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Jake Lodwick on PandoDaily – \”An acquisition is always a failure\”
Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul […]
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Jake Lodwick on PandoDaily – \”An acquisition is always a failure\”
Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul […]
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Jake Lodwick on PandoDaily – \”An acquisition is always a failure\”
Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul […]
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Jim Ray on Twitter #music
Jim Ray reviews Twitter #music: Tellingly, you can’t get to a musician’s tweets from within the app to decide whether you want to follow them based on the content of their stream, you’re just supposed to follow all of your favorite musicians and be in awe of their celebrity, I guess. Yesterday I tweeted that while Twitter #music looked […]
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An App you install from the web
From Dark Sky Company, the guys behind the relatively new web app Forecast, comes a great post about how web applications can perform as well as native applications: Granted, some apps must be native: OpenGL-based games, for example, or apps that access hardware capabilities that are not yet exposed to the browser (a shrinking list); but I don’t […]
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Medium and Barley are just the beginning
I just spent a few minutes playing around with Medium, a new "system for reading and writing", created by the makers behind great services like Blogger and Twitter. It was extremely validating to see that some of the decisions that were made by the amazingly smart and talented Medium team ended up being some of the […]
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Why Coworking is growing in Australia by Alex Hillman
Alex Hillman is one lucky guy: I’ve been to Australia twice in the last 12 months. Three different cities. All for coworking related activities. Sounds like great fun but he also has brought back what he’s learned from his experiences down under for all of our benefit. Which goes along great with my How to tear […]
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Gary Vaynerchuk’s 19 people you should follow on Twitter list
My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk chose your’s truly as #4 of 19 people he thinks should be followed on Twitter. He says of me: his new project is something that I think has the real chance of blowing up in 2014. Keep an eye on him. I think he’s a great follow and someone who’s […]
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Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the user to click “done”, so that it seemingly uploads instantly. Flickr blog, yesterday: Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did […]
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Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the user to click “done”, so that it seemingly uploads instantly. Flickr blog, yesterday: Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did […]
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Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the user to click “done”, so that it seemingly uploads instantly. Flickr blog, yesterday: Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did […]
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Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the user to click “done”, so that it seemingly uploads instantly. Flickr blog, yesterday: Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did […]
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Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the user to click “done”, so that it seemingly uploads instantly. Flickr blog, yesterday: Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did […]
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Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the user to click “done”, so that it seemingly uploads instantly. Flickr blog, yesterday: Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did […]
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Chad Dickerson’s advice to inside sales people
Chad Dickerson, like many of us that run companies, gets a lot of solicitation via email. Some good. Most bad. He decided to do something useful with his response to one: I decided to write him back with some advice. I’m publishing my response on the hope that it will help salespeople produce better pitches […]
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Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the user to click “done”, so that it seemingly uploads instantly. Flickr blog, yesterday: Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did […]
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Plain, Plain Space, Barley
As you may have guessed from the lack of posts, I’m busy. After leaving Viddler and taking some time to get things in order; I’m busy building Plain, Plain Space, and our first product Barley. Barley has been a smash hit and it isn’t even publicly available yet. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response. We’ve […]
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Dear Apple, Please don’t make a watch.
Nick Bilton of The New York Times: In its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Apple is experimenting with wristwatch-like devices made of curved glass, according to people familiar with the company’s explorations, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because they are not allowed to publicly discuss unreleased products. Such a watch would […]
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How much should I raise?
There is no shortage of opinions on this topic but Wayne Barz takes a pretty good approach to answering, or not answering, the question How much should I raise? I certainly can’t answer your specific “how much” question in a single 1,000 word blog post. But I will suggest there are only three main buckets […]
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On Foursquare’s usefulness
Dan Frommer recently said this about Foursquare’s usefulness: The broad, public perception of Foursquare still seems to be that it’s all about being the mayor of some bar, or something useless like that, which actually hasn’t been the company’s focus for a long time. But it is a little hard for someone who only knows […]
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But, why did you unfollow me?
