Like all of y’all I just read Paul Graham’s SOPA-soaked call for a tech startup that would kill Hollywood. You would have to be a complete idiot to think Hollywood (or at least some part of Hollywood) isn’t ripe for disruption BUT … “The people who run it are so mean and so politically...
From Nouriel Roubini’s yfrog page Economist Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr. Doom, is addicted to Twitter. This is according to a new interview with The Globe And Mail‘s Michael Posner. Posner asked Roubini, “At last count, you had more than 128,000 Twitter followers. What do you make of that?” Roubini’s response: Lady Gaga has millions....
Matt Rosoff Business Insider Jive cofounder Matt Tucker watches as boardmember Bill Lanfri opens the good stuff. See Also: Symplified Now Has 3.9 Million Users Who Don’t Stress About Passwords — And $20 Million In New Funding The Most Important Takeaways From Goldman’s Quarterly Earnings Call The 10 Most Outrageous Stories About Larry Ellison...
Matt Rosoff Business Insider Jive cofounder Matt Tucker watches as boardmember Bill Lanfri opens the good stuff. See Also: Symplified Now Has 3.9 Million Users Who Don’t Stress About Passwords — And $20 Million In New Funding The Most Important Takeaways From Goldman’s Quarterly Earnings Call The 10 Most Outrageous Stories About Larry Ellison...
Modern Pictograms is new typeface created for interface designers and programmers. It was designed to work on-screen at sizes down to 18 pixels, and is remarkably pixel-perfect and useful as a pictographic font. Why a font file? Well, although it is unusual for the typical icon or pictograph pack to ship as a font,...
Learning to code is one of the most powerful and satisfying things you can ever do. If you’re a designer, learning to code can help you understand what you’re creating for, and if you’re looking to build a startup from scratch, being a technical founder can make things exponentially easier for you. No matter why...
Microsoft’s lead of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw has taken to Twitter to voice a few opinions about Apple. Specifically, the comments are regarding Apple’s iBooks Author and its poorly worded license agreement. The EULA makes some interesting statements about how the works created with it can be distributed. The key passage is this...
Delicious has just announced 4 new features to make its stacks, or collections of links, more social. Because the only thing better than a bundle of your favorite kitten websites is bundle co-created by you and your friends. You can now collaboratively build stacks, comment on whole stacks, respond to a stack with a...
Colombia Earlier today, I appeared on NTN24′s “CST” program (Health, Science, Technology) to discuss the ramifications of the Justice Dept.’s seizure of Megaupload’s assets and domain names. In response to Fonseca’s question, I said that folks who had uploaded legitimate files to their “cyberlockers” won’t be able to access them today, and will probably...
iPad stands have a nasty habit of being so large and bulky that they become a burden to your desktop. So much so that most people just buy cases with stands built right in. That makes the tablet heavier and bulkier when you carry it around. The new Magnus stand from Ten One Design...