July 2011
17 posts
The Price Hike & The Bloomberg: Eat Your Math
pricehike:
The fine folks at Bloomberg LP are now displaying headlines from The Price Hike & The Bad Deal on their professional terminal service. That’s a GOOD DEAL.
So if you work at a bank, hedge fund, or anywhere with access to a Bloomberg, you’ll see breaking updates from The Bad Deal & The Price Hike. Click on the headline and you’ll be taken to our respective website. In fact, if...
“In our culture, we’re suspicious of strangers. They’re a threat....”
– David Weinberger, linked from an older post on Caterina’s blog
Deutsche Bahn führt Mobiltickets ein →
Oder auf Englisch: Deutsche Bahn, the operator of Germany’s train system, is going to start accepting ticket bookings and payments via iPhones and Android phones. Go Germany.
MR. ISAACSON: So was that scene in the social network true?
DR. SUMMERS: I've heard it said that I can be arrogant.
DR. SUMMERS: If that's true, I surely was on that occasion. One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole.
http: //tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/19/brainstorm-tech-video-larry-summers-transcript/
How can we best design technology to support a...
Apple’s design directive.
“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen’s novels at so high a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson apparently felt the same way about Jane Austen as I do. (Link from Marginal Revolution)
“[Google, Netflix, and Salesforce were] last generation’s contribution to the...”
– Andrew Parker - The Gong Show: Scope of Job Creation
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The art of community management →
Community managers can be under-appreciated contributors in some companies, but they serve a crucially important role in any organization that aims to reach millions of people.
“I didn’t know how I could justify $12 billion. But I’m not the one...”
– Kevin Ryan in an interview with the WSJ. He mostly talks about Gilt - understandably - but I found this line about running Doubleclick in the late 90s the most interesting. Especially, well, today.
“Only thing is, to them it’s not about “starting an Internet...”
– Couldn’t agree more with John Battelle.
“The value of our virtual goods is highly dependent on how we manage the...”
– Three years ago, Steve Blank told me that more and more tech companies in the future would employ virtual economists. Zynga’s S-1 is showing just that. 