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38,208karma·5,955submissions·April 19, 2008
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Mostly known among your parents for creating the infamous Popurls and Twidroyd (Very first Android Twitter app).
Idealab alumni.
Later biztoc.com (With Mark Cuban, acquired by ProRata)
Still running upstract.com
thomas.me
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Austria, Japan, CA
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My less romantic, medium-term outlook on this is that all of these thought-police projects are trying to enforce a combination of nonstate binary answers and an (informational) monoculture to a messy …
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To quote Scott Galloway: "An iPhone is saying to the opposite sex, or a potential mate, 'I have good genes. You should mate with me.'" Ain't gonna happen with those $800 Com…
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..."People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it feels authoritative and familiar." …
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The same-day delivery is spot on and probably the best in any Amazon-serviced country. They never missed the 2h time window I picked. Obviously there've never been any dents in the packaging as w…
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Glad you didn't call Ikea a platform ;)
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And thanks for the Köttbullar. "It's difficult to do business with someone on an empty stomach."
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Reads like an advertorial for another news aggregator.
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I'm not opposed to ads per se but simply the extra workload it puts on the browser. What baffles me though is the across the board negativity and Robin Hood-like mentality here from people who ar…
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Most Steampunkish goggles ever.
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... And not speaking of all the 1-star reviews that just relate to some "horrible" delivery problems with the carrier.
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Yeah, Google Trends has been advocated by so many Create-a-niche-site Marketing Experts that it's become the undisputed barometer for putting a number or value behind just about any term, includi…
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This has never been a replacement for a serious feed reader but something that should actually keep the latter clean from the short-term stuff that all the news outlets put out there. With a site like…
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As someone who's been working with RSS aggregation since its inception I can say that even if there's a steep decline from a trend perspective, the support from almost any major site is stil…
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Memphis is terms of colors, yes — but not really when it comes to the plethora of different shapes within a single design.
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I said from, not by. UE is just one example.
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Yes, timelessly the same since 1976. Good artists borrow, great artists steal as we know.
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And what is so special about this? Companies like Teenage Engineering have been doing this for years and same could be argued for dirt-cheap headphones from Urban Outfitters. For a company like Google…