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Piximilar - Idée Inc. - The Visual Search...
Dec 1st
“But there’s also the Upton Sinclair theorem: It is difficult...”
— The greatness of Keynes … -...
Dec 1st
“It’s the data, not the interface! Let other people use...”
— Why I Love Twitter -...
Nov 30th
I stayed at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai in 1995. Can’t believe the abuse it has just taken not to...
Nov 29th
“Analog and digital, it turns out, are polar opposites....”
— Trading Analog Dollars For...
Nov 29th
“I once asked a Muslim man living in a shack without indoor...”
— Op-Ed Contributor - What They...
Nov 29th
“While the housing bubble was still inflating, lenders were...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Lest We...
Nov 28th
“A few months ago I found myself at a meeting of economists...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Lest We...
Nov 28th
The http://amazon.com/xo commercial is very cute. “Thank you … you have changed my...
Nov 28th
“If the Nasdaq is the new Dow, and it sure seems like it is...”
— Is The Nasdaq The New Dow?
Nov 27th
Retweeting @Jamesbedell: #Mumbai the Indian government is asking for all live tweets from Mumbai be...
Nov 27th
Using Get Satisfaction http://getsatisfaction.com and like it.
Nov 27th
Retweeting @Jamesbedell: #Mumbai we are seeing the convergance if MSM coverage and citizen...
Nov 27th
http://twitter.com/mumbaiupdates
Nov 27th
Retweeting @mumbaiupdates: Taj gunshots — CLEAR GUNSHOTS - beginning of military encounter...
Nov 27th
“This is a nightmare, which will pass away with the morning....”
— The Great Slump - Paul Krugman...
Nov 26th
“So, for example, most of my newspapers do not have a...”
— Sam Zell Talks with Joanne...
Nov 26th
“By end of 2010 we will be well out of the woods and we will...”
— A Growth Story
Nov 26th
“I used to say our kids will pay dearly for this. But...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - All Fall...
Nov 26th
O-Media
Nov 26th
Man, I just added Disqus to my Visualforce page so that people can comment on what’s there. It...
Nov 26th
just loved the peptides - Jealous Guy (John Lennon cover) http://hypem.com/track/689736
Nov 26th
“Home prices across the United States declined 16.6 percent...”
— Outlook Grows More Dire for...
Nov 25th
$800B … these numbers are wow-worthy. http://snipurl.com/6t5gj
Nov 25th
A Spherical Core
Nov 25th
I would not like to see Twitter be acquired by Facebook, although I understand why it’s being...
Nov 25th
Warch Watch
Eric Schmidt on policy priorities for 2009 (via Google)
Nov 24th
“The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age,” NYTimes, July 15, 2007...
Nov 24th
Daily Show: Pirates! http://snipurl.com/6jlem
Nov 24th
“Bigness of purpose is what separates 20th century and 21st...”
— Obama’s Seven Lessons...
Nov 23rd
“Rather, Obama’s campaign took a scalpel to strategy -...”
— Obama’s Seven Lessons...
Nov 23rd
“Obama’s organization was less tall or flat than...”
— Obama’s Seven Lessons...
Nov 23rd
“The problem is that when looking at the value stack, it...”
— Information Arbitrage:...
Nov 23rd
“At my company, we’re starting to redefine ourselves from...”
— The Screens Issue -...
Nov 23rd
“Take Vans, for instance. They do all sorts of special...”
— The Screens Issue -...
Nov 23rd
“There’s no such thing as must-see TV. Everyone’s composing...”
— The Screens Issue -...
Nov 23rd
“I am an optimist, I guess you have to be one to be in my...”
— A Lost Decade - But Not For...
Nov 23rd
The Way We Live Now: The Screening of America
Nov 23rd
mypictr - we make your profile picture
Nov 23rd
“This is the real “Code Red.” As one banker remarked to me:...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - We Found the...
Nov 23rd
“I’ve been coming to Pakistan for 26 years, ever since I hid...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - The Pakistan...
