James Dyson on a Life of Failure – Ever since I read The Google Story, I’ve been obsessed with success and start-up stories. I recently picked up Founders at Work which interviews the founders of companies like Paypal, Hotmail, del.icio.us and many others – it’s really a great read.
Daring Fireball: Microsoft and Yahoo, Sitting in a Tree – as usual, John Gruber gives a thorough breakdown of the Yahoo-Microsoft acquisition dilly.
Microsoft knocks on Yahoo’s door again – From what I can gather, this isn’t the first time MS has approached Yahoo. I can totally understand MS’s rationale but what would Yahoo gain from the deal?
Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel has not been doing the best things for his company, and I don’t thing being associated with Microsoft would help.
For instance, when I see a Google-Apple alliance, I see a great partnership. I don’t get that feeling when I imagine a Yahoo-Microsoft alliance.
Sorry for serious post, but this is sounds crazy for me, and yes I am from New Jersey and I still know people who commute in and out of the city.
I kinda want one of these right now. Actually, I want one pretty bad.
Big ups to my fellow Schemers at Schematic who were responsible for the redesign of ABCNews.com. Great job guys and girls.
I was born on this day 30 years ago. My sister called me today to wish me a happy birthday and to call me Old Man River. To tell you the truth, it feels great to be 30 and I wouldn’t trade it to be any younger. I make more money, have more knowledge and have a clearer picture of the things I want to accomplish in life. Things have just begun.
illustration: Mark Mulvey
Since I realunched the new, old-style Daily Exhaust, I’ve already had questions on the “NEW!” graphic on the homepage. How is that archieved? It seems do defy the grid system and walk through DIV tags like magic.
Well, it’s not magic, just some CSS and a PNG.
Pardon the mismatched appearance of the site, I’m retro-fitting a retro design onto the page templates in Movable Type. Eventually everything will be just as golly-gee-swell as the homepage.
Based on my Mint statistics from yesterday, my site was down for about 6 hours. Other people I know on Dreamhost accounts were not effected, but I was, and so were all my clients. Not too cool. This has been a rough year with Dreamhost, since last summer’s black out in LA which brought Dreamhost down for at least a week.
Maybe you’re one of those people who is still not down with DRM and won’t buy encrypted content from iTunes or you might be the type who won’t buy digital music & videos – period. It’s all good. iTunes still has content for you, tons – and it’s all free.
I’ll admit I was a little late to discovering all the great, free content iTunes has, but now that I have, my morning subway commute is so much better (and I think I might be a little smarter too).
Most of the free content I speak about comes in the form of video and audio podcasts. The great thing about podcasts is that they automatically sync with your computer and iPod everytime you launch iTunes (and plug in your iPod).
Below are my favorite podcasts to listen to and watch. Don’t be scared off if these selections don’t match with yours. I guarantee if you do some exploring, you’ll find things you like.
TEDTalks (video) –
Cool Hunting Video (video) –
Ask a Ninja (video) –
The Show with ZeFrank (video) –
New York Times Video – Technology | David Pogue (video) –
NPR: Fresh Air (audio) –
Audi TT – beautiful, slick site. I like how they use the site map/flow chart as the primary navigation. Well done.
The United States Postal Service has a lot of things to fix with how it runs its operations. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s a place I loath to go to and try to avoid at all costs. Apparently they see things differently and feel it’s a priority to temporarily rebrand their site with a Star Wars theme.
Am I the only one that finds this to be severely retarded? For all you non-Americans out there, yes, we have our heads up our asses.
