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Storm's first birthday
Storm was open-sourced exactly one year ago today. It's been an action-packed year for Storm, to s...
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Stripe in Canada
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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The only two ways to build a $100m business
With tens of thousands of new start-ups being created every year, the potential of a company to truly scale and become a large, stand-alone business is more crucial than ever before. A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. So most…
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$15,000 In Income From An EBook, How I Did It
Over less than 6 months I've made more than $15k in revenue from Clean Ruby . It's an unfinished book and I've been working to polish it up and get new content out to my customers but I wanted to take a step back and review where I am.
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Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing
Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing Posted: September 18, 2012 | Author: Hilary Mason | Filed under: blog | Tags: data, design, product, yahoo | 26 Comments » I was visiting my grandparent…
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Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open
Update: Virgin fixed the issue Tuesday night after taking their login page down for four hours. Please see my update at the bottom of this post.
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Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released
We promised it, and here it is (slightly delayed by a signing tour and epic-level jet lag): "The Rapture of the Nerds" by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross is available as a Creative Commons licensed download right here: The Rapture of the Nerds .
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Amazon Maps API
Amazon Developer Portal has the tools and guides for building apps and experiences for Amazon-supported devices and services
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Grove.io shutting down
UPDATE:Grove was not shut down and instead was acquired by Revolution Systems. We're profitable and in no danger of being ...
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Cost of the Uniloc Lawsuit
What is the cost of this lawsuit to Laminar Research? I have done some research on this, and I am […]
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Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?
I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC…
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Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs
Need some inspiration and motivation on your entrepreneurial journey? Here are the 14 best TED Talks for entrepreneurs you should watch.
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Amazon's Play
Amazon is, to my eyes, the only company playing in the same league as Apple.
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Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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9to5
Last week, 9to5mac published this article in which the author intentionally derided me and Instapaper, called it “Instascraper”, and initially accused Instapaper of being responsible for the now-debunked “FBI” UDID leak. Despite my attempts to get them to correct what they wrote, they refused.
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Black Swan Farming
September 2012 I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing. The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners, and (2) that the best…
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