May 2011
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Bon Iver - Beth/Rest
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Google: It Doesn't Need More Engineers →
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Engineers are great at solving problems.
But they’re not always so great at figuring out which problems to solve.
Lost the ‘via’—apologies to whomever prompted me to open that tab.
“Google will never be a great consumer company until it takes a lesson from the book of Jobs and hires a bunch more liberal arts majors.
Engineers are great at solving problems. But they’re...
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“You have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be...”
– Best Roof Talk Ever
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“Why are we listening to the Bush administration people anyway? They didn’t GET...”
– JON STEWART, on former Bush administration figures taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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“Instead of having to upload your thousands of MP3s, iTunes may be able to simply...”
– Without The Labels, Google’s Music Locker Service Will Look Like Apple’s Ugly Sibling. Again.
This is the difference between companies that build solutions or platforms and companies that build experiences. Google and Facebook and Amazon can’t figure out how to compete with Apple because they...
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“Anything with the word sync in it, or cloud, or drive—it sounds too much like a...”
– Why Dropbox Avoids Industry Buzzwords Like “The Cloud” (via 9-bits)
Great article about name and not jumping on the band wagon.
Dropbox isn’t interested in demonstrating the brilliant and endless potential of the cloud, unlike most of its competitors, which are constantly pointing out how...
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“The other is technological wizardry: young people who have grown up with laptops...”
– Television Ownership Drops in U.S., Nielsen Reports - NYTimes.com
The beginning of a long process. 96.7% of American households still own at least one TV. But this is happening. Like all major structural shifts the speed of change will reamin slow and then all of a sudden a tipping point will be... 