June 2012
7 posts
How Google Pulled Off Their Live Video Skydiving...
More in my post on TechCrunch
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Facebook Had a Master Password Its Early Employees...
This interesting nugget in a Wall Street Journal article today, called “The Woman in the Facebook Frat House”:
Once we learned how the software worked, he taught us, without batting an eye, the master password with which we could log in as any Facebook user and gain access to all messages and data. “You can’t write it down,” he said, and so we committed it to...
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Dan Dorfman (1929-2012) Gave To The Masses What...
The financial journalist Dan Dorfman died this past weekend at 82. Dan was known for reporting stock market takeover rumors and other news that would cause stocks to skyrocket or fall. Dan wrote the Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column in the ’70s and later worked at CNBC in the ’90s.
I had the honor and pleasure of working with Dan in the ’80s...
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“Traditional ideas about what is opinion and what is news, what is advertising...”
– Sadly, David Carr’s got it right in his article “Digital Media’s Ever-Swifter Incursion”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/business/media/huffington-magazine-continues-digital-medias-incursion.html
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InBox To Zero Achieved
I’ve finally achieved Inbox To Zero. It’s a state of bliss that probably won’t last long. A big part of getting to here involved not using Email as a To Do list. I’m a big GTD groupie (Getting Things Done, by David Allen) and following those ideas really helped.
Here are some of the tools I used:
OmniFocus - I just started using this GTD software. At first, I...
The Struggle
Every great entrepreneur from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg went through The Struggle and struggle they did, so you are not alone. But that does not mean that you will make it. You may not make it. That is why it is The Struggle.
The Struggle is where greatness comes from.
From Ben Horowitz’s post on “The Struggle” http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/the-struggle/
