The Startup Visa: Create Jobs, Get A Green Card - http://techcrunch.com/2010...
Feb 25, 2010
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Bret Taylor
Co-founder and CEO of Quip. Ex-CTO of Facebook. Previously co-founder and CEO of FriendFeed. Programmer, food lover.
"California (All The Way)" by Luna - http://www.lala.com/song...
Feb 24, 2010
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RT @ev: "There is no positive evidence for software patents improving or increasing innovation in software. None." http://www.feld.com/wp...
Feb 22, 2010
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Strongly agree
- LANjackal
As with everything in life it is all about balance and moderation, most everything has negative effects in their extremes. For example, I think issuing a patent to Facebook for the newsfeed is just stupid, that is like the NY Times trying to patent the newspaper. Now, if Facebook developed a special algorithm to make what is in your feed more relevant I would say that would deserve a patent as it would be rediculous to think that anyone would develope these things if you had to give it to anyone who wanted it after you invested the time, effort, resources, risk & persperation in your project.
Facebook's Newsfeed is nothing more than an adaption or an improvement on the RSS concept which they did not invent to begin with anyways. If I improve Google's search algorithm and get a patent should I be able to prevent Google from using theirs anymore?
You can take support for patenting anything and everything to far and at the same time you can take opposition to patenting anything and everything to far. After all, these opposites are very similar when you think about it, both could lead to chaos.
- Brian
Update on FriendFeed: DNS is down for FriendFeed due to a power issue, but we are assured the issue we will be resolved soon.
Feb 20, 2010
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ok :D
- Selma
+++ Directeur, the similarities shown here is interesting. BD Was 3rd to comment there, I remember that one clearly hehe.
- Zu from AOD
Network failure in FriendFeed data center. We are working on it, should be back up soon.
Feb 20, 2010
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Thank you.
- Anne Bouey
Bless you.
- Cem ARGUN
RT @hunterwalk: so VC friends, you getting pitched "we're chatroulette for ____" yet? (cause "foursquare for ____" is soooo January)
Feb 18, 2010
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All I can think about when watching men's skating is Blades of Glory. I know I am not the only one.
Feb 17, 2010
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No. You're not. I actually nearly bought Blades of Glory the other day.
- Roberto Bonini
me too lol
- VALZONE#SCREWED
Snowboard cross is awesome. More exciting than most winter Olympic sports I have seen.
Feb 16, 2010
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Imagine if they had bobsled cross with multiple sleds on one big track. That would be cool.
- Andrew Leyden
Yeah, just seen it in repeat... Nice and totally crazy sport.
- Alexei
"Summer in Ohio is almost here... We can now see the deer moving around." - http://tweetphoto.com/11508640
Feb 15, 2010
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no, does!
- Kevin Fox
Who ordered all this snow?! :)
- Susan Beebe
Computer Engineer Barbie Debuts at NYC Toy Fair - http://www.geeksugar.com/Compute...
Feb 13, 2010
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"Not only will Computer Engineer Barbie be attached to her shiny pink laptop and Bluetooth earpiece, but Mattel worked closely with the Society of Women Engineers to ensure that Barbie's fashions were as geek chic as possible." Awesome.
- Bret Taylor
This is awesome! Makes me smile ;)
- Susan Beebe
Finally saw Zombieland. Fun movie - not what I expected.
Feb 11, 2010
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Huh? What were you expecting?
- Vezquex
I just watched it last night too
- Marissa
I keep meaning to see it, but haven't gotten around to it -- funny, given that it was filmed just down the street from my house.
- Joel Webber
I saw it for the 3rd time last night and still cracked up.
- Kevin L
BYU and Utah to the Pac-10: What Happens to the Mountain West? - http://bleacherreport.com/article...
Feb 11, 2010
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Not a chance. The Mountain West is better overall than the Pac 10 this year. Better hope for Boise State, maybe Fresno State.
- Jason Kintzler
The Pac 10 would be neither Pac nor 10. Discuss.
- Jim Norris
Stanford Welcomes Three New Members to Coaching Staff - STANFORD OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE - http://www.gostanford.com/sports...
Feb 10, 2010
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Boom. Awesome play.
Benjamin Golub
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Huston! We have a problem: http://friendfeed.com/muratta...
- Emre M.
Just saw the Google Super Bowl ad. Enjoyed the ad, but still not sure I understand why they paid for it.
Feb 8, 2010
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because they can?
- Laura Norvig
Superbowl ads are less about promoting a product and more about a chance to imprint your company in the minds of millions of viewers. Everyone's heard of Budweiser or Coca-Cola or Volkswagen... it's about ads that stay with you after you watched them, and Google's ad succeeds at that.
- Tudor Bosman
Hot Tech Companies Like Yelp Are Bypassing IPOs - BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
Feb 7, 2010
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A Glimpse Inside Ron Conway’s Virtual Venture Firm - http://www.pehub.com/62838...
Feb 6, 2010
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Thank you Ben Darnell for becoming a Tornado committer and committing about 10 great bug fixes and feature patches tonight. (And, indirectly, thank you Brizzly for using Tornado and making it awesomer with your patches and support.)
And thanks to Elias Torres, who wrote and/or collected many of the patches I comitted today.
- Ben Darnell
Ooh, what were the changes? Link?
- Jim Norris
Experimental Facebook Feature Shows Better Friend Suggestions - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Feb 3, 2010
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I am looking forward to playing board games on the iPad while travelling with Karen. This is the first device I can really picture two people using at the same time, which seems like an opportunity for some truly new types of software.
With mice and keyboard, two people at the same time on the same device doesn't really work well. Touch screen seems like a really cool opportunity.
- Bret Taylor
Exactly. I am foreseeing to see FarmVille on that!
- Sarath
Tyra Banks: 'ANTM' turns into a super-Smized infomercial - http://blog.zap2it.com/fromins...
Jan 29, 2010
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PHP: microtime - Manual - http://php.net/manual...
Jan 27, 2010
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Bill Gates: Why We Need Innovation, Not Just Insulation - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-ga...
Jan 25, 2010
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Economic View - Will More Borrowers Walk Away From Their Mortgages? - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
Jan 24, 2010
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Turkey: The land that embraced Facebook, FriendFeed and startups - http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010...
Jan 23, 2010
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While the Alexa numbers are not accurate in absolute terms, it is true that Turkey is now officially the largest source of traffic for FriendFeed by all metrics (unique users and page views)
- Bret Taylor
Onur i think you misunderstood.. i am talking about the traffic on a site i run..
- t toring
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends - http://blog.okcupid.com/index...
Jan 20, 2010
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The Most Relevant Identity Work of the Decade - http://www.underconsideration.com/brandne...
Jan 13, 2010
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This is really worth looking at.
- Kevin Fox
Op-Ed Contributor - Mr. Smith Rewrites the Constitution - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
Jan 12, 2010
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Why We Need An Independent Invention Defense - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
Jan 12, 2010
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Protovis - http://vis.stanford.edu/protovi...
Jan 11, 2010
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"Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction."
- Bret Taylor
Thank you. I've been looking for an easy way to generate treemaps on the fly.
- Kevin Fox
esta bueno no?
- ignacio thorres miranda
Jan 9, 2010
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