Archive for July, 2009

Daily Links #78

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Is this the future of monetizing user-generated video on youtube? It all started because of this video. Thank you Jill & Keith!

Light and matter united: Slowing down Light.

Dan Olsen: Early Stage Web Product Management

Daily Links #77

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

WSJ: How to Sell a $35,000 Watch in a Recession

The 500 millisecond advantage

Rich Skrenta: Genesis & History of the Open Directory Project (ppt)

Daily Links #76

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Twitter Network Analysis” of my twitter account by Gabriel Weinberg

Interesting presentations from Velocity 2009 (all files pdf/ppt)
- Douglas Crockford: Ajax Performance
- Mike Brittain: Getting to Second Base With Your CDN
- Bryan McQuade & Richard Rabbat: Page Speed
- John Allspaw & Paul Hammond: 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr

Daily Links #75

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Michael Lewis on A.I.G.F.P.: The Man Who Crashed the World

FLowing data: Rise of the Data Scientist

Adam Jacobs: The Pathologies of Big Data

Daily Links #74

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard

Eric Ries: How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Interesting presentations from the NOSQL conference. (all link pdf)
- Todd Lipcon of Cloudera: Design Patterns for Distributed Non-Relational Databases
- Avinash Lakshman & Prashant Malik of Facebook: Cassandra – Structured Storage System over a P2P Network
- Ryan Rawson of Stumble Upon: HBase
- Jay Kreps of LinkedIn: Project Voldemort