May 2011
Announcing Postling Suggestions!
postling:
When we started Postling, one comment we heard from small business owners was, “I’m using social media, but it’s taking up way too much of my time.” As a result, we purpose-built Postling to allow small business owners, who have 100 other things to do each day, to manage their social media in 5 minutes a day. Another common comment we heard was, “I want to use social media, but I don’t...
Facebook Still Has No iPad App But They’re... →
Outraged? Seriously? Surely, you must be joking. Can someone please remind the Silicon Valley bubble that the “I’m bored at work, sitting in front of my desktop” market is HUGE compared to the “I can afford to own an iPad” market?
“Product development is about figuring out the single most important problem that...”
– Don’t plug leaks when you got no boat - humbledMBA (via gsiener)
Reply.com Acquires Marketing Network For Small... →
Wow, looks like they sold out to an ad network. I wonder if the Google search results changes from earlier this year contributed to a sense to desperation.
“Saints quarterback Drew Brees ponders the timeline and presents a different...”
– Just when I thought I couldn’t love Drew Brees any more than I already do, he’s slowly emerging as a new pro-labor voice in America, likable, fiery and articulate, telling The Man to go fuck himself instead of bending over and taking a high hard one. Who-fucking-dat! (via cajunboy)
“Multiple sites, including the Daily Beast and Jezebel, have picked up Koerner’s...”
– Averie Timm (via soupsoup)
Unfortunately, this was already all too commonplace byt the time I started working at Etsy in 2008. Ironically, one of my good friends and longtime Etsy seller has her line of screenprinted napkins and ovenmitts being sold in Anthropologie’s around the world...
“Looking brazen to 2011, Postling has even some-more amicable media pity...”
– Postling right away has 50, 000 related accounts as well as youtube integration | Tips
The newest way to SEO spam - take a real blog post (from TheNextWeb) and run it through Google Translate a bunch of times.
The original sentence above is: “Looking forward to 2011, Postling has even more...
“When Tweetie became part of the Twitter family the user growth was huge,...”
– TweetDeck joins Twitter.
HAHAHHAHAHHAHA
ohh that’s rich
(via giantrobotlasers)
lol.
“Social media is not “cool.” MAKING MONEY IS COOL.”
– Why I Will Never, Ever Hire A “Social Media Expert”
Love Peter Shankman.
“The Hangover Part II” is a dour, cynical rushjob of a movie that, if you enjoyed...”
– That’s Yahoo! critic Will Leitch here to give you the depressingly inevitable news that “The Hangover Part II” is terrible. And it’s now official: “Super 8” needs to be the greatest movie ever made, or else 2011 will end up being the single worst year in the history of film. Even the year “RoboCop...
Evan's Blog. Meh.: I am outraged that iced coffee... →
robpollak:
Now that I’ve made my yearly switch to iced coffee, I’m falling into my usual warm weather routine: I wake up, press snooze, press snooze, press snooze, shower, towel dry, air dry, get dressed, walk to the subway, take a free newspaper from a moderately homeless gentleman, read…
Check out this quora thread on the topic. Iced coffee is most expensive because people see it as a...
Was LinkedIn Scammed? - NYTimes.com →
I have no doubt that most everyone at LinkedIn was thrilled to see the run-up; most executives at start-ups usually are. An I.P.O. is an important marker for any company. And, of course, the executives themselves are suddenly rich. But, in reality, LinkedIn was scammed by its bankers.
The fact that the stock more than doubled on its first day of trading — something the investment bankers, with...
“What we failed to ask was, “Who cares?”
– The End Of Blippy As We Know It
And this is exactly how NYC is different than Silicon Valley.
“FULL DISCLOSURE: In the interest of full disclosure to the scientific community,...”
– In-N-Out vs. Five Guys vs. Shake Shack: The First Bi-Coastal Side-By-Side Taste Test | A Hamburger Today
“Every venture investor I know has changed his plans with respect to taking...”
– Some LinkedIn Lessons & Implications - Bloomberg
In other words, the IPO window is now wide open…
Things will get crazier.
(via jryu)
Yes, crazy times ahead. Greedy bastards.
Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than... →
infoneer-pulse:
Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years...
How To Party Your Way Into a Multi-Million Dollar... →
Ouch. This is unnecessary.
“A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely...”
– Douglas Adams. (can I get an amen from the people working in tech and digital)
“An investment company has launched a £25 million hedge fund that will use the...”
– One Per Cent: Investment firm launches Twitter-based hedge fund
Oh the horror.
Noticing something about AngelList
It’s no longer sufficient to be investment-grade. There are so many investment-grade companies on AL that angels can’t afford to invest in all of the ones they like. So, the rich get richer, and some startups miss out. Interesting dynamic that didn’t exist even 6 months ago.
Also, “proprietary dealflow” is a joke.
Amazon's Hidden Empire →
khuyi:
I think Jeff Bezos has got to be one of the most underrated CEOs out there. Amazon is amazing. This slide deck explains why.
This deck explains exactly why I’m a Bezos fanboy.
In which a tech media panel gets punked by one of... →
Time For A Facebook Credit Card - Forbes →
I wrote a post for Forbes.com. My co-founders tell me it’s soul-suckingly evil.
“He announced on Twitter. What’s the matter? Was Tumblr down?”
– Jon Stewart (via soupsoup)
Oof. That’s a shame, considering that Tumblr uptime has been way better than it was.
