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.
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“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.
“…how to make sense of the web overrun by factory-produced, SEO-optimized...”
– From Om Malik’s post “Meet the Internet’s newest boy genius”. Om is such a great writer. This story is one of his best.
More interesting than the entrepreneur is the importance of the problem he is trying to solve.
(via awaldstein)
This is indeed a great article you should read. Arnold forgot to...
WatchThis would be more funny if the Perry commercial was a Saturday night live skit. But Colbert as always was able to put things in perspective.
“02:14:23 (Robert) Putain, on va taper… C’est pas vrai!
Damn it,...”
– -Air France cockpit recording from flight 447
Read the whole transcript, it is so scary how this happened. The first thing you learn when becoming even a recreational pilot is stalls and how to recover with just the instruments. I remember when I was getting my pilots licence how this was a very...
10% of this year's Sundance selections raised... →
Kickstarter is so amazing. I plan on using it heavily in the years to come. Definitely quickly becoming one of the most powerful businesses on the web in terms of truly making a impact on the world.
whitneymcn:
This is mindblowing from a wide variety of perspectives, so I’ll just pick one:
Remember when Kickstarter hit 1MM backers a couple of months ago, and it was pointed by (first by...
Can Technology Solve Traffic? →
Saw the below post which got my wheels turing on the whole solving traffic thing.
As I watch all of the $billions of road projects around the US to expand highways I can’t help but think that technology could solve the issue better then additional lanes.
Once the highway backs up the throughput is dead. Living in LA has proven to me that more lanes is just not the answer.
Some thoughts I...
BRYCE DOT VC: Capturing More Value Than You Create →
brycedotvc:
I didn’t get upgraded on my flight home from NYC tonight.
That’s not so unusual. I only get upgraded about 50% of the time. As I schleped it to my coach seat there was nothing too out of the ordinary save for a couple dilapidated seats with tray tables being held up by duct tape and one…
Brain scanner can recreate movie scenes you've... →
This is awesome, check out the video below.
via azspot
Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have figured out a way of recreating visual activity taking place in the brain and reconstructing it using YouTube clips.
The team used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and computational models to decode and reconstruct visual experiences in the minds of test subjects....
“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life...”
– Steve Jobs (via joesunga)
Basically the Matrix
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Gandhi (via fred-wilson)
“We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working...”
– Thierry Breton, CEO of French Technology firm Atos ($11.5 billion in revenue), Tech Firm Implements Employee ‘Zero Email’ Policy
Instead of email they are going to all internal tools for inter-company communications. I think that is awesome, at large firms I think email...