January 2012
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December 2011
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betashop: Behind the Scenes: How Fab Raised $40... →
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Let’s face it, fundraising can be a real pain in the ass for the entrepreneur.
It takes up a ton of time that can be otherwise spent managing the business.
Sure, it’s a necessary evil, but it’s also typically a big distraction.
It’s also a lot like dating. You have to go on a lot of first dates…
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rafat.org: My Encounter With Glenn Beck →
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There are only a few times in life you stand in front of pure evil, eye-to-eye, and confront the bully who lobs bombs that tears away at the fabric of our civilized existence. Today was that day for me.
At Business Insider’s excellent Ignition conference today, one of the featured speakers was…
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November 2011
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: "What I'm looking at is... →
Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department’s use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a “compliance tool” that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.
“When you start picking up human bodies,…
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How One Company Saved Thousands of Dogs Using... →
Frank Barry, professional services manager at Blackbaud and blogger at NetWits ThinkTank, helps non-profits use the Internet for digital communication, social media and fundraising so they can focus on making an impact and achieving their missions. Find Frank on Twitter @franswaa. Social …
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October 2011
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the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
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The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
September 2011
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Why Facebook Timeline Is Made For Its Youngest...
For many older users, myself included, it is doubtful that we will go back to the time before Facebook (for me, late 2004) to fill in the gaps on my Timeline. From talking to other people my age since the announcement, it seems more likely that people of our generation will sanitize stuff that resurfaces rather than adding more content to the stream. But for younger users, they don’t need to...
Why Netflix Just Cut Itself in Half
There’s also this point raised by Bill Gurley today: Netflix has this whole time been paying studios for streaming rights based on its total number of streaming subscribers, including those with streaming + DVD plans that never watched a movie online. By partitioning streaming and mail-order, Netflix can hand studios a more accurate picture of how many people are downloading their...
These eight Amish men are in a Kentucky jail over...
The Kentucky Department of Transportation requres slow-moving Amish buggies to sport an orange, reflective triangle to warn oncoming traffic — just like those on tractors and other farm vehicles. But some Amish believe their religion forbids the displaying of bright colors, and so several of them now sit in a Kentucky jail. via jalopnik.com Fight for your right to wear dark colors and drive...
Breakneck growth thanks to social sharing...
Kleiner Perkins partner and early Zynga investor Bing Gordon just tweeted that he’s declaring “‘Zuckerberg’s Law’: [the] quantity of social sharing doubles every 12 months. [The t]rend has held at [Facebook] for 4 years.” Whatever the numbers, it’s absolutely clear that the new social platforms enable breakneck growth. Instagram is growing twice as fast...
Here did he go?
via sierraclub.org I wonder what happened to the child to left their bike chained to this tree, only to never return. Now the tree has claimed the bike in it’s own way. Posted via email from @stevebanfield’s blog | Comment »
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Kicking a new ball
Back before Labor Day I made a few tweets and status updates about my last day at Screenlife. It may have seemed I was being cryptic since I didn’t offer any new details. That caused a lot of friends to email for confirmation that I’d really left Screenlife and ask what I’m going to be doing next. After taking a week “offline” after Labor Day it’s time to fill...
I, Cringely » Blog Archive » How Not to Run Yahoo...
I’ve written about this many times over the years. These are companies built purely on intellect — companies where there are a few individuals who are capable of doing things that are unique in their enterprise. Imagine a General Motors where there was only one worker who could make really fine exhaust systems. That wouldn’t work in Detroit but it does work in Silicon Valley because the output...