February 2012
Am I the only one who loathes all the re-made...
I don’t really get it. Most of them are really not very good at all, yet people seem to LOVE them.
I'm in LA this week, working off a Blip LA...
annieisms:
Annie: this macbook pro’s screen is so big!
Annie: it’s soooo nice for watching stuff in full screen, hee hee
Steve: this is like you and your big screen: tumblr_lyy2tlE4iT1qfjjglo1_500.gif
parislemon:
The FriendFeed 70x Exit
When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in the summer of 2009, it was widely-reported to be a fairly straightforward “acqui-hire” deal. The price was more complicated.
$50 million sounded good on paper, but it was believed that only a small amount was in cash, the rest was in Facebook stock. It was Facebook stock which was just valued at $6.5 billion...
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Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic →
dbreunig:
(Via PC World)
Just found the species that will succeed humans.
evangotlib:
Panasonic Comes In At Negative $10 Billion
parislemon:
Swimming in a sea of red, Panasonic is the bloodiest yet. A $10.2 billion annual loss. That’s not just bad, it’s insanely bad.
But again, they’re hardly alone. Reports Tim Kelly and Yoko Kubota for Reuters:
Together, Panasonic, Sony and Sharp Corp expect to lose $17 billion this year, highlighting the savaging of Japan’s...
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“That comment struck me as reflecting the same type of thinking as that of...”
– Will Richmond, Video Nuze (1/31/2012)
January 2012
Are you a recent college grad? Are you looking...
evangotlib:
You can buy it here.
YCombinator's new ultimatum: Kill Hollywood →
An Altogether New Effect
brycedotvc:
In the wake of this week’s online surge to combat SOPA and PIPA, the New York Times found Chris Dodd, the current head of The Motion Picture Association of America, in a particularly reflective mood yesterday.
Looking back on his decades as a beltway insider, he posited that this recent wave of online activism was unlike any he’d encountered. From the article:
But the startlingly...
“The best way to combat piracy is to remove barriers, not put up new ones.”
– MG Siegler AKA @parislemon - http://wp.me/p25u9C-eP (via clintus)
“The atoms, the molecules in your body, are traceable to the crucibles in the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, via infinity-imagined (via mikeambs)