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How low will the DJIA go? (1)
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As I am sure many Americans have done over the past few weeks, I have had many discussions with friends about the recent stock market gyrations and potential economic fallout from the financial crises. To get some perspective, I went to Yahoo! Finance and looked at a chart of the DJIA prices from 1929 to the present. I took a rough estimate of the high price before a precipitous fall and then tried to find ...Shared by Parker (20)Contribute comment -
Tickets on Sale today! (1)
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Tickets to the 2010 Winter Olympics just went on sale a few hours ago:http://www.cosport.com/I bought tickets for Snowboarding, Biathlon, and Short-track Speed Skating. The latter sport I didn’t even know about until today. It’s like roller derby on ice, with a relay-race component built in. I was surprised at how expensive the tickets for more popular sports are. $200 for figure skating? $400 for ice hockey?! Supply and demand, I guess.There are (relatively) cheap hostel ...Shared by Parker (20)Contribute comment -
When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests (5)
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There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development, low-cost (fast to market) platforms, and rapid-iteration customer development. When I have the opportunity to meet startups, they usually have one of these aspects down, and need help with one or two of the others. The most common need is becoming more customer-centric. They need to incorporate customer feedback into the product development and business planning process. I usually recommend two things: try ...Contribute comment -
Free Vs Paid (25)
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My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me "free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for". He said "freemium is dead". I reminded him that freemium is a paid model, but he wasn't buying it. There's a movement afoot by investors to back web services with a real business model instead of the pervasive "give it away for free and hope for the ...Shared by ConceptSL (60) Alex (46) Andrei (32) Andrew (17) AndrewBadera (97) Anton Johansson (51) Ben Casnocha (9) Carter (16) Dominik (47) elstudio (23) Eric (55) Eric Rice (73) Jay Liew (65) Joshua (22) kepp (92) likejazz (34) Lindsay (10) Murat Kahraman (16) Parker (20) poorbird (28) Raffy Banks (1) Sam (30) Scott (20) Shea Gunther (104) Unity (20)Contribute comment -
Flash Games (220)
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- tuli0 said: jajajajaja demasiado cierto
- spiller said: that is sooooooooo true!
- James said: DAMN YOU KONGREGATE.COM!
- Todd said: truth.
- Brandon Bloom said: Mmmmm XNA to the rescue!
- Pittaya said: this is so true (especially in Thailand)
- Ellie said: I stand by my Atari :-D
- Dave said: too many nights lost trying to beat the boss...
- Clay said: You know.. ..this is so true. It has to be tough to spend millions of dollars on gamedev and someone comes along and writes an extremely addictive, low-resource game that takes all of fifteen minutes and 100's of thousands of people are playing it.
- Marc said: Two words - "Fantastic", "Contraption".
- Ashe said: BLOCKLES!!!1!!!
- Jason L said: Peggle FTW
- vanlandw said: xkcd is amazing. casual gaming is just taking over the world
- Dedalus said: Some dust and spiderwebs missing in the Gamestation. Maybe the cleaning lady was there in the morning.
- Daniel said: It's all about Tetris
- Abe said: Ya se que pedirle a Santa Claus, que Linux ejecute Flash sin problemas.
- Wojciech Beling said: Zgadzam się całkowicie :P
- Noelle said: I concur! I love little simple brain-teaser type games.
- Kluzter said: having time on the bench at your office? then you get this joke easierlysily
- Alexandre said: Nem dos joguinhos de MSX (ai ai... saudades)
- Daniele said: ha ragione!!! viva i flash games! abbasso le console!
- Stu Andrews said: Ha ha. This makes me laugh AND want to make games.
- Chloe Fan said: Heck yes, Flash is where the party's at :D
- Parker said: see: kongregate.com
- Swapnil said: absolutely triuueee. Browser games are great, fun, addictive. They dont let you get away since it always takes two minutes to play a new game and obviously you have got 2 every time you lose.Remember monkey kick off?
- chills said: It's find of sad how true this can be sometimes...
- julie said: true!
- j_aroche said: Remembres me iminlikewithyou.com games :P
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Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners (33)
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From Make Blog: One of my favorite artists, Evan Roth, is working on a project that will be released soon - the pictures say it all, it's a "carry on" communication system. These metal places contain messages which will appear when they are X-Rayed. The project isn't quite done yet, Evan needs access to an X-Ray machine to take some photos and document. If you have access to an X-Ray machine he's willing to give ...Shared by Aaron Ross Powell (18) amoose136 (6) Bernard (26) Bill (12) BillDeys (19) Cameron Nordholm (2) Carlos Villela (25) Cassie Wallender (22) Chimpadink (21) Chris (48) dasmart (29) Fatsleroy (56) ghosttie (33) Jason (20) Jason (41) Jim (79) Jon (22) Michelynn (19) msanders (26) Parker (20) pbizzle (18) Polina (23) Reid (20) Ricardo (24) Rob (50) Rui (20) Sam (29) tante (21) TO-Double-D (53) Todd (27) Veritas Noctis (23) Will (15) Will WM (21)Explore read four notes- Cassie Wallender said: So awesome. Though, I wonder if they would flag you just for being snarky.
