September 2009
“Cookies, cake, ice cream and stew, I can eat them all but you are not allowed...”
– I really hate you James. (via vneckandacardigan)
Bagels and lox coming up in a little over 2 hours! I can’t wait.
Nivi / Venture Hacks is having a NY Meetup on... →
You should go. I would if I weren’t flying to Seattle that day.
asie:
Red grapes > Green grapes
Concord grapes > green grapes > red grapes.
“Also, in some ways the funding is a negative for USV and Spark as now there is...”
– Nuances of Twitter Financing | Bronte Media
Man, this post is full of good points.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey invested in... →
caro:
Yay! I wrote it! But all shameless self-promotion aside, interesting in light of the fact that Twitter will be expanding its API to geolocation.
Twitter has every reason to acquire foursquare, if foursquare allows it.
What tickles me is, if Twitter uses money they got from USV to buy foursquare (who is living off of their own money from USV) does that count as a win for USV?
“The number one cause of startup failures is pre-mature scaling. Twitter may have...”
– Nuances of Twitter Financing | Bronte Media (via hiten)
“Twitter is fast becoming urban culture’s 4Chan, just bigger.”
– Leftover Takeout - Facebook Attrition and Twitter Trends
gbattle makes a great point, again. Go back and read the whole (re)blog post.
A Life of its Own: Where will synthetic biology... →
sunnynsassy:
Wow. Reading this on the way into work on the heels of a podcast with a very different perspective on life, I was extremely torn. The scientist in me was thinking: awesome! so cool! take me back to the lab! But a lot of other parts of me are thinking, whoa…not sure we should mess with some things in a way that seems to ammount to playing God. Still mulling it over.
Either way,...
Google kills another industry with Google Places →
Google released a new product last week called Google Places, which aggregates onto a single page all the information you’d need to evaluated a business — address, phone number, map, photos, reviews from Yelp and Zagat and 500 other authoritative sources, and user contributed content.
Smart companies like Yelp who have built in a strong community to their product will be fine. The real...
I'm astounded by how often I hear about news here...
You guys rock. Thank you.
Schedule your posts
postling:
Following up on some of the excellent user suggestions we’ve been receiving, we’ve just launched scheduling support on Postling!
Postling users now have the option of publishing their content at any specific time in the future on all of our supported services. To schedule a post, pick a date and time after writing your post — it’s that simple!
As always, we love to hear what you...
Rainy Sundays
Are perfect for watching football all day.
“What this means is that there are lots of VCs out there with huge funds and very...”
– The Twitter investment and the decline of venture capital — cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog
Term sheet tune-up - Venture Hacks →
Good stuff from Nivi again. Read if you’re in the Seed / Bridge / Series A stage of your startup.
Cooking Class Tonight
thegoodcook:
Tonight is the 5 hour couples cooking class that Mike got me for my bday! Really excited to spend the night learning and cooking (and eating).
The class is at The Institute of Culinary Education on 23rd st and 6th ave. Here is the menu we’re going to make:
Tomato and Watermelon Salad
Grapefruit and Avocado Salad
Sauteed Skirt Steak with Frisee and Roasted Potato Salad
Spiced...
The concept of "open letters" makes me chuckle.
On my way to shake shack before Ignite.
Should be there from 4:30 to 6:00 if you want to drop by and say hello.
“The choice is ours. We can be remembered as a generation that chose to drag the...”
– Barack Obama in his address to the UN this morning. Full text here.
Startup tech company will invest $15M to expand in... →
Need warm bodies? Michigan has a 15.2% unemployment rate.
I'm going to Ignite NYC tonight. Are you?
Free Stella Artois and Chipotle Tacos from 6-7.
Event info on facebook.
Haven't we seen this already? →
The web does not need more of this.
[Google Launches Sidewiki — More Like a Universal Commenting System, Om Malik]
U.N. members are refusing to come to order in...
winstonwolfe:
Update: There was a small & short protest but he has now stepped up to the stage.
For me, someone who vividly remembers how despicable a human being he was & probably still is, it’s disappointing to see him standing there addressing the U.N.
I always believed he would have sponsored an attack on U.S. soil if only he had the balls to go through with it. Luckily he did not....
Google Chrome Frame makes IE6 users install a...
This is just retarded. You think people still using IE6 either a) have permissions to install a plugin, or b) know what a plugin is enough to install one?
Most people using IE6 are doing so because they have to (for work) or because they have an instinctive reaction to closing IE prompts without reading them (otherwise they would have seen all of the “Upgrade to IE7 IE8” and done...
Hackers & Founders NYC Meetup #5, 9/24 at Stand... →
datainsightsideas:
See you there!
I was just there on Saturday, but so what? Also, I’ve heard the Toasted Marshmallow milkshake is pretty scrumptious.
Princeton Achieves Marked Progress in Curbing... →
gbattle:
Five years after its inception, Princeton’s new grading policy has shown significant progress in bringing grades in undergraduate courses under better control. In 2008-09, A grades (A+, A, A-) accounted for 39.7 percent of grades in undergraduate courses across the University — the first time that A grades have fallen below 40 percent since the policy was approved.
gbattle sez: As a...
Who would you rather be, The Beatles or The...
“Why do we care to write about this? Actually deals like Zimbra is why we never...”
– The Real Cost of Acquisitions: the Zimbra Story | Zoho Blogs
Gelato brings real-time search to online dating →
This is cool. When you sign up, you hook up your facebook, twitter, flickr, last.fm, netflix, etc into your account. That way, people can search for “Arctic Monkeys” and find all the people who listened to them in last.fm. It’s a great way to get a better feel for who someone is beyond a static profile.
Design at Facebook →
giantrobotlasers:
whitneymcn:
Seems like Douglas Bowman’s observation on leaving Google is relevant here: the number of designers on staff signifies less than whether any of those designers hold a position of authority in the company.
If “design” doesn’t have any muscle within the organization—it’s viewed as those people who are eventually brought in to make stuff look pretty—sheer numbers...
Design at Facebook →
davidkaneda:
Luke Wroblewski’s notes from a recent presentation from Facebook on their design philosophy and approach. The most astonishing part of reading this was learning that Facebook’s design team consists of only 25 people. That’s 25 out of 1,000 total employees, designing an app which a quarter billion people use every day.
How would having more designers help? How is it related to the...