May 2010
A VC: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad →
I understand why content companies are so interested in iPad apps. It is a familiar model to them. But as currently configured most content apps do not take advantage of the power of the digital medium. And so they are mostly useless to me.
Tumblr Hacks - Use Dropbox as storage place for... →
That means: if you have a bunch of PDF, and you want people to download them from your tumblr post or tumblr blog, just upload them in the public folder, grab the public link, put it to tumblr and… voilà.
The Half Truths of Mark Zuckerberg
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He said a number of things that seemed of questionable…truth. Those were: that settings weren’t changed arbitrarily when all this began in December, that the changes weren’t driven by advertising and business concerns and that Facebook makes its decisions based not on criticism but on metrics or its belief in what the right thing to do is.
Amazon.com: The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log... →
Todd: I think you’d like this.
Microsoft to invest $150 million in Apple - CNET... →
The agreement includes no commitments for Apple to use Windows NT, Microsoft’s corporate operating system, although previous discussions on the topic have been held, Anderson said.
Whitney Museum Votes to Go Ahead With High Line... →
the Whitney Museum is officially going ahead with its plans for a Renzo Piano-designed building at 820 Washington Street.
A Matter of Trust: 10 Places Google Collects User... →
So where, exactly, is Google’s data collected from? Here’s a rundown of 10 of Google’s most valuable sources of data.
A New Type of Phishing Attack « Aza on Design →
Most phishing attacks depend on an original deception. If you detect that you are at the wrong URL, or that something is amiss on a page, the chase is up. You’ve escaped the attackers. In fact, the time that wary people are most wary is exactly when they first navigate to a site.
How the CIA got the world to buy American during... →
Countries targeted for CIA political interventions started importing more U.S. products, a sign of American economic imperialism at work.
The Hindu : Magazine / Essay : The quintessential... →
He encouraged debate and discourse; raised questions more often than he provided answers
WatchMeg, Billykirk (by The Scout)
Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with... →
The data shared includes names, user IDs, and other information sufficient to enable ad companies such as the Google-owned DoubleClick to identify distinct user profiles. Some of the sites in question, including MySpace and Facebook, stopped sharing the data after the Journal asked them about it. The surreptitious data sharing was first noticed (PDF) by researchers from Worcester Polytechnic...
“If I look back over 20+ years of entrepreneurs I’ve backed, the ones who...”
– Fear Is A No-No
Sony Music CEO Invests In Start-Up Fund →
Hanse Ventures reports that they have already stakes in eight companies and are looking for another six to eight companies to invest in over the next three years.
WatchIceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 (by Sean Stiegemeier)
