January 2012
6 posts
“One of the reasons I like Svpply so much is I have found it to be helpful in...”
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Chris Tackett, The Atlantic. This was exactly my goal for Svpply: to assist in what I hope becomes a broad cultural shift where people acquire fewer, nicer things. (via whiskyvangoghgo)
Very exciting to see The Atlantic break us down so accurately. (via svpply)
“He also has been credited with first using the words transclusion, virtuality,...”
– Ted Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ted Nelson, inventor of the hyperlink, namer of intertwingularity. His autobiography, Possiplex, is for sale on Lulu.
“I’d tell someone using it that they’re an individual, not a population.”
– Online Mortality Calculator Could Change Health Care—and Our Views on Death - The Daily Beast
“As I think I remarked to you at the outset of the space program, you are...”
– Letters of Note: Dear Son
“In May of 1962, 37-year-old Malcolm Scott Carpenter became just the second American to orbit the Earth, as he piloted the Aurora 7 into space. On the eve of this historic journey, his father, Marion, proudly wrote him the following wonderful letter. “
December 2011
7 posts
“His hoop dreams even extended to making basketball a kind of adopted national...”
– Kim Jong-un: North Korea’s ‘Great Successor,’ Sports Fan - The Triangle Blog
betashop: New! Introducing the Fab Live Feed →
betashop:
we already have 1.4M members, over half of which have come via social sharing.
Now with more search
reading-am:
Or, rather, now with search.
“No DRM, no regional restrictions, no crap. You can download this file, play it...”
– Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater — You’re here to buy Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theater. This show is only available on this site at a cost of $5, worldwide.
I love Louis CK
“In that sense, they are similar to the familiar “naked at school” dreams, but I...”
– Modcult: Four Facebook Nightmares — Selected results from the Google search ‘I had a nightmare about Facebook’:
November 2011
6 posts
“One thing that the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement...”
– The Tyranny of Influentials | Digital Tonto
Flickr: The Laptop Stickers Pool →
“If two people buy the same product for the same reason but have no way they...”
– Why Geoffrey Moore believed in monolithic markets - Term Sheet
Emphasis mine, for what are probably obvious reasons.
October 2011
10 posts
blah blah Apple TV blah
whiskyvangoghgo:
If Apple does introduce an AppleTV App Store for video content (as Kottke and Gruber are predicting), that also opens up the possibility for games, effectively turning the AppleTV into a console.
Last I heard, the video chip in the AppleTV was about the same as in the iPad, which has been described as not quite PS3-quality, but much better than the PS2 and the Wii. And HD. So...
“But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren’t a woodsman unless you have...”
– Norman Maclean (via bestmadeco)
“If Snow Crash was a platformer, and the Baroque Cycle was a sprawling epic RPG,...”
– If my friend Bo Fahs weren’t such a goddamn luddite he would be my favorite blogger. (via whiskyvangoghgo)
“We’re the free speech wing of the free speech party”
– Twitter CEO Costolo on Apple, Privacy, Free Speech and Google; Far From IPO - Digits - WSJ (via bijan)
Designers Are The New Drivers Of American... →
(via Instapaper)
joshuanguyen asked: Hey Ben - any way to get an extra ticket to your talk on Thurs for @christenduong? It's popular!
September 2011
32 posts
“At Yahoo you could probably cut back to 100 ops people and 200 sales people...”
– Yahoo’s biggest “problem”. (via jimray)
“If design strikes your fancy, then come partake of the morsels of UI/UX wisdom...”
– [NYUSW] Workshop: “Designers as Entrepreneurs” with Khoi Vinh and Ben Pieratt - Eventbrite
“Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what other...”
– Fire - cdespinosa’s posterous
“The social Web is turning into the merchant Web: The first company to merge the...”
– Social-media start-ups find it harder to stand out
“Apple doesn’t copy things that they don’t perceive as working well — they...”
– On the Assumption that a Pundit Knows What Apple “Needs” — The Brooks Review
I’m excited about iMessage.
Get Facetime and voice dialing mixed in there with texts and photos and eventually Apple will wind up providing an incredible living archive of your relationships.
(Google Wave, I...
“Although Facebook still dominates the majority of the time Americans spend on...”
– Tumblr Lands $85 Million in Funding - NYTimes.com
Minutes-per-month as a new metric is going to get real depressing real fast.
“After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate...”
– Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huh.
Update: This is a current topic of interest, apparently. A couple recent articles: The post-Jobs era: Tim Cook brings philanthropy back to Apple U2 singer Bono praises philanthropy of Apple’s Steve Jobs The Mystery of Steve Jobs’s Public...
“Instead, the human story goes somewhat like this “sitting in caves, coming up...”
– Albert Wenger, in his talk opening the Turing Festival (via fred-wilson)
I've got worms.
My wife, Kristen, diagnosed me with Crohn’s disease in 2004, about 9 months into our marriage. A doctor agreed with her a little while after that. I’ve been in and out of a lot of pain since then.
I contacted Garin Aglietti of wormtherapy.com last summer. I drove up to Canada to receive my shipment of hookworms in September. I had the most painful four months of my life between September and...
Varsity Bookmarking: I've got worms. →
curationisking:
Did you listen to Radio Lab’s podcast on parasites? http://www.radiolab.org/2009/sep/07/
“Just 19% of consumers listen to manufacturers or retailers these days, according...”
– The Art & Science of Fashion - Computerworld
Who Svpply is competing with, sort of.
I thought it’d be interesting to share some thoughts about the competitive landscape we’re in.
This topic is of particular interest to me personally because when we launched Svpply, there was nothing else like it out there. When we launched Svpply, there were no shopping services that encouraged you to ignore the act of buying and to instead get lost in the visual joy of the hunt....
“I’ll admit my understanding of post-modernism is probably flawed, but if I’ve...”
– Wrestle With Jimmy
“There are no notifications whatsoever for following and unfollowing. Nobody can...”
– Instapaper’s (anti-)social network – Marco.org
“may”.
I know exactly what I would be thinking about for the next few weeks if I weren’t already running a fascinating startup.
@leppert @keenanC #designerswhofollowme
