bckrasnow

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by bckrasnow 12y ago
I hate the new logo with a passion. Why keep the place icon in the bottom on of the F and have the swirl behind it if the whole point of this was to take check-in's out of the app? It's saying you're doing one thing and then
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by bckrasnow 12y ago
To me, there's three categories startups fall into: fun, world-changing, and failures. SnapChat and Facebook are fun. Google and Tesla are world changing. The failures may be nameless, but they outnumber the rest 5 to 1. If you're
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by bckrasnow 12y ago
I don't think you can get American users to trust Chinese companies with the amount of spying that is done over there. Though you could probably say that about American companies in Europe now as well.
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by bckrasnow 12y ago
Well, the Lytro guys are screwed now. They're selling a $400 camera with this feature as the main selling point.
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How to Stop Explaining Bitcoin(unifiedstrings.com)
2 points by bckrasnow 13y ago|0 comments
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by bckrasnow 13y ago
"I'm done for a while" my ass. This is really really smart. I'd guess it's a play for a talented team, and a bet that they can become a leader in an industry that will be revolutionary sooner rather than later.
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Out of Work, Out of Luck(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by bckrasnow 13y ago|0 comments
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Medium for Iphone(medium.com)
2 points by bckrasnow 13y ago|0 comments
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by bckrasnow 13y ago
MG Siegler has been writing recently about the "great unbundling" of Facebook and how mobile apps are increasingly good at one thing only: Instagram at sharing Photos, Paper for reading the news, and now WhatsApp + Messenger for c
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Contributoria – crowdfunded journalism(contributoria.com)
1 points by bckrasnow 13y ago|0 comments
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The Dumbing of America (2008)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by bckrasnow 13y ago|1 comments
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Bob Iger of Disney on Jack Doresy's appointment to board of directors and more(recode.net)
1 points by bckrasnow 13y ago|0 comments
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by bckrasnow 13y ago
My question is, what next? What other industries and/or markets can and will Wall Street do this to now? This is greed at its finest. Especially the property taxes comment in Ohio.
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by bckrasnow 13y ago
Transparency takes precedence over everything else in this post, aka the thing you haven't seen US companies doing at all. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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by bckrasnow 13y ago
I don't know why I still get surprised when the US government consistently screws up, either with surveillance or with finances