March 2011
“Around 2020 or soon afterward, Moore’s law will gradually cease to hold true and...”
– What happens when computers stop shrinking? - Salon.com
I love reading articles that remind me of my freshman engineering courses! 2020 seemed so far away back then… I wonder if those manufacturing cities in China are freaking out yet. Or are they already working a replacement, plastic perhaps?
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Salesforce Buys Social Media Monitoring Company... →
krluna:
I read this morning that Radian 6, the social monitoring tool was just acquired by Salesforce for $326mm. I’ve had the opportunity to use Radian 6 before and I will say that there are much better services out there. I am not sure what exactly justifies this price tag. I found the service to be a bit primitive. It literally scraped the internet for any relevant mentions.
Maybe I...
“My main reaction to last night’s speech was a kind of bleak relief, a sort of...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama’s Libya Speech : The New Yorker (via peterwknox)
Agreed.
(via mikehudack)
Rafer sez: I’ve crossed the line. The lying was far better acted, and the condescension came from a guy who should know better, but is using that knowledge to get reelected instead of creating...
How is it possible that the NYT spent $40-$50MM... →
fimoculous:
You know how many journalists despise Demand Media for using search engines to determine what content to create?
I’m telling you, they could fight back by just combing Quora for the questions that actually need to be answered.
Seriously, why has no one questioned this figure yet? How did they spend this money?
I was talking about this with Andrew from Abrams last night with...
“Or alternatively, it could just end up churning out more quants for Wall Street...”
– Stanford Wants To Open A Campus In New York
Ha. Ding!
“Today at Rocketboom we announce the sale of Know Your Meme to The Cheezburger...”
– THE ROCKETBOOM INSTITUTE OF INTERNET STUDIES SELLS LABORATORY, KNOW YOUR MEME - Dembot
Good lord. We are living in a Douglas Adams novel or something, aren’t we? Maybe Jeff Noon?
“In the case of LCD Soundsystem, it looks very much as though the overwhelming...”
– James Murphy’s role in the LCD Soundsystem ticket fiasco | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
Oh man, say it ain’t so.
Urlesque, as mentioned, is getting shut down,...
interweber:
tanya77:
I’m fucking pissed off about this. Is there really so much overhead at Urlesque that it has to be shut down? Is there going to be something as Memeable to take it’s place? I love(d) Urlesque and REALLY resent that AOL seems to be just flushing it down the toilet. I wish this wasn’t true.
<3 <3 <3
AOL should think about Vanity titles. Those breakeven titles you...
The Color Of Money →
This is a great article, and I think MG Has nailed what the thinking is behind the Color investment. Still, though, it only has more questions for me.
First.. .$41 million… two years of runway? Two years? Even with a giant server bill and ops team… I mean, that’s madness.
Secondly… doesn’t this valuation come with risks? MG makes the point that this team more than...
“Yes, it’s just VC’s making bets. But it does not bode well for most that so many...”
– tedr in response to The Color Of Money
Your parents are not going to lose their house because Color got $41 million in funding and blew it.
and caterpillarcowboy’s
Exactly. Retail investors buying Twitter stock via JPMorgan is a bubble. This is just VCs making bets.
(via msg)
No, but that...
“Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their...”
– PolitiFact | Michele Bachmann’s file
I don’t know why, but that terrifies me, utterly.
“What I realized over the years is that it’s just as hard to build a small...”
– Fabrice Grinda (via msg)
Why?
Newsweek: Wow. In Which Marie Claire Breaks Down... →
newsweek:
LATE NIGHT, BY THE NUMBERS:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Male writers: 19 Female writers: 1
Conan Male writers: 17 Female writers: 1
The Colbert Report Male writers: 16 Female writers: 1
The Late Show With David Letterman Male writers: 13 Female writers: 1
Lopez…
Okay is it just me or is Newsweek using phrases like “wow,” and “holy shit”...
“The U.S., with 5 percent of Earth’s population and no enemies on its borders,...”
– - Jacob Sullum, Obama’s War of Choice, Reason (via notentirely)
Look, you can’t win. You can focus only on “national security,” as if those 5% of the people are actually more important than the other 95%, or you can try and help the other 95% too. Right? Also, what kind of person is someone if they...
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– But, more interesting is what it says about the ways ultra-smart woman are perceived. What’s implicit in Good’s outrage is the assumption that Fried, badass engineer and genius, couldn’t have possibly been as attractive as she appears on Wired’s cover. The underlying message is that there has to be... 