April 2008
65 posts
March 2008
25 posts
Ok, I know I’m years late, but I just warmed up to the idea of using del.icio.us for ‘read later’ purposes. I tag pages I don’t have time to read when I come across them, then run the RSS feed of those tags into Google Reader.
How are the labels going to make money?
bijan: … While the label tax idea isn’t smart, i would be happy to pay a monthly fee to have be able to stream or access music everywhere I want it. Artists need to get paid but as Fred points out - it’s has to get easier to pay the right people. Can’t agree more. The music tax is certainly going to appeal superficially to people who steal most of their library, and this is what...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30) →
Radiohead
Dr. Dre
Boards of Canada
Kanye West
Fujiya & Miyagi
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Key traits that make multiplayer games successful
vruz: … 1. Mobbability - The ability to do real-time work in large groups or a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously. 2. Cooperation Radar - The ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task. 3. Ping Quotient - Responsiveness to other people’s request for engagement and the propensity and ability to reach out to...
What is Web Operations? →
Theo Schlossnagle wrote a brilliant summary of one of the biggest challenges we discussed at the Velocity Summit in January:
What is this Velocity Summit thing? It was a bunch of web architects…
In$truction manual
jakoblodwick: What if money had instructions on the back? Basic economic facts, wise slogans, etc? I think it would be useful.
In stocks, its the only place where when things go on sale, people get unhappy. - Warren Buffett
Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!)... →
Taking a page out of the Hulu playbook, but awesomer, the South Park guys are streaming every single South Park episode in full at their official site, South Park Studios. What they get…
“Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that...”
– The Internet? Bah! | Newsweek.com -Hilarious article from 1995
At least four federal agencies — the Federal Reserve, the F.D.I.C., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision — have some jurisdiction over mortgage lending. Making matters more difficult, state banking regulators had jurisdiction over the fast-growing array of nonbank mortgage lenders, which accounted for about 40 percent of new subprime loans before that...
JP Morgan paid less for Bear Sterns than the Yankees did for A-Rod.
Back in CT, now addicted to Scrabulous
After trying out the bose in ear headphones, Im...
http://www.ultimatebuds.com/store/product.php?productid=16133&cat=0&page=1
SDK Limitations
Users can only run one application at a time, and if they leave an application it quits. That doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it means that you can’t switch away from an application and have it continue to do things. That’s a big issue with the current support for websites on the iPhone - as soon as you leave the browser the connection is broken. With the iPhone, the hope was that an installed...
MIX08 - Steve Ballmer screams “Web developers.... →
The Howard Dean of Tech
Audiophiles can't tell the difference between... →
Filed under: Home Entertainment
We’ve always believed that the perceived quality boost that comes from using high-end cables is really just a trick of the mind (read: justifying the…
A note about CSS, and how I chose my major →
I got interested in the College of Social Studies (CSS) my freshman year because I was dating a CSS boy. As it turns out, the major was a much better choice than the boy.
Typically, if you…