September 2008
39 posts
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Youngblood Brass Band - Is that a Riot?
Just got...
Physical Data Exhaust
A popular phrase at betaworks recently has been ‘data exhaust:’ many everyday actions are mundane in isolation, but when aggregated they may point to valuable trend or preference data. Takota and lookery track behavioral trends and make them valuable to advertisers, google trends reveals memes by counting searches, summize and bitly uncover what’s popular now by tracking tweets...
On Investment Banking
The stunningly total meltdown we just witnessed in the investment banking sector - the end of Wall St as we know it - was something far darker and more remarkable. It wasn’t simple business model obsolescence - an old business model being superseded by a more efficient or productive one. The problem the investment banks had wasn’t at the level of business models - it had little to do...
Things I've Liked in September
kayak - have used this for a long time and it just gets better and better
instant messanger - how come there are now instant messenger apps? why has no third party redone twitter via im?
remember the milk - giving gtd another try. dig this app
thrillist
ubiquity
Next up? Twitter, The Magazine. You heard it here... →
navajeet:
juliaallison: Hey, if you can do Six Word Stories, why not 140 character iPhone magazine articles?
Interesting.
I like this
“Tipjoy understands that when you give money to something you love online, you’re...”
– Ivan Kirigin (via betaworks)
Agreed. I would, in fact, argue that most offline transactions are social as well. To survive, we need nourishment and shelter. All other purchases are primarily ways to attract a mate or leverage social power ( the latter of which could probably be viewed as a...
“There is a partisanship that has paralyzed our country.”
– Mayor Bloomberg
“In the long run, there is nothing that cannot be made more valuable by metering...”
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(And in this recursive world, even metering is not too cheap to meter, so metering the meters is a good strategy as well.) We are rapidly inventing new sensors to cheaply, accurately, and continuously measure all things in all dimensions: geo-graphical location, speed, consumption, health,...
Sam Cooke - 8 Bars of Soul - from the aptly named...
“Now is the time for revolutionaries to step up and build something better,...”
– inspiring words via Umair
Mindfulness
If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not “washing the dishes to wash the dishes.” What’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact, we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink. ...
“Wei Wu Wei - Act Without Doing”
– Quicksilver
In the end, Quicksilver has one very important effect: the effort of frequent tasks fades into the background and you are able to act without thinking. After an adaptation period, Quicksilver becomes an extension of yourself; the process fades away leaving only the results.
Bruce Lee,...
“Amazon builds developer web services and apis. Drop.io builds consumer services...”
– thoughts on drop.io after a recent conversation with Sam
“Twitter has the potential to be the conduit for the SMS and text messaging...”
– Louis Gray (via betaworks)
O'Reilly Book on Ubiquity will be written by...
This is very cool:
Hey All,
We recently got an invitation to write an O’Reilly Book on Ubiquity (despite the fact that it is still in 0.1 prototype land). I wrote back saying we might be interested but only under certain conditions:
(1) That it would have to be CC licensed (2) That it would have to be freely available online (they can charge for the print edition) (3) That it would...
Virtuosity
Catching up on google reader, and hit a gem on the Crossfit Virtuosity blog.
Every artist faces this paradox. Experience—the faith in your ability and the memory that you have done this before—is what gets you through the door. But experience also closes the door. You tend to rely on that memory and stick with what has worked before. You don’t try anything new.
Definitely...
“We threw up that stupid banner network after nine days of work, realizing it was...”
– Scott Rafer (via gregnews) (via betaworks)
Rafer and lookery are a good demonstration of my take on the 80/20 rule:
If you accept the 80/20 rule, make sure your initial 20% work gets a product out the door. Spend your 80% time iterating in the wild, working with real users.
Find iPhone Network on Subway Exit
Often when I get out of the subway it can take up to 5 minutes for my iphone to find the ATT network. I used to turn the power on/off to force it to find the network faster, but my sister just forwarded me this tip she wrote for the apple blog.
Go to Settings
Turn Airplane Mode on
Wait a few seconds, turn Airplane Mode off
This works great!
Hero Workout via Crossfit
Jenny Kortina to me 9:45 AM (4 minutes ago) This is one of the hero workouts. Josh: * 95 pound Overhead squat, 21 reps * 42 Pull-ups * 95 pound Overhead squat, 15 reps * 30 Pull-ups * 95 pound Overhead squat, 9 reps * 18 Pull-ups
I’ve got a soccer game tonight, but I will try this tomorrow.
“The point of Chrome is to utterly explode the boundaries of yesterday’s...”
– umair on chrome
Great Presentation on Looming Water Crisis
THIRST
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)
via guy kawasaki
newspeedwayboogie:
R.L. Burnside - Walkin’...
“One of the greatest rewards in reaching your level of achievement is sharing...”
– ROFL. Great copy in a newsletter from Amex. Everything about platinum is flattery and self indulgent. I want to duplicate this experience somehow on the internet ( has small world already done it?)
There's a great thread on publishing/consumption...
this concept is only “new” to tech thinkers … healers, storytellers, actors, leaders who inspire emotional empathy, yogis, have never had a line between content consumption and creation. writers are readers, the wounded healer…. consciousness in its essence is unified. technology is striving towards that. about value, value is not really created, value is revealed. it...
“2) What’s the most important, cool, scary, or useful product or technology...”
– via avc
