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Interconnected · Matt Webb
Buy commodities, sell brands
Warren Buffet, in his latest annual letter to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway: 'Buy commodities, sell brands' has long been a formula for business success. It has produced enormous and sustained profits for Coca-Cola since 1886 and Wrigley since 1891. ... Buy commodities, sell brands. I like it.
Kalzumeus Software · Patrick
Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore
A Whole Lotta Nothing · Matt Haughey
Neil deGrasse Tyson, QFT
Bustr Bensn
"OMGPOP is a gaming company that has been plugging away at it for some five years, backed by $16..."
“OMGPOP is a gaming company that has been plugging away at it for some five years, backed by $16 million in venture funding. It’s had okay but not overwhelming results. Until this month, when it released Draw Something.” - Draw Something Is a Hit for OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD BREAKING!…
Bustr Bensn
brit: An iPhone App That Lets You LEAP To The ChallengeWhat’s...
brit: An iPhone App That Lets You LEAP To The ChallengeWhat’s the tech-iest way to celebrate Leap Day? By introducing a brand spankin’ new iPhone app called Leap! Leap lets you challenge (read: one-up) your friends to doing anything from getting the most phone numbers on a Friday night to working out every day for a…
Bustr Bensn
A shotgun approach to motivation
Some of our motivation comes from our own interest, and drive. Some of our motivation comes from external factors like approval, status, money, points or whatever. Either way, we all have a limited amount of motivation to apply to our day. It runs out. I think the right metaphor for it is as an engine. It runs on…
The Official Google Blog · A Googler
What’s your X? Amplifying technology moonshots
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)
KK Lifestream
Sourced Quotes, 13
Originally posted in The Technium When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk. -- Philipe Petit (who tightroped between the Twin Towers), Man on Wire, 2002, p. 213 Slowly slowly, form follows funding. -- Clay Shirky, Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users, January 4, 2012. The web is evolving from…
KK Lifestream
The Scale of the Universe 2
Originally posted in Cool Tools This is a cool tool for comprehending, appreciating, and demonstrating the scale of our universe. I used to recommend Charles and Ray Eames' classic film, Powers of Ten, as the best way to get a sense of our cosmos. It's still effective, but two bothers have made an on-line portal that…
Neven Mrgan's tumbl
This video of Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert discussing adventure...
This video of Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert discussing adventure games and their plans to crowdfund the making of a new one in the classic old style is absolutely required viewing for anyone who makes stuff. Find 35 minutes of time to watch this, any way you can.
Web Performance Today · Joshua Bixby
A non-geeky guide to understanding performance measurement terms
coding for mobile · honcheng
AcornCharts: Fun way to display charts in iOS
asymco · Horace Dediu
How much does it cost to manufacture an iPhone?
Amelia at work · ameliagreenhall
"Principles of Information" from Dorian Taylor
"Principles of Information" from Dorian Taylor: habitlabs: i believe an information system should: Help people gain awareness of their situation; Pick up where they leave off; Grow with them, without holding them back. —— Well said as usual, Dorian! All three are things we are working *so hard to do for…
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
The Evolution of the Virtual Assistant: How To Get Dedicated Support for $25 Per Month
LONG POST ALERT - This is a comprehensive post that will save you time and money and make your life easier, I promise you it's worth taking the time to read. On Demand vs. Dedicated I've written numerous times about the wonders of virtual assistants. There is no question that they make your life easier and enable you…
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup
Quantified Self · Ernesto Ramirez
Personal Informatics In Practice: Digital Histories for Future Health
ParisLemon
Chill's Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection
Chill's Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection : An awesome collection of pretty much every Steve Jobs video you can find on the web. This was put together by Chill (a CrunchFund portfolio company).
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
The End of the Mexican Road
Bobulate
"Happiness is the most important metric in personal tech. If it improves lives, it is important."
“Happiness is the most important metric in personal tech. If it improves lives, it is important.” - Brian Lam, The Wirecutter. cf. Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost…
pamela fox's blog · Pamela Fox
Testing Facebook Login with Selenium
Bret Victor's website
Inventing on Principle
Keynote at the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, 1 hour.
The Typekit Blog · Mike Sall
How we use data: To learn from a metric, break it apart
Waxy.org
The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox
The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click. As I was about to connect my Gmail account, my finger hovered over the "Grant access" button. Wait a second. Who am I giving access to my…
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
Get Rid of Your To-Do List Immediately
The Problem I'm going to let you in on a little secret, your to do lists are making you inefficient, stressed out, and fat...ok maybe not fat but the other two for sure. But how can this be you ask, as you look over your well organized GTD to do list on your iPad or the whiteboard on the wall with different lists of…
Boxes and Arrows · Jon Innes
Integrating UX into the Product Backlog
Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. While both agile and UX…
Advertising Lab · [email protected] (Ilya Vedrashko)
How To Remove Ads from YouTube Videos
Simple. Except for the pre-roll.
Quantified Self · Ernesto Ramirez