February 2009
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less... →
Bret Taylor / Bret Taylor’s blog: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data — Background — We use MySQL for storing all of the data in FriendFeed. Our database has…
Ten Laws of Constructive Capitalism →
I have watched Umair Haque’s presentation on Constructive Capitalism at the Daytona Sessions three times in the last week. Since getting turned on to the thinking of Haque, it’s been a somewhat…
How to Use Twitter Without Twitter Owning You - 5... →
(Photo: Timothy K. Hamilton)
Total read time: 5 minutes.
I’ve evolved as a user of the micro-blogging tool called Twitter.
That said, technology is a great slave but a terrible master,…
What They Don’t Teach in Detective School | The... →
Basics57: From Action to Excellence →
For a presentation in Auckland on Friday I created a document centered around 21 “Basics.” Upon reaching Queenstown on Saturday, as per my custom, I ended up expanding it to “Basics57.” You’ll find…
Basics57: From Action to Excellence →
For a presentation in Auckland on Friday I created a document centered around 21 “Basics.” Upon reaching Queenstown on Saturday, as per my custom, I ended up expanding it to “Basics57.” You’ll find…
How to build your (web) app quickly (and cheaply?)... →
Fowa Miami 09 Cloud Computing WorkshopView more presentations from Mark Masterson. (tags: cloud+computing fowa)
Here are the slides (all 275 of ‘em) that I developed for…
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it’s easy to believe in...”
– I Wrote This For You (via egonzalez)
My Top 3 Digital Marketing Tactics for 2009 →
Lee Odden published a reader poll at TopRank asking you to help him identify the 3 digital marketing channels & tactics will you emphasize in 2009. At the time I took this screen shot…
Jedi Mind Tricks: How to Get $250,000 of... →
These are not the prices I’m looking for. (Photo: hellochris)
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
-John F. Kennedy
In December 2008, well-known…
Pinch Media Data Shows The Average Shelf Life Of... →
There may be more than 20,000 iPhone apps out there that have been downloaded more than 500 million times, but what is the average shelf life of each app? Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media,…
Hulu's Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight →
[A note to start. My company, Wesabe, is funded in part by a venture firm, Union Square Ventures, which is one of the funders of Boxee, a character in the drama described below. That said,…
“Here are some ideas on how newspapers could survive and become viable...”
– Some Ideas On Reinventing Newspapers
45 Blog Post Ideas That Always Generate Buzz →
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Many marketing bloggers are swooning over Twitter, FriendFeed, and other instant, fast-paced social communities lately. It is…
Workspring The Workplace of The Future →
I was in Chicago last week and took advantage of this to investigate Workspring, a recent offering from Steelcase that gets to the heart of the collaborative meeting and events space. I…
Five tips for better online surveys →
Every question you ask is expensive. (Expensive in terms of loyalty and goodwill). Don’t ask a question unless you truly care about the answer. This means that a vague question with vague answers…
Change Happens →
Last night, I watched a 1951 British movie, The Man in the White Suit. The plot hinged on everyone’s realization that a new fabric invented by a young chemist (played by Alec Guiness) would put…
Announcing the Blueprint February Update →
One of the great pleasures of delivering Blueprint as a SaaS application is that we’re able to stay flexible and update the product approximately every six weeks. To that end, we dedicated the…
who is on twitter? →
aja:
people who are just back from a really awesome run
people who are involved with “computers”
DJs
DJs at the airport
DJs who are drunk
people who don’t have anyone’s email address
people who are mad at television
people who have forgotten how to email
people who have forgotten how to text
people who are involved in “social networking” and optimizing the power of re-Tweeting...
NBA All Star 09 →
When we were pitching the adidas business as Riot a part of our vision was the ability to create content that could live anywhere tapping multiple networks as they are designed for the…
Excitement Vs. Passion →
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New blogs, new social networks, new interests, new businesses, new forms of marketing - these are all things that are easy to get excited about. But excitement is…
Mix Tape Flash Drive →
So mashed up it’s crazy.
64MB = 1 hour of music. $15.75.
