Adam Kazwell is...somewhat concerned

links for 2011-03-31

• How to Disagree
  How to Disagree Wed Mar 30 16:06:34 UTC 2011
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• Fimoculous - Blinded By The Color The first reaction from the...
  Fimoculous - Blinded By The Color The first reaction from the... Wed Mar 30 15:52:57 UTC 2011
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links for 2011-03-30

• Why mobile matters
  because we have devices that are capable of delivering experiences that aren't just as good as, but better than what we could get on a full PC....and because of the limited screen real estate, there's no room for BS junk

  "It’s not just a good experience for flight search for a phone, it’s a good experience for flight search period."

  
  
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links for 2011-03-29

• The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com
  The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com Mon Mar 28 15:55:12 UTC 2011
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links for 2011-03-28

• Is Facebook making us sad? Stanford University research and Sherry Turkle's new book Alone Together suggest that social networking may foster loneliness. - By Libby Copeland - Slate Magazine
  He noticed that they seemed to feel particularly crummy about themselves after scrolling through others' attractive photos, accomplished bios, and chipper status updates. "They were convinced that everyone else was leading a perfect life,"

  The human habit of overestimating other people's happiness is nothing new - "If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."

  By showcasing the most witty, joyful, bullet-pointed versions of people's lives, and inviting constant comparisons in which we tend to see ourselves as the losers, Facebook appears to exploit an Achilles' heel of human nature.

  The site's very design—the presence of a "Like" button, without a corresponding "Hate" button—reinforces a kind of upbeat spin doctoring.

  
  
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links for 2011-03-24

• cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog / If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough
  cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog / If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough Thu Mar 24 00:17:04 UTC 2011
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• LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: Data Wrangler of The Modern Age ...
  While it might not be coffee-making robots or flying cars, the future is happening “sooner and stranger than we think."

  he invests in anything that aggregates humanity

  “Human progress depends on our ability to collaborate.”

  Know when to be persistent, when to be flexible and when to be a combination of both.

  Launch Early Enough To Be Embarrassed By Your Creation. You'll probably be wrong about most of of your thesis, and you might as well get the feedback.

  A Great Idea for a Product is Important. But a great idea for product distribution is more important.

  
  
  (tags: inspiration fastcompany hoffman quotes startups trends)
  
  

links for 2011-03-23

• I got into YC after applying six times. Here's my advice for YC applicants. - The Web and all that Jazz
  It's a bad sign when you can't air your grievances with your co-founders in a way that makes everyone better as a result. Every startup has stories of how the co-founders disagree, but you'll find the successful ones are able to learn from the conflict, rather than come away angry with nothing learned and nothing solved.
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links for 2011-03-21

• Mom and Pop, At Web Scale - Anil Dash
  I'd say we'll see a social application reach 50 million users without having had any outside funding within the next two to three years. And that business will have a fundamentally different set of goals and values than today's large-scale sites, because of it will have been built in a fundamentally different way.
  (tags: startups quotes trends)

links for 2011-03-17

• That Championship Season’s Outspoken Jason Patric Has Quite a Few Things to Say About Hollywood, Few of Them Nice -- Vulture
  That Championship Season’s Outspoken Jason Patric Has Quite a Few Things to Say About Hollywood, Few of Them Nice -- Vulture Wed Mar 16 19:30:43 UTC 2011
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links for 2011-03-16

• The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
  The Fundamental Question of the Web: "Why wasn't I consulted?". It has become the first thing I think about when I think about the web.

  The web is not, despite the desires of so many, a publishing medium. The web is a customer service medium. “Intense moderation” in a customer service medium is what “editing” was for publishing.

  A boolean or integer value is the digital equivalent of a grunt. You can't get any more basic than a "like".

  
  
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  cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog / Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.
  
  
  cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog / Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will. Tue Mar 15 19:20:03 UTC 2011
  
  
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links for 2011-03-15

• Looking forward to Churn and some lessons from the past | Churn Labs Blog
  Looking forward to Churn and some lessons from the past | Churn Labs Blog Mon Mar 14 23:39:04 UTC 2011
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• Pitches, by nature, are succinct. They’re all...
  Pitches, by nature, are succinct. They’re all... Mon Mar 14 15:20:37 UTC 2011
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