Video: Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse (1)
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Bathtub III By Evan Ackerman Remember that post from January about Nikon’s then new tilt-shift lens? You know, the one where I wrote a bunch of interesting stuff and then painstakingly photoshopped a sample tilt-shift image? You DO? Oh, you were just kidding. Sigh. Anyway, tilt-shift photography is a technique of narrowing depth of field to make things look like miniatures, and if you combine that with time-lapse photography, you can make some sweet movies ...
More details on Sequoia’s economic “inconvenient truth” meeting » VentureBeat (2)
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Sequoia Capital, a premier Silicon Valley venture firm, held a meeting on Tuesday where it told its portfolio companies to cut costs and prepare for an economic downturn that could last many years. The presentation, one attendee tells me, was like the global warming wake-up call movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” But instead of Al Gore running through a bunch of slides about the environment, it was billionaire investors running through a bunch of slides about ...
"Collaboration Now!" on CNBC Oct. 12th (3)
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When a topic is worthy of a television show, you know it's hit the mainstream of business consciousness and is one you should sit up and take notice of right away. Collaboration Now! is a new show on the business channel, CNBC, hosted by Donny Deutsch. This is a successful advertising guy I've come to admire through one of the most positive, uplifting and motivating entrepreneurial shows on television he hosts, The Big Idea, and ...
Micro-blogging in the enterprise: an idea whose time has come? (17)
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Over the last few months there has been increasing discussion of how micro-blogging tools such as Twitter could be used in organizations. Twitter is now frequently used in external communication, with organizations as diverse as @SouthwestAir, @Comcastcares, @BigPondTeam, @SEC_Investor_Ed, and @mosmancouncil using Twitter to communicate to stakeholders and for customer service. Given the rapid rise of Twitter and how influential comments can be, this clearly needs to be on the radar for any major organization. ...
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
Meg: check out @Comcastcares for your web woes. Dad: you should have twittered to @SouthwestAir when stuck in NM.
Google Has Changed Political Debate Forever (54)
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When I was on the high school debate team, about 15 years ago, using the Internet was considered strange, if not cheating. We used photocopy machines, print magazines and academic journals almost exclusively. That time in the world's history is now gone forever. When Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debated in front of one of the largest TV audiences in US election history last week, they might not have been Googling things during the debate, ...
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Paul S said:
I think this could have important implications for how we watch television, a la Joost. We don't want lean back, or lean forward, we want intelligent. Of course the definition of intelligent changes with each person, but none the less....
The Charticle McCain Doesn't Want You to See [A Thousand Words] (9)
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How does "maverick" everyman John McCain stack up to "elitist" Barack Obama? Why, this handy charticle illustrating their assets in a side-by-side comparison speaks for itself. Spin this, you filthy rich basket case. Click through for bigger pic. [ProseBeforeHose]
Build Your Sportfolio Of Athletes At OneSeason (8)
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Forget the stock market, it’s falling apart. Invest your money in OneSeason instead, a newly launched San Francisco-based startup that lets you invest real money in professional athletes. Alex Rodriguez is a steal at $7.00 per share ($17.6 million total value). I just bought one share of Kobe Bryant for $7.48 (he’s valued at $77.6 million). The company was founded by CEO Mike Sroka and CTO DJ Burdick with $250,000 in seed funding from investor ...
How to Get Rich (71)
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Thats what so many want. Right ? I’m certainly not going to lie and say it is not a whole lot better having lots of money. I had a whole lot of fun and loved my life when I was eating mustard and ketchup sandwiches and sleeping on the floor of a 3 bedroom apartment that housed me and 5 buddies. I have a whole lot more fun now. It doesn’t suck to be rich. ...
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Robert Scoble said:
Mark lives a life most of us would love to have. Of course he didn't explain how HE got rich. He sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for billions. That requires something far beyond discipline: luck. Some people DO win the lottery! But, I find that following people who always chase money is pretty damn boring. I've been on private jets. I've been in expensive cars that cost more than nearly everything I own. Yawn. What is rich? My friend Teresa Williamson inviting me to an awesome concert. My wife hanging out with me on the couch. A conversation with someone who is changing the world. Money ain't everything. I watched my mom die with a bunch of gold in her basement. She couldn't take it with her. On the other hand, money does open doors easier and gets you into wild experiences, but it's not the only way to have wild experiences. That said, I'm following much of Mark's advice because, well, it's good advice for our times.
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Hashim said:
i like this advice
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Phil said:
Amis!
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Allan said:
Yes.
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Rick Umali said:
How to get rich, written by a real rich person.
