February 2010
74 posts
“We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our...”
– Amazon
January 2010
74 posts
Feel The Lameness
“John argues that if we aren’t forced to pay $15, writers won’t write good books, the world will go to hell in a handbasket, and Macmillan will collapse.”
Henry Blodget
Henry goes on to break down John Sargent’s, CEO of Macmillan, lame argument about artificially pricing books at $15. Publishers are dead unless they start thinking a lot more creatively about pricing...
“John doesn’t hate technology. He has tons of it. He doesn’t hate the people in...”
– Eric Wiesen
I really like this because it resonates with a specific reaction I have to CNBC or Bloomberg talking about tech company earnings. The reality of tech is that the exciting tech is happening in private markets with few public company exceptions. I mean tech is Ruby on Rails, Python,...
“In three years, when the low-end WiFi-powered iPad costs $199, many households...”
– Henry Blodget
This is…I think the correct conclusion. People, or the marketing, will do the math which will drive them into the outstretched arms of Apple. However, I’m not yet buying the fact that Apple is the default provide of these but one never knows.
“I still can’t believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares...”
– Apple’s New Thing (iPod) - Mac Forums
Typical response to the 2001 announcement of the original iPod. Click through for more.
(via mattlehrer)
What a great find. Click through. Read the thread. It’s awesome.
(via mikehudack)
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This is AMAZING!
Since everything is recorded; in 10 years...
“As startup company and tax lawyers, we believe that eliminating the capital...”
– Joe Wallin and Brian Todd
This is a little bit stupid. As it is the best VC’s in the world do 1/3 success 1/3 even money 1/3 loss, this is not the market for big money as the past 10 years have shown. Startups are capital efficient and aren’t going to go crazy hiring at the early stages...
““As a creator, part of what I seek is recognition, immortality. I don’t work for...”
– -Will Shipley (via atomiota)
Not sure if this is interesting or obvious, but it caught my attention. And that seems to be my new filtering mechanism, so here you go.
“The A4 chip is the first shipping product to emerge from Apple’s 2008...”
– Hardware Differentiation
Check this track from This Frontier Needs Heroes,...
“The biggest advantage is the Kindle’s lack of any good use other than reading....”
– This is a quote by Roberto Mateu in this post (via Marco).
This is a big deal in hardware design that applies to more than just the Kindle. Computers overtime have become commodity hardware with endlessly flexible software that allows it to be anything and everything to each developers’ desires.
...
“Over the past few years, many investment bankers behaved like idiots, but so did...”
– David Brooks
hypem:
britticisms:
“Music Sounds Better With...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Ray LaMontagne (24)
Bon Iver (21)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (13)
Freelance Whales (13)
Iron & Wine (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Shorter is always better on screen, and so expect shorter books. Many nonfiction...”
– Apple’s tablet and the future of literature
China Questions Part 2
As I mentioned yesterday, Jamie offered up 2 interesting thoughts on China yesterday and asked that I post them both. Here’s his second thought complemented by a link to a contrarian view on a Yuan devaluation from Albert Edwards, a bearish strategist with SocGen:
Jamie states:
People are so worried that China will not continue to buy our debt. But from my understanding of currency...
“But, Alex made an interesting retort with total sincerity, “I disagree....”
– The Work/Life Flatspace
When I Applied to Etsy
Awhile back Etsy had a job posting for some type of biz dev role, which appealed to me so I fired off an email to them with an idea and a request for an interview. Nothing came of it and I had forgotten about this letter until this morning when I read the latest NY Times piece on Starbucks 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea. Given this movement at SBUX, I’m wondering if now isn’t a good time...
“Investment based on genuine long-term expectation is so difficult to-day as to...”
– John Maynard Keynes
Wonder why everyone is piling into High Frequency Trading. Keynes has your answer.
This is Conversion Party singing “East...
“In November, Apple hired a former textbook publishing executive who is...”
– New Apple Tablet Details Leaked
This is the most exciting part of the Tablet. This breaks the distribution lock held by educational publishers and will also ease the strain on kids shoulders.
China's GDP Growth...Really?
In November I posted a video of one of the many uninhabited, but brand new, cities in China. These cities are being built to sop up excess capital and joblessness to produce the consistent 10% GDP growth that the world looks to in awe. It is this “remarkable” growth that imbues the brilliant minds of the Communist party with their sense of entitlement. Human rights? Who gives a...
“You can talk about Twitter.com and then you can talk about the Twitter...”
– Fred Wilson
Important
“Mr. Brown ran strongest in the suburbs of Boston, where the independent voters...”
– G.O.P. Senate Victory Stuns Democrats
Can we now acknowledge that independents matter and that you can assemble a real campaign around this group instead of empowering the poles. Thanks.
“the cause of my life.”
– Ted Kennedy
This may be the problem with the healthcare bill. Too many of the Dems are hanging on this bill for reasons that may have made sense 30 years ago, but in a globalized network economy don’t fit. The voters rejection is a reflection of the fact that we are still a youngish country...
This comes from their bio:
“And their...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
The xx (23)
Death Cab for Cutie (9)
Ambient Music Therapy (6)
Joe Henderson (2)
Buckshot LeFonque (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Google, China and Milton Friedman
cdixon:
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” - Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Google has received wide and...