February 2010
25 posts
Job's on Adobe & Google
Jobs, characteristically, did not mince words as he spoke to the assembled, according to a person who was there who could not be named because this person is not authorized by Apple to speak with the press.
On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks...
January 2010
46 posts
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“So it’s simple really. If you make a product that turns the culture upside down,...”
– via NYT
Amen.
YouTube Partners Should Take Tips from OKCupid
We were sure that everyone thought these pictures were kinda lame. In fact, the prospect of producing hard data on just how lame got us all excited. But we were so wrong.
In terms of getting new messages, the MySpace Shot is the single most effective photo type for women. We at first thought this was just because, typically, you can kind of see down the girl’s shirt with the camera at that...
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formspring.me
nickdouglas:
HAHAHAHAHAHAno, that shit’s for losers. You wanna ask me a question, just fucking ask.
I’m with you Nick. Lol.
Wage slavery stops being cool as the dollar's...
We just have a new form of aristocratic rule. Well, you know that, later in the century, that happened to an extent that was worse than his worst nightmares. And people fought against it right through the century. There is a very lively independent press, working class press, right through the nineteenth century, in fact well into the twentieth century....
big ad agencies = public school .. small ad...
(via todayi)
“What used to cost $1M-$2M to set up, now costs $10K. What used to cost $5M to...”
– via naval
“While guiltily reading WeSmirch tonight I had a funny thought. And with that,...”
– me
Oh hai, cable networks.
ninety9:
I’m an educated adult, a highly valued consumer with all the appropriate credentials (top quartile income, large disposable income for entertainment, etc.). I have not paid a cable bill for television service in my adult life. You should get to know me, because the model you are pushing now? Doesn’t have legs.
“What we’re seeing is the disaggregation of another media form. We don’t buy...”
– via buzzmachine.com
“Start with the Chinese surplus. It has been temporarily depressed by the world...”
– via nytimes
“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via soupsoup)
“Despite the criticisms, researcher Tim Spector tells the Times, “This is...”
– via jezebel
“The President’s Luxurious “Time Off” from Presidency”
– What is on the White House Web site’s front page for the third day in a row is the White House ‘photo of the day’ that features an empty Oval Office save for a cleaning woman running a vacuum in front of the president’s vacated desk. A more telling image could not be presented to the public of an...
U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes...
But behind the scenes, Treasury officials appear to have concluded that growing numbers of delinquent borrowers simply lack enough income to afford their homes and must be eased out.
In late November, with scant public disclosure, the Treasury Department started the Foreclosure Alternatives Program, through which it will encourage arrangements that result in distressed borrowers surrendering...