August 2010
28 posts
“You can’t accelerate a nine-month pregnancy by hiring nine pregnant women for a...”
– Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything | Magazine
“Apple is fundamentally human. Foursquare clearly wants to be human too.
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– How Foursquare wants to out-Apple Facebook | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
“Facebook Places went live last night and I decided to give it a whirl soon after...”
– How to Almost Sabotage a Dinner Party With Facebook ‘Places’ - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
“Designers of computer games… stand accused of despoiling children’s fragile...”
– We talk to the inventor of Foldit, a game that solves one of the toughest problems in biochemistry (via theeconomist)
SimpleGeo Blog: Announcing Polymaps →
A few months ago we announced a partnership with Stamen Design, the best online mapping and data visualization company we know. It’s time to announce Polymaps, the first public milestone in that partnership, at http://polymaps.org.
We’ve been working with Stamen to provide visual…
Serious Eats wrote up Rachel's cupcake classes! →
david:
via bringtoaboil
had no idea she works at butter lane! i haven’t been there in a while (need to check my foursquare history) but will need to stop by there soon!
Women + Tech + $25,000 = APPLY →
changetheratio:
From the LA Times:
Women certainly have made their mark in Silicon Valley. Think Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo’s Carol Bartz.
But the relative paucity of female technology entrepreneurs remains a chronic problem.
So Arianna Huffington, Donna Karan and Sarah Brown are teaming up with i/o Ventures to identify the most promising female technology entrepreneur.
The...
“Last Tuesday, legendary tech investor Ron Conway addressed the glop-eating...”
– Figured I’d post this on Tumblr…made in NY, baby!
New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say | AdGrok
