Scobleizer â Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Letâs cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups « (9)
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Daniel Terdiman, over at CNET, is reporting that Demo and TC50 are potentially fragmenting their audiences. Let’s cry for a moment for all the startups. Boo, hoo, hooo. Back to reality. Any startup that looks at this as a loss should be refused funding. First it’s funny that a CNET reporter is saying that. After all, CNET is one of the few organizations around that has the resources to attend both conferences. CNET should LOVE ...
How to Use 43 Folders (33)
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A very simple guide to leaving here quickly so you can get back to making something awesome. Ask yourself… Why am I here right now instead of making something cool on my own? What’s the barrier to me starting that right now? This is not an insult or put-down. It’s a useful question. Please, think about it, then search the site to see if we have anything that might inspire you to make something awesome ...
The Long Tail: The three kinds of FREE (26)
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One of the themes of the book is untangling the confusion over different kinds of free,which can range from a simple marketing gimmick to a radically new economic model. I've taken a quick pass at doing this visually, but we'll really have to pretty these diagrams up (perhaps with cute restroom-style figures for the various parties, rather than the Ps and Cs below?) Here's the first, which dates back more than a century. It's the ...
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runbuck said:
One of the better models showing how to monetize various web plays I have seen.
Aussie Man Builds Big-Block Batman Tumbler With Nitrous, Videotapes Entire Build Process [Custom Cars] (2)
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Beginning in 2006, Aussie superhero Grant Hodgson started off with a dream, a dream of being the Batman, and he's been building a faithful replica of the Tumbler ever since. This time it comes with a build blog. Grant's version looks to be even closer to the real deal than the one built by Bob Dullam, featuring a 560 HP GM 454 CID V8, Turbo 400 automatic transmission, Argo V drive and a reinforced 35-spline ...
15 Services for Finding Parking Spots (18)
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Owning a car can give you a great sense of freedom… then you have to figure out where to park it! More and more tools are popping up on the Web to help you locate both long and short term parking. Here are 15 services that cover everything from free spots to event parking, long term parking, and more. Do you use the Web to find parking? If so, tell us about your experiences in ...
Mr. Bus' bus buzzer collection (2)
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In Japan, when you want to get off a bus, you press a little button with the words "will stop next" on it. The button lights up, a beep goes off, and a robotic woman's voice says: "We will stop next." Mr. Bus is a quirky guy who dedicates all his free time to collecting these bus buzzers. He started 25 years ago and now has over 200 different ones, some of which he has ...
How to Find Joy in Your Work (23)
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Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers (96)
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If you don’t have enough happiness in your day-to-day freelance work, you’re not doing it right. The fact of the matter is that whether you’re a writer, designer, or other sort of freelancer, there are plenty of different types of work you can do to keep your days from becoming too monotonous. Still, there are times when you’ve got to do some mundane tasks. You might have a design gig for a client with no ...
Shelf Web Pages Instantly (and Get Back to Work) with ReadItLater [Screenshot Tour] (37)
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Surely you come across web pages during the workday that are completely unrelated to actual work, but that you'd love to save for later—and the previously mentioned (and award winning) Firefox extension ReadItLater does just that really well. Once ReadItLater is part of your everyday workflow, it's super-easy to park long articles or interesting tidbits you want to look at over lunch or at home in a "staging area" that's available as an RSS feed, ...
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Jamie said:
Nice Firefox extension! I'd use it more if I could remember my password.
Self promotion for wimps (2)
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Escape from Cubicle Nation (15)
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It is hard to describe how much I loathe those lengthy sales letters with red ink and highlights and 22 testimonials of perky business owners who transformed their life or business by implementing a revolutionary "turn key system." What infuriates me more is how despite my loathing and mockery of the format, I feel myself being lulled into buying whatever the horrible sales letter is selling. I have talked about it with my friends Havi ...
In The Future We Won't Build Houses, We'll Print Them. VIDEO (7)
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Check out this lengthy vid: it shows how one day you may just call-in giant robots to print out a new home based on a CAD model. Research into the concrete-jet printer is being carried out by USC, and their technology can already build up complex concrete structures using technology that's half-CNC machine and half inkjet-like. They've just got funding from Caterpillar to further the research. Amazing stuff, especially when the team says it should ...
Method and Device for Recognizing and Vaporizing [Patented Art] (3)
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This is probably the most demented patent idea you will ever see. Artist Tom Giesler makes patent drawings for a living, creating images for inventors of who work in biology and information technology. As an artist, he turns those patent drawings into the stuff of parody and nightmare, generating patents for things like a "method and device for recognizing and vaporizing decoys serving to disguise targets with the aid of a stylish mobile terrestrial search ...
Doctored photos: 20 memorable picture fakes (1)
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The Licensing Plate (2)
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The doctoring of photos, once considered the reserve of tyrants and UFO nuts, is becoming increasingly widespread. With photo-editing software becoming ever more sophisticated, and the internet allowing instant distribution, it has never been easier to create and spread hoax images. Below we present 20 of the most striking, interesting and controversial fake photos, most of them produced in the last five years. © 2008 Telegraph Media Group Ltd. (full story)
3-D complex document visualization (1)
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gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine (24)
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September 5, 2008 Xerox has been responsible for some of the most important innovations of our time and graphic artists the world over will almost certainly count this one as equal to any that have come before. Preparing detailed brochures and flyers with special folds can be an incredibly exacting, time-consuming and costly process. The company’s latest is a new technology that uses 3-D software to view the entire layout of a piece before it ...
America's Cup circling galaxy (2)
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a network-like visualization of the history of the America’s Cup through the visual depiction of all the people & the boats who are part of "the legend". [link: americascup.com]
Announcing Ponoko ID - a whole new way to shop online (1)
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As everyone knows by now, we’ve been a little bit busy on a few new things as we work up to a big release - and here’s a sneak peek at one part of this … Ponoko ID is a new way for consumers to shop for custom designed manufactured goods, which also gives designers a new source of potential customers. Shoppers use the new service to post requests for custom-made individualized goods. Requests are ...
How to improve your engraving results (1)
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So this is the first in a series of new making content that I will be bringing you through the blog. This test shows how the laser cutter handles raster engraving of different font sizes and how you can improve the quality of your engraving. Our current set up uses 3 colors for 3 different intensities of raster engraving, light grey for light raster engraving, medium grey for medium raster engraving and black for heavy ...
37 Signals: Charge for your products, Dummy! (8)
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[File under respected opposition] David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried’s business partner at 37signals, begs to differ with the notion that Web companies shouldn't charge for their products. In a very entertaining speech (video below), he makes his case: Forget using free to go mass and hope you'll become Facebook (or be bought by them). Instead, he says, focus on a small market and charge money. There are many ways to have a price in web ...
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Donington Park 2010 track map - see below for more images and details Donington Park has revealed details of the changes it will make in advance of it holding the 2010 British Grand Prix. When the deal to take the British Grand Prix from Silverstone to Donington Park was announced early in July one of the circuit owners remarked: “If I touch anything from Redgate to MacLeans I’ll be lynched.” The new plans revealed today ...Shared by Fred Schechter (75)Contribute comment
