September 2008
52 posts
“I bet the company spent countless hours debating that new tagline and whether it...”
– Michael Arrington
“Good luck preparing your business for the storm of the century.”
– Robert Scoble
“In a too-fine irony, the S&P 500 lost roughly the same amount in aggregate...”
– Paul Kedrosky
“Feld detours from history to recount naming his software consulting firm Feld...”
– Brad Feld
“And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day...”
– Mad Dog Palin | AlterNet
“But the idea that the voters of the United States might install someone in the...”
– NYTimes.com
“Make a list of every Web 2.0 startup to raise an A or B round and cross 80% of...”
– Jason Calacanis
Awesome slo-mo Video →
Amazing “lighting”
Watchvia Diggnation
“In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure...”
– Bad News For The Bailout - Forbes.com
Wow. Maybe more like… WHAT?!
“If 10% or less of the year’s class take market-sensitive jobs (which I...”
– When too many HBS Grads go into Finance, sell your stocks. (Careful, pdf!)
Futurologian Congress →
Futurology — the science of predicting the future by making up words and guessing what they might mean. I liked “warchalking” best.
T-mobile G1: Android and T-Mobile G1's Five Most... →
I was really, really ready to replace my old phone with the first android device. Now, not so much. If you also read how people screwed up the interface, you’ll know why.
This could have been a big deal (Android is the new Google mobile phone operating system), but they kinda ruined it for me. Oh, also, the phone should be available in Germany around Q1 2009 - 3 months after the US?...
“The next stage will be a run on thousands of highly leveraged hedge funds. After...”
– Paul Kedrosky: Roubini on the Next Stage in the Crisis
“We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good.”
– Charles Barkley (Quotes)
WatchMost startup business plans diligently explained.
» The Scene at Lehman Brothers London on Friday... →
I must say i am quite glad to be in alternative investments. VC is said to work best against cycles.
“Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her...”
– Eve Ensler: Drill, Drill, Drill (via fred-wilson)
best of craigslist : I'm starting a gang. If you'd... →
Friends, time to move to Washington.
Die Zukunft der Zeitung - heute: DuMont →
Sehr schön, sowas vom Chef zu lesen. Wir geben unser Bestes, der Strategie gerecht zu werden.
(via lakestreet)
LHC and Cern
I am proud to see the LHC (Large hadron Collider) start its first round near Geneva today. Some of my professors form the HEC Lausanne and the EPFL are and were members of different teams at CERN, the Physic research center near Geneva. Also did some of my friends and fellow students work there and on projects for and ybout the CERN as well as the LHC.
This machine basically smashes together some...
“Caterpillar Building 700-Ton, Completely Automatic Mega Dump Truck
Gearheads at...”
– Dump Truck: Caterpillar Building 700-Ton, Completely Automatic Mega Dump Truck
“I don’t know much about your business but I’d guess that...”
– Seth Levine: You’re burning too much money
Watchecholot:
Now that is some serious lipdubbing. Tiny tot doing it David Lee Roth style. Precious.
via Uvmann
“it can be extremely hard to understand the phenomenon until you’ve experienced...”
– I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com (via fred-wilson)
WatchLip Dub - Tambureddu HD on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Turn it up! Domenico Modungo on Last.fm!
Clarkson | Why Britain is now a Third World... →
Why Britain is now a Third World country
“Passwörter bei PricewaterhouseCoopers gestohlen (Update)
Oops…”
– Passwörter bei PricewaterhouseCoopers gestohlen (Update) - Golem.de
Interessant, dass ich einen Systems Auditing Kurs bei Spezilisten von PWC hatte, die uns das Vermeiden eines solchen Fehlers ausführlich erklärt haben…
“* Be smart, not wise
* Be different, not best
* Do less, not more
* Go around...”
– Sim Simeonov via Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog
Chrome. doenst disappoint.
The new Google Browser is rockng fast, i evn forgt to type in full wrds. dwnlod it here. its about half a megabyte and you will have fun.
Der Google Browser
Kommt heute. Angeblich. Comic schon da, ich freu mich drauf - der Browser ist mein 2. Zuhause. Meiner Meinung nach ist Firefox beinahe unschlagbar, vor allem mit Addons und ein bischen Personalisierung.
Vor allem durch memory management soll beim “Chrome” einiges besser klappen, und wenn Javascript dann noch so viel schnell wird, wie versprochen, sind Webapps auch besser zu...