May 2010
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Facebook Privacy
valhallaisland:
The mainstream media has recently picked up on what the internet media has been complaining about for years: Facebook has a lot of information about you which it can use almost however it wants. Complaining about this baffles me.
Facebook is not mandatory and nor is it a right. There’s a simple way to completely eliminate the risk of Facebook exploiting your data: don’t give it...
What was fascinating is, by the time we launched the tour, or announced the...
– Google & YouTube present A Conversation with Conan O’Brien
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So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25...
– Mick Jagger /via Daring Fireball
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Well said! →
0to88:
WatchThis is still young. In the near future, we will introduce new features aimed at making it easier for you to find better movies. We start with comments. It is now possible to express your approbation to one’s comment by simply clicking on “well said!”. We want to encourage you to write thoughtful comments to recommend a movie (or not), and we hope you will reward good comments by...
Why is Business Writing So Awful? →
Jason Fried:
One of my favorite phrases in the business world is full-service solutions provider. A quick search on Google finds at least 47,000 companies using that one. That’s full-service generic. There’s more. Cost effective end-to-end solutions brings you about 95,000 results. Provider of value-added services nets you more than 600,000 matches. Exactly which services are sold as...
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The Death of Files →
Dustin Curtis:
Mere mortals don’t think of things on their computers as “files.” People think about digital representations of things the same way they think about real physical things: they think about photos, videos, text documents, articles, and people. A “file” on a computer is just a universal container for one of those things.
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WatchThis: the first week →
Last week-end we officially launched WatchThis, the website that helps you watch good movies. Initially an experiment to replace a Google spreadsheet shared with a few movie lovers, this project interested some friends and friends of friends. We at 0to88 eventually decided to open it to the public.
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What's a good movie? →
Alex:
A Big Mac is Die Hard. And duck confit is The Godfather. They’re both good, but differently. You should both try them at least once, and chances are you’ll want to eat them regularly.
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So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two...
– Insight by Ryan at 37signals (via minimalmac)
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Four cute French girls cover Gangsta's Paradise,... →
Live in Paris.
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