January 2011
19 posts
“I haven’t had a po-boy since they burned, I didn’t want to disrespect Sam,” said...”
– Verti Marte reopening has French Quarter locals waiting in line | NOLA.com
“Life would be simpler if we only had one login, but in this case, the cure was...”
– 37signals Product Blog: We’ll be retiring our support of OpenID on May 1
“Years ago we all hoped RSS readers would become mainstream, but that never...”
– Nick Bradbury: RSS: Dead, Dying or Pining for the Fjords?
joe lazarus: Media / Device Aware Bookmarking Tool →
I would like this. I would also like this for places.
joelaz:
I wish there was an online bookmarking tool like Delicious that intelligently handled different media types that I bookmark and created special views custom to which device I access the bookmarks from. For example, if I save a link to a page with a YouTube video on it, the tool would know that…
“The secret – which I would argue has led to Foundry Group’s most recent...”
– Why LivingSocial can Sell $20 of Amazon Gift Cards for $10 (Or the Economics of Setting Fire to Money as a User Acquisition Strategy) | Life in Beta
“Lastly, in that comment Paul Ford quoted, I said “intense...”
– A great story by Matt Haughey about how sitting next to Craig Newmark at the airport for 4 hours made him take customer service seriously and made MeFi what it is.
WWIC | MetaTalk
“If you need an all-encompassing term for every front-end technology under the...”
– Ditto.
Adactio: Journal—Bye, bye 5
Names in my family tree
Oberkirch, Praytor, Neil, Pope, Allen, Wood, Francis, Mitchell, Wilson, Nelson, Harris, Jackson, Hall, Lester, Lewis, Kaltenbach, Heisenhuti, Kluigenweie, Werker, McHugh, O’Donald, Lyon, Fulford, Styron, Barrington, Hill, Harker, Bell, Wallace, West, Summer, Casey, Uln, Lowrey, Falkner, Adkins, Breshears, Middleton, Spriggs, McKay, Hunt, Powell, Burgess, Quintyne, Plott, Ivye, Kingston,...
“So add this finding to your hashtag playbook: getting a great hashtag in front...”
– For hashtag read [web thing]. Write it bold: quality, people. Not big numbers.
The science of the hashtag – Twitter Media
“The overfunded company loses most of the time.”
– A VC: When They Are Throwing Money At You
“The web is not, despite the desires of so many, a publishing medium. The web is...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
“I don’t remember the total spending but do recall in the early 1990s our...”
– I am amazed by the candid, interesting answers on Quora. This is from Steve Case answering a question about how much all those disks cost to mail.
(50) Home - Quora
“E-mail was once inaccessible to regular folks, now it’s an essential part of...”
– This idea of ‘what once was tough and now is everyday’ is something that really intrigues me.
blog · RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried