January 2012
32 posts
“When you look at those two videos [2010 vs 2012] side by side, it almost appears...”
– i love the way you think, dpstylez.
“New foursquare intro video distances them from the check-in” sur AboutFoursquare (January 26th, 2012)
My favorite part of running this company is seeing people “get” the transformation from “game mechanics and checkins are cute” to “with 1.5bn checkins, we can...
“If you know how to use Excel on top of having all of the above cited analytical...”
– thanks, NYTimes comments.
Watch“Kinect Check…1,2…1,2..”
“Most people in the tech world agree that the problem of piracy needs to be...”
– this should have been the 2nd or 3rd paragraph.
Python Quick References (by version) →
NICE!
weird I hadn’t seen this yet?
“Namespaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes.”
– far out.
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Scroogled by Cory Doctorow
“Greg,” the man said, “we’re not smearing anyone. We’re just going to clean things up a bit. For some select people. You know what I mean? Everyone’s Google profile is a little scary under close inspection. Close inspection is the order of the day in politics. Standing for office is like a public colonoscopy.” He loaded the...
December 2011
31 posts
13 Ways To Think About And Crush Your Competition →
If you can bring traffic to your users, then they are going to be addicted to your service like crack cocaine. Once network effects kick in, a publisher is very unlikely to leave your service.
Desingineer – the mythical person every Startups... →
Let’s get this out of the way everyone—I want to be a unicorn.
UPDATE: seems hacker news is very interested in these mythical beasts.
WatchThe Daily Show re: USPS — “Jam It In Your Box!”
Watch‘Contextual Interface for Remote Gestural Input’ Gavin Hackeling and Zena Koo. Great Piece in ITP’s winter show.
Gavin’s projects are really neat. I also really dig the Fantasy Device he’s mocked up.
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“If there is going to be an upper class in this country, then Christopher is...”
– Christopher Hitchen’s mother to his father in an argument over sending him to a private schools, which strained the family budget.
“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
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- Andy Baio, No Copyright Intended
(via nickgrossman)