January 2009
Update on Blurb: VC-Backed Startup Is Profitable →
“VC-Backed Startup Is Profitable” should not be a headline worth making. But far too many Web 2.0 ventures don’t bring in enough revenue, let alone profits, and some don’t even have a revenue…
OpenTable Files For IPO, And Reveals Its Finances →
OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation site that was founded in 1998, is hoping to raise as much as $40 million in an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC (embedded below). The…
Content Matters →
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A very macro level take on why we are in such a good spot…
Barry Graubert writes the excellent Content Matters blog and he’s got an interview with me up there today.
Here is…
Dolphins, the chefs of the sea →
My grandpappy used to say to me, “Them dolphins is smart. The chefs of the sea they are!”** Scientists have observed bottlenose dolphins preparing cuttlefish for consumption. Considering they…
How Gmail destroyed Outlook. - By Farhad Manjoo -... →
The Economy According To Mint →
Aaron Patzer is the CEO and founder of Mint.com, a personal finance site that helps 900,000 consumers keep track of their spending. Mint’s data is a snapshot of the consumer economy. In…
Frozen in indifference: Life goes on around body... →
Stay classy Detroit.
Henry Hey's musical accompaniment to... →
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This is really, really good.
from the creator of Palin Song
OpenID + OAuth: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great... →
Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. Too often, when a Website…
Austrian Times – Home > Around the World > Gay... →
SFO baby!
fillup:
We are in the land of homelessness, attitude, and dotcommunism.
5 Problems of Recommender Systems →
Earlier this week we posted a Guide to Recommender Systems, as part of our series on recommendation technologies. In this post we look at some of the challenges in building or deploying a…
Win 7 Tip: 'Play To' Media Control Might Take Over... →
“Play To” is the ability to right-click a media file in Windows 7’s Media Player and send it to any networked gadget appearing in the pop-up menu. It’s sweet now, but it could be huge.
Why Microsoft Should Give Windows 7 Away [Windows... →
Windows 7 is shaping to be an awesome OS. It’s everything people wanted Vista to be and more. Which is exactly why Microsoft should give it away—or offer it dirt cheap—to Vista users. …
Google Introduces A New Weapon In The Fight For... →
Google announced today that it will give end users the tools to figure out whether internet service providers are interfering with their broadband connections by blocking or “throttling”…
Vendetta? No, This V is for Visitors. →
Can you see the new intro now? “They came to us with the promise of friendship. They lied. They eat people. And they have a plan.” That’s right; V is slated for the re-engineering wagon…
Google Announces Measurement Lab: New Initiative... →
A number of ISPs have lately started to clamp down on peer-to-peer networks and are actively restricting heavy usage of ‘unlimited’ connections. For users, however, there is very little…
Do you talk too much? →
In conversation, try to heed The Traffic Light rule of thumb. During the first 30 seconds of an utterance, your light is green: your listener is probably paying attention. During the second 30…
How we reduced chargebacks by 30% (as a percentage... →
We’ve never had a lot of chargebacks (a chargeback is when a customer calls their credit card company to dispute a charge they don’t recognize), but last year we made a simple change that reduced…
Denial Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of... →
Larping on street view →
*facepalm*
At least their gear looks legit…
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Recipe - Really Old-Fashioned Marinated Rib-Eye -... →
Sex On Wheels: The Top 11 Cars Of 2009 Most Likely... →
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The Great Internet Video Lie →
Internet Video. Its the salvation for content creators everywhere. Its the end to dependence on the big bad meanies, the cable and satellite companies. Right ? Hell no. The concept that “over the…
Video: Burn Zombie Burn Resembles 16-bit Classic →
Two links to video footage from the upcoming PlayStation Network downloadable title Burn Zombie Burn were sent to me last night, and on watching them I was struck with a sense of how…
“Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to them by a vigilante group, which...”
– BBC NEWS | Africa | Nigeria police hold ‘robber’ goat
Good news everyone! (PIC) →
Once again, the conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor.
Multiple Windows 7 versions coming? Say it... →
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Fuck me.
These pictures supposedly come from a new build of the Windows 7 beta, 7025. It goes without saying that while we knew this was a possibility, we’ve been…
Are you kiddin' me?
Skills to pay the bills!
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amorelock:
Are you Kidding Me?
Gov Spending Multipliers - The Right Thing To Do. →
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Interesting but isn’t the issue of borrowing the fact that you’re always in the pocket of another person?
What is the return on 1 dollar spent ? Lots of studies say lots…
Physics doesn't apply to much of the universe →
In response to John Brockman’s Edge Annual Question for 2009: What will change everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see? Stuart Kauffman…
New Catfish Species Climbs Rocks | LiveScience →
They’re … EVOLVING@!
More Web Design Trends For 2009 →
Last week we presented 10 Web Design Trends For 2009, our review of the most promising developments and techniques in web design that may become big in 2009. In the first part we covered…
RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity →
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This makes me LOL.
In September 2008 Facebook application developer and advertising network RockYou sent a standard notice to all of their potential and existing…
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12 Useful Techniques For Good User Interface... →
By Dmitry Fadeyev and Smashing Magazine Editorial
Last week, we presented 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques, the first part of our review of useful design trends in modern Web…
Giz Explains: Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac... →
Yeah, I said it. The Windows 7 taskbar is the most important Windows UI change since Windows 95, and it will dramatically change the way you use Windows. And it’s better than the Mac’s Dock. …
Saffer talks about gestural interfaces →
Link: Tap is the New Click (vimeo.com) Save to del.icio.us | Small Surfaces is published by Gabriel White.