Nov 23rd
Multiscreen Mad Men: http://snipurl.com/6ftgp
Nov 23rd
I’m so impressed with how Obama and his team are using change.gov. It’s informative,...
Nov 23rd
In the 1820s, New Yorkers used an avg of 12 gal/day. In the 1980s it was 200 gal/day....
Nov 23rd
“Seriously, isn’t it amazing just how impressive the people...”
— The grownups are coming - Paul...
Nov 22nd
“In the 1820s, New Yorkers used an average of 12 gallons of...”
— An Effort by Deep-Sea Divers...
Nov 22nd
On the matter of Berkshire stock plummeting, Buffett says: “It doesn’t matter.”...
Nov 22nd
“If you don’t have a willingness to be misunderstood for a long period of time, then you...
Nov 22nd
Warch Watch
Pray the Devil Back to Hell Theatrical Trailer (via PeaceIsLoud)
Nov 22nd
via upload.wikimedia.org
Nov 22nd
MODE
Nov 22nd
“But after a year of gaping losses and an accelerating...”
— Citigroup, Under Siege, Holds...
Nov 22nd
“Several bankruptcy lawyers I spoke to all made the same...”
— Talking Business - Road Ahead...
Nov 22nd
“We put in the infrastructure, and the big carmakers make the...”
— SF Bay leaders plan $1B for...
Nov 22nd
“The events of the past two weeks should be reassuring to...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - The...
Nov 21st
“We’re creating a planet that is covered with...”
— Making Computers Based on the...
Nov 21st
“Today’s computers are essentially really fast...”
— Making Computers Based on the...
Nov 21st
“I am pining for a new regulatory regime. One that values...”
— Getting A Piece Of My Action
Nov 21st
“We’d end up with a rational number of “car...”
— Seth’s Blog: What to do...
Nov 21st
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have...”
— A design and usability blog:...
Nov 21st
Salesforce.com revenue up: http://snipurl.com/65gx1
Nov 21st
“Traditionally, recessions have been caused by the Federal...”
— High and Low Finance - Looking...
Nov 21st
“At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing...”
— Salesforce bucks trend for Q3;...
Nov 21st
iphone_ftscreenshot-be6259db5cbfef1a275c5f8ed37f485d.png -...
Nov 21st
“Don’t panic about the stock market Panic about the credit...”
— Don’t panic about the stock...
Nov 21st
“With Thursday’s rout, $8.3 trillion in stock market wealth...”
— Stocks Drop Sharply and Credit...
Nov 21st
Retweeting @bpcommunity: BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Better Place and California are bringing electric...
Nov 21st
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Nov 20th
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Nov 20th
“…if we are even talking about Berkshire Hathaway being...”
— Information Arbitrage: Why...
Nov 20th
And what’s true for Visualforce is true for Sites - i.e., CRM-related apps on the Web.
Nov 20th
The cool thing abt Salesforce.com’s Visualforce is that it gives back in spades. With two...
Nov 20th
I wonder what is the underlying cause of the Somalli pirates and their new boldness? Water?
Nov 19th
“Put these two trends together, and we can imagine the future...”
— Voice in Google Mobile App: A...
Nov 19th
“Lenders to a company trying to reorganize under Chapter 11...”
— Corporate Bankruptcy Is a...
Nov 19th
“Cost reduction alone is necessary but not sufficient....”
— Edge Perspectives with John...
Nov 18th
Bill Clinton gets over $150K per keynote. http://snipurl.com/5qm0o
Nov 18th
California wildfires (yet again) - The Big Picture -...
Nov 18th
Created my first Visualforce page for Sites. The dopamine flows.
Nov 18th
How to help victims of the SoCal fires: http://snipurl.com/5qclq
Nov 18th
It’s riveting to see your Salesforce.com (developer) account start to take shape on the live...
Nov 18th
“For the coming year, and probably well beyond, the economy...”
— After the stimulus - Paul...
Nov 18th
“Think of standard controllers as specifying a context in...”
— Force.com Tutorial: An...
Nov 18th
“But I plead guilty to Kamla’s charge: I think about...”
— Daddy, Where’s Your...
