November 2009
25 posts
thegongshow:
mokoyfman:
Hot Chip, Take It In
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The Echo Nest at Music and Bits
Just saw this presentation and enjoyed it a lot. Amazing what can be built on top of it. Looking forward to see what they’re up to with Playdar.
WatchReally cool presentation at TED India by MIT grad student Pranav Mistry on merging the physical world and the digital world to create more intuitive user interfaces.
When something like this becomes available for sale I’ll be first in line.
via Paul Kedrosky
Hell on Wheels by Fu Manchu from King of the Road
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Catching Up
I’m a big believer in throwing a lot information together to overwhelm and confuse myself to force my brain to work hard at making sense of it. To make that work in a productive way though, it’s obviously essential to put the right stuff together. Below is some of the stuff I’m trying to make sense of at the moment. A healthy mix of tools, predictions, work principles and...
“But just because you can’t have opinions about all things doesn’t mean you can’t...”
– Finally got around to reading World Building in a Crazy World by Jonathan Harris.
Watchdavid-noel:
Watch this awesome presentation by Dennis from Foursquare from a couple of days ago on Mobile Monday in Amsterdam.
Looks like there will be 50 new cities launched next week.
PS: Notice the amount of suits?
PPS: Dude, lay low on the coffee. Just kidding, love the drive.
Really one of the best presentations I’ve seen in a while.
Knowledge + energy = awesome
Had to check...
The World Is Flat and The Communist Manifesto
I bought The World Is Flat back in the fall of 2007 when I studied in Boston, but it has been collecting dust on my shelf until now. Although I’ve been familiar with the broader lines of what Friedman is discussing it’s quite interesting (and intense) to read the full “package”.
One fascinating thing so far (after about one third of the book) is how accurately the...
The last three songs I’ve posted have all...
Planet of the Dreamers by Jacuzzi Boys
Love Ambling Alp by Yeasayer
The Girls At Dawn - Every Night.