November 2010
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Nov 30th
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Creativity at Pixar →
“His belief is rooted in a misguided view of creativity that exaggerates the importance of the initial idea in creating an original product.” Nice post by the Pixar chief with one clear point on creativity. Check it out.
Nov 29th
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Incorrect photo orientation on Flickr →
“Previous to iOS4 the iPhone used the CPU to orient the picture before saving it so that a rotation was not needed on the viewing end. This rotation is CPU intensive and was one of the reasons for the long save times on iPhone cameras. Modern cameras (Canon, Nikon, etc.) do not do this, they save the image in their native format and set the rotation flag based upon how the image should be...
Nov 28th
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Life inside Facebook: how head of developers... →
Facebook, again. But this is great stuff. Lots of great management ideas in here.
Nov 24th
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Nov 19th
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“My daughter came home from college on thursday night and showed me all of her...”
– Self expression matters
Nov 14th
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Google versus Facebook →
Required reading for everyone interested in the long term strategy of these two giants. They are going head on.
Nov 14th
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“If you think you have something super secret that no one else should know, just...”
– A foreign entrepreneur wanted my advice on how to enter the Dutch market with their idea and asked me to sign an NDA in order to be fully open. Which I am not going to do. Brad Feld sums up the arguments nicely, and although I’m not a VC they still hold up: Why Most VC’s Don’t Sign NDAs
Nov 12th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 9th
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Facebook Deals: Tracking Clicks To Bricks
Just the type of benefits dedicated location apps such as Foursquare and Gowalla are currently lacking. I am not sure if a major argument for using Foursquare/Gowalla versus Facebook for location, that is “I don’t want to share location with all my friends on FB, just a few”, will hold up if all these businesses with great offers flock to FB. I am betting FB here. joelaz: ...
Nov 5th
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Nov 5th
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Beste Raymond →
[Dutch only] Within 24 hours after Hyves sold itself to Telegraaf Media Groep these entrepreneurs pitched their idea to Hyves founder Raimond. In a very creative way. Cool idea BTW.
Nov 2nd
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“Instead of “vision,” how about “pretty good idea of where we...”
– Tom Peters on Twitter. Love this. BTW be sure to check out his Tweet-thread around this time. Hilarious rant on Vision.
Nov 1st
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WatchWatch
[Dutch only]. Groot verlies. Maar wat heeft deze man een prachtige nalatenschap! dutchproblogger: Mooi item van de NOS over het leven van Mulisch.
Nov 1st