January 2012
14 posts
Watchlast sopa/pipa then i’m done - ‘till big media trys it again.
imageoscillite:
You’ve seen a million SOPA/PIPA posts today. This is the most important one.
“Acquaintance name,
I’m trying to populate the website. Would it be possible...”
– This is from an acquaintance’s client for whom I develop. I can not make this up.
i miss the fucking tigers.
I never had a tiger in my life, but I know I miss having them there. I am sure of it. Why? Because Tigers made tomorrow the best god given day of your life - you just hoped you got to see it. The stagnation and boring routine of modern life is dragging us into lethargy - *we* (you and I) are the zombie apocolypse, the walking dead. Our routines are filled with drudgery, only spiced by the...
i entertain myself.: Join the Girl Scouts, Become... →
boom.
tanya77:
hilarysiegel:
Courtesy of Daily Worth:
They dominate their market. They’ve nailed brand loyalty. Their sales force is disciplined and aggressive. They’re the Girl Scouts, and after 100 years, they’re finally getting recognized for their financial prowess—with 13 new badges rewarding money smarts. Badges are a big deal, as any scout will tell you—a testament to hard-won...
“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People...”
– Chad Dickerson, CEO Etsy | Scaling startups (via courtenaybird)
i don’t care if those numbers are true or not.
hey amber rae: The Unconventional Dictionary →
this chick rocks.
although I would like to propose this correction:
anxiety, experiencing failure early => experiencing the perception of failure early.
heyamberrae:
I propose a new kind of dictionary. One that is founded on the belief that we don’t have to live how others expect us to and that we should instead live our own ideal life.
Why? Because far too often I hear people say...
May 2011
3 posts
2 tags
tag test
please move along, nothing to see here.
April 2011
19 posts
“The early days of any company – successful or not – are complex, messy, often...”
– Melodramatic Bullshit (via pegobry)
What I've Learned about Software Engineering
I am going to have to agree fully.
alexpopescu:
Ted Nyman:
What I’ve learned about software engineering:
Listen to smart people
Prefer simple to clever
Have no ego
Shut the fuck up
onstartups →
Perhaps I have been living under a rock, but i just discovered this.
“How many location-based companies can you have? When you’re 24, restaurants and...”
– Mark Suster (via soupsoup)
attention - the new currency online
When I ran my previous video company, this was my motto.
Many would ask why paying for video service is so important when they could use youtube for free. Well if you are delivering a message, paying (either time, money, or both) to get in front of someone - you better be sure as hell that you are the only one talking to that user when they get there. Youtube is not conducive to that. Click...
business plan tools?
so a web 2.0 business plan search has yielded some fairly humorous results, but no real tools. In a post earlier this afternoon, I asked if anyone had run across a helper to generate one. two schools of thought arose: the first was that a business plan was laughable, the second was more of a stringent stare like ‘if you don’t know how, then move on’. I still think that plans are...
is there a simple business plan builder app...
looking around, all I see is subscriptions and downloadables.
is there a site with an interactive builder?
paywall?
when did a ‘subscription’ become a ‘paywall’? ya know - back in my day kids, we had to pay for good information. but you only want what’s free. and now you have gawker. you get what you pay for, and changing the name dosen’t make the people on the other side any different. Journalism costs money. caugh it up or make decisions on poor reporting and speculation.
Disruption Roulette
Damnit - where do I find a phone book these days?!
entrepreneuradvocate:
A fun little game for entrepreneurs.
You will need the following:
1 White board
1 Computer with Internet connection
1 Yellow Pages
Simply take the phone book and throw it up in the air. Whatever section it lands on, create a disruptive business model and build a minimum viable product.
Any industry that still fills...
2 tags
March 2011
3 posts
December 2010
1 post
Untitled-1 @ 66.7% (RGB/16): Net Neutrality →
good thoughts on the issue:
pseudonym:
Net neutrality started as a strictly economical issue (i.e. Google who buys IP connectivity from Level3, should not have to pay AT&T extra money when Level3 and AT&T already have an existing non-discriminatory traffic exchange agreement in place).
But now the term is being applied to damn near…
October 2010
1 post
Pant status: Jorts
September 2010
3 posts
worth a read: thoughts on park51 from a 9/11 widow
this strikes a chord with me as I continue to formulate my thoughts on the park51 politics.
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/09/07/we_are_not_experts_on_park_51.
Holy Crap
glad to hear good customer stories
evangotlib:
I left my iPad on the plane today. Did not even know I forgot it. I just got a call from United. They have it and I can pick it up at the airport tomorrow before my flight.
United Airlines FTW.
August 2010
1 post
Net Neutrality Is Critical for Innovation
glad to see some heavy thinkers endorsing this. Net neutrality is critical for many things, it is the reason I am here and you are reading this.
mikehudack:
continuations:
I am glad to see the net neutrality debate raging. As Union Square Ventures and on our personal blogs (AVC, Continuations) we have long been proponents of net neutrality (the USV link is from 2006!). Our own bias here is...
July 2010
3 posts
improv everywhere subway starwars
@evangotlib: thought you would enjoy this:
http://mashable.com/2010/07/14/improv-everywhere-star-wars/
June 2010
1 post
tumbler test
I really didn’t think that tumblr would allow *any* javascript in a page, but I was able to pull in an alert box. How did it work in your dashboard? I suppose we are all relying on the community to police? only one way to test. I will create a test account, insert malicious JS, follow it and we will see what happens: will report back momentarily.
so http://itsjustatest.tumblr.com/ is the...
March 2010
1 post
Justin starts a blog: Dear Tumblr, →
You can get the thumbnail URL and other metadata from our embed code by changing the src URL to /players/episode instead of /play. If you get:
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/7FCBxNIHAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always"...