December 2010
Pardes →
Go Easy On Charlie Now →
Bollywood Over The Decades (6) →
2010: The Year of Whining About Women In Tech |... →
caterpillarcowboy:
I actually don’t really agree with Violet Blue’s assertion that there aren’t good reasons why there shouldn’t be more women in tech.
I do, however, think way too many women complain about the lack of women in tech instead of just being a creator and contribution to the tech community. The real women in tech are too busy building shit to whine (or opine) about changing the...
Gov 2.0: There's An App For That →
socialstartup:
On NYC Bigg Apps and the Congress passage of the America Competes Act.
jesseddy:
A great, insightful and really amusing talk by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO about women in the workplace. One of many great statistics cited in her talk: “57% of men negotiate their first salary out of college, while only 7% of women do the same.”
To any of you young professional ladies out there, the first thing you should do is learn how to negotiate. Never be afraid to...
Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports,...
– Wall St. Computers Read and Trade on the News - NYTimes.com (via brooksjordan)
Woah.
(via caterpillarcowboy)
In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm →
Dev Patnaik of Jump has his own answer to the why-now question. He contends that advances in technology over the past three decades have gradually forced management to reconceive its role in the corporation, shifting its focus from processing data to something more esoteric. “My dad was a midlevel manager for I.B.M.,” Patnaik explains, “and I remember him in the ’70s, sitting there with plastic 3M...
The treaty obliges each country to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads...
– Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26 - NYTimes.com (via tedr)
Yet the Android OS leaves me feeling like one feels three hours after having...
– Google’s Big Problem: It Ain’t What You Think: Tech News « (via tedr)
Path: Path, now with Video. →
thepersonalnetwork:
At Path, we are obsessed with the moment. We want to give you the best ways to capture and share the moments of your life with close friends and family wherever you are.
Important personal moments are all around us. That incredible bottle of wine with your best friend last week at your favorite…
Mashups, Markets and Motherhood: The TED... →
siberianfruit:
This morning I came across the TED Commandments for TED speakers. I was impressed with these as a sophisticated guide for any kind of social media strategy. These tips can be largely applied to blogging, tweeting etc. (with a couple of exceptions, of course).
I adore the…
Total Lunar Eclipse →
A Guggenheim Walk →
130 Million Books →
Congrats Zuck →
socialstartup:
Another great talk by Fred Wilson - this one at the Paley Center. Notably, Fred says “I think education is a media business,” and elaborates that, “Teachers are talent; Curriculum is the content; Classrooms are the theater.” See his education comments around 30:00.
Eric Schmidt's Cloud Computing And My IC Vision →
Going Backwards: FoodSpotting, FourSquare,... →
A Mind Blowing Party →
You Don't Need Billions To Take Care Of Your... →
Chrome OS Taking Too Long To Show Up →
Microfinance: A Zero Trillion Dollar Industry →
Eminem: Recovery →
Assange: An Information Bin Laden? I Think Not →
Nexus S: The Best Phone Out There →
Nexus S Is Da Bomb →
Tumblr Staff: Downtime →
staff:
Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs back online.
While you…
Tumblr Down, Tumblr Up →
Nexus S →
Mark Suster: The Social Network: Facebook To... →
Zuckerberg On CBS →
Google's Failure To Purchase GroupOn Shows Google... →
Bubble Talk Goes On: It's An Overshoot →
Wait, Did They Say Froth? →
Larry Eyeing HP Now →
Angry Birds, Angry, Angry Birds →
GroupOn Did The Right Thing →
The Day I Got Called Sean Parker →
Thank You Jesus →
Did Not Meet Fred Wilson, But Met Mazy Dar →