May 2012
14 posts
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Animals & Meat, An Overview
[shared via Google Reader from Gridness]
By Kim Costantino.
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Berlin to battle London on Jason Calacanis’s show...
[shared via Google Reader from VentureVillage]
The London v. Berlin debate plans to reach an ultimate high, in the most exciting format yet…
Valley-based This Week in Startups team, led by the dynamic Jason Calacanis, reached out to our local TWIST Berlin crew to organize a special London vs Berlin episode. Sign-ups just opened up now. Apply here. On this upcoming edition of the show (scheduled...
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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put...
[shared via Google Reader from Thisisgoingtobebig.com]
I’ll bet you don’t know where the Center of NY’s Tech Community and Center of Creativity is.
Give up?
It’s in the Financial District—right at 55 Broad Street. It says so right on their website. In fact, it is “well-known internationally as the original home of New York’s technology...
“@danmartell: The dirty secret behind the incubator boom http://t.co/x3r3uVU9”
– from http://j.mp/InMvyM
“@hackernewsbot: Fixie.js - Automatic filler content for HTML documents…....”
– from http://j.mp/JV452f
“@evanrodgers: Kinect and DSLR; the Monte Cristo of visual art...”
– from http://j.mp/JTBmbc
April 2012
52 posts
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Telefónica set to launch Wayra accelerator in...
[shared via Google Reader from GigaOM]
Germany’s already stacking up incubators and accelerators these days, but a new one’s about to launch that comes with serious firepower: GigaOM has learned that Spain’s Telefónica will be opening up one of its Wayra academies in Munich later this year.
One of the world’s largest mobile operators, Telefónica is particularly big in Latin America, and...
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Microsoft invests $300 million in Barnes &...
[shared via Google Reader from paidContent]
A few months after Barnes & Noble announced it was looking to spin off its Nook business, Microsoft and B&N are forming a strategic partnership that combines Nook and the B&N college businesses into a new, still unnamed company (for now called Newco). Microsoft is making a $300 million investment in the new company “at a post-money...
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Startups make the web physical and programming...
[shared via Google Reader from GigaOM]
The web is fantastic when you’re on a web site or your mobile phone, but even if we’re not chained to our PC, we’re still stuck starting at a screen. Some startups and DIYers are trying to make it easier for us reach out and touch the web. They’re bringing the binary interactions of our digital lives into the real world. And this is awesome.
I’m...
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BenBuckman.net: Liberate your Drupal data for a...
[shared via Google Reader from drupal.org aggregator]
Drupal’s basic content unit is a “node,” and to build a single node (or to perform any other Drupal activity), the codebase has to be bootstrapped, and everything needed to respond to the request (configuration, database and cache connections, etc) has to be initialized and loaded into memory from scratch. Then node_load runs...
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McCann Invests $4M in Israeli Incubator ‘thetime’
[shared via Google Reader from TechCrunch]
With a $4M investment, McCann Worldgroup has bought a 15% stake in Israeli incubator ‘thetime‘.
This move isn’t a particularly surprising considering ‘thetime’ was founded by Ilan Shiloah, who for the past 10 years has been chairman of McCann Erickson Israel. ‘thetime’ was also co-founded by angel investor, Nir Tarlovsky. Uri Weinheber, previously of...
“@mtchl: Just saw a CNC router change its own tool head. I for one welcome our...”
– from http://j.mp/KdEWjl
“@thingiverse: THINGALERT Red Devil quadcopter: a new quadcopter build specialy...”
– from http://j.mp/IuCZtW
“@adafruit: Announcing the Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi...”
– from http://j.mp/I6VSEh
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Facebook Is Not A $100 Billion Company – Analyst
[shared via Google Reader from SAI]
Weeks ahead of its IPO, Facebook’s valuation on private markets is above $100 billion.
Capstone Investments analyst Rory Maher thinks that’s too high.
Here’s why:
Decelerating Revenue Growth. According to the recently filed S1 amendment, Facebook revenue grew 45% in 1Q12 versus 55% in 4Q11, 104% in 3Q11, and 108% in 2Q11. We...
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The Factory: Berlin’s new five-story incubator to...
[shared via Google Reader from VentureVillage]
News is that Berlin-based Angel and Seed Investor JMES Investments has partnered with s+p Real Estate to create a massive, five-story “factory” for Berlin’s finest startups. And SoundCloud will be the first to move in. 6wunderkinder’s also supposed to follow suit, one founder tells us. Though it’s still too soon to tell whether it’s going to be a...
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Profiling Node.js
[shared via Google Reader from node blog]
It’s incredibly easy to visualize where your Node program spends its time using DTrace and node-stackvis (a Node port of Brendan Gregg’s FlameGraph tool):
Run your Node.js program as usual.
