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by dm8 14y ago
It is the classic essay written about the future in 1945. We got fundamentals (of computing age) for topics like hyperlinks, information retrieval etc. in this article. I guess I've read somewhere that people like Doug Englebart (father of
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Looks like FB have confirmed that these were old wall posts not the messages. Something is confusing.
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For last point, there is a startup that specializes in your online reputation management. EDIT: There are lot of companies in online reputation management. Even today.
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Even I breathe in the world of information management & data science, I never thought about this possibility! I for one hope this should never happen. Mining your data to do pattern matching whether your are healthy or not? Are you kidd
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But IFTTT also allowed you to post tweets to your LinkedIn or Tumblr account (as far as I know). So twitter didn't like it.
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Twitter is realtime communication at it finest. They are the breaking news channel. Last year there was earthquake in east bay. First thing I did (even though it was middle of night) was to check my twitter when I sensed the vibrations. And
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How about you pulling your tweets into Linkedin feed? Didn't twitter revoked Linkedin's official API access? p.s. I don't use IFTTT but this is my guess.
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Dick Costolo recently spoke about Twitter as a platform on Charlie Rose show - "The future of Twitter is that we'll have a true platform, not just an API that allows developers to create an alternate Twitter experience, but an API that allo
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Looks like it works well in bay area but outside bay area it's pretty bad. Apparently, Redditors are pretty pissed off - http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/106rvw/new_ios_6... Looks like AAPL tested it in Cupertino and worked wel
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Survival of the fittest! It's applicable for everything. Edit: Btw, I've heard follow on venture rounds (A, B, C etc.) get harder and harder on an exponential scale. If it is then why everyone is saying Series A crunch.
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While I admire the effort, however I have some complaints for you. Horrible visual design (especially fonts) and screams skeumorphism done wrong. Why every hipster designer wants to follow Apple? EDIT: Dowonvoters, bring it on! You can't gi
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Wow! This is news to me. Even mobile group didn't have people to do it. When every goddamn investor was pumping money into photo sharing apps. Flickr had the most popular photo-sharing app till 2008 and they missed the mobile tidal wave!
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Really? Flickr didn't believe in native apps? Or they didn't have enough iOS devs? EDIT: Changed Yahoo to Flickr.
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On side note, she uses Instagram instead of Flickr. Looks like Flickr needs to step up. Would be fun to see if she says to Flickr team, "I won't use your app unless you improve it"
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I'd be curious to see how old cultural cities like Mumbai, Cairo etc. will look like when they are "chopped". I'm sure they won't look anything different from Istanbul.
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Was this their first product in office suite? Out of curiosity, why didn't IBM ever release office suite? They had such a strong hold on enterprise market and yet all they did was to buy lotus notes that too in mid nineties (quite late).
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> I understand the concept behind what she is doing... but she should focus on making the employees happy through getting them working on meaningful and innovative products and not by just giving them a bunch of free stuff. Giving them
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I always think "sharks" on shark tank are arrogant. May be it is due to creating "drama" on the show. Anyways, I feel their valuations are too low for lot of profitable (or revenue generating) companies. Does anyone else think the same?
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But it won't be like that in 2015. Android is already dominating in developing world. Low-end devices powered by Android is the future. In India for example, maid at my friend's house didn't have mobile phone till 2007. Now she has mobile p
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Network effects are not indefensible. I don't understand why so many people in the bay area think that network effects are impossible to break in. Here is an example. Orkut. All my friends including myself were on Orkut in 2004/2005. By 200
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Majority of Sequoia companies become billion dollar businesses and sequoia invests few million in them. In fact for companies like Yahoo it started with few hundred thousands. So what they are saying is not wrong.
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This one page succinctly conveys what any entrepreneur should think when building a startup be at starting phase or fundraising phase. Btw, Sequoia has one of the best "about us" page ( http://www.sequoiacap.com/about ). It's focused on the
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I'm not a YC founder/partner but as far as my knowledge goes, I don't think YC discriminates between hardware and software startups.
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Somewhat agree. Dropbox didn't sell because it had shiny icons for folders or sexy web interface. It sold because it provided immense value and it just worked. Same can be said about Google, YouTube, Microsoft Word etc. None of them had sex
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As a designer, I couldn't agree more. Skeuomorphism can be great if done right. Nowadays visual designers (who are wannabee UX folks) think any sexy texture (leather patterns) can increase usability of an app. Even startup founders think th
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I for one never thought Google Chrome would win the "browser wars". I used Opera and Firefox regularly and I was very much satisfied with them. But I have to admit Google Chrome team has outstanding job and Chrome is my primary browser. Any
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Looks like iPad/tablet was the "preferred" device for watching olympics (source - http://bbc.in/PdDBtY ). If you need some solid data that tablets are going to rule for consuming entertainment then here it is. We are in a major shift of co
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Well, we were competing against "free" service offered by big co. Average user doesn't want to pay. They would say us, "ohh we will go to free service by big co". And I learnt big lesson that you can't compete against big co's especially th
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Somewhat agree with Diego. But unfortunately, people are not used to pay on the web. I've built an extremely useful service but only 1 in 100 was willing to pay, which is ridiculous to say. On a side note, what if you are building a startup
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The new multi-screen world(scribd.com)
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