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Dave Chappelle-Native Americans (via undefeated)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:55:47 -0800

Dave Chappelle-Native Americans (via undefeated)

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. - Boing Boing

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:21:06 -0800

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. - Boing Boing:

I don’t believe this. If it’s leaked, where’s the text? I find this absolutely un-credible.

iomegadrive:

Wow. The innovation we currently see in the internet space would cease and dry up if this were to become law.

"Things that look the same should act the same."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:50:57 -0800

“Things that look the same should act the same.”

- Expert Ratings of Usability Maxims » The UX Bookmark

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New Microsoft MSN Homepage Debuts

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:23:09 -0800

New Microsoft MSN Homepage Debuts:

I have no idea what to look at on this page.

Awesome. hellaposer: revgoomba:eringenett:this is just...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:55:01 -0800

Awesome.

hellaposer:

revgoomba:eringenett:this is just offensive, Busted Tees

Five YouTube Clichés That Need To Be Banned

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:52:57 -0800

Five YouTube Clichés That Need To Be Banned:

rockiltree:

I would add “Terrible celebrity attempts at viral videos”, but I guess that’s a FunnyOrDie thing.

urlesque:

Yesterday was National Cliché Day. So naturally, we celebrated by serving our readers the TOP FIVE YouTube clichés that seriously should be banned. From stop-motion to “sexy anything”, we totally got service-y on your ass.

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:08 -0800

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Fuck the foundries [dive into mark]

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:11:54 -0800

Fuck the foundries [dive into mark]:

Pretty succinct rant against the status quo in font crappiness on the web.

100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:41:35 -0800

100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1):

Fantastic.

dinosaurz:

So, do you agree with the list?

Excuse me, I’m really happy for you, Imma let u finish,...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:36:26 -0800

Excuse me, I’m really happy for you, Imma let u finish, but Tombstone is one of the best movies of ALL TIME!

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USC's Steven B. Sample Announces Retirement as President

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:59:13 -0800

USC's Steven B. Sample Announces Retirement as President:

This man has done amazing things for the University and the value of my degree. I am forever in his debt (not literally — paid that off a couple years ago).

"When any new platform opens up, the spammers are there first: Traffic is cheap and their untargeted..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:15 -0800

“When any new platform opens up, the spammers are there first: Traffic is cheap and their untargeted offers are profitable. But as legitimate advertisers come on, they bid the price of traffic up and squeeze out the spammers.”

- How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession

Again, @iomegadrive, this was a huge cultural phemonenon. When...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:14 -0800

Again, @iomegadrive, this was a huge cultural phemonenon. When you were in diapers, evidently.

Chris Farley Rocky Remix (via twentysixhundred)

Hey, @iomegadrive, now my Wing Street joke will make a lot more...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:30:04 -0800

Hey, @iomegadrive, now my Wing Street joke will make a lot more sense. You whippersnapper.

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Despite Slump, Venture Firm Sets Up $575 Million Fund

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:14:51 -0800

Despite Slump, Venture Firm Sets Up $575 Million Fund:

Wow, go Greylock.

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DirecTV Hires More Dead Celebrity Spokesmen (via iomegadrive)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:35:05 -0800

DirecTV Hires More Dead Celebrity Spokesmen (via iomegadrive)

"I also think people should understand that they will learn more from a bad manager than a good..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:56:35 -0800

“I also think people should understand that they will learn more from a bad manager than a good manager. They tend to get into a cycle where they’re so frustrated that they aren’t paying attention actually to what’s happening to them. When you have a good manager things go so well that you don’t even know why it’s going well because it just feels fine. When you have a bad manager you have to look at what’s irritating you and say: “Would I do that? Would I make those choices? Would I talk to me that way? How would I do this?” When people come to me and say, “I can’t work for so-and-so anymore,” I say, “Well, what have you learned from so-and-so?” People want to take a bad situation and say, “Oh, it’s bad.” No, no. You have to deal with what you’re dealt. Otherwise you’re going to run from something and not to something. And you should never run from something.”

- Corner Office - Carol Bartz - Imagining a World Without Annual Reviews - Question - NYTimes.com

"I have the puppy theory. When the puppy pees on the carpet, you say something right then because you..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:45:29 -0800

“I have the puppy theory. When the puppy pees on the carpet, you say something right then because you don’t say six months later, “Remember that day, January 12th, when you peed on the carpet?” That doesn’t make any sense. “This is what’s on my mind. This is quick feedback.” And then I’m on to the next thing. If I had my way I wouldn’t do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated. I almost would rather ask each employee to tell us if they’ve had a meaningful conversation with their manager this quarter. Yes or no. And if they say no, they ought to have one. I don’t even need to know what it is. But if you viewed it as meaningful, then that’s all that counts.”

- Corner Office - Carol Bartz - Imagining a World Without Annual Reviews - Question - NYTimes.com

I couldn’t agree more. Annual reviews are for weak managers.

Guess we’d better watch out in Oregon this weekend. GO...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:35:48 -0700

Guess we’d better watch out in Oregon this weekend. GO TROJANS!

Facebook's Priorities

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:28:33 -0700

Abso-freakin’-lutely. Spot on.

ztaylor:

rafer:

Image by MrTopf via Flickr

If you are going to accept the live-or-die risk of being completely dependent on FB, please make some effort to understand their priorities. The effect of this week’s FB platform changes was completely predictable in October 2008.

Several people have called me in the last 48 hours asking, “Why won’t FB let us pay them for app notifications and are instead killing them off? Won’t FB’s traffic drop too?” Of course Facebook’s traffic will drop a little. Facebook knows and couldn’t care less. They don’t care in exactly the same way they didn’t care about the traffic drop that resulted from their July 2008 redesign. The traffic they will lose is traffic that does not increase the value of their enterprise. These changes are very smart and appropriate self-cannibalization for a company that is trying to take over the Internet. They no longer need to build more traffic at facebook.com. For now, all that matters is building a huge network of Facebook Connect sites.

If you have a good app attached to a well thought out external web site that authenticates using FB Connect, then this week’s changes probably HELPED your business. I know of two specific startups where that’s the case. My description of which apps are supported by the changes is intentionally very specific. There are very few categories of developer that FB cares about right now — and the FB Connect sites is the only category they care about for new/raw startup developers. If you help FB spread their JS and Authentication out into the world, they will support you until their network is too big to stop. They are at roughly 20,000 publishers now. At ~200,000 publishers, watch out! Their priorities will change again and they will start taking cash out of the FB Connect network instead of providing it with free traffic.

Facebook obviously cares about the big game developers as well. Without Notification access, Zynga and the rest of the game companies will need to buy more and more media on Facebook. Probably a third of Zynga’s $200M runrate is paid back to Facebook in advertising now. Expect Zynga to start paying Facebook 50% or more of their runrate (which may drop) as a result of these changes unless Zynga makes some very fancy moves in the next month.

Facebook makes no empty moralistic claims about avoiding Evil. They do a great job of acting in their own best interest, seem to act ethically, and don’t try very hard to hide their motivations. If you want to do business in that ecosystem, please study the host on which you are dependent or find someone to do it for you.

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