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Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Consider this Part 2 in an accidental series on Microsoft’s recent reorganization, and functional and divisional organizations. Part 1 focused on a divisional organization, while today’s Part 2 focuses on functional ones. The “Uncanny Valley” is most typically associated with animated films (although it was…
bunnie's blog · bunnie
I recently did an interview for CSDN.net, which stands for “China Software Developer Network”, or more colloquially, “Programmer Magazine”, about open source hardware, and what it means to be a hacker. The interview itself is in Chinese (print version), but I thought I’d post the English translation here for…
jane.dallaway.com · Jane Dallaway
Last summer I spotted this kickstarter project and thought it sounded like a good idea — wearable technology to influence behavioural change is something I'd been thinking and reading about. Or, to put it simpler, something that reminds you when your posture isn't right. I spend a lot of time in front of a computer.…
Paul Graham: Unofficial RSS Feed
"It's harmless if reporters and know-it-alls dismiss your startup. They always get things wrong. It's even ok if investors dismiss your startup; they'll change their minds when they see growth. The big danger is that you'll dismiss your startup yourself."
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Do Things that Don't Scale: Paul Graham: I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn’t work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they’ll make it big if and only if they’re launched with sufficient initial…
White African · HASH
I make no bones about my admiration for the team at Ark Africa, who I think are possibly the best design house in East Africa. They tend to take on projects of their own, just to think through the problems and come up with something that’s truly useful. Other examples of this are when the [...]
Yoast · Edwin Toonen
Are you tired of your social media efforts not achieving the results you hoped for? It might be time to scale up your social media optimization efforts. Your content might be good, but you could do various enhancements to make it stand out. For instance, your content needs proper metadata for X, Facebook, and the […]…
Bret Victor's website
Doug Engelbart died today. I tried to write a few words about his work.
Future Perfect · janchip
Private car companies such as Uber provide a tiered service: the black limo provides a superior service at a higher cost than Uberx or regular …
Waxy.org Links
watching the Mother of All Demos again today, it's still astounding how visionary he was
ParisLemon
The power of IFTTT, now in your pocket: ifttt: Soon the phone will be just as valuable in your pocket as it is in your hand. Idle phones move data, respond to new locations, and receive notifications — this is only the beginning. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce IFTTT for iPhone. Download the app and unlock three…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Testing your database backups: the test environment database refresh pattern | #F80046 Great idea. I’m surprised I hadn’t come across this before (tags: backups restoring ops sysadmin testing)
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
It was frankly quite infuriating to see media outlets describe Doug Engelbart very simplistically as “the computer mouse inventor”. The hypertext system we have today known as the internet was completely different from what Mr Engelbert (or Ted Nelson with Xanadu) had envisioned. Brett Victor eloquently describes how…
Amelia Greenhall on scriptogr.am
While we were at AdaCamp, Leigh Honeywell and I snuck off to a quiet hallway to do an interview with Newsweek reporter Alissa Quart. The piece, "The Body Data Craze" was the cover story of the June 26, 2013 issue. There were some really good bits in the piece. Lisa Betts-LaCroix, a friend who organizes the Silicon…
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
I had a conversation with a few advertising friends the other night. One of them was facing a situation I had seen before. She was about to make a new business presentation. The client was expecting that the presentation would include a considerable amount of social media. The agency knew that the social media…
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
Look at this photo from the latest edition of Forbes Magazine: Who’s that good-looking, friendly guy? And then there’s me on the right. Do you recognize the man to the left? That’s one of my heroes, Warren Buffett. The funniest thing is how I found out about this. Last week, my mom calls me out [...]Warren Buffett +…
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
I turn 31 this weekend, and I was thinking about all the cool things that happened in the last year. I got to take incredible trips: This is me in a Black Hawk helicopter In the last year, I got to build an amazing team behind IWT that’s helped us grow explosively and help millions [...]Quick favor for my birthday?…
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youmeandmyapi: torteen: Great advice to writers. Everyone who communicates for a living, should also engage in writing.
Pinboard - bookmarking for introverts · [email protected] (Maciej Ceglowski)
Our meetup in Berlin yesterday proved to be the best-attended one yet, with fifteen Pinboard users and one extraordinarily patient child fighting their introvert instincts on a beautiful spring day. We had a diverse group of people from across the US and Europe, ranging from designers and web developers, to game…
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
WorkHappy.net: killer resources for entrepreneurs · Carson
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Quick Sprout · Neil Patel
TechCrunch » GreenTech · Natasha Lomas
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Inside The Immortality Business: Fascinating look inside the world of Cryonics (the freezing of the body to “cure” death later) by Josh Dean: I don’t think it’s overly reductive to state that there are three possible outcomes for those who choose the freezer over a coffin: One, science never overcomes the obstacles…
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that... "An astounding 54% of online display ads...between May of 2012 and February of this year weren't seen by anyone... "A significant number of display-ad "impressions"... are based on fake traffic. Malicious software makes a website think a person is actually on a page…
... My heart’s in Accra · Ethan
Marco.org
Alex Payne addresses many of the problems and myths of “startups” and their culture. Added next to this in my mental file of favorite things written about startups. I’ve been lucky enough to be part of great startups so far, but I’ve seen friends go through a lot of bullshit at not-so-great ones. ∞ Permalink
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · [email protected]
Most Web page layouts rely on design patterns created for laptop and desktop computers equipped with a mouse and keyboard. As the variety of devices being used to access the Web has grown, these patterns haven’t been keeping up. Designing for today’s Web means considering single-handed thumb use on smartphones, two…
Schneier on Security · schneier
From his Facebook page: An illustration of how the news are largely created, bloated and magnified by journalists. I have been in Lebanon for the past 24h, and there were shells falling on a suburb of Beirut. Yet the news did not pass the local *social filter* and did [not] reach me from social sources.... The…
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
I was listening to the BeanCast the other day. The BeanCast is a podcast (yes, they still have them) produced by my friend Bob Knorpp that intelligently examines issues related to marketing, particularly of the digital variety.The show had some very smart people on it and they were discussing the effect that "big…
Bret Victor's website
A personal note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable".
iRevolution · Patrick Meier
Aza on Design · Aza Raskin
Kalzumeus Software · Patrick
Marco.org
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he’d had for a while. He had already bought the domain: tumblr.com, because it was an…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
David Simon · David Simon
So I am on the way to a nice dinner with wife and child and Mr. Bourdain emails me. Seems someone named Andy Cohen, who is also involved in this sprawling and relentless medium of television in some important way, has gotten into a back-and-forth with Mr. Bourdain on Twitter. And out of the blue, [...]
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
After a few years in the business world, something occurred to me. I realized that the majority of the people I met in business were astonishingly stupid.Years later I was sitting around a bar with a couple of my agency colleagues. We had won a very important piece of business from a world class client. We were…
Signal vs. Noise · Shaun
I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat, but the only one we had lying around didn’t fit my phone and sat kinda goofy on our tripod plate. So, I did something I…
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dbreunig: The evolution of the iPhone camera Getting there.