January 2011
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Quora Is Really About A Better Wikipedia, Not... →
Spot on. I couldn’t agree more and frankly surprised why Scoble treats Quora as another FriendFeed or Twitter like platform. From the beginning, I see Quora more as a Wikipedia like than the former; a place where we seek and contribute the best answers for the benefit of knowledge accumulations.
Quora isn’t a very good place for blogging. Because other people can edit or remove your stuff....
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Robert Scoble takes his Quora and goes home →
chipotle:
Robert Scoble, “Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service”:
I’ve seen a LOT of discussion about Quora in the past few weeks since I wrote it could be the biggest blogging innovation in the past decade. Turns out I was totally wrong. It’s a horrid service for blogging, where you want to put some personality into answers. It’s just fine for a QA site, but we already have lots...
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Buddha
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“Do not pursue the past
Do not lose yourself in the future
The past no longer...”
– Buddha
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“To understand greatness one must ignore the crowd.”
– Yao Lu Tzu
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“Develop the mind of equilibrium.
You will always be getting praise and blame,...”
– Buddha (Sutta Nipata)
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Egypt Leaves the Internet →
In this connected world, cutting off the Internet, is like shutting the country from the rest of the world, and effectively choking its economy and financial markets.
What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up.
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“Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and “tics” meaning...”
– Robin Williams
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“God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply...”
– Robin Williams
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“Point is, what’s so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a...”
– John Laroche (Adaptation)
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“Writing is a journey into the unknown, not building a model airplane.”
– Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation)
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delbius: →
delbius:
Ever wondered how, exactly, phishing works and what happens once an account is phished? While there’s any number of reasons why someone might try to gain access to someone’s email or Facebook account or Twitter account, the most common reason for bulk phishing attempts is simply to make money…
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GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data →
The House Republicans’ first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.
Looks like GOP is trying to push for a “Big Brother Initiatives” over the Internet. What we do in the Internet may no longer be private anymore.
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“As with real dating, both sides (political parties) have to get along or nothing...”
– Ed Rollins via CNN
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How The Internet Came To Be →
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Palin, I knew Reagan. You're no Reagan. →
Kudos to that:
If you want to be a player, go to school and learn the issues. Put smart people around you and listen to them. If you want to be taken seriously, be serious. You’ve already got your own forum. If you want to be a serious presidential candidate, get to work. If you want to be an imitator of Ronald Reagan, go learn something about him and respect his legacy. If you want to be...
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Credit Card Code Explained →
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“Exercise is king, nutrition is queen but together you have the entire kingdom”
– Jack LaLanne. May he rest in peace
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Will Supremes sit out State of the Union? →
On Supreme Court justices’ attendance of the State of the Union last year:
Of the five Republican-nominated justices, three attended last year: Roberts, Alito and Anthony Kennedy. The other two, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, skipped the event. Those five formed the majority in the campaign finance ruling, which freed corporations to spend money on political ads. Three of the...
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Does Viber collect our address book information? →
Talmon Marco, I run Viber Media
Yes, we collect names and phones (We do not collect emails, and any other information not needed to operate the Viber service). If you deactivate your Viber account (or do not use it for 30-45 days) the information is deleted in a few seconds/minutes. It is all kept in volatile memory (“RAM”). No backups are made and we pledge not to use this...
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Some crazy twitter conversation I caught today... →
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“My first thought when I heard Samantha say Harry might cheat on me with Erin...”
– Charlotte - Sex and the City 2
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The Internet is Running Out of Space. →
On February 2nd around 4 a.m., the Internet will run out of its current version of IP addresses.
And yet how many ISP is really doing something about it?
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“They said I was the fighter who got knocked down the most, but I also got up the...”
– Floyd Patterson
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“I welcome opposition. It can only strengthen one’s agenda.”
– Anna (V TV Series)
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“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world`s original sin.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Never underestimate the power of blind faith. It can manifest in ways that bend...”
– Sophie-Anne Leclerq, Vampire Queen of Louisiana (True Blood TV series)
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“Underpromising lets you overdeliver. Overpromising makes us insane and angry.”
– Unknown
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“I find the great things in this world, is not so much where we stand, as in what...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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“Life is unfair. We can’t choose the lots we are given in life, but we can...”
– John F. Kennedy
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“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work.”
– Thomas Edison
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“Having a computer without Internet connection is like having a body without...”
– Thomas Chai
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“Dinner, a time when one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well, but...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then...”
– Albert Einstein
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For Verizon, there is iPhone and there are... →
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What happen to your Facebook when you are dead? →
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“I cheated on my FEARS, broke up with my DOUBTS, got engaged with FAITH, and now...”
– via @FactsAboutBoys
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you...”
– Mark Twain
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SMS (Tweeting) + Driving = Death →
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SMS (Tweeting) + Driving = Death →
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you...”
– Mark Twain
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My Social Media Ten Commandments →
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My Social Media Ten Commandments →
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Apple's CEO will leave the company →
Farhad Manjoo:-
The tech world, today, looks more or less exactly like what Steve Jobs has always said the tech world should look like, and Apple is one of the most valuable companies in that universe. What more is there left for Jobs to do?
I still remember the famous Job’s quote, “I want to put a ding in the Universe”. Whether you agree with him or not, Job has successfully...
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Apple's CEO will leave the company →
Farhad Manjoo:-
The tech world, today, looks more or less exactly like what Steve Jobs has always said the tech world should look like, and Apple is one of the most valuable companies in that universe. What more is there left for Jobs to do?
I still remember the famous Job’s quote, “I want to put a ding in the Universe”. Whether you agree with him or not, Job has successfully...