Archive for October, 2009

Daily Links #117

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Tina Seelig: If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible?

Tim Berners-Lee: Linked Data

Bill Gurley: Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model

Garbage Time All-Stars is back with a bang

Videos from Startup School 2009

Daily Links #116

Friday, October 30th, 2009

John Resig: Google Groups is Dead

Jason Fried: Making money takes practice like playing the piano takes practice

Engineers use song-annotating algorithms to study music playlists

Dare Obasanjo: Mike Shroepfer on Engineering at Scale at Facebook

Steepster Blog: Brewing a Better Rating System

Don’t invest in the familiar

Markov Text Analysis for Fun and Profit

Daily Links #115

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Paul Graham: What Startups Are Really Like, Hacker News discussion

Inside the App Economy

Kevin Rose: Taking your Site from One to One Million Users

Search vs. Recommendations, or Authoritative and Related Sources in a Graph

WOW! Korea’s Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture

Ben Tilly: What are financial derivatives?

Daily Links #114

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Tom Preston-Werner: How We Made GitHub Fast

Jeff Dean: Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large
Distributed Systems.
Excellent info in Jeff’s talk. Some notes from James Hamilton on the talk.

Raghu Ramakrishnan: Data Serving in the Cloud

Daily Links #113

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Bill Yeager: Interview with the inventor of the router.

Philip Greenspun: Software Design Review & Online Community Integration

Directed Edge: Introduction to Recommendations and On Building a Stupidly Fast Graph Database

Evan Miller: How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Daily Links #112

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Alexis Ohanian, reddit cofounder: Serendipity in startup life & why it pays to be good

Malcolm Gladwell: How different are dogfighting and football?

Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops

Wayne Crosby of Zenter – interview

Daily Links #111

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies Interview from Nov 2000.

Dennis Forbes: The Underappreciated Art of Duct Tape Programming

Rich Skrenta: Early adopter pilotfish

John Allspaw: More Meta-Metrics

Jeff Yass of Susquehanna International: Beating the Odds

Daily Links #110

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Sergey Brin: A Library to Last Forever

Jonah Lehrer: The Neuroscience of McGriddles

Site Explorer from Yahoo

Steve Blank: Get Out of My Building

Daily Links #109

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

John Markoff: Advertise on NYTimes.com Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler Has Consequences

RethinkDB: Rethinking B-tree block sizes on SSDs

Charles Davi: How Do Bubbles Create and Kill Jobs?

Rajesh Jain: Five coming disruptions for the Mobile Industry

How much does Spotify cost to run? We analyse the numbers

Whitney Tilson’s podcast about Charlie Munger, and Q&A

Mint CEO, Aaron Patzer on Startups

Daily Links #108

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Peter Saint-Andre: Jabber, the Real-Time Internet, and You (pdf)

Steve Vinoski: RESTful Web Services Development Checklist (pdf)

Chris Wensel: Perpetual Content Mining

Mark Fletcher: Lessons Learned Birthing and Building Web Start­Ups

Gordon Bell: The Eleven Rules of Supercomputer Design

Robert J. Moore: Twitter Data Analysis

Daily Links #107

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Interesting websites/startups:
- Goby: Amazing search engine that helps you answer What would you like to do?
- Rate Expectations: Was the movie worse than the trailer? This site has the answer

William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind (Video)

Scott Wheeler of Directed Edge: On Applying to Y Combinator

SKMurphy: Startup Maturity Checklist.

Gabriel Weinberg: What Google Can’t Copy (Easily)

Eric Ries: Evangelizing for the Lean Startup (aud/vid)

Robin Li of Baidu: The Evolution of The Globe’s Largest Search Engine

Stanislav Shalunov: Will P2P change storage? (pdf)