- Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb – Kara Swisher – News – AllThingsD
(dopost jobs yahoo )
- How Hewlett-Packard lost its way – Fortune Tech
Very well-researched article outlining the ten years of internal fighting at the top of HP. (history meg_whitman mark_hurd leo_apotheker hp )
- The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You | Terence Eden has a Blog
Apple is planning to control more of your online experience… "Their next move is a phone with a “Virtual SIM” [...] You buy your iPhone, plug it into iTunes, and tell it which price-plan you want. You pay Apple directly and they update the iPhone’s “Virtual SIM”. Hey presto, you’re on the network. What network? Who knows! As far as you’re concerned, you’re on Apple. [...] There are several reasons why the Virtual SIM is a dangerous idea…" (dopost lock_in telcos sim_cards technology apple )
- Google’s head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo — Tech News and Analysis
"Like media theorist Clay Shirky, the Google executive argues that one of the big problems for newspapers is that they always depended on “cross-subsidization” of topics — so the classified ads and the lifestyle section paid for the foreign reporting. Now, he says “we have blogs focusing on these niches alone, with a much keener sense of commercialization.”" (speech dopost newspapers journalism google )
- Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
"Below is a remarkable document. It's a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, [...] And the pollster's conclusion is clear: if the GOP keeps up its current rhetoric and positions on gays and lesbians, it is in danger of marginalizing itself to irrelevance or worse." (republicans gay_rights usa politics )
- If You’re Not Pissing Someone Off, You’re Probably Not Innovating – Philip Auerswald – Harvard Business Review
"The more disruptive your innovation, the more your success needs to look like the creation of a political movement." (advice ben_and_jerry dopost innovation )
- Disruptions: Facebook’s Real-Life ‘Spidey Sense’ – NYTimes.com
"Because it connects Facebook users to more than nine million apps and services through Facebook Connect, the Open Graph developer platform, and the hundreds of millions of like buttons that perforate Web pages across the Internet, the company can see what people are using. Facebook is more tapped into the pulse of people online than any company on the planet. As a result, Facebook has the inside track to what is becoming more popular in a way that its many competitors do not." (acquisitions dopost facebook )
- Accordion – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You learn something new every day… "Accordionists in heavy metal make their most extensive appearances in the folk metal sub-genre, and are otherwise generally rare. Full-time accordionists in folk metal seem even rarer…" (heavy_metal music accordians )
- Mozilla 10 May – a set on Flickr
Always lovely photos from Paul Clarke. (dopost photographs mozilla )
- Improving estimate accuracy | Value, Flow, Quality
Excellent stuff: "Don’t we just get frustrated when our estimates or guesstimates on timescales or costs turn out to be different from what actually happens? So how do we improve the accuracy of our estimates?" (dopost measurement estimation )
- On editing text « Bosker Blog
Editing text is like handling exceptions backwards. A curious observation, with the help of category theory. (maths category_theory dopost )
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