June 2010
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Why Do You Write?
Sam Lessin is the founder and CEO of Drop.io, a fantastic product.  He’s also the founder of new company, letter.ly.  Letter.ly bills itself as the simple way to sell email subscription newsletters.  For $2/month (that seems like the standard price), people can build a business around their written thoughts.  Yes, the newsletter may be coming back around for another turn. People have...
Jun 28th
Jun 25th
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
“How would your friends describe you? Circle ALL that apply: Shy Athlete/Jock...”
– Question from an application for some TLC wedding reality show.  Offered without comment (well, other than that).
Jun 22nd
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Jun 17th
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“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty...”
– Steve Jobs (via Henrik Werdelin and Andrew Chen) The quote comes from a wide-ranging 1996(!) Wired interview that’s worth reading in full.
Jun 17th
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Jun 17th
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Jun 16th
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'Beyond Alexander Graham Bell's imagination'
I distinctly remember my dad getting this phone.  I thought it was so much cooler than the StarTAC. Here’s some throwback fun: a cell phone buying guide from Fast Company circa 1996.  The StarTAC cost over $1000! go: Photo: Sony’s CM-RX100, circa 1995: beyond even Alexander Graham Bell’s imagination. Sony’s new CM-RX100, one of the world’s smallest cellular phones-3 1/2” x 2 3/8”
Jun 12th
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Jun 9th
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Jun 7th
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Boxee iPad App Request: The Perfect Remote
I’m really excited to watch Boxee on an iPad, but as someone who’s invested time and money in a killer home theater setup, I’d love if Boxee would use the iPad to solve the fact that remotes suck as a means for interacting with content.  The iPad is an awesome content consumption device, yes, but it also has the potential to be the greatest companion remote ever.   What...
Jun 6th
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The Coming War: Apple (and Boxee?) vs. NBC/Comcast
From last night’s interview with Steve Jobs at d8: Steve: The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go to market strategy. The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us… ask Google in a few months. 7:56PM Steve: So all you can do is ADD a box to the TV. You just end up with a...
Jun 2nd
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“What I love about the marketplace is that we do our products, we tell people...”
– Steve Jobs My favorite quote (so far) from a wide-ranging, alternately strange and fascinating interview with Steve Jobs at d8 today. (via soupsoup).  Live as of 10:30 pm EST
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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