January 2012
1 post
News.me: Summify Users: We're here for you. You're... →
newsme:
Yesterday, our friends at Summify announced that they have been acquired by Twitter, that they “will be disabling new account registrations immediately and…removing some features” and that they plan to offer “a more streamlined service as we transition our efforts to working at Twitter.”
First…
October 2011
1 post
News.me: Looking for #7 →
newsme:
News.me is only a few months old as a standalone company. When we spun out of bitly in September and started building out the team, we had some hard decisions to make around hiring philosophy. We looked around at products that we admire - from startups like Instagram and Foursquare all the…
June 2011
2 posts
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think →
I spent time this week w/ an old Japanese friend and he was telling me awful stories. Radiation is still leaking into the water, they have no idea where to put the radiated water — it isnt over and yet here the media would have you think its all over and we have moved on.
stevewyshywaniuk:
“Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a...
April 2011
1 post
Young and Brilliant: It's my birthday and I want... →
ninakix:
It’s my birthday, perhaps you’ve heard on Twitter or Facebook. So I decided to do a birthday post. What do I want for my birthday? It’s simple: I want my interwebz back.
It used to be that the Internet was something of a wild wild west - sheer anarchy was everywhere. But if you’ve ever watched a…
February 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
Neutrality or bust=The Internet we know today... →
May 2010
1 post
This is a test post from the new Tweetdeck to tumblr ..
February 2010
2 posts
Leon Crawl: I talked to David Karp and he said... →
So, I interviewed Tumblr founder David Karp last week for a short biographical item that will appear in an upcoming issue of Paper. We talked for like an hour, about him for some of the time but also a lot about Tumblr and how it works. Since most of that stuff is not going to be used in the Paper…
The unread post count point is very important. Big mistake in the implementation of...
December 2009
1 post
Test post from tweetie
November 2009
3 posts
October 2009
1 post
July 2009
2 posts
gdgt
Listening to gdgt http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=290102878
June 2009
2 posts
May 2009
4 posts
microsyntax.org
We are excited at betaworks to announce the launch of microsyntax.org — a non profit to help shape and codify the use of structured syntax within real time streams.
“we are launching a new non-profit, Microsyntax.org, with the purpose of investigating the various ways that individuals and tool vendors are trying to innovate around this sort of microsyntax, trying to define reference...
April 2009
10 posts
bijan:
Keys To Your Heart - The 101ers
Before...
March 2009
2 posts
February 2009
5 posts
bit.ly now
We have had a lot going on at bit.ly over the past few weeks — some highlights — starting with some data.
• bit.ly is now encoding (creating) over 10m URL’s or links a week now — not too shabby for a company that was started last July.
• We picked the winners of the API contest last week after some excellent submissions
• Also last week the bit.ly team started to push...
Creative destruction ... Google slayed by the...
The web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early candidates. Today Yahoo and Ebay are struggling, and I think Google is tipping down the same path. This cycle of creative destruction — more recently framed as the innovators dilemma — is both fascinating and hugely dislocating for...
January 2009
17 posts
Man trapped by sofa sipped whisky - BBC News →
travors:
A man who became trapped beneath his sofa for two days said he survived by sipping from a bottle of whisky. “The whole settee tipped over catching me like a rat in a trap,” he said “I took a sip of [the whisky] and thought, well this isn’t too bad.”
Thank you Nina (n Fred)
fred-wilson:
Why? (The...
Summer with Monika →
