December 2011
39 posts
“To Boyer, it’s more important to identify someone as trustworthy than to ensure...”
– Sam Boyer of New York City’s occupation tech team
“We are making a model of how a product is, to the degree that we can in video....”
– “Sometimes the stories are the science…” from BERG and Matt
Signs that Facebook has passed Orkut: the trash trucks here have Facebook stickers twitter.com/mikeyk/status/…
— Mike Krieger (@mikeyk) December 16, 2011
defjamblr:
You are now watching The Throne.
mesmerized.
“2011 was the year that, after much resistance, I started reading on my iPhone. I...”
– Alissa Walker in What I Learned About the Web in 2011
“For the past couple of years, we have gotten into the habit of presuming that...”
– Whitney Hess in What I Learned About the Web in 2011
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“Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found...”
– This scenario reminds me of the first two weeks of freshmen year of college. I maybe spent the last seven weeks of my law-clerk gig combing through the Facebook profiles of the incoming Stanford class of 2008. Perhaps.
(Mostly unrelated, but if this is what Facebook’s pre-IPO negative-press...
School lockers becoming extinct? →
Several reasons are given when you ask “why” students today don’t use lockers; don’t have as many books because of newer technology, rather carry all items with them, and lockers are no longer used as a gathering spot to talk to classmates.
“Our lockers aren’t meeting places anymore because we are talking a lot through texts, so we don’t have to meet...
Cherry (the startup) is fascinating and grocery... →
Basically I’m pretty into Cherry, the car-washing-on-demand startup and think the future will bring more grocery stores on the second floors of buildings.
The Books They Gave Me: Kundera. →
thebookstheygaveme:
She was beautiful for starters, but also bright. I played sports and outside of the assigned reading in school I had never read a book in my entire life. She put it on my desk at the beginning of summer and asked me to read it. I loved her, but didn’t think a book could mean so much. I…
I had a conversation about this with Andy yesterday. My conclusion’s...
“Day one beauty: the least likely to marry [women] 1.’s Own good, looks...”
– Chinese Pinterest (markpic.com) + Google Translate is endlessly fascinating
Can TomTom help solve the congestion problem? |... →
So many things here:
Google has road congestion data, too; from phones (data for which they generally don’t pay) and from not-phones (data for which they generally pay.) They use this congestion data to alter driving directions on the fly. In other words: they’re already doing this magical thing that TomTom could do. (If you’re interested in this, look up Marissa Mayer’s...
“The defensible asset is the community”
– Kevin (Instagram) at Le Web
How to be a person/novelist →
bobulate:
Murakami on how being obsessed with music helped him be a novelist (emphasis mine):
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work. I learned the importance of rhythm from music — and mainly from jazz. Next comes melody — which, in literature, means the appropriate...
B: who did we eat with that night at the hummus restaurant? I think he worked at [company] ...
C: Oof no recollection... I'm sorry.
B: Sigh. This is the problem with outsourcing your memory to the cloud before lifelogging is comprehensive.
“It’s part of the zeitgeist,” Mr. Richter said. “We’re all confronted with all...”
– andreas richter, the founder of givebox in berlin
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“FYI, I began this book before I read a draft of Tyler’s book The Great...”
– in which two academics who have shared a blog for 6+ years appear to get into a tiff
