January 2010
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Sorkin on Davos and DC
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Can Twitter Trending Topics Really Tap Local?
Twitter recently introduced Local Trending Topics to tap into the pulse of your city. It’s a step in the right direction for curating and displaying information that’s relevant on a local scale. However, if you browse through the different local options, you’ll notice that the trending topics don’t change much. They also don’t provide much insight or relevancy to...
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Fortunately my children have already graduated from college so I don’t...
– Elliot Widaski, A WSJ commenter, on the New York Fed’s 100 cents on the dollar AIG bailout.
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Why I'll Get the iPad
Do I need it? No. But I’m going to get it and I’ll use it everyday. Here’s why:
It’s affordable. $499-$829 with or without a 3G data plan is an astonishingly low price point. I was worried about a $999+ price range.
Reading - I need a device I can read on the subway everyday. I like to read the WSJ and NY Times in the morning and I can now do that with the iPad....
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My brainchild saw the light of day in a match in 1998 in León, Spain, and we...
– Garry Kasparov
(via: ninakix)
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One great irony here is that publishers are celebrating Apple as a savior from...
– Henry Blodget on Apple VS Amazon in the eBook/Tablet market
(via: thegongshow)
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Buffett Investing
I recently finished Roger Lowenstein’s Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist. As far as biographies go, it’s one of the best I’ve read. The most intriguing thing about Buffett is his business genius, and this book does a good job focusing on it. For a more detailed story of his personal life, I hear The Snowball is the way to go.
What I find most interesting about...
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...
– – Charles Mingus
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Attention Hyperventilating Tumblr Users:
john:
jeffrock:
If you tend to fear change, you have probably chosen the wrong blogging platform next great social media service.
Well played, Jeff. I made one fix.
Truth.
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The biggest lesson that I’ve gotten is about testing. It’s about set high goals...
– Mark Pincus (Zynga CEO) on lessons learned at Tribe
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Anonymous asked: Where did you learn to sing? Cause you're really good.
meaghano asked: Why have we known each other for what? 8 months now? And you have never introduced me to one of your nice young jewish friends?
Ask me something good. →
So 10-15% of our entire industry blogs. And nearly all of the VC bloggers tweet...
– peHUB » Why Do VCs Blog (and Tweet)?
(via david-noel)
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To distinguish toys that are disruptive from toys that will remain just toys,...
– The next big thing will start out looking like a toy – Chris Dixon’s blog
What sets this era apart is velocity. It took telephones seventy-one years to...
– Ken Auletta, Googled: The End Of The World As We Know It (via soupsoup)
This phenomenon coupled with Moore’s Law will make the rest of our lives very interesting.
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