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No, Tim. We’re Not As Bad As The New York Times

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:24:09 -0400

No, Tim. We’re Not As Bad As The New York Times:

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The always defensive and heavy-handed TechCrunch. I doubt O’Reilly was trying to start a playground fight.

Tim O’Reilly is tearing his hair out because he thinks…

joelaz: Akron/Family - Don’t Be Afraid, You’re Already...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:31:12 -0400

joelaz:

Akron/Family - Don’t Be Afraid, You’re Already Dead

Photo by jbeckers

joelaz: Phelps Frame-By-Frame, Sports Illustrated Michael...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:30:54 -0400

joelaz:

Phelps Frame-By-Frame, Sports Illustrated

Michael Phelps’ finish last night in the 100 fly was truly spectacular. I just watched it on Tivo. I used to swim competitively when I was young. Butterfly was my best stroke, but these guys are in an entirely different league. Based on the top photo, it’s hard to see how Phelps (on the left) could win, yet he somehow managed to touch the wall before Serbia’s Cavic (on the right). How is that even possible?

Before and after new iPhone firmware update I used Speedtest to compare speeds. Pre Firmware I was...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:19:00 -0400

Before and after new iPhone firmware update I used Speedtest to compare speeds. Pre Firmware I was around mid 300’s. Now I range from 489-690.

Great song - check it out. Lil’ Wayne feat. Jay-Z - Mr....

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:46:00 -0400

Great song - check it out.

Lil’ Wayne feat. Jay-Z - Mr. Carter

Last.fm

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:33:29 -0400

I can’t help feeling a bit voyeuristic listening to others’ libraries on Last.fm. It’s like porn for music.

"Use Google Alerts and Summize RSS Feeds on your product name and your competitor names to track what..."

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:04:55 -0400

“Use Google Alerts and Summize RSS Feeds on your product name and your competitor names to track what people are writing about your industry. Get involved in that discussion.”

- if you aren’t doing this with your startup, you are making a big mistake

TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Aiming your startup at the US - without leaving the UK

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I’m continually amazed with the results I get out of Summize searches.

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Wow, just used it twice today for the first time. What a great tool.

Really enjoying the new Lil' Wayne album

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:15:21 -0400

“Reckless people have deluded themselves that this was a subprime crisis,” he told me. “But we have...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:01:21 -0400

“Reckless people have deluded themselves that this was a subprime crisis,” he told me. “But we have problems with credit-card debt, student-loan debt, auto loans, commercial real estate loans, home-equity loans, corporate debt and loans that financed leveraged buyouts.” All of these forms of debt, he argues, suffer from some or all of the same traits that first surfaced in the housing market: shoddy underwriting, securitization, negligence on the part of the credit-rating agencies and lax government oversight. “We have a subprime financial system,” he said, “not a subprime mortgage market.”
— Dr. Doom, NYTimes.com

iTumble (or: metablogging)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:49:29 -0400

ericlach:

I am proud to say that I am now tumbling from my very own MacBook. Do I seem different? Hipper? Current…er?

Congrats to Eric. Now he just needs to upload a picture so people can begin to take him seriously.

"Pick the company you need, scan through their phone menu visually, then just click the spot you need..."

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:43:05 -0400

“Pick the company you need, scan through their phone menu visually, then just click the spot you need to call. fonolo will automatically dial, navigate their menu and then dial your phone. When you answer, you will be connected to the right spot in the menu. We call that “Deep Dialing”. You’ll call it smart.”

- fonolo - Learn More

Oh, God! This is going to AMAZING (it’s in closed beta).

I recently turned my calling plan into a Family Plan so that I could have a separate line for my students to call (I don’t have a home phone, as they are so 90s). Calling at&t to do this, however, was no easy feat, as their phone menu took me in circles for about 15 minutes. Hopefully, this site will make sure something like that never happens again.

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Just joined 8tracks...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:39:09 -0400

“Tracks on the 8tracks network can be included in a playlist but, due to legal requirements, will initially be limited to 30-second clips when you listen to your own mix.”

I hate Big Music.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:34:20 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Union Square Ventures' Brad Burnham Speaks

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:21:42 -0400

Union Square Ventures' Brad Burnham Speaks:

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Go Wes

TheDeal’s Mary Kathleen Flynn buttonholes the less-visible genius behind Union Square Ventures’ recent home runs, partner Brad Burnham.

Following on investments in…

Just got a flyer from Time Warner offering discounted fixed rates if I sign up for a two year...

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:23:41 -0400

Just got a flyer from Time Warner offering discounted fixed rates if I sign up for a two year agreement. Someone is scared of FiOS…

Big news for IP

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:40:52 -0400

Big news for IP

Fake Exxon Twitter Account Fools Real Web Analyst

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:59:00 -0400

Fake Exxon Twitter Account Fools Real Web Analyst:

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Offline and online worlds are hurtling towards one another at alarming rates. Let’s hope we’ve got the right seatbelts in place.

Online Social Interaction

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:13:00 -0400

Just finished skimming Alex’s thesis and I recommend taking a look to anyone interested in the future of social interaction. To think that this all came out of Alex trying to buy a Sword of a Thousand Truths on eBay for his level 60 Night Elf Warrior in World of Warcrat.

Download the pdf here.

iPhone Apps We Like: Frotz, the Text Adventure, errr, Emulator [IPhone Apps]

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:59:00 -0400

iPhone Apps We Like: Frotz, the Text Adventure, errr, Emulator [IPhone Apps]: Well, it’s not an emulator in the strictest sense of the word, but it does play the massive catalog of Infocom Z-Machine interactive text adventure games. If you’re tired of expensive, tilt-happy…

gtmcknight: The Tempodrom (the venue Sigur Ros played at...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:13:34 -0400

gtmcknight:

The Tempodrom (the venue Sigur Ros played at tonight)

Would love to have been there.