February 2010
53 posts
January 2010
134 posts
“Detlef Schrempf” by Band Of Horses
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“They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things...”
– Steve Jobs on Adobe (via brilliantcrank)
MEOW and *applause*
“As We Enter” by Nas & Damian...
The radio brain →
bobulate:
On how the brain “tunes in” to one idea:
If you think of the example of the jammed radio, the way to hear what you want out of the messy signals would be to listen really hard for the latest news while trying to filter out the unwanted music. The hippocampus does this more efficiently. It simply tunes in to the right frequency to get the station it wants. As the cells tune into the...
“Driving my son to school is really important to me. Sometimes, if I have a...”
– The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak
That’s pretty awesome.
Steve Jobs Punishes a Leaker →
Remember the publisher leaked Steve Jobs’ iPad secrets yesterday? His punishment has begun. (via Gawker)
Nearly Half Of Netflix Subscribers Now Watch... →
Related: Netflix spinoff Roku (set-top box that streams Netflix to TVs) raising private equity.
“The Letter” by The Veils
“The driving goal of SEO is link building. At the risk of sounding schmaltzy, the...”
– Dream building instead of link building: Conversion Optimization Is The New SEO
“It’s the same hole they filled with the iPod. When it came out, there were CDs...”
– Derek Powazek - What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow
“Too many people harbor the misguided belief that humans are motivated solely by...”
– Dan Pink to Seth Godin regarding Seth’s new book Linchpin
(via Bobulate: Try to be anything else)
“Intergalactic Spell” (Beastie Boys vs...
“Take my desire to spread your post and divide it by the time it takes for you to...”
– Twitter / Bud Caddell
“If you make the engineers answer e-mails and phone calls from the customers, the...”
– Kayak co-founder on customer service - Good Experience
Speaking from personal experience, this is totally true.
Almost $40 Billion In Cash: What Is Apple Waiting... →
To me the most notable number that emerged from the earnings report is Apple’s total cash holdings: Having produced $5.8 billion in cash from operations, Apple finished the quarter with $39.8 billion in cash and short-term investments, or about $44 in cash per share. That figure is sure to re-ignite criticism that Apple may not be putting its considerable cash resources to the best possible use.
Soundcloud teams up with Hype Machine to service... →
In a savvy move, SoundCloud are to partner with music portal The Hype Machine to let labels and artists service music bloggers – a key component of the music scene now – with new and pre-release tracks.
“VCR” (Matthew Dear Remix) by The Xx
“Entrepreneurship, in my opinion, is a life-long thing if you do it right....”
– Andy Swan » Should I wait for _________?
The Avett Brothers / Heartless Bastards (Full... →
Dreamy.
YouTube Inks First Live Sports Broadcast Deal →
Now we’re talking.
“Blood” by The Middle East
“Boy From School” (Hot Chip cover) by...
“My Coco” by Stellastarr (obvs)
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“What would it mean if social networking over-took search in terms of sheer...”
– Why is Google Afraid of Facebook? Because Social Networking Could Soon Pass Search
“A great Gmail app would save iPhone several million people switching to Android....”
– Twitter / Evan Williams
“Symphonies” Feat Kid CuDi (Remix) by...
“The Kindle on the other hand doesn’t have a monthly bandwidth service fee or...”
– The most interesting thing about the Kindle - bijansabet.com
“When you force users to act in a new, inorganic way, you lose some of them. The...”
– YelpSquare | Jon Steinberg
Rafer sez:
Specifically, Yelp won’t spend the goodwill with their users to make them act in a way that is unnatural on Yelp. When you force users to act in a new, inorganic way, you lose some of them. The more unnatural the act, the greater the leakage. For Foursquare,...
“To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com,...”
– The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends
These guys just kill it on every blog post. Some of the most interesting research and analysis on the web.
