January 2008
26 posts
Facebook Developers Terms of Service →
Amazon Web Services for Facebook Developers →
New partnership between Amazon and Facebook
Scrabulous and the New Social Operating System:... →
Google is like a gigantic parasite that hollows-out existing (media)...
– Jason Pontin, publisher of Technology Review and New York Times business columnist
Does Sun Buying MySQL Change Your Scaling... →
You are building an open source search engine. You use a piece of software whose...
– uncov on Wikia Search
Socialized: Note to You Social Media Gurus →
Courant Library →
What To Say To A Roomful of CTOs →
I think being the CTO of a early stage growth tech company is a great job. There are several things going on in technology right now that make the work incredibly exciting.
What To Say To A Roomful of CTOs →
I think being the CTO of a early stage growth tech company is a great job. There are several things going on in technology right now that make the work incredibly exciting.
Excerpt from Ken Auletta's The Search Party
On Tuesdays, Brin, Page, and Schmidt hold product-strategy meetings, which are dominated by engineers. I was permitted to attend one, on the condition that the product, and the engineers, not be identified, but the tenor of the meeting was clear enough: Page and Brin had wanted an upgrade of an existing product, and they were unhappy with what they were hearing from the engineers. At first, they...
Chinese Twitter clones
fanfau.com
jiwai.de
taotao.com
v2ex.com/ing
weazone.com/say.do
wulog.com
Internet Overtakes TV In Sweden, The U.K. Will Be... →
THE U.K. NEXT YEAR WILL become the first major economy in which the Internet overtakes television as the No. 1 advertising medium, according to a new forecast from WPP’s GroupM unit.
Project Euler →
Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
Top Ten Innovation Mistakes
This is right on. I just can’t find the last three reasons. Maybe you can add them as comments?
CEO sloth
Adding, not transforming.
Choosing Metrics over talent.
Failing to use design thinking strategically.
Underestimating Crisis
Neglecting the power of culture.
Failing to maximize the new distribution of genius.
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The Programming Language Lua →
Hypergraph →
Urban Geometry →
Kindle reverse engineered
android-rss →
Fully functional Android RSS reader created as a way to learn the new Android platform SDK. This project is an ongoing effort to better understand and embrace the Android design philosophy, welcoming comments and additional contributors.
The newspaper industry is now worth 42% less than it was three years ago and 26%...
– Alan D. Mutter