February 2009
franimal:
Wildcat, Classics, Ratatat
This is...
Mark Zuckerberg on the Today’s Show →
davemorin:
Mark Zuckerberg is the Founder and CEO here at Facebook and one of my great friends. This morning he went on the Today’s Show to talk with Matt Lauer about sharing and connecting on Facebook and…
It’s really interesting how he handles the Twitter question. First, like a pro, he doens’t directly answer the question, nor mention the competitor. He says Facebook is the largest...
“Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven...”
– The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
Good. I think Mad Men certainly influenced this.
Watch‘We are prepared to be radical’ - makers of a home with a sliding roof
“A century ago, there was no air travel. The Wright brothers were in the process...”
– Nanodot: The audacity of nano-hope
“What’s the worst that can happen? You’ll fail?”
– Chris Wanstrath
Founder of GitHub gave a great talk [transcript] at StartupRiot of how he started his company.
I found the link via Bryce
I’m still a relatively green web entrepeneur with nobody to worry about but myself and I have trouble understanding how people handle failure when they have...
Awkward Tipjoy payments from tumblr →
I feed my Tumblr to twitter, and Tipjoy tracks my twitter stream. I just wrote a Tumblr post with a payment command that got picked up as a Tipjoy payment. Too bad the URL was shortened by either Tumblr or Twitter. You can see the payment here.
Watchkortina:
the arrival of Homo evolutis
Great TED talk via Nav.
He talks about robots and bio enhancements, but cognitive enhancement doesn’t come up. That could be so much more important. Note that these are somewhat related to the “capping” on health care spending. Research and treatment for alzheimers is definitely related to cognitive enhancement. I suppose the share of...
hopefully this shows up in my twitter stream
“Go mow some yards, bitch.”
– Phishing the Phisher
You have got to read this exchange. I love these corners of the internet.
“What use could this company make of an electrical toy?”
– William Orton, president of Western Union, when given an offer to buy the patent for the telephone for $100,000.
thanks to Numair for this quote
(via fred-wilson)
WatchI could go with some better vocals, but the live performance is awesome.
