March 2010
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February 2010
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The danger [of location based services like FourSquare] is publicly telling...
– Please Rob Me manifesto on when and why you should slap your friends.
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Philly Fight Night: The Tradition Continues →
This February 28th marks the 5th Annual Philly Fight Night, an amateur intra-graduate school boxing for charity exhibition started by my Wharton friends Schuyler Coppedge, David Birnbaum and RT Arnold, with the help of a host of others including myself as inaugural ring announcer. The event, held at the Legendary Blue Horizon made famous in the Rocky movies, has grown to become a tradition,...
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Mockingbird: Wireframes for a Song →
So, my weekend is filled with doing a bunch of wireframes for a few projects. What better way to test out Mockingbird, a web based wireframe application I’ve been meaning to test-drive. Mockingbird is perfect for doing wireframes on the go, with all the goodies you’d expect in such an app but many you might not - sharing, linking of pages, preview. A big plus is that it uses...
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Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million →
caterpillarcowboy:
Wow, congrats. It’s interesting that the founders left Google, spent 2.5 years building something, then get acquired by their former company for $50 million. What is going wrong at Google that is costing them this kind of “innovation premium”?
gbattle sez:
David, you aren’t considering the entire picture here. It’s not an “innovation premium” when...
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CSS Killswitch lets you non- destructively black out a difficult client’s...
– CSS Killswitch (via rafer)
gbattle sez:
This is pretty clever. Using this in addition to code obfuscation via translating all variable names into an unsightly series of 1’s and l’s until payment is received would be a very effective way to ensure payment.
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Use your own Bit.ly API key to shorten URLs
postling:
Postling gives you handy tools to shorten unwieldy URLs for use in your status posts, but up until now they were all created through Postling’s Bit.ly account. At the behest of our users, we’ve made it possible to use your own Bit.ly API key to keep track of all of your shortened URLs within Bit.ly for stat-tracking purposes.
To get set up, all you need to do is visit your Accounts...
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WOTD: mondegreen \MON-di-green\ , noun;
1. A word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been heard.
Quotes: Mondegreens can be found in every area of the spoken word, from the record buyer who asks for a copy of the Queen single “Bohemian Rap City” to the schoolchild who is convinced that the Pledge of Allegiance begins “I led the pigeons...
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it...
– Rudyard Kipling’s “If—”. I’ve heard three people quote this in a week.
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I made up a little metaphor for myself that was very helpful but is going to...
– My friend Hue Rhodes’ sage advice to aspiring filmmakers is also great advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. Train to be “that” athlete in your chosen endeavor.
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