VISIT LINK: The Internet is for revolution – We must make it so that a country, if it wants to turn off Internet-enabled revolution, must turn off the Internet itself.
VISIT LINK: "A person only flails around in regards to their rig when they don’t have a clear idea of what constitutes their work. Suitability and fit is paramount, and one is never going to find what they’re looking for if they don’t know what they need." (tags: computer mac setup purpose apple frankchimero toread [...]
"Unlike a public offering of shares, this private offering to Goldman's clients doesn't obligate Facebook to come clean on its real profits. It doesn't have to submit to standard accounting practice, or indicate how well it's really doing or isn't doing. It gets to remain in the safe cloud of hype that protects all such [...]
"Which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Any company that needs to have good software." VISIT LINK: Why Yahoo lost: In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture (tags: advertising blog business culture entrepreneurship fail google hacker history inspiration interesting internet microsoft media management lessons programming search software startup [...]
"I long have been fascinated by the extraordinary achievement from the ex-Paypal team and wonder about the reasons behind their success." VISIT LINK: Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? (tags: advice article blog business career cool culture entrepreneur entrepreneurship history inspiration management paypal startup productivity startups strategy tips success [...]
A hedge fund, Magnetar, helped create arcane mortgage-based instruments, pushed for risky things to go inside them and then bet against the investments.<br /> And make sure to listen to the full story (free streaming) on This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/inside-job VISIT LINK: Magnetar: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going (tags: Magnetar ThisAmericanLife [...]
In the last year, the two brothers have sold 3.5 million copies of Doodle Jump, a simple and addictive game, via Apple’s iTunes store. That accomplishment may make them the world’s most successful iPhone and iPod touch developers. VISIT LINK: Developing a great app is the first part of the job. Marketing it is the [...]
"Facebook's contention was robots.txt had no legal force and they could sue anyone for accessing their site even if they scrupulously obeyed the instructions it contained. The only legal way to access any web site with a crawler was to obtain prior written permission. Obviously this isn't the way the web has worked for the [...]
Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your community, based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. BuddyPress is no longer limited to WordPress MU installations. It will now work with both WordPress and WordPress MU 2.9.1 and higher. You’ll get all the features of BuddyPress regardless of which WordPress version you [...]
Deciding which Great Idea to pursue is just the first step, says Caterina Fake. The next essential is forming the team that can make it happen (Social media pioneer and co-founder of the photo-sharing service Flickr, Caterina Fake led the technology development group at Yahoo (YHOO) after it acquired her company in 2005. In 2008 [...]
Conversations With An Anonymous Facebook Employee The Rumpus: Do you save everything ever entered into Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and so forth? Facebook Employee: That is essentially correct at this moment. Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history? Employee: That’s [...]
Ten of the Burgers One Monday a month, the Burger of the Month Club convenes at a New York restaurant to eat and rate the restaurant's burger. Below, two of the club's members, Brett Weiss and Jason Beckerman, discuss 10 of the 47 burgers the group has tried. The number that precedes each restaurant's name [...]
Digging Alexa – how the geek demographic doubled overnight It seems to have passed without huge fanfare, but on April 20th 2006, the Alexa rankings for tech sites around the globe suddenly doubled, literally overnight. (tags: blog web internet blogs culture search interesting technology tech toread statistics analytics articles imported journalism metafilter Digg traffic alexa [...]
Read It Later for the iPhone Read It Later has come to the iPhone. Video demonstrates main features and Tap to Save integration with Google Reader. More at: http://readitlaterlist.com (tags: iPhone app free readitlater toread read text bookmark sync offline …)
Best introductory books (from Ask MetaFilter) Based on the great Ask MetaFilter thread from 2007: What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?. The whole thing’s worth a read but a while back I decided to go through, give it a squeeze, and extract the juicy [...]