Technology
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Paul Graham is an extremist, in a really good way
Paul Graham is an extremist, in a really good way “In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.” Yet another find on PG’s long list of fantastic essays. I admire this guy so much. His written work is clear, logical, pulls interesting facts from diverse fields and delivers a punching conclusion. Best of all there’s…
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Goodwill and no-nonsense values
StartupBus began with a premise that if you put sharp people on the bus, including all associated constraints, interesting things come out of it. Last year it was one bus with dreamers that come from distant parts of USA but also UK and Australia. The dreamers kept dreaming and today, a year later, 6 buses…
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Where do good ideas come from?
As I watched this video, parallel between it and the environment that we create on the StartupBus was stark. In this beautifully illustrated video, Steve Johnson asks a question you see in the title and specifically drills down on the impact that our surroundings have on our ideas. Breakthrough ideas are a result of rinse-and-lather…
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StartupBus community is about to get much larger
Last February my friend Julie brought to my attention this article on TechCrunch about this 48-hour hackathon on a bus, known as StartupBus. Of course I signed up, as the idea passed my personal threshold of “crazy enough to fly across the country”. Within just a couple of weeks from signing up for the StartupBus 2010 I…
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http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2f100thingstowatchin2011-101222142649-phpapp02&stripped_title=2f-100-things-to-watch-in-2011-6306251&userName=jwtintelligence Things to Watch in 2011 A 100-item laundry list of predictions of what will be popular in tech for the year 2011. There are some interesting trends emerging. Many items in that list are predicting a significant trend of technologies merging and going mainstream. Take for example Facebook’s growing ability to provide value to…
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Smart move by Tony Conrad (Founder of About.me)
AOL’s acquisition of About.me was the fastest exit I have ever read about – less than 1 week after the public launch. It’s a huge win for Tony Conrad and the team at About.me as they will be raking in millions in double digits. But in today’s startup environment there is a big emphasis on…
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Are you hypomanic? According to the article, Seth of Scvngr is.
Are you hypomanic? According to the article, Seth of Scvngr is. As much as it’s hard to imagine how hard life would be with 0 social life, people like Seth Priebatsch, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are the types that really do create big waves of innovation. Nothing short of extraordinary people that create extraordinary results. …
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Mobile now is a bit like the web / browser experience was in the early days of the Internet. The browsers can’t yet support all the things we want like the accelerometer, the camera, GPS / location, etc. So for the time being “apps” have won. But as I argued in my “App is Crap”…
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Moving Picasa Database Without Confusing It
Moving Picasa Database Without Confusing It My Picasa library databases started eating too much space on my C: drive so I was looking for a way to move the database to another partition. After looking through a bunch of Picasa forums and failing to get the results people advised, I found this link to be…
