November 2010
26 posts
“If you aspire to create culture today, in the year 2010, you can not escape the...”
– Active and urgent > Robin Sloan
“Whenever I see a brilliant kid decide to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or...”
– Chris Dixon
WatchMind = blown.
“You move into a place and you have your life there, and your memories, and it’s...”
– Mystery on Fifth Avenue - NYTimes
A Thousand Words
After spending some time yesterday looking at the newly-launched Path (and the tech/mainstream press coverage thereof), I found myself thinking a lot about small-group sharing, and photosharing in particular. There have been a handful of products getting attention recently that are positioning themselves in this space, whether it’s explicitly articulated or not. Facebook has also been...
“We prefer the term ‘AFK.’ We think the internet is real.”
– Peter Sunde during The Pirate Bay trial; when asked the first time he met his colleagues ‘In Real Life’.
“Uniqlo disguises the limited variety of products it makes by offering them in...”
– How Did Uniqlo Become the Hottest Retailer in New York? — New York Magazine (via sleuth)
“But the truth is that technological (and scientific) advances rarely break out...”
– Where Good Ideas Come From
“Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online...”
– Newsweek article from 1995: “The Internet? Bah!”
Perspective.
“Many research studies have shown that the vast majority of usage on social...”
– The Real Life Social Network
(this is a really smart presentation/talk — have a look if you haven’t seen it, especially if you’re involved in building software that’s even vaguely ‘social’)
WatchThe old winning the world series trick. Works every time.