Presidential Candidates On Bandwidth (3)
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Wired's Nicholas Thompson ran an interesting article about the role Obama and McCain play in our country's lagging connectivity. It addresses an interesting facet of our election and is definitely worth a read. Here's the link: How Fast Can You Read This Essay Online
The Expansion of Ignorance (24)
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The fastest growing entity today is information. Information is expanding ten times faster than the growth of any other manufactured or natural product on this planet. According to a calculation Hal Varian, an economist at Google, and I made, world-wide information has been increasing at the rate of 66% per year for many decades. Compare that explosion to the rate of increase in even the most prolific manufactured stuff – like concrete, or paper -- ...
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C.M said:
In other words, science is a method that chiefly expands our ignorance rather than our knowledge.
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Jon said:
So if information discovery leads to greater ignorance, and ignorance is bad, I suppose we should stop discovering
Apple's Netbook: The Kindle Killer? (1)
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Unless you're a Luddite or a self-described computer illiterate like presidential hopeful John McCain, you're likely one of the 73% of US adults who consider themselves active internet users. Add to that the 93% of teens online and you've got a majority of us living in an always-on, always-connected culture of participation online. As such, more of us want to have a robust device with us at all times. Not that the iPhone or other ...
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adamkcarson said:
this is going to be amazing...apple, come on...make this thing...it's pretty much just a big iphone!
Meet Forrester’s Social Computing Analyst Team (6)
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I’m writing this from 30,000 feet as I fly back from Chicago to SF, it took nearly 2 hours to clean out my inbox, and that’s not even my personal one. Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions and kudos for hitting my one year mark, without a doubt the demand for social computing research, inquiry (client calls) and vendor briefings is increasing. If you can’t tell, we’re working overtime to make sure our clients ...
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Aaron Strout said:
@jowyang you need to start Uttering more. It's as quick as hitting a speed dial number on your phone and you can give us 2-3 mins at a time of your valuable insights. Later, you can cobble your smaller social media "bites" into larger, meatier blog posts...
SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise (46)
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SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki. If you were to take any one of these constituencies - social networking, conversation aggregation, Tw*tter, or vanilla wikis and the leveraged sites the technology has produced - you might not think of SocialText as a major player or competitor with the exception of the enterprise wiki space. But add these together and get ...
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Darius said:
Congratulations to my friend Ross and the whole SocialText team!
September Madness (49)
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Any college basketball fans who’ve been watching the bank failures and consolidations recently will understand and appreciate this September Madness chart. This was reportedly created by a general partner at Sansome Partners named Mark Slavonia. I wonder if the U.S. Congress will make it to the Final Four. Click for larger view. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
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Aron said:
Amazing.
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jeffmincey said:
i'll put my money on BofA vs the Queen for the win with the US being reverted back to colony status.
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jtuchscherer said:
This is funny
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cwills said:
omg, sad but funny.
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imma said:
i wonder who the mega-mega-bank will be
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Bryant said:
For those march madness fans...
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Michael V said:
i put my money on tax payers
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Lockhart said:
Final Four bracket, Wall Street style.
State of the SocialMediaSphere (4)
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by Brian Solis Today I published a 4,200 word paper on the state of Social Media and Marketing to help startups, entrepreneurs, and mainstream brands navigate strategically through these confusing, but critical times. It also documents the evolution of the Social Web documenting where we are today and where we’re headed in 2009. Social Media is a revelation that we the people have a voice and through the democratization of content and ideas, we can ...
Bill Dan, Rock Artist Extraordinaire (2)
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Bill Dan is an artist from San Francisco, California, who has a truly amazing knack of balancing rocks. His "rock garden" creations look impossible, yet as this YouTube video shows, Bill made it look so darned easy! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - see also: Bill Dan’s blog The Rocker | Rock On, Rock ON! The Rock Balancing Art of Bill Dan
Punched in the face (14)
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Video of people getting punched in the face at 1000 frames/second. Wonder no longer what Rocky would look like as filmed by Wes Anderson. (thx, kitt) (link)
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Fuzzyman said:
Frikkin' odd.
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danieltalsky said:
Actually cooler than it sounds. They are clearly getting punched in the face consensually, and not TOO hard, and it's a fascinating study in movement.
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Jared Cherup said:
Best high speed camera I've seen in a while.
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Andrew Louis said:
I wonder how they recruited the actors.
Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know (33)
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Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I've been fortunate enough to be able to identify and assemble a working list of some consistent recurring issues and themes around Web 2.0 strategy. I've provided them below at a high level. Your comments and additions ...
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rpy said:
I don't endorse 100% of the content here, but there are ideas worth a read and perhaps even a prolonged ponder. And maybe a smile at being markedly a few steps ahead of the market in a few areas.
