April 2009
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Is Still Photography Going to Be Passé?
As resolution rises & prices fall on video cameras and hard drive space, memory, and video editing capabilities increase on PCs, I suspect that in 5-10 years, photography will largely involve pointing video cameras at things and finding the best images in the editing phase. Professional photographers already take hundreds or thousands of shots during the course of a shoot like this, so...
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The Apple Netpod
This is purely speculation so think with me as Businessweek points to Verizon+Apple negotiations that go beyond the iPhone. I’m not convinced Verizon will get the iPhone as much as they want it, I think Apple wants their juicy EVDO network for a new device.
I’m calling it an Apple Netpod but call it what you will, it’s a cloud driven device that relies on the network to make it...
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The Making Of: PlayStation →
A fascinating look at how a company went from what-is-this? to relying on Playstation for 90% of yearly profits.
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Can Creativity Be Crowdsourced? →
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Killer apps - The Boston Globe →
A tree died for this. Pity.
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Blogger Critical of South Korea Faces 18 Months in... →
Without question, this is extremely concerning. It rings of a military ruled dictatorship from the past and paints a bleak picture of the future.
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Google’s ‘Immigration Fixer’ - NYTimes.com →
Many of the comments think that by being American, they are entitled to a job at Google before someone else in the world. Doesn’t that seem contrary to being a globally competitive firm? Wouldn’t you want to be the best at what you do, anywhere in the world?
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“Beyond 3G”
– Let me sum this up for you: Why go beyond 3G? 3G is slow as hell, have you seen video on 3G? Even on Wifi? If you think for a second things are fine as is on 3G, get the hell out of the way. LTE, WiMax, whatever you want to call it, give us more bandwidth.
From Strategy+Business: Beyond 3G
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Thank you for your money. And now...
Digg has raised 40 million dollars to date. With that kind of money, investors demand explosive growth. Since the economy has gone to shit, there’s a very slim chance that Digg will see a sale before it needs to raise more money. As a small company, Digg could have been a very profitable business, but instead they took too much money and made too many expectations for themselves. I can...
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The Virtual Currency of Changyou
The first company to list this year on New York’s NASDAQ exchange not only needs no money; its source of profit is receiving cash for items that do not exist.
Economist.com
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Watchpjblands:
Food Stylist For P.J. Bland’s
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PSA: Backups
Jayson lost his iTunes Library Database file and I dug through some tips. Instead of writing anything new about what we all know, some tips from jwz.org:
Dear Lazyweb, and also a certain you-know-who-you-are who should certainly know better by now, I am here to tell you about backups. It’s very simple. You have a computer. It came with a hard drive in it. Go buy two more drives of the same...
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The U.S. Newspaper Industry Lost $7.5 Billion in... →
A reminder as we begin Q2 2009.
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A Rich Education for Summers (After Harvard) →
Honestly, this should make you feel better about the state of our economy. Being brilliant and aspiring to fix our economy is far better than wishing one were rich.
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“Our strategy for selling our software to people was: make the best software and...”
– Paul Graham
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