February 2011
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“Microsoft gets a lot of stick for producing clunky software. But even during the...”
– Perhaps it’s a case of just not checking out the competition, but I really don’t understand the vitriol spewed towards iTunes.
What exactly do you need it to do that it doesn’t do? It plays music, it plays media, and it plays nicely with all of my Apple peripherals (iPhone, AppleTV, etc). I don’t...
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Tumblr Notes: Feature or Bug?
I, along with many others, have been fairly vocal about how awful Tumblr’s search has become, and for good reason. Meteoric growth has made it damn near impossible to index everything across Tumblr using what I’d imagine to be one of the larger Solr/Lucene instances around (don’t quote me on the tech, just an assumption). I’m sure they err on the side of recency with...
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“My favorite part about being part of a community on twitter, tumblr, boxee,...”
– bijan sabet: Meritocracy inside our social networks
Bijan sets the tone here for a discussion I characterize as earned engagement vs. paid engagement. The social media ecosystem has engagement analogs to SEO and SEM within search. The power of earned engagement creates these service specific...
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“JPMorgan plans to buy and sell shares in these companies on behalf of clients,...”
– JPMorgan to Start Social Media Fund - NYTimes.com (via derekg)
This makes me even more nervous than most other signs of the seed bubble.
(via khuyi)
YES. I’ve been meaning to write a letter.ly about this. The seed bubble, in total absolute dollars, is small. At best the size of one VC fund, and...
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“I think we need to make a distinction between two different kinds of searches —...”
– Black hat S.E.O. expert, Mark Stevens (fake name), categorizes intent.
After reading the article, it makes you question how porous the Chinese Wall is between Matt Cutts’ Webspam team who punish black hat S.E.O. and the AdWords team fueling S.E.M. The logical extension from Stevens’...
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DST Swagger: Y-Combinator Index of Convertible... →
Yuri Milner, CEO of DST, just pulled an Oprah for the current YC class: “And you get $150K, and you get $150K, and you …”
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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
– Blaise Pascal
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“Lady Gaga is the best thing to happen to costumes and the worst thing to happen...”
– Tim Gunn nailed it.