January 2012
14 posts
“VC activity in the New York metro area peaked in the third quarter [of 2011],...”
– Emily Laermer, “NY area firms land most VC money since recession,” Crain’s New York Business (via nycedc)
Product Management Then and Now →
femmebot:
Organization: Old: Marketing New: Product (Product Management plus User Experience Design), a Peer to Technology and Marketing Education: Old: MBA New: Computer Science or User Experience Design Spends Days: Old: Writing Requirements Documents New: Product Discovery / Pursuing Minimum Viable Product Learns About Customer Behavior: Old: With Focus Groups New: With User Testing and A/B...
Alex Kehayias's Blog: A/B Split Testing with... →
alexkehayias:
Dear internet startups, there’s no excuse not to A/B test your shit. You will learn horrible things about yourself. For example, that “really cool feature that you added that is so awesome people are going to be glued to my app,” doesn’t actually do anything to improve your core metrics. In fact…
Thank you Alex for the reminder to start doing this and stop making excuses.
December 2011
14 posts
For FY 2011, the Observer Media Group will post a... →
spiers:
Been dying to let that cat out of the bag for a while now.
“As the torrent sites go down they’ll come back up as tor hidden services. Once...”
– In case SOPA passes: IP addresses of popular websites | Hacker News
This is the same basic reason I’ve never understood all the sweating about net neutrality. If the Internet starts to suck, can’t it just be superseded by a better internet that doesn’t suck? (via zachrose)
Overhead.
Technology Pirates to Set Sail Off the Golden... →
infoneer-pulse:
Will the next Google or Amazon be founded at sea? That’s the dream of Blueseed, a technology incubator that will be housed on a 1,000-room ship floating in international waters 12 miles off the coast of California. What sounds like the world’s nerdiest cruise ship is actually a clever way to work around the U.S. government’s tough regulations on visas for immigrant labor, which...
This Just In: All Pop Music Essentially Written by... →
Newsweek: Blackwater Has Third Identity Crisis in... →
vanityfair:
Security contractor Blackwater has not actually been named Blackwater for some time: in 2009, the company changed its name to Xe (pronounced “Oh, you mean Blackwater?”) in an effort to rehabilitate its atrocious public image. However, The Wall Street Journal reports, starting…
Who didn’t see this coming?
House updates 1988 privacy law to allow online... →
infoneer-pulse:
The House of Representatives on Tuesday easily passed legislation that updates video privacy laws to make it easier for online rental services such as Netflix to share information about customers’ viewing habits with user consent. Current law requires written consent to share video records, but the new law would allow companies to obtain consent over the web. The two-page bill...
“The Internet isn’t really a technology, it’s a belief system - a philosophy.”
– The Internet, innovation and learning by Joi Ito (via garychou) !!!!!!! (via msg)
Continuations: Let's Kill the Quiet Period →
continuations:
Much of the regulation that we have in the financial markets (and other markets for that matter) predates the Internet. While there has been the occasional patch here and there, too many anachronistic concepts remain that should simply be eliminated entirely. My favorite example is the “quiet…
Signed
Microsoft As The Firefox Savior? →
parislemon:
Marco Arment brings up the most fascinating aspect related to Ed Bott’s report that Google may not be renewing the search deal that essentially keeps Firefox (and really, Mozilla) alive:
What if Bing steps in to fill Google’s shoes?
That would basically mean Microsoft would be funding the demise of their own product, Internet Explorer.
But because Firefox has a huge user base,...
November 2011
23 posts
“Information overload is the wrong term because it blames the information. That...”
– Don’t blame the information for your bad habits - O’Reilly Radar (via infoneer-pulse)
NBC Universal Threatens Partners That They Need To... →
spytap:
Man, I’m so glad they will also be the largest internet provider in the US. It makes me feel so good knowing they’d never abuse that position.
“It does seem slightly pitiful that so many of our great scientific and...”
– Stephen Hawking: Colonize space, or else - Chris Matyszczyke (via wreckandsalvage)
Music, Technology, Art, Economy: On "Smart... →
ethanb:
(Below is a comment on “Netflix: Leading Indicator on Challenges Ahead for Brands,” by Chris Perry.)
This is such a great post that strings together many of my favorite insights about media, technology, and economics.
I thoroughly agree with the two prescribed steps towards success in a…
Comcast begins limited IPv6 rollout to home... →
infoneer-pulse:
On Wednesday, Comcast announced that it has started an IPv6 market deployment pilot in the town of Pleasanton, California. Comcast Xfinity Internet subscribers in Pleasanton who have an IPv6-capable DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem can automatically receive an IPv6 address as well as an IPv4 address. However, this only happens if they connect their Windows 7 or Mac OS 10.7 system directly...
“Is Palantir an enterprise software company with no sales, marketing, or services...”
– Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt | Kellblog
This is an excellent look at Palantir. (via pegobry)
bitly blog: bitly and Verisign →
bitly:
One of our investors brought his teenage daughter by the office the other day. She was puzzled.
“Bitly has an office?” she asked her father. “I thought it was, you know, just part of the Internet.”
We took that as a great compliment — over the last three years, bitly links really have become a…
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