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To grow, Boxee must embrace porn(pegontech.wordpress.com)
1 points by pegobry 17y ago|0 comments
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by pegobry 17y ago
About the iMac? I read about it in "iCon", the Steve Jobs biography (much less hostile that its title would seem to indicate), and a couple places on the web if memory serves, but I couldn't tell you where.
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by pegobry 17y ago
Small nitpick: Gruber says Jobs killed the Newton not out of spite but because his skill is in creating new products, not improving other people's. But the problem with that is that the original iMac, the product that made Apple relevant ag
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by pegobry 17y ago
Let's be realistic here for a second. If Apple manufactured in the US, not only would its products be twice as expensive, I'm pretty sure they would be equally, if not more shoddy. GM and Chrysler, after all, aren't exactly known for the re
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The meaning of Google VS China(pegontech.wordpress.com)
2 points by pegobry 17y ago|0 comments
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Actually, this decade has been awesome(businessinsider.com)
4 points by pegobry 17y ago|0 comments
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by pegobry 17y ago
Thanks for the link.
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by pegobry 17y ago
I couldn't quickly find a graph on Google, but actually the economic statistic of the decade is the rise of Chinese GDP per capita. The US credit bubble of 04-10 is a blip compared to the rise of Asia, hundreds of millions, soon billions of
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by pegobry 17y ago
Good for them! Getting acquired is not victory for a startup, building a sustainable business for the long term is.
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by pegobry 17y ago
As Fred says, there are both good and bad reasons why trading deals has gone downhill. I think what matters is that the VC is always transparent to the entrepreneur about it. They can recommend their partner by saying "I think they'll be go
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by pegobry 17y ago
They were very talked about when Moskovitz left Facebook to start it. They're basically doing Facebook-for-enterprise.
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by pegobry 17y ago
Sophisticated idea, no. Sophisticated execution, absolutely. Zynga are extremely smart and dedicated about honing every single aspect of their games to enhance their addictiveness and virality. They didn't beat everyone else who wants the
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by pegobry 17y ago
To me the biggest roadblock to widespread adoption is the fact that many small merchants want cash & not plastic, not because a card-reading device is expensive, or complicated, or what, but because cash is off the books.
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by pegobry 17y ago
They do allow comments, you just have to install Disqus, which is pretty easy (just paste some HTML into your template).
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17 things worth knowing about your cat(theoatmeal.com)
1 points by pegobry 17y ago|0 comments
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If the Google Phone really exists, it's a mistake(businessinsider.com)
6 points by pegobry 17y ago|2 comments
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A tour of $135 million startup Etsy's Brooklyn offices(businessinsider.com)
7 points by pegobry 17y ago|0 comments
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by pegobry 17y ago
Not that I can tell. The Economist had a very good article on this dispute a while back, don't know if it's been paywalled yet.
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Things Worth Knowing About Coffee(theoatmeal.com)
120 points by pegobry 17y ago|45 comments
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by pegobry 17y ago
I love the idea of Europe as a "distributed" version of Silicon Valley. Not a single cluster where everything is put together, but where actors are spread out -- but is nonetheless as effective as Silicon Valley at pumping out great entrepr
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by pegobry 17y ago
College shouldn't take four years, but it shouldn't take three years either. Everyone works differently, and everyone has a different rythm. Some people know what they want to do for the rest of their lives at 13, some don't know into their
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by pegobry 17y ago
"I think this system can work ... if it's not abused." Then by definition it can't work.
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by pegobry 17y ago
Great idea. (This one is going to go down, but that's all I have to say.)
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by pegobry 17y ago
I love the idea of an RFS. As for the first one, I think the problem is already largely solving itself. There are plenty of blogs out there that are profitable, like the AOL blogs, the mommyblogs, TechCrunch, Mashable, etc. The recipe is si
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by pegobry 17y ago
The difference is that in an IRC channel, you're not the other guys' paying customer ...
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by pegobry 17y ago
Maybe Google should've bought Zappos instead of Amazon, have some of that fanatical customer service culture seep in..
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by pegobry 17y ago
I've given my answer to the freeriding problem above: upfront payment, moderation, rep systems... Re: 100 people answering the same questions: I don't think that would be that big a problem, because questions are going to be specific. Take
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by pegobry 17y ago
Those are all good points but I think it can work for Twitter because it's the only service that's: - Real time; - Accessible from anywhere; and - With a huge userbase already. I realize it would be a huge engineering endeavor for them. Tha
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by pegobry 17y ago
Plus there would be a kind of moderating system, possibly crowdsourced. You could complain if you gave a good answer and got stiffed. People who stiff too many people could be banned from using the service (and possibly wouldn't get their m
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by pegobry 17y ago
You choose the best answer based on the ones you get. Only the best answer gets any money. If there aren't any good answers you don't pay anyone and you get either a credit for another question or a refund after (say) 10 business days.

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