February 2012
6 posts
“The real lesson may be that companies have to be careful about building too much...”
– Lessons from TeachStreet, folding into Amazon
via Daryn
“It sounds subtle, but these are the only days where I find myself getting...”
– Start every day as a producer, not a consumer - Journal - Daniel Howells
/via @eric_wvgg
(via pieratt)
“Critical thinking is difficult to do in large groups. Criticizing in a group...”
– one of many reasons that a small venture capital partnership is a good venture capital partnership
Cooper Journal: The eye of the brainstorm (via soxiam)
January 2012
34 posts
“There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have...”
– Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream (via joshuanguyen)
the perpetual goal, second edition. (via cacioppo)
Will 2012 be the breakout year for 3D printing?
So far 3D printing has been having a awesome year.
January 9th MakerBot unveiled thier new 3D printer, the Replicator, which I think for the first time allows the home user to access a “real” 3D printer. The first MakerBot which we use all of the time called the Thing-O-Matic is fun but definitely is a geek kit. I already put in my order for the Replicator which should be delivered...
“Others came more recently, to study business and science and engineering, but as...”
– President Obama in his State of the Union address. This is the guy I voted for, glad he is back.
Is Samsung following Blackberry's playbook?
TechCrunch posted some pretty funny ads from Samsung poking fun at the iPhone. Here is the better of the 2 IMHO:
However while this made me chuckle a little bit it gave me the feeling that Samsung is falling into the trap that Blackberry did when trying to compete with Apple. Last year this was Blackberries swipe at the iPad when they launched the playbook:
Attacking Apple by pointing out...
Google's $300 Million to Mozilla
It is 3am in Tokyo and since I can’t sleep I was thinking about how crazy it was that Google is now paying Mozilla $300 million per year, which is 3x higher then the previous contract, to be the default search for Firefox.
I wonder if the deal included that Firefox will need to go to the format of Chrome with the Omnibox. If you have not used Chrome before you can either type in a domain...
“In 1975, manufacturing accounted for about 20% of the United States’...”
– Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted- LA Times
Some great articles coming out about why America is really in decline, like this one and the previous on manufacturing in the NYT. Getting to the root of the issue is the only way to really fix our issues.
We are fueled by...
“I want to demonstrate that success doesn’t have to come at someone else’s...”
– David Hornik: Nice guys finish first. Eventually. (Wired UK)
Maxistentialism: New York Times: When Barack Obama... →
The whole article is really interesting. The craziest part is that Apple employees (through contractors) over 700,000 people in China to make this stuff. That is around a 1/2 of the US population.
maxistentialist:
New York Times:
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the...
Card.io... hey that was my idea
Today a company called Card.io launched it is a mobile payment app that instead of using a dongle like Square it uses the camera to take a picture of the card.
When Square launched I was surprised that they were not utilizing the camera as a alternative method to capture the card and wrote about that here. I have always thought that the dongle was a little crappy.
It will be interesting to see...
BRYCE DOT VC: Not Everyone Gets a Seed Round →
brycedotvc:
On MLK day, I decided to take my kids to the Chabot Space Center to explore and take in one of their amazing planetarium shows. As we were getting seated, our baby, who is notoriously fussy, was doing what she does. Kind of whining, kind of talking, kind of screaming. As parents do, we were…
This is a great post about parenting. The over coddling thing is something that does...
5 Pages of Crap
I was trying to find a small company in New Jersey called NU-EZ Finishing. If you search “nu e-z finishing corp” in Google, it takes 5 pages of going through all of these crappy scummy SEO aggregator sites to get to their actual website, www.nuezbindery.com.
The reason their website is so buried is because they are obviously not a internet company so their website is not optimized...
RIM’s Rumored 10-inch PlayBook: A Bigger Mistake →
parislemon:
Great headline by Kevin C. Tofel.
HP killed the TouchPad way too early. RIM will apparently kill the PlayBook far too late. They need to kill it right now and focus. But they won’t.
Agree. This needs to be stopped, focus on building kick ass phones. Once they have that working again then you can play follow the apple.
Zappos Security Breach
Security breaches are now a fact of life, on Sunday Zappos became the latest victim. If Iran can hack into a Top Secret US Drone and land it, then you have to consider that there is no safe place in the cloud for your info. If the hackers really want it they seem to be able to get it.
Which has me thinking that security going forward is going to have to do a lot more with...
“I have been using Tumblr since 2007 for my personal blog, www.jamessiminoff.com....”
– My comment to the post, “Startups: Don’t host your blog on Tumblr”
December 2011
23 posts
Two Buck Chuck →
parislemon:
I give AT&T a lot of shit (and rightfully so for jackassery moves like this). But it’s important to remember that their main competitor, Verizon, is also a sleazy carrier. Today brings the perfect example of that.
The largest carrier in the U.S. is apparently about to start charging a $2 fee if you pay your bill online or over the phone, sources tell Droid Life. Yes, they’re...
“Brian Williams discussed it with the Kate Snow (who did the piece), and he said...”
– Mocked and Misunderstood
Great post from Fred Wilson today. I loved this part, where Brian WIlliams shows his ignorance towards Kickstarter in a piece that aired about the company last night. You can watch the whole piece here. Also what is more interesting is after spending all of this time and...
“I’ve been doing location and mobile stuff for a while - for more than 10 years...”
– Dennis (via brycedotvc)
People that do research reports are like that friend you have that bets on sports and never wins. You have no fucking idea how or why they continue to do the same losing thing over and over again but they do. And the best part is they are always confident that at sometime...
WatchXmas in high speed.
Happy holidays to everyone.
Google Triples Their Firefox Pay To Keep Microsoft... →
parislemon:
Looks like the thought that Bing could step in as the new Firefox benefactor weren’t far off the mark at all. In fact, Microsoft tried to make such a deal happen, Kara Swisher reports.
Ultimately it didn’t happen for one reason: money. At $300 million a year (with a minimum three-year contract), Google is nearly tripling their annual payments to Mozilla to keep Microsoft away.
...
“One month later, the project would close with $942,578 pledged by 13,512 backers...”
– Such an amazing article. Gabe me goosebumps.
Kickstarter all the way!
Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing product development | The Verge (via david-noel)
Another awesome article about Kickstarter.
Don't Forget Brooklyn: NYU's plan for the old MTA... →
ceonyc:
Seemingly to save face, Stanford pulled out of NYC’s Applied Sciences initiative to build a world-class engineering school last week. At the same time, Cornell got an anonymous $350 million…
It is great watching all of this university activity in NYC.
