kanamekun

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by kanamekun 15y ago
It's true that most CEOs don't provide vision and direction, and instead do things like play golf. But that doesn't change that great leaders do in fact provide vision and direction - like to "organize the world's information and make it un
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by kanamekun 15y ago
Fractals have a property called self-similarity, where "a self-similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself." John is saying that Apple's products have an "Apple-ness", as does each app on each product, each featur
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by kanamekun 15y ago
How do you explain the success of Pixar, the company that Steve bought and eventually made him a billionaire?
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by kanamekun 15y ago
News.com still exists? It's amazing to me how my primary read for years and years has been totally and utterly eaten alive by tech blogs.
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I just went through the donation checkout process, and they only accept Visa and Mastercard.
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by kanamekun 15y ago
Many soldiers (and their commanders) are highly superstitious and/or turn to a higher power. This dates back centuries, if not millennia: http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Superstitions/Sup... A number of athletes are the same w
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I've used Airbnb and will keep using them, but hope that they significantly change their operations to address the concerns raised! I also hope that they make some significant updates to their PR and Crisis PR team and processes, so they ar
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OK Go's latest video "All Is Not Lost" premieres in interactive HTML5(allisnotlo.st)
10 points by kanamekun 15y ago|1 comments
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by kanamekun 15y ago
Just wanted to point out that with the recent New York Times second-quarter results, the growing consensus is that the NYT has turned a corner: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/26/the-nyt-pay... I don't think it's fair to say
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I think the larger point the author was making is that Google has a massive installed base of Mobile OS users, through its Android platform: "Google will seek more and more ways to make your Android phone a seemless appendage of your Google
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I think the opposite has generally been true for Google's more social products. Google Buzz went down in flames fairly quickly. Knol was widely perceived to be a failure. Orkut did not receive a positive reception in the US. The generall
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I also see their ads everywhere, and I have never ever visited hipmunk. Some discussion of this over on Quora (the discussion is inconclusive, but it highlights that others have also seen many Hipmunk ads): http://www.quora.com/How-much-is
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by kanamekun 15y ago
Andy could do a new Kickstarter to fund a short documentary about digital reinterpretations of copyrighted works. The profits could be used to raise money to pay off the settlement. If you're reading this Andy: just make sure that you don'
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by kanamekun 15y ago
Kickstarter takes 5% of successful projects: "If a project is successfully funded, Kickstarter will apply a 5% fee to the funds raised. If funding isn't successful, there are no charges." http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq#WhatFeesDoesKic
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I've been here before and it's a tough place to be! I've found a useful first step is to try and regain a sense of control over your life. When your focus is trying to influence others (i.e. your parents, potential employers), it's easy to
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Airbnb creates real estate liquidity, new concept in commercial real estate(mediatransparent.com)
3 points by kanamekun 15y ago|0 comments
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by kanamekun 15y ago
There is nothing wrong with taking money off of the table. In fact, if you want to strike it big... it's important to make sure that your management team is financially secure: http://learntoduck.com/startups/it-all-changes-when-the-foun..
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I'm sure that their attorneys have let them know that acknowledging that they sent out spam would expose them to massive damages under the CAN-SPAM laws. So AirBnB can't really acknowledge what they did and try and move on... financially,
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by kanamekun 15y ago
Is Max's code considered to be good or bad?
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by kanamekun 15y ago
I thought this was a really cool idea: Interviewer: A one-person, $25 loan can't achieve massive change, as did some American CEOs who, in one act, preserved 2 million acres in South America. Premal: Let me talk about what you might see in
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by kanamekun 16y ago
According to this CNN article: "in a January 2010 interview for Reader's Digest, founder Rob Kalin finally revealed the secret: "I wanted a nonsense word because I wanted to build the brand from scratch. I was watching Fellini's 8 ½ and wri
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by kanamekun 16y ago
He defined the problem as: what is the "easiest way for me to handle this"? Making investments and being able to blog about them seems like the easiest way to deal with it to me! That said: as long as he discloses when he's made an investm
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by kanamekun 16y ago
In his previous sentence, Jason uses the phrase "competitors" and talks about "competitive advantage". So when he says, "open is not always better" - he is saying that being more open isn't always better for your competitive advantage. Tha
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by kanamekun 16y ago
I love the idea behind Instapaper and bought the $5 version, but I have found it has a surprising number of bugs for a paid app. The application has crashed several times on me. Sometimes articles don't download properly. Also, often lar
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by kanamekun 16y ago
The US Government could give out badges for every $1m in taxes you pay... then the rich could level up every April 15th.
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by kanamekun 16y ago
@astrodust - Perhaps the @ sign? :-) I actually just looked up hash tags on Wikipedia, and was surprised to see that the asterisk is starting to be used to give out "stars" and ratings to items: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#
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by kanamekun 16y ago
This great documentary by Vanguard makes it clear that a lot of cellphone smuggling is actually done by visitors and prisoners using body cavities: http://www.hulu.com/watch/109763/vanguard-prison-contraband It's not just guard bribes tha
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by kanamekun 16y ago
Prisons do often leave prisoners more likely to commit crime than they were before they were incarcerated (there was a great article on The Atlantic last year on how ankle monitors are changing this, by keeping many non-violent prisoners fr
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by kanamekun 16y ago
Gorgeous cover!! Minor error in the blurb though... there's a double "the" in the first sentence: "SR-71 Blackbird (cover) is making a comeback since the the launch issue." Also, I think "new year issue" should be rendered as "New Year's is