My daughter Emily was passed down the iPhone I bought when it first came out. It didn't work for me so I gave it to her. That phone developed a small crack in the screen last fall but she kept using it. The crack got worse, propagated, and yesterday she dropped it again. …
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iPhone vs Blackberry - Survey Sample Size of One
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Call Your Mother
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/05/call-your-mothe.htmlHappy Mothers Day to all moms out there, particularly my wife the superhero known as Gotham Gal and my mom who reads this blog religiously so I know she'll read this post. Tom Friedman has an oped piece in the Times today titled Call Your Mother. It's about his mom who passed away this past year at the age of 89. …
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Three Reasons To Use Disqus
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/05/three-reasons-t.htmlFirst, I'd like to be perfectly clear that our firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Disqus. So I am clearly biased about what I am about to say. Second, I'd like to point out that the reason we made the investment is largely based on my experience as a Disqus user for the past 10 months and the result it has had on my blog/community. …
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Hittrafficer.com
http://hittrafficer.comCommenting Services kill your Freshness There’s quite a buzz on the few commenting services out on the market that are making quite an impact. Understanding these technologies is important, though! Notice that when a User makes a request for your page (B), the user’s browser makes a request for the page content and then an
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blackrimglasses.com
http://blackrimglasses.comSanFran MusicTech Summit] - # yeah, this is going to end really well. [From New: Video Comments On All TechCrunch Blogs] - # this relates to my desire to push API's upon the aspect of sync and publishing. [From A VC: Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business] - # Wow. This is SO a company a newspaper publishing company would invest in. Scrolling DIV's! [From spleak] - # Its like Snowcrash! [From AppleInsider | Apple files for patents on laser-based head-mounted displays
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Three Reasons to Not Use Disqus
http://seantice.tumblr.com/post/34485090Commenting systems for blogs can be finnicky - short of some custom development, they never do exactly what you want them to do. Enter Disqus, a young start up that’s providing an elegant solution to the commenting dilemma. Fred Wilson offers an interesting look on why the serious blogger should use Disqus in place of a blog’s default commenting system. Fred’s reflections are valid and sound, but I’ve got a few bones to pick with the company. Granted they’ve gained
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Cover Up Art
http://magoonificoblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/cover-up-art.htm...Cocaine Dolly Parton - Jolene The White Stripes - Jolene Krzysztof Komeda - Lullaby (Rosemary's Baby OST) Fantômas - Lullaby Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) Brad Mehldau - Exit Music (For A Film) Genesis - Back In N.Y.C. Jeff Buckley - Back In N.Y.C.
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The Marketing Technology Blog by Douglas Karr
http://douglaskarr.comCommenting Services kill your Freshness There’s quite a buzz on the few commenting services out on the market that are making quite an impact. Understanding these technologies is important, though! Notice that when a User makes a request for your page (B), the user’s browser makes a request for the page content and then an
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Headlines from the Computer Security Blogosphere
http://viralinks.com/computersecuritywound, every Mothers Day the scab is torn off a bit and the regret and pain ooze through. Having our kids celebrate Mothers Day with my wife has made it better, but nothing takes the place of your own Mom. Fred Wilson reminded me of that today with this post about a Tom Friedman piece in the NY Times today. Tom just lost his mom last year after a long bout with dementia it seems. She was 89. Tom reflects on her remarkable life and how she influenced him to be what he is. Can any of us say any
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What was Yahoo thinking?
http://www.susanmernit.com/blog/2008/05/what-was-yahoo-think...about the deal, and a about Yahoo' future, is radically different than what the small circle of execs around Jerry and Sue are telling themselves(and each other). Monday will be interesting,Where will Yahoo stock be end of the day? Fred Wilson has a poll. I predict the stock is at $22.80 end of day.
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BLACKBERRY VS. IPHONE
http://scottgoodson.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/blackberry...texting feature. So today I Googled to see if there was anyone else out there who felt the same way. Turns out there are a lot. ">Jim Cramer is holding a poll online. In a survey of almost 250,000 people, 51% are leaning towards BB. In FW's blog, FW's blog
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Its Mothers Day, be thankful you have a mom to call - so do it.
http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/ashimmy/2008/05...wound, every Mothers Day the scab is torn off a bit and the regret and pain ooze through. Having our kids celebrate Mothers Day with my wife has made it better, but nothing takes the place of your own Mom. Fred Wilson reminded me of that today with this post
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