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via Umair Haque similar thoughts echoed here

Oct 17th

Google had an internal "Javascript Summit."... →

Oct 3rd

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Overhead = 1.5 lbs.

My favorite backpack finally failed on Friday. The zipper had been in rough shape for a week or so, but for several days I had managed to jam in my sneakers and gym clothes and the unfortunately large Amazon-issued ThinkPad laptop, plus some notes and papers, and I had been able to get it to close as long as I zipped only in one direction. But Friday, on my way home from work, the main zipper...

Oct 3rd

Aug 23rd

Why I had to root my Android phone

# rm PowerOn.snd # rm PowerOn.wav # reboot ahhhhhh. quiet.

May 30th

Duh →

Mar 13th

The handy guide to PMs

I find myself explaining this a lot, so it’s time to write it down for reference. In software development, one encounters 3 types of PMs: Product Managers, (Technical) Program Managers, and Project Managers. It is important to know the difference between the three. Product Managers have an MBA. They have a deep and visceral understanding of how the money flows in their market segment. They...

Nov 24th

Aug 2nd

“Until recently I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be...”

– http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/education/06gain.html (via @bgurley)

Jun 6th

I like #4 the best

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/good-luck-with-that/37837/ […] 4. At a private Democratic retreat, Minnesota freshman Al Franken blasted David Axelrod and other assembled Obama administration officials for allowing talk about health care to dissipate from the public discourse. This exchange impressed Axelrod favorably. He began to re-advocate internally for a robust...

Mar 23rd

Mar 19th

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“We love HTML5 so much, that we want it to actually work. In IE9, it will,”...”

– Microsoft Pri0 | MIX10: More video coming in Internet Explorer 9 with HTML5 | Seattle Times Newspaper Sawickipedia: Microsoft has no choice put to get behind HTML5 in a big way. It’s the only hedge against the hegemonies of Flash and Apple’s Apps for mobile. Much like the music labels had to...

Mar 17th

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Feb 13th

The Hottest VC No One Has Ever Heard Of

robgo: What do Admob, CafePress, Aardvark, Polyvore, and Xoopit have in common? If you said that they were all backed by great VC’s like Sequoia, August, Benchmark, and Accel, you would be correct. But did you know that they are also all backed by the same seed stage investor as well? What these companies all have in common is that they are all portfolio companies of Harrison Metal Capital....

Feb 8th

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http://abovethecrowd.com/2010/01/05/android-or-ipho... →

“Despite this remarkable success, history will also show that Apple intentionally chose a business model with plenty of room for disruption underneath its pricing structure.” (thanks to matsm for the reblog that pointed me back to a favorite source)

Jan 21st

MySpace - iLike →

(via brendan)

Aug 23rd

Jul 6th

Jun 1st

A Clarification for Steve

Steve (is he back from Africa?) B. wrote to point out, as an offended southerner, that the Mason-Dixon line refers very specifically to the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Of course Steve is correct in the exact sense (ref. Wikipedia), but not in the colloquial sense: From 1820 onward the name Mason-Dixon Line came in general colloquial usage to mean the boundary between the free...

May 29th

May 23rd

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May 16th

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“You can take that road - and it may work for some of you. But at this difficult...”

– President Obama’s commencement address at ASU

May 14th

Watch

If you’re at all interested in the state of online video, this is 18 mins of your time well spent. Money quote: “I think a lot of these guys don’t really understand what it takes to program a Broadcom chip.” (at 16:00) Slides and original post here.

May 11th

Requiem for a dying newspaper industry

This weekend, Bonnie and I went to see State of Play (plot summary: cute cub reporter, grizzled old vet, black helicopters) at the Big Picture (once again, what an awesome place to see a movie). In so many ways, the film is a requiem for a dying newspaper industry. The cub reporter is from the online division, the grumpy veteran’s office is filled with paper. The movie is capped off with...

May 4th

jakemintz: Blind Pilot - The Story I Heard ...

May 4th

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glenn mcdonald on Douglas Bowman's departure from... →

“Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better.”

May 3rd

The Flypaper Job Description

I was surprised to note this morning that Google registers no hits for the phrase “flypaper job description” (nor for several variants), which is a phrase I’ve used off and on for a while. So, here’s my minor contribution to the vocabulary of the tech startups world. A flypaper job description, or flypaper job posting, is a listing designed to attract potential candidates...

Apr 29th

Facebook Announces Users Will Soon Be Able to... →

Apr 28th

Apr 17th

Photosynth for video →

Anyone who has spent more than few minutes with me lately has probably been subjected to some ranting about the need for something like Photosynth for video. I think the potential for improving video navigation is enormous. Fortunately since this is Microsoft they probably won’t get it right immediately. So if you have some interest and/or expertise in this space, give me a shout because I...

Feb 27th

Feb 19th

DevHub - Free Web Hosted Publishing Platform →

This is about to go live. Contact me for a preview. - asteele DevHub is a free web hosted publishing platform and content editor. We bring publishing tools, API integrations, and…

Feb 11th

Feb 9th

Brand advertising on social networks

…is going to be huge. It probably already is getting huge, and they’re just not talking about it because when the money is starting to flow your way, why let everyone else know? If there’s one thing that drives me crazy right now, it’s the repeated meme (it’s been going for at least a year) that there’s no money in advertising on social networks, that CPMs are...

Feb 6th