Nov 17th
“What do you mean, where’s my phone?” She...”
— Daddy, Where’s Your...
Nov 17th
“Josh Kopelman wrote a great post on this a while back called...”
— iPhone Apps Aren’t iPod...
Nov 17th
“But Maoz very astutely (IMHO) also picked up on the larger...”
— Force.com Platform - for the...
Nov 17th
Portland’s Clinton Condominiums
Nov 17th
Website for kids and parents, Help Kids Help...
Nov 17th
“Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade they’ll never sit.”...
Nov 16th
“No one needs advertising, and there are much better ways to...”
— Online advertising is now dead...
Nov 14th
“We are already, however, well into the realm of what I call...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Depression...
Nov 14th
“I’d never taken an accounting course, never run a business,...”
— The End of Wall Street’s...
Nov 14th
“Good entrepreneurs are crafty and will figure out how to...”
— A Slightly Different...
Nov 13th
The real Iceland is “gorgeous, unpredictable, and a force of nature.” Bjork
Nov 13th
“I would add other conditions: Any car company that gets...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - How to Fix a...
Nov 12th
Caltrain is turning some bikers away - too many bikes on the racks. That’s wrong.
Nov 11th
Warch Watch
Nov 11th
Setting-up Salesforce.com’s customer portal for a client so we can put green audits of houses...
Nov 11th
Retweeting @timoreilly: RT @gnat:”The problem with capitalism is that for the last decade it...
Nov 11th
Fannie Mae expects a 32% “peak-to-trough” decline in house prices, although states like...
Nov 11th
The New York Times > US > Image >
Nov 11th
John Doerr mentioned http://cooliris.com at Web2. They’re “thinking beyond the...
Nov 10th
Spot.us - Home
Nov 10th
“Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama’s new chief of staff, has declared...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Franklin...
Nov 10th
“The shared bicycles in Barcelona, Lyon and Paris are heavily...”
— Memo From Barcelona - Europe’s...
Nov 10th
“The new systems are successful in part because they blanket...”
— Memo From Barcelona - Europe’s...
Nov 10th
“Approximately 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the...”
— Op-Ed Contributor - The...
Nov 10th
“New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines can be designed...”
— Op-Ed Contributor - The...
Nov 10th
“As Abraham Lincoln said during America’s darkest hour, “The...”
— Op-Ed Contributor - The...
Nov 10th
“Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to...”
— Op-Ed Contributor - The...
Nov 10th
Nicholas Kristof says one-fifth of Americans believe the sun orbits the Earth. Hard to fathom....
Nov 10th
Be sure to check out http://change.govwhere you can grab the feed and the posts are starting to...
Nov 9th
What’s different about the time we live in is that each person hss to develop themselves...
Nov 9th
Helvetica
Nov 9th
“As I’ve said before, my vision for social media is...”
— Zuckerberg’s...
Nov 9th
Our Work - Federated Media Publishing
Nov 9th
“A black president in the White House?” he said. “In those...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Take a Bow,...
Nov 9th
“Energy Trust of Oregon, Inc., began operation in March 2002,...”
— Who We Are
Nov 8th
“The Google calculations, which we announced about a month...”
— Saturday Interview - Google at...
Nov 8th
“The nation needs to build “an electronet,” a unified...”
— Al Gore on Finding a Real...
Nov 8th
Listen Listen
First Obama Press Conference, Nov 7, 2008
Nov 8th
The US graduates 30,000 engineers a year and India graduates 300,000. That’s from John Doerr....
Nov 7th
OpenX: Take control of your advertising |...
Nov 7th
“Congested highways cost $78 billion a year in squandered...”
— I.B.M.’s Chief Sees Technology...
Nov 7th
“We are witnessing a fundamental reassessment of the value of...”
— Calculated Risk: Fed’s...
Nov 7th
“First, Barack Obama wanted to know whom Mr. Doerr would...”
— John Doerr’s Advice for Barack...
Nov 6th
“We ain’t what ought to be, and we ain’t what we want to be...”
— Your comments on Obama’s...
