February 2012
“There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday. Kickstarter has...”
– 24 Hours » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
This is an amazing achievement. I love the what the Kickstarter guys are doing, and their play-by-play blog post is one of the best examples of community building and celebration to date.
(via joshuanguyen)
Story of the week. Big applause for the...
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
– Albert Einstein (via morganmissen)
“When our parents sent a letter in the mail, nobody was allowed to open it to...”
– I Don’t Care About The Entertainment Industry’s Profits, And It Enrages Me That You Think I Should - Falkvinge on Infopolicy (via rafer)
“He was a man too busy to flush toilets.”
– Isaacson, Walter (2011-10-24). Steve Jobs (p. 281). Simon & Schuster, Inc. (via wkmacura)
“I feel like we’re working in an office building in Grand Theft Auto.”
– Sean, on the sirens and helicopters outside all day (via mattlehrer)
“I forgot that coding in C basically means re-implementing buffering every few...”
– (via wkmacura)
“Is call middleware because you can not able make head or tail of it.”
– @DEVOPS_BORAT (via wkmacura)
“If the opposite of pro is con, the opposite of progress is…”
– LinkedList NYC weekly e-mail. 14 December, 2011 (via wkmacura)
wkmacura:
I’m glad to know my building uses ridiculous encrypted Medeco locks, but has a website that sends me e-mails with my password in plaintext.
(and their website lets you authorize people to get the spare key)
In other news, Bennett is stuck in the elevator at...
Path: We are sorry. →
thepersonalnetwork:
We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.
As our mission is to build the world’s first personal network, a trusted place for you to…
Continuations: Tech Tuesday: Routing and TCP/IP →
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We are continuing along with the web request cycle. Last week we took a look at the HTTP protocol. There I already mentioned that HTTP requests and responses travel over a TCP/IP connection. Today we will dive a bit deeper into TCP/IP. This is technically not really necessary for…
Chrome For Android: The Browser For The 1%
parislemon:
My title is literal, figurative, and facetious all in one. I just hope Google has a good sense of humor about it — because they have a good product on their hands.
First of all, yes, Chrome for Android is here. Second, it’s only compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich which is currently on — wait for it — 1% of Android devices. But in an attempt to add some silver-lining to the 1%...
January 2012
Continuations: Tech Tuesday: DNS →
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Today we are continuing with the web cycle that I outlined two weeks ago. After a URL has been parsed in Step 1, the browser needs to determine the IP address for the domain as Step 2. Reprising the previous example, let’s consider the domain name dailylit.com. How does the browser determine…
The Brilliant "Don't Be Evil" Bookmarklet →
parislemon:
Kudos to Facebook (with some help from Twitter and MySpace) for having the balls to do this. It’s a bookmarklet that replaces Google’s new “People and Pages” area, the hardcoded social search area, and the search completion drop-down, with organic results.
In other words, it makes the new Google behave more like the old Google.
There has been a lot of back and forth in recent...
Continuations: Covestor: Getting the Message Out! →
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Our portfolio company Covestor today rolled out a tremendous overhaul of their web presence. The goal was to dramatically simplify Covestor’s message to make it easier for that message to spread and to improve conversion. The team has done an amazing job with a process that used extensive…
Continuations: Moving Back to New York City and... →
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In the middle of 2010 we started to seriously consider moving back to New York City. At the time one of the considerations was that it would be possible to experiment with homeschooling the kids. I am excited to report that we are doing both. We have a place in Chelsea that is a short walk from…
Continuations: The Internet Is a Human Right →
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At first, I was surprised to see a New York Times OpEd by Vint Cerf with the title “Internet Access Is Not a Human Right.” But once I started to read I began to understand the point that Cerf was trying to make. It comes out clearest in the sentence “technology is an enabler of rights,…
Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog: Introducing our... →
thehypernet:
The big opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors are created by new technology cycles. Examples from the past are the PC Revolution, Client/Server, the Internet, and Social Networking.
Roger and I believe that social networking has moved from an early stage investment opportunity to a…
Dave Morin: Resolutions for 2012: Whip myself–and... →
davemorin:
BY DAVE MORIN, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, PATH (AS TOLD TO COLLEEN TAYLOR FOR GIGAOM’S 12 TECH LEADER’S RESOLUTONS FOR 2012)
Dave Morin is the CEO and co-founder of Path, a social media sharing site that emphasizes privacy controls. Morin is also an investor in and advisor to a number of startups….
Tens Of Billions Of Devices →
Image via WikipediaThe smartphone as a form factor has been firmly established. The tablet as a form factor has been firmly established. There will be new generations of laptops,…
December 2011
Texting While Driving Asks For Driverless Cars →
Image via WikipediaSome people are referring to it as an epidemic. People who text while they drive are more likely to get into an accident. That sounds like common sense. But…
parislemon: Dear Google+ →
parislemon:
Earlier today I noticed something funny. My Google profile picture — the picture associated with my Gmail account, my GChat account, my Google+ account, etc — had vanished. A bug? Nope.
It turns out, Google — without telling me — went into my account and deleted my profile picture. Why?…
Paris Action (5) →
Paris Action (4) Don’t Count Out Microsoft A Man Who Needs No Introduction Paris Action (3) Paris…
White Space Revolution →
Image via WikipediaThe real question is why does broadcast television have a-n-y spectrum? Why is it not all going to wireless broadband? But until we get there, this small…
Merry Christmas →
Sleep tight.
Pay To Stay
parislemon:
I’ve been thinking more about Google’s renewal of their search deal with Mozilla for Firefox. It’s fascinating on a few different levels. Most notably: Google is committing close to a billion dollars to bankroll a browser which is a rival to their own browser.
Why?
Well, on the surface, they do get something out of the deal — something quite substantial. Firefox is a browser...
Lalu Yadav In The Lok Sabha →
My Take On AirTime (4) →
Image via WikipediaGoogle Hangouts is not it, not by a wide margin. And Chatroulette was more like Lycos. AirTime might end up the Google of the random connections…
Happy Holidays →
Charlie Bit My Finger Charlie O’Donnell At His Inspiring Best
"Why Now?" →
parislemon:
Nice quick post by Chris Dixon reflecting on why certain web-based marketplaces are taking off now when they haven’t in the past. The key:
I asked Roelof Botha the “why now” question regarding web-based marketplaces. He said something I thought was really interesting: marketplaces depend on trust, and trust requires knowing the reputation of a prospective counterparty. Today, for...
The NYU ITP Show Was Amazing →
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeI meant to show up last year but for some reason the event fell through the crack of things. I am so glad I got to show up this year. If you…
Hillary Should Stay Two More Years →
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThe Madonna Of Global Politics China is in sight. Russia is rumbling, and China is in sight. If Hillary had been vice president, she would have stayed eight years….
The Significance Of Eating An Apple →
I’d like to believe I am health conscious. And I wish the same upon others. I weigh the same that I did when I showed up in this country. That is no small achievement. Exercise,…
Thug Le →
New Business Cards →
“Don’t Throw Your Business Card At Me” New Business Card On The Way
Another card designed by my friend Jackson Lin. This is two sides. He did it in five minutes…
Following 2700 People On Google Plus →
Image via WikipediaA few weeks back I discovered this list. That gave me a start of sorts on Google Plus, even though I still don’t show up daily like I do on …