Please do not be alarmed if you’ve noticed that I have unfollowed you on the Twitter. It isn’t because I do not like you. It is, again, because I’m refactoring the way that I handle Lists on Twitter. The unfortunate consequence of this most recent refactoring, though, is that if you have a private account […]
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Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron’s encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately, […]
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Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron’s encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately, […]
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Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron’s encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately, […]
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Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron’s encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately, […]
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Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron’s encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately, […]
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Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron’s encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately, […]
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Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron’s encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately, […]
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GitHub hits 3 million users
In a world where hitting 10, 50, and 100 million users seems to be the goal it is nice to see that a service can be a massive success at a fraction of that scale. GitHub just hit 3,000,000 users and their growth rate is still on the incline: This latest batch of one million […]
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Andrew Kim goes to MSFT
Remember Andrew Kim? The guy that rebranded Microsoft for free. Well, now he’s going to work there. I can’t talk about the details of how things fell into place but the choice became obvious. I’ll be designing for Microsoft as of summer. I promise that I’ll make the my greatest work ever while I’m there. […]
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
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NASA estimates 1 in 6 stars have Earth-sized planets orbiting them
That is a lot of Earth-sized planets. A lot. For instance, look at what NASA estimates for our galaxy alone: Since the Milky Way has about 100 billion stars, there are at least 17 billion Earth-sized worlds out there. And then there are the countless billions of galaxies besides our own. I wonder if we’ll […]
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
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The wisdom of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, who tragically committed suicide yesterday, in an interview from 2007 when he was just 20 years old: If you talk to any woman in the tech community, it won’t be long before they start telling you stories about disgusting, sexist things guys have said to them. It freaks them out; and rightly so. […]
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Stop worrying about being copied
Nathan Kontny: "If my idea isn’t worth copying then it’s not a very good idea. If my product or business can’t handle a new competitor, then it’s not a very good product." If someone copies your idea for a product it should make you feel validated for having the idea in the first place. Build […]
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Your life’s work
DHH: If you’re not committed to your life’s work in a company and with people you could endure for decades, are you making progress on it? Yes. I am.
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Ubuntu for phones
Canonical is calling this Ubuntu for phones but even in their own presentation they mention it will run on tablet devices. Yesterday I said, on Twitter, that I was happy to see another entrant into this market. Android and iOS are not enough choices (though we’ve been dealing with Mac OS vs. Windows for years […]
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Organizational complexity
Dalton Caldwell, co-founder of App.net, does some thinking about organizational complexity. He contrasts how a simple demonstration of Artificial Intelligence does not necessarily mean that model is scalable to do more complex tasks. The model needs to change with the growth. The same too with a company. The organization needs to change as it grows […]
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Random 60: Season 2 Episode 1: Deer!
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The original 13-rules of basketball
Dr. James Naismith published these original 13-rules of basketball in 1892. I especially like #5: 5. No shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking in any way the person of an opponent shall be allowed; the first infringement of this rule by any player shall count as a foul, the second shall disqualify him until the […]
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Flickr Premium?
Danny Nicolas has been keeping up with my Flickr commentary of late about how Flickr should create a more affordable, less feature-rich account type and he has a few things to add: I feel as if most people currently paying for Flickr Pro don’t take advantage of all the features offered. I might even go […]
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Rerun: Random 60: What to do about Flickr?
Seems appropriate to link back to an episode of Random 60 discussing Flickr. Remember, this was three years ago. "The woman CEO" that I mention in the episode is not the current CEO Marisa Mayer but Carol Bartz. There have been five CEOs at Yahoo! since I recorded this episode!
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An interview with Quentin Tarantino in the NY Times
I enjoyed this interview of Quentin Tarantino in the NY Times. Especially this bit on Page 5: I remember reading a review that Pauline Kael wrote about some director’s big epic, and she said: Now, look, it might seem unfair to judge a talented man more harshly when he tries to do something big than […]
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Flickr for iOS 2.01.772
One niggle I had with the new Flickr app for iOS was the upload progress indicator was far too subtle (though an interesting take on what could be done to make it unobtrusive). They fixed that with this update. Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and […]
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