May 2013
7 posts
“Interestingly, all of this is only possible because Google was behind it. Any...”
– Google Now is the future
“It’s easier to tell good design from bad when you’re not looking at current...”
– http://paulgraham.com/design.html#hn
“I saw Bill Gurley say that you can only make money by being right about...”
– Fred Wilson, [Return and Ridicule](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/04/return-and-ridicule.html)
“Charlie and I avoid businesses whose futures we can’t evaluate, no matter how...”
– Warren Buffet, 2009 Berkshire Hathaway annual letter, via http://dcurt.is/bleeding-survivors
“ Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us...”
– http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304811304577366332400453796.html
“There is no AWS-equivalent for hardware. To get manufacturing right,...”
– http://cdixon.org/2013/04/30/hardware-startups/
April 2013
15 posts
“The future is extremely hard to see through the lens of the present, and...”
– http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea
“Since it is so short, at six seconds or less, it feels very incomplete if it...”
– The Six-Second Film Grows Up : The New Yorker
“The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us,” Ted Sarandos,...”
– Four superlatives for Netflix, which is now bigger than HBO in the US
“One thing we seldom get are reviews of products after they’ve been used for an...”
– http://verynicewebsite.net/2013/04/not-a-lot-of-nexus-sales/
“@sriramk @rabois @hunterwalk Keep hating… and while you’re doing so Foursquare...”
– Check In, Flame Out: How To Save Foursquare
“I’ve never heard of anyone successfully creating and launching an idea fueled by...”
– https://medium.com/on-management/ff02cc1483ec
“However, sometimes viral loops are less about the customer’s interests and more...”
– https://medium.com/behavior-design/fa9d806a284a
“An Alarm Clock that Works. For users who need more motivation to get up in the...”
– New Yorker
Mozilla announces new web payment mechanism to... →
Payment should always be a first-class citizen on the web.
“Cleaning is one of the daily rituals of a Zen monk, one of their most important...”
– Buddha Had It Right: Relax The Mind And Productivity Will Follow | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
“If you have already decided Google is Evil you will not believe this...”
– Blink - QuirksBlog
“In my experience, mindful people make much better leaders than frenetic,...”
– The tea, leadership, loyalty axis | Cooper Journal
“Ultimately, it’s a clash of styles. Compare Facebook Home to Google Now. Google...”
– Opportunity, meet problem: Facebook Home’s uneasy relationship with Google
“Typically we have an iterative approach, but here we felt, in terms of privacy,...”
– http://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/facebookqa/
“Facebook occupies an interesting space in mobile. We’re not an operating system,...”
– http://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/facebookqa/
March 2013
1 post
“The reality is that Google Reader is like a car with a manual transmission. At...”
– https://medium.com/tech-talk/d0d54cb5ecd5#b8e2
January 2013
2 posts
“[Other music subscription] companies, these services, all lack curation. They...”
– AllThingsD
November 2012
8 posts
“So what is the right content? It’s a different mix for everyone, but the...”
– http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3633984/future-of-tv-over-the-top
“But a funny thing happens to institutions that refuse to work with innovators:...”
– http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3633984/future-of-tv-over-the-top
http://nyti.ms/UjDAHE →
“Here, they are working on things they can explain to their parents and grandparents,” he said. “It’s not a social network,”
Here is how GE tries to hire the best talents in the Bay Area - from Google and Facebook. Nice try.
“If you look at Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter, you can see they are all focused...”
– David Karp (via GigaOm)
“What scares me is that the existence of the internet, assumed to hold the...”
– http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3606496/offline-the-election-paul-miller
“There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit...”
– http://daringfireball.net/2009/03/obsession_times_voice
“If the I.R.S. taxes their wealth away and distributes it to everyone else, it...”
– http://pocket.co/sd7As
October 2012
22 posts
“The company (Microsoft) was actually encouraging employees to get the...”
– http://verynicewebsite.net/2012/10/surface-impressions/
“Apple’s products say, “You can’t do that because we think it would suck.”...”
– http://www.marco.org/2012/10/26/an-alternate-universe
“If you have customers willing to pay before you even have a billing system,...”
– Tom Preston-Werner, Founder, Github on StartupSchool 2012
“I then listened to Panos Panay, GM of Microsoft’s Surface division, talk about...”
– http://www.anandtech.com/show/6385/microsoft-surface-review
“You got one song that can last for a week, and that’s it… that’s really scary....”
– http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3516562/k-pop-invades-america-south-korea-pop-music-factory
“They are entertaining independent of the business model. They have no grinding...”
– In social and mobile games, EA CEO says ‘consumers won’t pay for crap’ | VentureBeat
“Taking a shot at rival Zynga, Riccitiello said, “It’s not a great game mechanic...”
– In social and mobile games, EA CEO says ‘consumers won’t pay for crap’ | VentureBeat
“The design process: Too much, too little, too much, too little, too much, too...”
– https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/259831147150860288
“Despite a wealth of buzz, Odeo never made it. “I didn’t want to do podcasting at...”
– Jack Dorsey: Leadership Secrets Of Twitter And Square - Forbes
“DNT (Do Not Track) means many publishers could go out of business, and web...”
– The Real Impact of Do Not Track | DigitalNext: A Blog on Emerging Media and Technology - Advertising Age
Why Apple acquiring Color makes sense in Silicon... →
There ought to be a deeper analysis on the incentive behind acq-hires. But this Verge post kicks a good start.
“Newsweek might need reminding that they lost a large chunk of their readership...”
– Tumblr user salsajorts, reminding the world that not everyone is on the internet yet, even if it seems the case sometimes.
“China’s been cheating over the years, number one by manipulating their currency,...”
– Mitt Romney, calling out China on currency manipulation. If you had ‘cheating China’ in your Mitt Romney debate drinking game, raise a toast!
“Simply put: Without a system that trains people how to do a New Yorker style...”
– http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/12/suddenly-everyone-wants-new-yorker-style-content-only-one-catch-who-is-going-to-write-it/
“#3 A warning to paywall dreamers: some restrictions apply. In order to be...”
– http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediaredef/~3/9CH-bBPTC0E/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
“The second were people going to any other page, that is to say, all of our...”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/dark-social-we-have-the-whole-history-of-the-web-wrong/263523/
“Social for Hipstamatic was a siren song, and its turbulent journey over the last...”
– http://www.fastcompany.com/3002103/intimate-portrait-innovation-risk-and-failure-through-hipstamatics-lens 