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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
Sergey Brin: A Library to Last Forever Jonah Lehrer: The Neuroscience of McGriddles Site Explorer from Yahoo Steve Blank: Get Out of My Building
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 [...]
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
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 [...]