December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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The 101 Most Useful Websites of 2011 →
radbox: Radbox is understandably our darling in the list, but our other personal favorites If This Then That, Urban Dictionary and Wolfram Alpha get a well-deserved mention here.
Dec 29th
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“One slip and down the hole we fall, It seems to take no time at all, A momentary...”
– One Slip (Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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"Next year I'm going to start up!"
This week I roughly complete three years since resigning from my job at Oracle, a decision that took me quite some time execute. I’m sure lots of wannapreneurs deal with this situation every day, maybe more so around the new years’ eve. “That’s it, next year I’m starting off on my own!” This is carried forward from the list of resolutions from the past...
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“Originally, MTV had started off advertiser-supported, which means we didn’t...”
– Bob Pittman - Founder of MTV I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution.
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Indie music spotlight | Fusion
A long time ago India’s indie music scene was dominated by the likes of Baba Sehgal, Shaan and Lucky Ali. That was the time when people used to buy music cassettes, which made up the almost the entire bulk of music revenue. With the proliferation of internet and MP3s, physical music sales suffered, and many indie artists moved to Bollywood. Today the indie music scene is on the rise. Live...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“‘There are two kinds of men,’ said Ka, in a didatic voice. ‘The first kind does...”
–  Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“It was never the object of [patent] laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling...”
– Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley, 1883 (via Jens Alfke)
Dec 12th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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The treasure hunt analogy
Imagine you’re staring at a huge field of barren land and there’s treasure buried somewhere. There are two crews with shovels, both of them are looking for the same treasure. Now one crew decides on a strategy where they look under a rock, dig a little, and if they don’t think they’re going to find anything move on to the next rock. After all there’s a lot of...
Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 2nd
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Tyranny of the Tools →
Or to put it bluntly, when my wife wants me to mow the lawn, she can ask, she can email, or she can make a bright red note and stick it on the refrigerator where I have to look at it every time I get a snack. Guess which one gets results. Make me look at it — even when I’m doing something else — and I’ll figure out a way to make it go away. I’ve made this...
Dec 2nd
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How Free Music Makes More Than Sense →
If someone buys my music on iTunes, Amazon, or in a record store (remember those?), let alone streams it on Spotify, it’s all short-term money. That might be the last interaction I have with that particular fan. But if I give that fan the same record for free in exchange for a connection (an e-mail and a zip code), I can make that same money, if not double or triple that amount, over time. ...
Dec 1st
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