February 2011
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Founders stories - Tumblr’s founder David Karp talks to Chris Dixon
These days it is much cooler to drop out of high school, be a complete geek or even better, to be both. David Karp is on that illustrious list of drop outs made good, really good. He talks about his heroes , Steve Jobs and Willy Wonka and his best business decision with Tumblr, currently one of the fastest growing...
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Portlandia does W+K spoof
Credits to thebulbmode
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10 Business models that rocked 2010
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Hunch - Personalizing the Internet for you
xPicture via FastCompany
Founded by Flickr Co-founder Caterina Fake and angel investor Chris Dixon, Hunch.com creates a personalized taste profile for you after you have answered a series of questions.
Hunch has raised $12 million in B-round funding after Google reportedly made an offer of $60 million to acquire the smoking hot tech start up.
Go on and have some fun trying out Hunch here.
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SAY:100- 10 thought leaders on 100 influencing voices in culture conversations today.
Pure magic. Check out the full list here.
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Debtris - Tetris x Data Visualization of US and UK...
Easy to digest Data Visualization animation for you to wrap your head around the true extent of U.S debts. In the form of tetris no less.
Directed by David McCandless of Information Is Beautiful
Check out his highly entertaining TED talk while you’re at it. Well worth the time.
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The morphing city. Data Visualization at its best.
Using data from Lisbon’s traffic, Pedro M. Cruz portrays data over time as a living organism. Amazing stuff.
“The Morphing City is a visualization study where a city mutates its shape accordingly with the traffic on its main arteries. Those morphs tend to translate the actual perceived distances within a city, bypassing the common...
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Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson shares his worth on the VC business on TechCrunch
VC Fred Wilson chats with Founders stories host Chris Dixon ( CEO/ Co-founder of Hunch and previously SiteAdvisor) on frothy valuations, his investment philosophy, the relationship between VCs and startups, and the VC business in general.
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Google's Acquisitions Appetite - Feb 01 to Aug 10
So whose the hungry hippo?
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Klout. Measure your online social clout.
San Francisco startup Klout allows you to calculate your influence across your network by using social media analytics with the content you produce and how other people interact with it.
Klout primarily measures your personal influence with data points from social network services such as Twitter ( Following/Followers ratio, Retweets and list memberships etc) and Facebook ( comments and...
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Bb 2.0 - An interesting collaborative music...
Simple yet fully maximizing the beauty and power of cross collaboration is Bb 2.0. A pet project of Darren Solomon of Science For Girls.
Go ahead here and have some fun!
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Phone projection by aircord. Pretty cool or what?
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Wireless Dominoes by IAMAS Ubiqutous Interaction Research Group. Circuitry based on Arduino Fio.
Delightful.
via Swiss Miss
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Newsle (Private Beta) - A mix of Google Alerts and Facebook
Newsle is a service that allows you to view important news and updates pertaining to those you follow. You are able to import your friends from Facebook and LinkedIn and any news on the web mentioning them will be pulled into your newsfeed.
In addition you will also be be follow public figures ranging from tech entrepreneurs,...
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Andre Michelle - ToneMatrix
A sinewave synthesizer triggered by a 16 step sequencer by the talented Andre Michelle. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlying wave-map.
Interesting stuffs, excellent interface and perfect to mess around for some interesting results. He has a series of cool stuffs on his website, be sure to check it out here.
Oh and in case you own an iPhone, he was also the one that produced the...
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Iceland: Beyond Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós together with Bjork are synonymous with most people’s perception of Icelandic music. Well, i don’t really fault them for that as they are arguable among the greatest musical exports to have emerge out of Iceland onto the world stage.
But there’s more beyond Jonsi and this short by nonprofit collective Serious Feather explores just that in a bid to showcase the...
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rogerpala:
The Future of Art:
Super interesting documentary about how art is evolving, some of the best artist speaking about how new technologies and new ways of communication / interaction are changing everything.
This video was shot, edited and screened at the Transmediale festival 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Conceived and Edited by Gabriel Shalom Produced by KS12 / Emergence Collective ...
January 2011
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