Month: July 2012
July 10, 2012
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We’re being total tourists. (@ Empire State Building w/ 17 others)
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I’m at Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop (New York, NY) [pic]:
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July 9, 2012
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A VC: Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
On Monday, I trained it up to New Haven to meet a Yale professor named Dina Mayzlin and talk to her class. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to Dina’s class as it allowed me to work on some new material in a comfortable setting. But the talk Dina and I had over breakfast before class was even more…
July 8, 2012
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why-twitter-is-massively-undervalued-compared-to-facebook
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All the staff and all the regulars at this Tim Hortons are loud talkers.
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Start-Ups Aim to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data – NYTimes.com
Facebook’s pending initial public offering gives credence to the argument that personal data is the oil of the digital age. The company was built on a formula common to the technology industry: offer people a service, collect information about them as they use that service and use that information…
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Until this morning I thought “Seven Swans” was one of Sufjan Stevens’ quirky instrumental albums and I’d avoided it. So good.
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The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile | TechCrunch
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July 7, 2012
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Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts — Tech News and Analysis
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker | Psychology Today
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Canada’s vanishing tech sector – The Globe and Mail
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When Internet Distractions Make Us More Efficient –
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An introduction to Web Intents – an interview with Glenn Jones
Glenn Jones is a Founder/Director of Madgex. Glenn is currently co-organising a Design-Push event on Web Intents in Brighton (25-Feb-2012). If you work in UX and you don’t know much about Web Intents , you’re missing out on a discussion that could have a big effect on the user experience of the…
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That’s important! “Fast Switching” is the goal I guess. RT @KSpeicher Save the current task’s state before switching to the next one.
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“Multi-tasking” is a misnomer. It’s “Task Switching”. I bet we’d have better strategies if we focussed on “Switching” vs. “Multi”.
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Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong – Anil Dash
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Why you’ll always think your product is shit | @andrewchen
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Do Canadian car rentals come with navi now? Is it an option? Seems obvious but rental sites don’t mention.
July 6, 2012
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What Liberty Village looked like before the condos
For all the development that’s shaped Liberty Village over the last decade or so, the area’s industrial past retains something of a ghostly presence — at least if one confines himself to exploring the western half of the neighbourhood. The eastern end, leading in across the still new-feeling East…
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With big Asana update, Facebook co-founder Moskovitz wants to kill email | The Verge
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July 5, 2012
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Schadenfreude Explained: Why We Secretly Smile When Others Fail – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – msnbc.com
When the office slacker makes a mistake that could cost them a pay raise — do you truly feel bad, or do you have to work to hide your smile? If you smiled, you’ve just experienced schadenfreude , a bit of enjoyment at the misfortunes of others. And now researchers know more about why we experience…
July 4, 2012
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Fierstein literally skips at one point. It’s a gay Steppin Fetchit:
RT @DoctorJones doesn’t he just play himself?
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The movie Independence Day is only 16 years old but Harvey Fierstein’s stereotypically gay character is really offensive.
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Adam Sisman’s ‘Honourable Englishman,’ on Hugh Trevor-Roper – NYTimes.com
The English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) is best remembered, if at all, for a humiliating blunder. He was the Oxford and Cambridge scholar who, in 1983, was called upon to authenticate diaries, discovered by the German magazine Stern, said to be Hitler’s. Trevor-Roper didn’t merely…
July 3, 2012
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No Rob Schneider films released since then. RT @ebartz Why hasn’t @Netflix_Canada tweeted since Sept 2010?!
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By Michael Shermer | Response | 2012 Annual Question | Edge
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FYI, Abe Vigoda – still alive:
http://www.abevigoda.com/
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Actually, the mobile device market is a NEVER-ENDING sprint. You are in the race until you stumble. And you will stumble.
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The mobile device market is a sprint. If you stumble there is no way you can get back in the race. RIM stumbled.
July 2, 2012
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If you get a chance to watch the documentary “Citizen USA” you really should. Very uplifting.