June 2012
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Jun 22nd
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starrtup: “your chance of being awesome is so much greater if you’re working on something that just lights you on fire.” - @bfeld
Jun 21st
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Talking in Circles: Selective Sharing in Google+
Interesting learning Google+ is purposely designed for selective sharing whereas (according to my experiences and a discussion at GDG Seattle yesterday) Facebook is purposely designed to default to ‘open’ sharing. So it follows, findings reported in the paper, that sharing increases when sharing is selective. Still some wrinkles though: G+ is great for collecting followers (again...
Jun 21st
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Linus Torvalds to Nvidia: 0:49:00 ouch! →
Great Q&A with Linus and students at Aalto University, Otaniemi, Finland
Jun 19th
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Inside GitHub. Checkout combination of ‘web 2.0’ polyglot technologies used to cache and bring performance to the user experience.
Jun 18th
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mraleph: Explaining JavaScript VMs in JavaScript →
“A couple minutes ago I convinced I was a javascript expert; then I read this blog post” mraleph: I have a thing for virtual machines that are implemented in the language (or a subset of the language) they are built to execute. If I were in the academia or just had a little bit more free time I would definitely start working on a JavaScript VM written in JavaScript. Actually this...
Jun 17th
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Jun 16th
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#nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to... →
Jun 15th
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John Kao on Innovation from Improvisation & Mastery from Jazz. Brian Arthur introduces.
Jun 14th
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Apple switches friends. →
Apple’s new Facebook friendship should last longer than the doomed Google friendship: Given the importance of location, maps act as an ideal platform for commerce and search on mobile. Spurring Apple to develop its own mapping service, replacing Google maps on iOS devices. If you visit Yelp.com on mobile Safari, you’ll see a banner ad that says, “We have an iPhone app!” The idea is to get you...
Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
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Airtime: How Airtime Safety Works →
Anonymized identity tied, yet still tied to Facebook, so accountable … airtimeinc: Thanks to all the users who tried out Airtime yesterday… …Another key way we ensure safety is by tying people’s behavior to an identity. In a matched call, we initially keep the name of each person anonymous. If, during the video chat, one side requests to add the other person to their Airtime...
Jun 11th
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Jun 10th
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“It’s also one of the most important things VCs fail to understand about...”
– Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (via startuppity)
Jun 9th
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“The other key disruptor is empathy. Probably every company would say they try to...”
– Generosity, empathy, and disruption | peter.roj.as (via Heather Rasley)
Jun 8th
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PuppetDB: Configuration Management Database for... →
abnerg: nosql: PuppetDB is replacing CouchDB for managing Puppet configurations and is a service layer written in Clojure with a PostgreSQL back-end. Not a graph database: PuppetDB is a key component of the Puppet Data Library, and brings that to bear in its query API. Resources, facts, nodes, and metrics can all be queried over HTTP. For resources and nodes, there is a simple query language...
Jun 8th
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Jun 4th
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Jun 3rd
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Jun 2nd
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DESIGN DOING: What a VC is Really Thinking when... →
brianwitlin: Yesterday, my post went live on VentureBeat discussing the top 25 ways your startup will be turned down during fundraising. Most times, however, what an investor says is just scratching the surface of how he/she truly feels when declining to move forward with your company. Many more…
Jun 1st
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