February 2012
“I would add an FAQ section here but no Qs have been FA’d so far”
– Ze Frank returns in style. On Kickstater, of course.
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betashop: Fab Acquires Casacanda and Launches as... →
betashop:
Fab today took a big step towards our mission of being the world’s most valuable design resource.
Fab has acquired Casacanda, the #1 flash sales website for design objects in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Casacanda, based in Berlin Germany, relaunches today as Fab.de with…
Awesome! Can I have my credits back now? ;)
“Health concerns have been raised about high fructose corn syrup, which allege...”
– HFCS is cheaper in the United States as a result of a combination of corn subsidies and sugar tariffs and quotas. Since the mid 1990s, the United States federal government has subsidized corn growers by $40 billion.
High-fructose corn syrup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Check out Caroline's Berlin Tip List →
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Caroline is a product manager for SoundCloud: “I’ve lived in Berlin for over a decade now but the city never ceases to surprise me.”
Her tips are great!
Tiplist is cool. Very well done, Brenden.
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“If you want better UX, stop looking at your design team and whichever new sexy...”
– Why most UX is shite (via disambiguity)
AMEN.
(via rickwebb)
Just spent a frustrating 2 hours with two services I’m posting this quote for: SocialBro (ugh, what a name) and PayPal.
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“In 1990, there were 610 hedge funds in the world. In 2000, there were 3,873; in...”
– Is This the End of Wall Street As They Knew It? — New York Magazine
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“If you look at the past 25 years, the world economy was going through a process...”
– Is This the End of Wall Street As They Knew It? — New York Magazine
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“If you’re a smart Ph.D. from MIT, you’d never go to Wall Street now,” says a...”
– Is This the End of Wall Street As They Knew It? — New York Magazine
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“You done good.” He said. And then he added, “Those bastards.” I knew he was...”
– Anatomy of an unsafe abortion « Dr. Jen Gunter
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“There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday. Kickstarter has...”
– 24 Hours » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
This is an amazing achievement. I love the what the Kickstarter guys are doing, and their play-by-play blog post is one of the best examples of community building and celebration to date.
(via joshuanguyen)
Story of the week. Big applause for the...
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“They’re now publishing a third fewer stories, but have increased traffic...”
– Salon testing so you don’t have to
Salon cuts post count by a third, gets 40 percent increase in readers - Boing Boing
“The best feature is that it works”
– @kevin - via Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane (via bijan)
Great quote. Reminds me of another one that has been used by many different people:
“Speed is a feature.”
“A young man wrote to Mozart and said, “Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing...”
– This reminds me of the best entrepreneurs I have met!
Malkavian Quotes
(via roelofbotha)
