January 2009
35 posts
The voice of Dogster →
Dogster’s reply to the closing of pets.yahoo.com. Good stuff.
It’s a shame really. Yahoo, for all it’s management failings, is one of the truly great people-positive brands. There’s so much they…
Warehouse robots →
Interesting post about how robots are increasing efficiency at retail warehouses. Apart from that it’s a little too close to an informercial for Kiva, the robot maker, there are some…
“Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles — sedans, SUVs,...”
– more
The Le Mans of hacking →
Tomorrow at noon 24 hour business camp kicks off. An admirable event organized by Ted and includes 90 great internet peeps trying to build a product in 24 hours. Some of the ideas have already…
Round 2 - 88 Keys - Death of Adam
Slick Rick...
Patina value →
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This morning I went to the cobbler to pick up a couple of pairs that finally had recieved some much needed love. When I stood there waiting I snapped a photo of…
“In its first week, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith sold over three times as many units as...”
– Source
“Jobs, in contrast, seems determined to hang on at Apple no matter what. See, in...”
– Oh snap! Dan Lyons on Steve Jobs in Newsweek (via blakeley) (via caro)
“We have three basic processes: creating, communicating and selling the...”
– Bill Agee, Ikea
Source
“Whatever the hawks of the media choose to write, it is clear that Rolex played a...”
– Now I really want a Rolex.
Via Jardenberg
Nationality on social networks →
From the blog of the upcoming book Building web 2.0 reputation systems we learn why everyone on Orkut is Brazilian:
In the earliest days of Orkut (Google’s also-ran entry into social…
“over 50% of all the edits are done by just .7% of the users … 524 people....”
– Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia contributors
Eniro is lost in translation →
For quite some time I’ve been annoyed by the Swedish catalogue company Eniro (basically the Swedish Yellow pages), mainly because they continuously fail to understand the medium they operate in….
