January 2010
64 posts
“Technically, not launched yet, but I’ve been playing with it for a little bit....”
– From A Geek’s Geek: Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009
We have never met or even spoken with Daniel, and yet he has been instrumental in his early advocacy of Flavors, landing us fantastic coverage in Read Write Web, and spreading the word to some cool early...
December 2009
93 posts
“Its important to understand something about ‘social games’ - most of...”
– Gamasutra: Tadhg Kelly’s Blog - Zynga and the End of the Beginning
Future of Web Apps / Miami 2010
I will probably be hanging out at the Future of Web Apps in Miami. Is anyone else planning on going?
“What the average citizen doesn’t explicitly understand is that a significant...”
– At Tiny Rates, Saving Money Costs Investors - NYTimes.com The death panel decisions have already been made, and they have nothing to do with health care reform.
“Rotten Tomatoes (may be) merging with Flixster, in exchange for a stake in the...”
– The Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes/MySpace Mystery Solved | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD This would be a fantastic deal.
“Just because its unique, doesn’t mean its usable. I could have designed my own...”
– Flavors.me Design Blog LOL! Who knew Jack was so funny?
“Yahoo! has let the service atrophy for years and will now put it to rest. To...”
– Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month
The Flavors.me Design Process
For designers or aspiring designers, Jack has started documenting his adventures, and obviously I can’t recommend paying attention to him enough when he has something to share.
flavorsdesign: I’ve spent the last 1 1/2 years working on Flavors with Jonathan and so far it’s been an amazing ride. It all started with an idea Jonathan had about bringing in content from API’s which had much more...
WatchJoe Scarborough on campaign finance reform. END THE FED.
“China’s strategy was simple: block the open negotiations for two weeks,...”
– How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas The Guardian Also, why is the US supposed to save ‘poor’ people around the world if we have millions of poor people who live on our own shores?
“A key difference between Russia and the US is that in the US, an Anglo-American...”
– Hacker News | Zynga Closes $180MM VC Round
Lonely People | Talib Kweli
“Those of you who wondered over the years how it could be that soldiers in Iraq...”
– Defense Bill Raids Personnel Funds to Pay For Weapons - Matt Taibbi - True/Slant
“Another day, another Rackspace outage.”
– Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again. I will be shorting RAX in my fantasy stock market portfolio at UpDown on Monday.
“Excited to announce that my second album “safe in the steep cliffs” will be out...”
– Emancipator Music » safe in the steep cliffs + free track Not enough people know how fresh, distinct and refined Emancipator’s music is, but perhaps that will change with his upcoming release!
Shook (Remix) | Emancipator, Sigur Ros & Mobb...
“The fault can—and should—be laid at the feet of the man who likely...”
– Citigroup Does The Impossible: It Screws US Taxpayers AGAIN
“Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber —...”
– Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones What. The. Fuck.
“Tim’s got no money at all to do anything. AOL has barely enough to cover...”
– AOL Tried To Buy Associated Content
“Lots of iPhone application developers are frustrated with the process to get new...”
– iPhone developers abandoning app model for HTML5?
WatchCongressman Ron Paul dropping his usual dose of knowledge on Morning Joe, like only he can. END THE FED.
“I’ve actually bought music as the result of hearing it in a video on...”
– tedroden
“Notice that there aren’t any consumer rights representatives. No one from...”
– Biden Convenes ‘Piracy Summit’ That Appears To Be Entirely One-Sided | Techdirt
“Digital Sky Technologies, or D.S.T., an investment firm with offices in Moscow...”
– Russians Buy Stake in Web Games 700+ people hired into a company that was started in mid-2007, no big deal. Sounds efficient.
“Bob Morley, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Washington...”
– Professor claims Square took his credit card reading technology | VentureBeat
Drop The Bomb On ‘Em | Eminem (Produced by...
“You would think the insurance industry would be subject to the antitrust laws,...”
– Robert Reich’s Blog: How a Few Private Health Insurers Are on the Way to Controlling Health Care
“Obama can jawbone all he wants about “fat cats,” but that’s...”
– Citi Repays TARP, Taxpayers Get Screwed
“Stern moved closer than any major commissioner in modern times to an acceptance...”
– David Stern Open to Legalized Betting
Down With The King | Run DMC, CL Smooth & Pete...
“Ironically, the effort to contain the crisis required government intervention on...”
– Paul Krugman - Disaster and Denial