In another terminal, run:
$ dtrace -o stacks.out -n 'profile-97/execname == "node" && arg1/{
@[jstack(100, 8000)] = count(); } tick-60s { exit(0); }'
...
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Cheap and easy linear supported rail
[shared via Google Reader from Hack a Day]
Some of the very largest – and coolest – CNC machines use supported linear rail for their movement axes. For any home tinkerer trying to reproduce these supported rails, the problem of cost comes up very quick; these rails can run over $100 for just a few feet. [Michael] came up with a great way to build his own supported rail so he can build his...
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Disruptive innovation — in education
[shared via Google Reader from KurzweilAI » News]
MITx 6002x —- Curcuits & Electronics (credit: MIT)
For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it. A decade ago, MIT broke ground with its OpenCourseWare initiative, which made MIT course materials, such as syllabi and lecture notes,...
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Trackers embedded in athlete’s apparel provide...
[shared via Google Reader from Springwise]
Devices that help athletes monitor their performance have been around for some time now and are starting to encompass a range of sports – we recently reported on the Swimtag wristband, which acts as a training aid for those heading to the pool. Taking the concept one step further, adidas is set to test its miCoach performance-tracking system on...
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Pathline: Connecting Designers With Scientists
[shared via Google Reader from Datavisualization.ch]
We recently attended an interdisciplinary visualization workshop that was all about creating a dialogue between scientists, technologists and designers. It was interesting to discuss the different ways in which these groups think about visualization and how they use it for different purposes. Very bluntly put, each group lacks something...
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Hedge Fund Manager Eviscerates Google, Says It's...
[shared via Google Reader from SAI]
Hedge fund manager Eric Jackson just eviscerated Google at Forbes.
He lays out everything that’s wrong with the company and says it will be less innovative because of its new stock structure.
The new stock structure gives Google’s founders more control over the company, preventing activist shareholders from coming in and influencing the...
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Creating a BOSH from scratch on AWS
[shared via Google Reader from Dr Nic]
A lot of devops projects revolve around managing instances/VMs once they already exist. For example, Chef and Puppet do configuration management of instances once the instances have been created. The “monitoring sucks” work is concerned with monitoring the contents/jobs/processes of instances and the instances themselves. Libraries such as fog and...
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If Apple Launched This Product, It Would Become A...
[shared via Google Reader from SAI]
Apple will become a trillion-dollar company based not on iPads and Apple TV, but payments. Imagine taking out your iPhone and instead of buying Angry Birds you bought the latest Groupon. Or one-click bought the latest object d’art at OneKingsLane or Fab on your iPad seconds after downloading and launching their app. Or you took out the awesome Hotel...
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MGM delivers 600 movies to YouTube and Google...
[shared via Google Reader from Engadget HD]
With Robocop currently in rotation on both Netflix and HBO Go, you’re probably wondering, “where else can I get my daily dose of media and cultural criticism delivered by a trigger happy law enforcement cyborg?” Well, YouTube and Google Play apparently. MGM has struck a deal with the folks in Mountain View to bring 600 of its...
“@Bopuc: @mjays nothing is fun. fun does not exist. etc… ;) hehehe”
– from http://j.mp/HzZv9R
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Getting 12 year olds to learn assembly programming
[shared via Google Reader from Hack a Day]
[notch], the mastermind behind Minecraft, is working on a new game. It’s called 0x10c (pronounced ‘trillek’, we think) and promises to teach an entire new generation the joys of assembly programming on a 1980s-era computer.
The setup for the game is nerdy/awesome enough to make [Douglas Adams] blush; a ‘deep sleep core’ was invented in 1988 that...
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Ford is ready for the autonomous car. Are drivers?
[shared via Google Reader from GigaOM]
The auto industry has already developed all the technology necessary to create truly autonomous vehicles, Ford engineers claim. The reasons there aren’t driverless cars all over the road today is in part a cost issue — the sensors and automated intelligence required aren’t cheap — but mainly one of driver mindset. Your typical commuter isn’t quite ready to...
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HP ups its cloud bet on OpenStack — and KVM
[shared via Google Reader from GigaOM]
Hewlett-Packard is putting more of its chips on OpenStack as a key foundation for its upcoming public, private and hybrid cloud implementations. It’s an important endorsement for OpenStack, the open-source cloud platform launched two years ago by Rackspace and NASA. HP’s also putting more weight behind the KVM hypervisor in what is seen as a swipe at...
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These Simple Charts Show Why Instagram Is Clearly...
[shared via Google Reader from SAI]
People are already starting to denounce Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram as an obvious ripoff that’s clearly sign of a bubble.
But we at BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s internet market research service, have been tracking Instagram for a while, (we called it the future of startups) and we think the price is fair. It...
