December 2010
80 posts
“The uniform of capitalism has conquered more of the globe than capitalism itself”
– The Economist on the suit (via jkalifowitz)
“never make users do work that machines can easily do”
– Rocky Agrawal
Why haven’t list features on Facebook and/or Twitter caught on? - Quora
Because they are manual and require people to do work. People hate to do work, especially when it’s upfront work for some possible future benefit.
To use a not too far off example: consider the success of Mint....
“foursquareのco-founder、naveenがちょうど日本に来ているので急遽開催決定！ スペシャルゲストとしてお迎えします。...”
– uhhh, that piece of text upstairs says this:
we’re having a meetup in tokyo
tomorrow (thursday) evening at 6pm at pizzakaya in roppongi hills
pizzakaya has a mayor offer (probably the first in jpn?)
come.
foursquare meetup tokyo #3 : ATND
“One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey....”
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html
“The brothers have made a video each year to promote their New Year’s Eve bash,...”
– i absolutely love that quote about living on the internet
and i love that they are going to turn this into a kickstarter project
Brooklyn Super Nerds Accidentally Invite Entire Internet To Their New Year’s Eve Bash | The New York Observer
“1,958 Gawker users’ password was ‘password’. 681 users used ‘qwerty’ or qwerty...”
– The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess - The Firewall - the world of security - Forbes
1905. Cooper Square. →
1864. Cooper Square. →
“Two things about programming
1. Nobody really knows how to do it
2. If you...”
– apenwarr - Business is Programming
slick foursquare-enabled new years eve party at...
Apartm.net’s 2011 New Year’s Eve invitation takes it to a whole new level | Flickr - Photo Sharing!