October 2009
62 posts
Facebook's Priorities
rafer:
Image by MrTopf via Flickr
If you are going to accept the live-or-die risk of being completely dependent on FB, please make some effort to understand their priorities. The effect of this week’s FB platform changes was completely predictable in October 2008.
Several people have called me in the last 48 hours asking, “Why won’t FB let us pay them for app notifications and are instead...
“I’ll have you know that Barry Diller and I are working on a whole new approach...”
– Jack Donaghy (via IssTumBul) (via soupsoup)
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fireland:
The bar I frequent has a nice selection of greeting cards but I didn’t see one that said exactly what I needed to say. I flip through the blank ones but god, you know? Babies wearing fedoras and tinted lovers kissing in Paris or wherever? I can’t work with that.
So I stumble home and raid the wife’s scrapbooking nook. (“Our counselor says it’s critical that I have a place of my own,...
“Over the millennia, the moral circle has expanded to encompass other clans,...”
– Stephen Pinker (quoted in comment on Aaron Swartz’s blog) (via nickdouglas)
http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-pro... →
“Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping...”
– President Obama via Reuters (via amazingamanda) (via stevewoolf) (via mikehudack)
“It’s so important to launch fast that it may be better to think of your initial...”
– http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html (via shellen)
“Zappos hiring process — each time Zappos interviews a candidate, Zappos sends a...”
– Image via Wikipedia
Startup School: Tony Hsieh On Delivering Happiness (via hiten) (via tedr)
Rafer sez: I can’t prove it but the people that work the reception desk at Benchmark seem to have the same responsibility. Every time I’ve ever had a meeting there, they show me into a conference room...
“Facebook accounts for 25% of U.S. online pageviews.”
– Perry Drake in Business Insider (via benderson) (via soupsoup)
Andrew Weissman's Response to Sean Parker
tedr:
This is comment left by Andy of BetaWorks in response to a quote I posted by Sean Parker saying web usage is moving from information-seeking to network-oriented patterns.
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So I think this is too general. I would break it down as follows - and these phases all bleed into each other: 1. first phase was ISP phase - content and distribution distributed thru the ISP on ramps. ISPs...
“Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be...”
– New to York (via jimray) (via bullshit)
The iPhone is 2,000 times faster than the Super...
ohyeahfacts:
(source and source)
20 Questions for Aziz Ansari - Chicago Tribune/Pop... →
azizisbored:
4. “Star Trek” or “Star Wars”? “Star Wars.” I have to admit when I see the “”Star Wars” version” of things I do get a little excited. You know what I’m talking about? Like the Call of Duty mods that let you play the game as StormTroopers? That would have been dope on “Goldeneye” for Nintendo 64. Speaking of which, why isn’t “Goldeneye” on Xbox Live? Rare and Microsoft need to...
Google Can Keep All Web in Memory
whitneymcn:
Virtually every aspect of this is mind-blowing.
alexpopescu:
A standard Google server appears to have about 16G RAM and 2T of disk. If we assume Google has 500k servers (which seems like a low-end estimate given they used 25.5k machine years of computation in Sept 2009 just on MapReduce jobs), that means they can hold roughly 8 petabytes of data in memory and, after x3...
“I was ready to jump off the balcony of my office,” (Randy) Phillips says. “We...”
– From the Entertainment Weekly cover story about the documentary about Michael Jackson’s preparation for his come-back shows immediately before his death in July. I think this quote says a lot about the man as an artist. I do find myself wondering — if this is true, how many of Prince’s great moments...
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » How Wall Street is... →
What kind of bonds are they buying? Are they investing the money in American business? “No, they are mostly buying Treasuries.” So the money is just being shuffled from one Federal bank account to another, with each Wall Street bank skimming off $1 billion per month for itself? “Pretty much.”
The Art of Library | Engine Yard Blog →
“Belief in conspiracy theories can be comforting. If everything that goes wrong...”
– The Economist in a great article on political craziness. (via marco) (via mikehudack)
“We went through an era where we went through the financialization of our...”
– Elliot Spitzer (via soupsoup) (via evangotlib) (via mikehudack)
“How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an...”
– Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School
Large Hadron Collider sabotaged by time travel? |... →
The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity -... →
Louis C.K. →
“You know, if you economize and don’t buy new airplanes or long-range jets, or...”
– Ted Turner Passed Cash ‘Like a Joint,’ Now Feels ‘Like a Dummy’ - Bloomberg.com (via mokoyfman)
“Before Time Warner lost so much value, Turner says he had given away much of his...”
– Turner Lost CNN, Fonda, Fortune, Feels ‘Like a Dummy’ (Update1) - Bloomberg.com (via tedr)
“I see this as a winning formula for segmenting plenty of existing markets:
1)...”
– Comment by Cindy Alvarez on Aaron Patzer preso - Lean Startup Circle | Google Groups (via hiten)
