5. If you go out to bars like every night of the week, you’re not alcoholic. You’re a Foursquare Ambassador.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Reblog: 15 Tips for Twitter Bios
Friday, February 25, 2011
Middle-Class Americans receive $1.30 of benefits per $1 of tax
http://baselinescenario.com/2011/02/11/1-30-1-00/ Brilliant! Why does the American middle class consistently vote avaunt
their own self-interest?
their own self-interest?
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley « Steve Blank
If you didn’t come in your own 747, here’s a guide to what to see in the valley (which for the sake of this post, extends from Santa Clara to San Francisco.) This post offers things to see/do for two types of visitors: I’m just visiting and want a “tourist experience” (i.e. a drive by the Facebook / Google / Zynga / Apple building) or “I want to work in the valley” visitor who wants to understand what’s going on inside those buildings.
I’m leaving out all the traditional stops that you can get from the guidebooks.
via steveblank.com
This is the coolest post on tech I've ever read!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Opera Mini browser to be pre-integrated onto Brew Mobile OS
This is mega news. How come nobody else has reported on this?
Mobile Knots
Opera has just announced at MWC 2011 that they have got into a agreement with Qualcomm to integrate their world leading mobile browser Opera Mini onto Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile OS.
From the press release:
Opera Software today announced that it has signed an agreement to ship the Opera Mini browser worldwide on Qualcomm Incorporated’s Brew MP™. Millions of consumers worldwide will benefit by having a smartphone-like browsing experience on mass-market devices.
The Opera Mini browser is one of the world’s most popular mobile browsers, with more than 90 million users.
Incorporating Opera Mini as part of Brew MP simplifies the process of making a powerful browser available to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and ODMs (Original Device Manufacturers). OEMs and ODMs will benefit from simplified development, faster time-to-market and inclusion as part of the Brew MP OS.
Consumers will have access to the one of the fastest possible browsing experiences on their mass-market handsets and enjoy a desktop browser-like user interface tailored for smaller handset screens. Because of Opera Mini’s compression technology, these benefits are achieved while reducing monthly data charges.
“Recently, we announced 90.4 million Opera Mini users worldwide. With this agreement, millions of more consumers will be able to experience a superior mobile browsing experience which is fast and cost-effective,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. “The combination of Opera Mini and Qualcomm’s worldwide reach means we are bringing the power of the Internet to everyone and not just smartphone users.”
“We are excited by this collaboration as it provides the option of a turn-key mobile browser as part of the Brew MP OS,” said Rob Chandhok, president of Qualcomm Internet Services. “Opera Mini allows us to provide a best-in-class mobile browsing experience across a range of mass-market devices.”
Opera Mini browser to be pre-integrated onto Brew Mobile OS is a post from Mobile Knots
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Qualcomm the big winner?
via http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-nokia-the-biggest-winners-and-losers-2011-2#
After all these years, who would've thought that Qualcomm would be the main beneficiary from a Nokia-Microsoft "partnership?"
Saturday, February 05, 2011
How Tech Tools Transformed New York's Sex Trade | Coolest thing I've read on @wired in a long time
Changes in the sex industry have rendered them superfluous. I met 11 pimps working out of midtown Manhattan in 1999, and all were out of work within four years. One enlisted in the military; two have been homeless. Only one now has a full-time job, working as a janitor in a charter school. I asked one of them how pimping experience helps him in the legit economy: “You learn one thing,” he said. “For a good blow job, a man will do just about anything. What can I do with that knowledge? I have no idea.
via wired.com
It's an infograph!
Read it! All of it!
Facebook will be the leading market for the sex trade?
Crazy!
Thursday, February 03, 2011
What is a fair price for Internet service? - via @GlobeandMail
What is a fair price for Internet service?
Published Tuesday, Feb. 01, 2011 3:52PM EST
Last updated Wednesday, Feb. 02, 2011 11:26AM EST
To find out what is a fair price, I contacted several industry insiders. They informed me that approximately four years ago, the cost for a certain large Telco to transmit one gigabyte of data was around 12 cents. That’s after all of its operational and fixed costs were accounted for. Thanks to improved technology and more powerful machines, that number dropped to around 6 cents two years ago and is about 3 cents per gigabyte today.
Apple's take on secure, user-friendly password via @DaringFireball
It’s password protected by default, and Apple even auto-suggests good passwords like “closed53soaps” — two words, all-lowercase, separated by two digits.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
D spiffycliffy Optimal Employment? Australia? Bartender? Outback?
The USA is not the best place to earn money.2 My own experience suggests that at least Japan, New Zealand, and Australia can all be better. This may be shocking, but young professionals with advanced degrees can earn more discretionary income as a receptionist or a bartender in the Australian outback than as, say, a software engineer in the USA.
via lesswrong.com
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