August 2008
70 posts
July 2008
66 posts
Amazon's Universal Wish List →
toldorknown:
Go to any online store, and when you see something you want, click the “Add to Wish List” button in your Bookmark Toolbar. Unless you need to quickly log in, that’s all it takes to add it to your Amazon Wish List.
I’ve seen at least one site dedicated to this sort of thing, but integration with my existing Amazon Wish List is so much cooler.
Beautiful Girl - CunninLynguists
“The tools for private sharing are less developed than the tools for public...”
– Sam’s recent post is a must read for anyone thinking about internet privacy. It’s refreshing to see discourse on par with academic writing in the blogosphre. On the ever increasing complexity of privacy controls used by most social networks:
The central conceit is that additional layers...
““How,” I ask, “does your new product/feature/update/company change the world?”
...”
– via http://innonate.com/2008/07/28/change-the-world/
“I saw the price of xyz was up so I went to the broker to sell some. I didn’t...”
– — Posted by windsor
zeemer sent this to qoncepts today
“The real solution is to give the customers what they want which is simple easy...”
– via http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/07/you-cant-regula.html
“Founders should talk up their idea to as many people as possible. It is...”
– Ivan Kirigin, Tipjoy (via betaworks)
I like this even better:
You can think of Tipjoy as a recommendation engine, like Digg, but lots of arbitrary stuff gets [Dugg], because it’s free and easy. We’re using real currency as a passive filter for quality.
Mad Men.
mikehudack:
katiebakes:
A. Am I the only one who hasn’t seen this show yet?
B. Should I start watching this season cold or should I accept that I’ve Missed The Boat and go the Netflix route instead?
(Note: the Netflix route could take me awhile. I’m still halfway through Season 3 of The Wire and Season 2 of Six Feet Under.)
Yes, you’re the only one. Yes, you should go the Netflix route. ...
“I thoroughly support universal free access to research. The wonderful thing...”
– Dr. Richard Smith, on PLoS
“Cloud computing is becoming more popular in bioinformatics research, where high...”
– Doc Patel
WatchGreat TED talk.
“The next generation of services will need to have an impact on the real world...”
– Union Square Ventures invests in Meetup (via zachklein)
Angelique Kidjo - Gimme Shelter
Beats the Stones...
Tumblr Bookmarklets
daryn:
Now *THIS* is really interesting. I could picture a whole set of bookmarklet-based tumblr-viewing tools (slideshow, link aggregator, etc…) for the power reader.
I’m a little torn because I know people put a lot of effort into their themes and having their tumblelogs viewed in the way they’ve specified, but I’m also excited to be able to flip through peoples’ photos and stuff in a slick...
“North America is only 20% of the global internet audience but it attracts well...”
– Fred Wilson via (via navajeet)
Reading for My Comrades in Philly
I’ve been bookmarking a bunch of links that I’ve found interesting recently. Please share your thoughts:
Put those free ad $ you got from joining the Visa small business network into some A/B testing like Speiser did here:
http://laserlike.com/2008/07/16/startup-marketing-advice/
I’ve been reading lots of Umair lately, and this is a real gem in which he proposes an...
Tumblr MP3 Player →
Awesome—I was playing with building something like this, but now I don’t have to!
daryn:
Very cool, this looks great!
It also reminds me that I never posted instructions for *my* now ancient tumblr mp3 widget (seen in my left sidebar), so here they are if you want to use it. It’s especially handy if you want to embed the music from your tumblelog on another site, like your blog or...
MGMT - Love Always Remains
(getting ready for the...
“locate log | xargs ls -lt | grep “Jul 2”
– This was a useful one-liner today.
“Many young people think their phone is more essential than their wallet (so do...”
– The Future is Near (Field Communications) (via mikehudack)
iPhone: The New Personal Computer →
Where does this leave laptops and PC? Obviously neither is going away anytime soon, but both are more orientated towards business professionals. Programmers will not be using an iPhone to write Java code. Designers will not be using it for graphics, and engineers will never run CAD on iPhone. These aren’t personal computing things, but business. iPhone will become our new personal...
“50% of SMS users are aged 35+, and 75% are aged 25+.
ESPN’s mobile NFL section...”
– via http://blog.nextny.org/2008/07/15/interesting-mobile-and-sms-statistics/
“In the same breath, shining Hector reached down
for his son—but the boy...”
– Homer, via http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1559/article_detail.asp
I think it’s time to reread the Iliad, and maybe some Thucydides. Also on the to-read list: the Great Gatsby.
daryn:
Jimi Hendrix - Red House
This week’s...
Project Cassandra: Facebook's Open Source... →
navajeet:
The Cassandra project has been described as a cross between Google’s BigTable and Amazon’s Dynamo storage systems. - niice
“In Cancer, its Nature, Cause and Cure (1957), Dr. Alexander Berglas describes...”
– via http://bit.ly/1ZTVDn
“Strategy isn’t arbitrage. What happened in finance? Everyone confused arbitrage...”
– Great read via http://bit.ly/2a1eZq
Congrats to Summize & Twitter
kortina: twitter acquired summize
jason: fuck yeah for those guys
jason: they deserve it
kortina: yea, that is awesome
jason: its just too bad its not the other way around
jason: those are the smart guys
kortina: yea, for real
jason: twitter are the lucky guys
jason: have you read any of summizes papers
jason: those guys are smart
Bruce Springsteen - Does This Bus Stop at 82nd...
Green Desk →
This place is right near Carrot HQ. If you go to check it out, we’ll do lunch.
navajeet:
I may have just found our new office space?
I might have to check out this album. Dig this...
“If everyone went home to you, there would be no more wars.”
– When you say this to a woman, you must leave it at that, otherwise all the beauty of the sentiment is lost.
"wrath of kortina" - rofl
betaworks:
Added disqus comments, so as not to incur the wrath of Kortina:
I now actually get angry when blogs don’t have this: “The audacity! How will I know if someone responds to my comment? Do I have to check back here every few hours?” They have really made blog conversation what it always should have been.
quicksilver + bit.ly ... i like
betaworks:
Graham English scripts on top on bit.ly:
A URL shortener service called Bit.ly launched today. It has some great features that convinced me to switch from using Metamark to shorten my URLs. Since I have a slick script that allows me to use the Metamark API from Quicksilver, I had to modify the code to make it work with Bit.ly.
Copy the following script, name it what you want, and...
Watchjohnborthwick:
The right to know … JPB 4th of July message from Iceland
“The immune system is one of the most poorly understood systems in human clinical...”
– http://toughpill.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/a-corollary-to-cancer-and-the-immune-system/
PlugAndPlayTechCenter →
Sounds fun:
“PlugAndPlayTechCenter is like a big college dorm, but only for startups. There is great food, all the amenties you could ever want to keep you hacking into the wee hours. Lots of other startups are in there, adding to a unique camraderie.”
this was not linked in the original post: http://www.plugandplayrealestate.com/