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Month: May, 2009

Daily Links #67

The $160B given to AIG — a visual representation John Carmack and the Wizardry of Id Jude Gomila: Mapping Out Your Web Startup Beautiful Parallelism: Harnessing Multicores with Haskell (pdf) From OCaml to Javascript at Skydeck Joseph Smarr: The Social Web - An Implementer’s Guide Gabor Cselle Business opportunities around Google Waves

Daily Links #66

Google Wave Federation Architecture & wave developer preview video from Google IO 2009 Michael Janke: Hardware is Expensive, Programmers are Cheap The Hedge Fund 100 (pdf)

Daily Links #65

Dan Liebgold of Naughty Dog: Adventures in Data Compilation Benjamin Joffe: New business models in online communities Vint Cerf Nanog keynote: Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century (PDF) Bain/IAB Digital Pricing Research IAB: Ad Load Performance Best Practices

Daily Links #64

Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s (formerly of facebook) new company, Alma Networks The protocols powering the real-time web Buster McLeod: Kinds of attention Derek Sivers: My $3.3M mistake

Daily Links #63

Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (pdf) Michael Lewis: The Master of Money – An interesting review of The Snowball, book detailing the life of Warren Buffett Heavyweights (Ferguson, Krugman, Roubini, Soros, et al.) discuss The Crisis and How to Deal with It In-N-Out Burger’s six secrets for out-and-out success. AideRSS: Taming [...]

Daily Links #62

Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability The Moby Scheme Compiler for Smartphones : (Is That a Parenthesis in Your Pocket?) Web App Autopsy: Wufoo, Feedburner, BlinkSale, RegOnline Brian Fling: Getting Started with the Mobile Web Brian Fling: Everything you always wanted to know about the mobile web But were afraid to ask

Daily Links #61

Interesting Presentations from the 2009 Streaming Media East & Content Delivery Summit – Dan Rayburn: CDN Research Data: Market Sizing and Pricing Trends – Jeff Cohen: Meeting Microsoft’s Content Delivery Needs – Jan Ozer – Streaming Production: Improving your video quality – Lisa Larson-Kelly: Developing a Rich Video player for the Flash platform – Jan [...]

Daily Links #60

Timeline of a Car Crash Essay by the current #1 team in the Netflix Prize: The Million Dollar Programming Prize Fascinating exchange of emails between Bill Simmons & Malcolm Gladwell. – First exchange in 2006 – Ultimate rematch in 2009

Daily Links #59

Dave Patterson: The Parallel Revolution has started Sawtooth Software: Understanding Conjoint Analysis in 15 minutes Presentations from Percona Performance Conference 2009, mostly has to do with MySQL – Gil Hildebrand: Amazon Cloud Recipes – Jan Lehnardt: Apache CouchDB In 20 Minutes – Bradley C. Kuszmaul: Covering Indexes: Orders-of-Magnitude Improvements – Ronald Bradford: The Ideal Performance [...]

Daily Links #58

Malcolm Gladwell: How David beats Goliath The secret of Google’s book scanning machine revealed Jim Gray & Prashant Shenoy: Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering (pdf/march 2000) Analysis of Netflix’s security framework for ‘Watch Instantly’ service

Daily Links #57

Kevin Kelly: 1,000 True Fans Intentional Software presentation (pdf) The Quest for Computable Knowledge — A Short Timeline (pdf) Good explanation of Bayes theorem Reg Braithwaite’s fantastic essay on Optimism, based on Martin Seligman’s book, Learned Optimism Danny Sullivan: Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine” Updated slides & commentary from Eric Ries on Customer Development