- Jason said: OK, that's just subversive and funny enough to be cool.
- Veritas Noctis said: For the troublemakers..
- BillDeys said: for the traveler that likes the rubber glove!
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My Thoughts On "Startup Depression" (26)
onI received a bunch of requests yesterday to address Jason Calacanis' "startup depression" email that was sent out over the weekend. Alley Insider had the full text of it online but they took it down yesterday, apparently at Jason's request. Fortunately Jason also chose to put it up on his blog so we can all read his thoughts. Thanks Jason. I think Jason's email is a great "wakeup call" for everyone in the startup business. ...Shared by Andrei (32) Angel (45) ayn (16) Boris Mann (25) chachra (40) Chad Dickerson (1) ckstevenson (16) Clay (21) Dan Couture (12) Denny (20) erwin blom (3) Fred (20) Gordo (14) Greg (20) Melissa Chang (6) Mladen (63) Nivi (18) Parker (20) Peter (17) Pierre Henri Clouin (15) Rick Turoczy (264) robertogreco (60) Stanislav Shalunov (20) subbu (41) Sue (36) Todd McKinney (6)Explore read five notes
- subbu said: hard times...
- Clay said: "Seed/startup investing is most profitable early in a venture cycle and late stage investing is most profitable late in a venture cycle. It makes sense if you think of venture capital as a cyclical business and it is very cyclical. Early in a cycle you want to back young companies at bargain prices and enjoy the demand for those companies as the cycle takes hold. Late in a cycle you want to back established companies that need a "last round" to get to breakeven and you can get that at a bargain price compared to what others paid before you. I've been in the venture capital business since 1986 (that was a down cycle) and I've seen this happen at least three times, probably four times now."
- Nivi said: Fred says: "Late in a cycle you want to back established companies that need a "last round" to get to breakeven and you can get that at a bargain price compared to what others paid before you. I've been in the venture capital business since 1986 (that was a down cycle) and I've seen this happen at least three times, probably four times now."
- Gordo said: Fred Wilson's thoughts on Calacanis' "Startup Depression"
- ckstevenson said: If you're into start ups and the web, you already read this. If not, you need to read Fred, always.
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How to take money from children (for your online game or virtual world) (5)
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Virtual Worlds News noted last week that: PayByCash announced … that over 50% of its US transactions were coming from its Ultimate Game Card, a prepaid card that supports over 150 virtual worlds and games, like Club Penguin, Nexon America, and IMVU. Previously U.S. consumers favored PayByCash’s direct debit options… I’d guess one explanation for the transition, and one to watch, is that adults are more likely to set up debit options… Kids and teens, ...Contribute comment -
Where to Watch Tonight's Debate (1)
permalinkHey, the debate is back on tonight! John McCain dried his tears and will head over to the University of Mississippi to get reamed by Barack Obama. Exciting stuff, folks! Tonight's topic: foreign policy. Zzzzz, right? But at one of these venues, you'll have have plenty of comfort juice by your side to keep things interesting. 2 LIPS Bar & Lounge (1414 Market (at 10th Street): three flat screens, $2 beers, loads of wonksInner Mission, ...Shared by Parker (20)Contribute comment
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xkcd - Listen to Yourself (329)
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- Ashe said: Bwaha. So. True.
- Nikita said: when someone tries to post a comment on youtube it (virus) read it aloud back to them.
- Dana said: not a virus, a youtube feature.
- Adriana said: love it! so can technology be a solution to social problems? :P
- andy bons said: Wow. I kind of wish it was true.
- Isaac said: good call. someone once noted that many YouTube comments are just performance idiocy.
- K said: Lovely !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Ellie said: we need one of these for every site
- Thomas said: I just wish this would really happen.
- Typo180 said: I'm pretty sure Google should implement this as a feature - they can use it in place of a captcha
- purplesque said: Worthy of a Nobel.
- Dimituri said: Надо было такое на Хабрахабр полгода назад.
- twoluvcats said: *snort* really, please write this!
- Rodrigo Amaya said: Soooo true...
- Rob Cottingham said: Considering the volume and reach of YouTube, it probably has the most destructive commenting culture on the web.
- Jason Wojciechowski said: So brilliant.
- Vijay Sadasivam said: I agree with purplesque. Worth a Nobel indeed!!
- Craig said: This has been relevant to my life recently, ha
- Matt said: yes.
- Miguel said: Por fin, la verdad.
- CJ said: Somebody should actually write this virus. I would help spread it on purpose.
- Benny said: can someone please get on this? its getting a little silly
- Brendan said: Ha. I wish. YouTube comment threads are where thought goes to die.
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