February 2012
66 posts
DEAR HENRY BLODGET: Don't Mean To Be Rude, But...
parislemon:
Gotta love Henry Blodget. About once a week he busts out the caps lock key to draw attention to his latest rant. The best ones include some variation of the wording “don’t mean to be rude” in the title.
The only problem is that often these missives are misguided, or flat-out wrong.
Back in October, Blodget wrote the following story: ATTENTION APPLE FANS: Samsung Blowing Past Apple...
Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By... →
infoneer-pulse:
The skies are going to look very different pretty soon, and it’s been a long time coming. Congress finally passed a spending bill for the Federal Aviation Administration, allocating $63.4 billion for modernizing the country’s air traffic control systems and expanding airspace for unmanned planes within three and a half years.
By Sept. 30, 2015, drones will have to have access...
California Housing Market Braces for Facebook... →
courtenaybird:
When Ken DeLeon, a Silicon Valley real estate agent, recently sold an 8,000-square-foot house to a Facebook employee, he said, the movers showed up at the client’s old 1,000-square-foot home and asked, “Did you win the lottery?”
…Mr. DeLeon said he already had plans to market to Facebook employees. One strategy: he intends to buy ads on Facebook. “It’s amazing how you can target...
“A survey of over 4000 low wage workers in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York...”
– - abaldwin360, Why Don’t We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America’s Struggling Working People via Activate the Mechanism!
(via underpaidgenius)
“There’s also another kind of responsibility, the existence of which we don’t...”
– Krzysztof Kieslowski (via echtra)
The heat trapped by global warming equals 1... →
The FriendFeed 70x Exit →
parislemon:
When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in the summer of 2009, it was widely-reported to be a fairly straightforward “acqui-hire” deal. The price was more complicated.
$50 million sounded good on paper, but it was believed that only a small amount was in cash, the rest was in Facebook stock. It was Facebook stock which was just valued at $6.5 billion thanks to the DST investment. Some...
Schools increasingly turn to mobile devices in... →
world-shaker:
On a recent afternoon, Wisenburg’s students recorded themselves reading from a worksheet about animals.
As they played back their recordings, they circled words skipped or mispronounced.
“You get to see the words you miss,” explained fourth-grader Austin Curry.
On the back of the worksheet, they wrote down key facts they had learned and started browsing the Internet to find...
Morning Routines Are Creativity Killers →
onearth:
kateoplis:
As several recent studies highlight, the way most of us spend our mornings is exactly counter to the conditions that neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists tell us promote flexible, open-minded thinking. Take that hurried wake-up, for example. In a study published in the journal Thinking and Reasoning last year, researchers Mareike Wieth and Rose Zacks reported that...
