enables developers to create native iOS and Android applications using JavaScript.
In the spirit of showing versus telling, they’ve released Tweetanium, a Twitter client and cross-platform showcase of the Titanium platform.
Tweetanium is an excellent example...
Watchstoweboyd:
Social disruption
Over the past few years I have written a fair amount about how the social web will change the way people discover and distribute information online. This started with a post in the spring of 2008 on the Future of News. Then in early ’09 I outlined how “social” would change the discovery process and disrupt traditional search. And then I wrote a long piece about what...
reecepacheco.com: The Kinetic Energy of Startup... →
reecepacheco:
I’ve been pretty busy lately - work, travel for work, moving to a new apartment, meetings, maybe a few beers with buddies, too - and I really felt like it was going to catch up with me yesterday after we moved into our new office and I settled down at my desk or sat in a long meeting .
But to my…
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
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Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
- buzzandersen
The Zuckerberg Fallacy is the belief that we have — and should have — a single unified social identity....
House of the Rising Sun →
Every so often the morning mall radio will surprise me with great music. For the past couple of years it was terrible pop music. More recently the ethereal Simon’s Mall DJ has…
David Noël: Failure →
david-noel:
Bijan’s post today about failure resonated with me, here’s why.
In 2006 and by putting 50,000 Euro into the venture, I became a founding employee alongside 4 other founders of a company set to revolutionize the way we produce (video & audio), consume and distribute media in a browser. Huge…
Why I pulled the plug on my favorite escape →
World of Warcraft, for those not familiar with online gaming, is a huge and beautiful virtual roleplaying world. It’s also a seductive time sync.
I was going to try moderately playing an hour…
social shift in numbers from 2007 to 2010 →
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The most elaborate game →
Society is an elaborate game we all partake in rewriting*. The more social and interdependent our lives become, the more essential gameplay becomes to each citizen. Tit for tat, greedy algorithms…
The Babylon Lottery →
The Spirit of Adventure →
One of the words our dogs frenzy over is adventure. They translate the sound into running around and playing in the (big) backyard. Adventure is second only to bacon when it comes to instigating…
Marco.org: Google's decreasingly useful,... →
marco:
Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google: People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment — Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The spammers, scrapers, and SEO’ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning.
(via Anil Dash’s nice roundup…