December 2009
looks like the Pats used what I like to call AT&T...
(via hono-lulu)
I love witty football fans.
November 2009
Jess Eddy is freakin' awesome.
No joke.
Her tumblr.
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eMusic downloads for November
Beast Rest Forth Mouth - Bear in Heaven
Logos - Atlas Sound
Other Truths - Do Make Say Think
Phrazes For The Young - Julian Casablancas
Swim Until You Can’t See Land - Frightened Rabbit
Fried Catfish with Chive-Ginger Sauce →
Tonight’s dinner, served with green beans and rice.
What She Wore
fromme-toyou:
A collaboration project with Jessica of What I Wore
Inspired by the silver screen goddesses of the 1960s we created our own modern day story of this stylish era and what they wore.
Makeup by Jessica Ross
Hair by Kate Hanley
Styling by Jessica Schroeder
Photo/Style Assistant - Tiffany Arment
Vintage necklace courtesy of Telesca
Incredible photographs.
Also,...
“Tonight, there will be a reunion. Are you ready for a summit at The Garden? Are...”
– Bruce Springsteen introducing Billy Joel at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert on HBO. (via gbattle)
Is there a way I can watch this without subscribing to HBO? I’m willing to pay-per-view.
“Structurally we fucked it up. European tech companies would normally have been...”
– “We f**cked it up”: Lack of media companies buying startups is Europe’s achilles heel says Hommels (via pheelmore) (via david-noel)
Media companies may or may not have gotten smarter, but they sure got poorer.
“Mostly though I’m just sad. I never envisioned the CrunchPad as a huge business....”
– The End Of The CrunchPad
This story about the quick demise of the crunchpad is really crazy. I can’t believe someone would try to pull this kind of bullshit with someone so prominent as a the founder of the most popular tech blog in the world. Like Arrington, I’m sad this project didn’t work out....
Platforms and Networks: A Compilation of the Web's... →
robgo:
Really excellent compilation by Tom Eisenmann. Enjoy!
Chasing the Money vs. Chasing the Problem
robgo:
I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently, and the funding announcement for Chegg and BookRenter motivated me to write a quick post.
As a VC, I think a lot about how to determine what investment areas I think are interesting and also how to select the most promising companies within those areas. Recently, I’ve found myself confronting two different paths.
Path 1 is chasing the...
Looking for Employee #1 - VP of Customers
Postling’s goal is to help businesses get the most out of social media with the least amount of effort. This position is called “VP of Customers” because your entire focus will be on customers: learning from customers, acquiring customers, creating relationships with customers and between customers, and educating customers. The position spans marketing, PR, sales, and...
An actual update to nycmeetups.com!
fatmanatee:
You can now submit meetups here. I’m not sure if this is even a good idea, and I might run away as far as possible if it goes awry, but there you go. Drinks, clubs, bands, comedy, whatever. Meet random people from the internet!
The theme is also fresh and clean, will add comments soon.
Dave Winer has started using Tumblr →
jonathan-deamer:
(He’s the godfather of RSS/podcasting, an Internet veteran and one of the smartest thinkers on the future of communication and the web that I know of).
Winer mostly uses Tumblr to talk about RSS Cloud, his contribution to the real-time web.
I just wrote the job description for employee #1
You’ll be “VP of Customers”. I’m posting it officially next monday morning, but if you want a sneak peak, email me at dave@postling.com.
A clinic with two doors-- the future of healthcare... →
jayparkinsonmd:
At the Lenox Hill clinic, on the insurance side, Helen waited 15 days to get an appointment. On the day of her mammogram, she stood in line at the reception desk in a crowded waiting room. An elderly patient wandered the reception area in her hospital gown, pleading for someone to help her. In the changing room, Helen’s gown was the usual thin seersucker. The technician was...
Notable: Collaborative Feedback for Websites →
alexpopescu:
An interesting tool for providing feedback about websites (design, content, etc.). The team behind Notable is also maintaining an interesting ☞ blog. You probably have already seen around the internet other forms of capturing feedback about the site, but most of the time those are just forms or forums integrations, while Notable seems to offer more advanced options.
It is...
Lorem Ipsum
mikehudack:
allang:
clientsfromhell:
I had a client review a design, and all the textarea’s were filled with ‘Lorem Ipsum’. Reply: It looks good, but we don’t understand it.
Me: What don’t you understand?
Reply: The text. What language is that anyway?
Me: It doesn’t mean anything, it’s to fill up the textareas. Just focus on the design, not the content.
Reply, after a day or two: Could...
“And the most popular of the cupcake blogs, Cupcakestakethecake, is visited by...”
– The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes - NYTimes.com
Yay! Cupcakes Take The Cake is mentioned in the New York Times.
(via nichelle)
Congrats, Niche!
“Coincidentally, Twitter this week released its long-awaited geolocation API into...”
– Wired-o-Nomics: Mad Men, Media, Marketing and a Fine Mess | Epicenter | Wired.com (via courtenaybird)
“The simplest flaw in the MicroFox’s strategic logic? MicroFox is trying to...”
– Umair Haque on the Microsoft-News Corp talks. Love this guy.
Why Big Media’s Anti-Google Counter-Revolution Will Fail - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
eBay: Our Mobile Users Will Spend More Than $500... →
infoneernet:
cyan1975:
Key facts:
Value of goods sold via iPhone app and mobile website is on track to top half a billion dollars by the end of this year
growing at a double-digit rate month-over-month
approximately half of its 750,000 unique mobile users per month are situated outside the United States
downloaded 5 million times to date
available in 8 languages and in 77 countries
...
New Postling updates
We quietly launched support for Wordpress categories and Drupal-powered blogs yesterday. Chris will have an official announcement soon. Enjoy!
Seattle Update
needtherapy:
Pike’s Place Market is great. I don’t know what I was expecting, something commercialized and gitchy, like Niagara Falls, but it’s actually lovely and feels fairly genuine. The prices are pretty reasonable, the fruit is delicious and the fish are…well…fishy.
Seattle is wonderful. We’re a little. The people are just delightful (probably because they’re all hopped up on...
“The most striking feature of the H1N1 flu vaccine manufacturing process is the...”
– wow. article at kottke: How the H1N1 vaccine is made (via benjaminpalmer)
If only I invested in chicken futures…
