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собачка в этой компании смотрится замечательно - earlyadopter

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“Jason then called Facebook PR. Jaime Schopflin took the call and, apparently, couldn’t stop laughing for five minutes. Between laughs while catching her breath she mentioned something about this being a joke, that nobody but us could see it, and that they were placing bets around the office on how long before we noticed it and posted. And something else about teaching us to contact them before posting.” - × × ×

"Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. Fast Flip also personalizes the experience for you, by taking cues from selections you make to show you more content from sources, topics and journalists that you seem to like. In short, you get fast browsing, natural magazine-style navigation, recommendations from friends and other members of the community and a selection of content that is serendipitous and personalized." - × × ×

гонка вооружений - xekc@xekc.com

Какая-то на первый взгляд бессмысленная штука. - alex@kapranoff.ru

“Intuit will acquire the free online personal finance service Mint, we’ve confirmed from a source close to the deal, for around $170 million. The deal should be announced in the next few days. This is a terrific exit for Mint, which first launched two years ago at TechCrunch50. Mint took the top prize at that event and has been growing fast ever since. Their last round of financing valued the company at $140 million.” - × × ×

См. также: “How Intuit managed to hold off Microsoft” - http://friendfeed.com/urbansh... - × × ×

“PassiveNet has no theme. It's lighthearted and random. This isn't set in stone. Read the concept below and you'll find that any theme could easily be applied to it. PassiveNet has no teams or classes. It's all about tools. The game offers a wider variety of them than PMOG did, but they are all of the "use on a page" variety. In other words, nothing you wear (armor) or attach to others (nicks). The tools are fundamentally basic, but varied to keep things interesting and fun. Every tool has an upgrade variant that costs a bit more. Like PMOG used to be, you earn a little money for every page you visit.” - × × ×

“You're missing the bigger picture. Forget about tight calendar integration and blah blah, that's a nice to have, and reasonably easy compared to the bigger problems. Event sites suck because they never have most of the events you want to go to. And without some fundamentally new way of learning about events, they never will. Events sites are trying to do something a lot harder than the typical Web 2.0 startup. They are trying to build an accurate and complete picture of the real world, with a constantly shifting time horizon of about a few weeks, out of relatively apathetic users and very flaky and fragmented and non-technologized players (promoters, fans, etc.).” - × × ×

“Design can be executed using secretive or transparent processes; it really can’t be “open” because it can’t be evaluated in same way “open source” projects evaluate contributions, where solutions compete on the basis of meritocratic and objective measures. Design is sublime, primal, and intuitive and needs consistency to succeed. Open source code, in contrast, can have many authors and be improved incrementally. Design — visual, interactive or conceptual — requires unity; piecemeal solutions feel disjointed, uncomfortable and obvious when end up in shipping product.” - × × ×

“A group of MIT students climbed up the scaffolding of the campus' “Great Dome” (which looks like music bars) and installed seven notes. Those noted are the first seven notes of Rick Astley's “Never Gonna Give You Up.” - × × ×

“With a new marketing campaign, Advanced Micro Devices has decided to tout its graphics chips over its CPUs, ending many years of battling over technical specs with Intel.” - × × ×

“And, as anyone who’s done these sorts of experiments knows, you often see improvements well in excess of 10%. To take a silly example, Dustin Curtis experimented with getting more readers of his weblog to follow him on Twitter. After four experiments, he’d achieved a 173% improvement. And even this is probably underestimating things. I expect many nonprofits are not accomplishing their goals at all. Even if they made a little bit of progress, their improvement would be mathematically infinite. (It’s also quite possible that many nonprofits are actually being counter-productive. After all, before we started measuring the effects of medical treatment, we were bleeding people with leeches.)” - × × ×

“Possibly you’ve never heard of it. But if you know anyone who knits or crochets, ask him or (more likely) her about Ravelry and chances are you’re talking to an active member. It’s big. This is an interview with Casey Forbes, who constitutes the whole engineering staff.” - × × ×

“Flickr Related Tag Browser lets you surf Flickr's 'tag space'. Flickr tags are keywords used to classify images. Each tag has a list of 'related' tags, based on clustered usage analysis.” - × × ×

«Иными словами - если сегодня, похоже, нет ни одной институции, которая удерживает монополию на отделение "обычной" литературы от "великой" - значит ли это, что в нынешние времена просто не может появиться великих романов, даже теоретически?» - × × ×

К вопросу о тормозящем фликре и френдфиде. Посмотрим, чего нам парни ответят. - × × ×

Оказывается, тормозит не френдфид. Тормозит Фликр. Злые, злые. - × × ×

CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. - × × ×