January 2009
“This is why our problem is not just economic; it’s spiritual. We have mistaken...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (January 29, 2009) - The Expectations Game (via whileseated)
The average tax rate paid by the richest 400 Americans fell by a third to 17.2 percent through the first six years of the Bush administration and their average income doubled to $263.3 million, new IRS data show.
More fuel for our politicians and media to fan the raging populist class-ware bonfire : http://ginx.com/-Bbg9 via MP-on-it
“Combined with CM, display becomes more than just ads adjacent to content, it...”
– Federated Media Publishing (via brooksjordan)
ted says: conceptually yes, but very hard for a network to pull off for dozens of different sites w/ each different layouts, visitor types, usage patterns, etc. So far as I’ve seen only entirely custom campaigns have been able to create a...
“The cataclysm on Wall Street did not stop New York City-based employees from...”
– Wall St.’s $18.4B Bonus: ‘Sense of Entitlement Clearly Has Not Been Beaten Out’
“Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America...”
– Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill (via rafer)
Rafer sez: Companies receiving FAILout money should be barred from lobbying for a year or two.
tedr says: Heh, Failout, I love it. It’s amazes me how unrepentent they have been in this. Once grandpa let them off the hook for...
“Just about every company faces tough choices about how to improve operations in...”
– Cut Customer Service? You’ll Lose Customers - Scott Anthony - HarvardBusiness.org
“here’s my point — Silicon Valley is WAAAY too infatuated with the...”
– Master of 500 Hats: Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products, NOT about being Great Entrepreneurs.
PMOG Nominated for AIAS MMOG of the Year! →
kenyatta:
IMD graduate Justin Hall and his company GameLayers have been nominated by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences for Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year for PMOG. Congrats to Justin, Merci, Duncan and all at GameLayers!! Pretty incredible for a start-up to be nominated next to Warhammer and Wrath of the Lich King :)
““Steve Jobs often came by Texaco Towers after dinner, to see what was new, and...”
– Funny that Amit found this story and posted it today. I actually ran across this story a few weeks ago and thought it was pretty great too. So, here you go :)
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Mister Macintosh (via superamit)
(via davemorin)
“Early stage venture investors have relatively little information upon which to...”
– David Hornik’s Will VCs Continue to Suspend Disbelief - VentureBlog
“In fact high-end highly differentiated directly sold inventory will be critical...”
– 2009 Online Advertising Forecast - Dogster, Inc.
From a company blog post I wrote about our visibility into 2009 online ad revenue treads.
“Results from the 2008 Personalization Survey (pdf) show that 39% of consumers...”
– Personalized Ads Attract Big Spenders, Frequent Shoppers - MarketingCharts
“In an attempt to deliver on pledges of a transparent government, Obama said he...”
– Obama’s first day: Pay freeze, lobbying rules - White House- msnbc.com
“But we all know the TV and cable companies would never let this happen. And they...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Boxee (via fred-wilson)
“P.S. The product, in Alpha release, now being utilized by 200,000, although we...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Boxee (via bijan)
“It makes you wonder, have words like “original” started to feel...”
– Rex Sorgatz boldly going where music nerds fear to tread. Click thur for hot tracks he made a playlist of at RCRD LBL, a hot network of online lablels and music blogs going where traditional labels fear to tread.
“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that...”
– Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address (via jdel inauguration bijan rahmin)
“Is it me, or aren’t the entrepreneurs the ones who are supposed to be innovating...”
– Charlie O’Donnell (via betaworks)
Rafer sez: That’s all true, but it’s useless nihilism.
There is a historical point beyond which traditional VC fund structures are so, so poorly aligned with the entrepreneurs’ incentives and decreasing capital requirements that the funds need to change. We are...
11 Items You Don't Have to Buy Organic →
(via kevinrose)
Dr Andrew Weil (the big beard foodie health guy)
If organic produce is cutting into your overall budget, it’s okay to prioritize a bit and use non-organic varieties of the fruits and vegetables listed below, which tend to contain the least amount of pesticides. You should still make it a habit to wash them thoroughly before eating or cooking to remove dirt and bacteria.
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“that all of the code used to power Jaiku on App Engine is going to be released...”
– From Jyri Zengstroms’ (Jaiku Founder) personal blog
The open sourcing oj Jaiku (with the option to run on your own servers, or as a ‘hosted’ Google App Engine) is very intersting news. Congrats to everyone (Google included) for making this happen. If anything thinks Twitter has...
“Some passengers screamed, others tucked their heads between their knees, and...”
– Passengers tell the inside story of plane that crashed into New York’s Hudson river - The Observer (via highlow) (via mikehudack)
“Imitation - not innovation - is woven into the fabric of the 20th century...”
– Umair Haque in Harvard Business Online
I don’t agree 100% with Umair here, but it’s a very radical explanation of the macroeconomic failures that lead to The Great Crash of ‘08 that I’m not reading anywhere else.
He’s astounded that even though the automobile,...
