September 2009
30 posts
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AppleInsider | Why Apple is betting on Light Peak... →
A damn thorough examination into Apple’s relationship with Intel and proprietary ports.
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the Asian-American Experience
“To get into the U.S. under the laws back then, I had to pretend to be another person,” Mr. Hom wrote. His father had bought him immigration papers that included 32 pages of information he was to memorize in preparation for hours of interrogation at Ellis Island.
Such cheat sheets were part of an elaborate, self-perpetuating cycle of enforcement and evasion, historians say. The authorities...
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In One Home, a Mighty City's Rise and Fall -... →
Incredible journalism to track the ownership of a single house in Detroit. Quite the story of America.
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Apple’s Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers -... →
“The next breakthrough in gaming is not going to be in hardware,” Yoichi Wada, president of a top Japanese game maker, Square Enix, told Game Show participants. “It’s going to be in how to create a successful business model.”
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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There. →
Startup advice from Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg, looks inline with Paul Graham’s essays.
join a great founding team, focus on the product, and forget everything else,
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Firefox Mac installation experience, revisited
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A rather detailed and elegant explanation for creating a simple and superior experience for installing with Mac OS X.
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South Korea to Allow iPhone Entry - WSJ.com →
Oh benevolent bureaucracy, you can help create domestic saturation of markets and build world handset manufacturers but then you fail to make any decent smartphone to take on the world.
The iPhone entering Korea after 190 countries have already approved it is an embarassing test of regulatory failure. Opening markets will undoubtedly help but it will take time for Samsung and LG to catchup.
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Yup, the FCC supports Net Neutrality all right →
A simple explanation of the new FCC rules for Net Neutrality.
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FT.com - Games groups eye next level →
Interesting insights from Square Enix CEO:
potential “impact of [new motion controllers are quite limited, so the impact may be small.”
Wada expects Nintendo Wii HD by 2011
In regards to Natal: “As a user interface it’s fantastic and I think it will become standard,”
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AOL No. 1 mobile search experience: Gomez study -... →
Some interesting numbers from mobile about who is #1. Intriguing to see AOL #1 at anything beside suck.
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Economics focus: What if? | The Economist →
The imaginary world if Lehman had survived?
Some other bank would have died so says the Economist and the NYT.
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Google's mad scientists reanimate news industry |... →
The best analysis I’ve seen so far about the coming pay wall.
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The VC Effect
The next generation bends over - (37signals)
Jason Fried calls it a VC-induced cancer. The true price of startups is the price cashing out.
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The DoubleClick Ad Exchange: growing the display... →
Will this change everything?
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Burberry looks to win over friends online →
Burberry looks to launch artofthetrench.com, a social networking site to feature users sending in pictures of themselves wearing Burberry trenchcoats. Curious play, will watch carefully.
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WatchUntamed woman are the untamed concepts from MINI. Trippy.
Jalopnik
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“During Bravo’s tenure, Burberry strove for visibility, plastering the Burberry...”
– Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey : The New Yorker
A wonderfully delicious quote from the New Yorker.
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Monopoly City Streets →
PROPERTY EMPIRE BUILDING ON AN UNIMAGINABLE SCALE<p>This is going to be fantastic at destroying productivity.</p>
The Movie Studios Hate Red Box. →
The Illinois company, which charges $1 a day for DVD rentals, expects to have 22,000 machines in supermarkets, Wal-Mart stores and fast-food outlets by December.
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Audi President Thinks Chevy Volt Buyers Are... →
I like the candor.
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“Many users of pirated software outside China share the view that there is...”
– In Piracy Case, China Fights Hero - WSJ.com