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Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried
Diaspora, the “open Facebook alternative” (NYT story for background if you aren’t familiar), has raised Over $170,000 from over 4600 people in just a few weeks. All for an idea. That’s an impressive start if victory was measured in press coverage, cash, and cool. HereR…
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Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist
Over the last year, I’ve become a heavy user of Scribd. I have posted over 100 documents to Scribd that have generated over 100,000 reads. Posting to Scribd is fast and easy–much easier than using my extremely cumbersome web hosting...
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We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work.
DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
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A new approach to China: an update
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Serious threat to the web in Italy
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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The Collapse of Complex Business Models
I gave a talk last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn’t whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration. Against that background, though, they were worried
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TSA encounter at SAN
[These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing t...
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This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
"The conversation I'm going to have with my parents now that I've turned down this job is more of a concern to me than turning down the job," he said.
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Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right
Somehow I don’t think young Mr. Kaplan — a 13-year-old with an iPad app — sees the iPad as hurting his sense of wonder or entrepreneurism.
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Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now...
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What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google
Are we really in control when making decisions? In his book, Dan Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us.
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World War II was totally unrealistic
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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What is Traitorware?
Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a particularly creepy...
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Things Paul Graham is wrong about
I debated with myself for a long time over whether to write this post (which is one of the reasons some of the subject matter is a little ol...
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Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism
Link to: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/16/5477568-are-airport-x-ray-scanners-harmful
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"The web is considered 'public domain'"
The tl;dr version of this post: My 2005 Ice Dragon entry, called "A Tale of Two Tarts" was apparently printed without my knowledge or permission in a magazine and I am apparently the victim of copyright infringement. The story: I was contacted early last week by a friend of mine who lives in the…
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Translation From Apple's PR-Speak to English of the Letter Regarding iPhone 4
Take your class action suits filed four days after we released the goddamn thing and stick them up your fucking asses.
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ZestCash is Not Good.
A couple of days ago, TechCrunch featured a favorable story about a new startup called ZestCash, which provides an online lending alternative to existing payday loans (I'm not going to link to them directly, you can get to them on your own easily enough). The story regurgitates ZestCash's copy about the evils of the…