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The Panic Status Board
This is good. But a lot of things happening means a high chance that I, the man who lives and breathes Panic and has a giant status board in my head, might not properly explain everything to everyone. Steve and I realized it was high time we made this Cabel Status Board public… using technology!
Time tracking app Mite reveals numbers for first 20 months
37signals , poster child of our industry, claims to serve more than 3 million users. What they don’t tell is, how many of those people pay for the premium version of their web apps (Basecamp, Highrise et al). All of them are served in the freemium business model , which is: use a basic version of the product for free…
Git's New Smart HTTP functionality
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Flightcaster (YC S09) and the Future of Asymmetric Intelligence as a Product
When John Paulson bet against the real estate markets, he knew something that other people didn’t. By applying his models against purchased real estate databases, he perceived an opportunity where others saw folly. Fifteen billion in profit later, people are understandably a bit curious as to how he pulled it off…
Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections
Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to renew three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, after the Senate abandoned the PATRIOT reform effort and approved the extension by a voice vote on Wednesday night. Disappointingly, the government's dangerously...
Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act
Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act in […]
Serious threat to the web in Italy
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Today is the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server
ASF Flagship Project is World’s Most Popular Web Server, Powering More than 112 Million Websites FOREST HILL, MD, 23 February, 2010 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) — developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects — today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.The ASF’s…
SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons + A Trip to Y Combinator
Last week, while in London, I received an email from Paul Graham, whom I've long admired, possibly even idolized a bit. He asked if I was available to come speak at a YCombinator SEO event in Mountain View. Tonight, I presented at that evented and thought I'd share my experiences, recommendations…
The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World
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5 million Dropboxes
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.