Nov 6th
Mina Javid Photography
Nov 5th
“By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the...”
— Official Google Blog: A vote...
Nov 5th
“On the economic front, a slowdown is forcing businesses to...”
— Dell at Dreamforce: Brave the...
Nov 5th
“By 2011, the amount of data being transmitted is expected to...”
— Dell at Dreamforce: Brave the...
Nov 5th
Just picked up a Naked Superfood shake for the train ride home to celebrate.
Nov 5th
“This idea of driving the network deeper and deeper into our...”
— O’Brien: Web 2.0 dead?...
Nov 5th
“It’s about the idea that the platform for our...”
— O’Brien: Web 2.0 dead?...
Nov 5th
I’m having a Twitter Election 08 “ah ha” moment watching election results come in....
Nov 5th
I totally want Obama to take FL as a symbolic victory.
Nov 5th
What I love abt Twitter’s Election 08 app is that you get info from everywhere - every state,...
Nov 5th
My good friend who has been volunteering for Obama in Colorado for five weeks just sent me a text...
Nov 5th
For the record, I’m rivited by the election results - all tubes - and not a TV in sight.
Nov 5th
Watching the streaming tweets on Twitter’s Election 08 app. Quite fascinating … and...
Nov 5th
Electoral votes - Obama: 3 / McCain: 0. Phew, long way to go. :)
Nov 5th
NPR calls Ohip for Obama, now I can believe. Before it was just Fox. Anyone have the latest on FL?
Nov 5th
I gushed earlier at nytimes.com interactivity for the election, but it’s almost worthless for...
Nov 5th
Retweeting @garzag: CNN’s John King, “I can’t get him [McCain] to 270.”
Nov 5th
Retweeting @dickc: PA & NH, it’s over. Who knew winning was so fun! We WIN! Sorry about...
Nov 5th
1M people in Chicago waiting for an Obama speech, if he wins? I don’t know if that’s...
Nov 5th
Just got a text message from Obama campaign saying “our time is now” get your friends to...
Nov 5th
Obama’s grandmother’s ballot will apparently be counted. Very sweet.
Nov 5th
“* Sites is a big breakthrough, but different from the Apex...”
— gokubi.com » Blog...
Nov 5th
“This is a major breakthough for Salesforce.com on one of...”
— gokubi.com » Blog...
Nov 5th
“80 percent of Internet ad space goes unsold.”
— Voting With Dollars: Online Ad...
Nov 5th
“The average American now sends 357 text messages each month.”
— Voting With Dollars: Online Ad...
Nov 5th
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau, he said, reported first...”
— Voting With Dollars: Online Ad...
Nov 5th
“Thus, global growth – at market prices – will be close to...”
— RGE - The Rising Risk of a...
Nov 5th
Anyone care about waste and how to profit from it? http://snipurl.com/5402a
Nov 5th
“For example, I’ve often told the tale of how General...”
— Joel Makower: Two Steps...
Nov 4th
The VP of Engineering at Amazon, Charlie Bell, called Dreamforce 08 “the Woodstock of cloud...
Nov 4th
Finally, Voters Go to the Polls - The New York Times >...
Nov 4th
“It was a profound leap forward technologically,” Mr. Schmidt...”
— The ’08 Campaign - Sea Change...
Nov 4th
“When I compare our high schools with what I see when I’m...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Beyond...
Nov 4th
“So what are they saying on the eve of the 2008 election? Not...”
— Internet Market Predictions -...
Nov 4th
Nau: The Thought Kitchen
Nov 4th
“As a marketer, choosing only one is not the answer; not only...”
— Where is your attention...
Nov 3rd
“With Force.com Sites, you can now create public websites and...”
— Sites - developer.force.com
Nov 3rd
“With the community in mind, we’re please to introduce...”
— Google Code Blog: Introducing...
Nov 3rd
“Treasury and banking regulators say as many as 1,800...”
— Calculated Risk: Long Line...
Nov 3rd
“The three biggest expenses of most endeavors (the energy to...”
— Seth’s Blog: The...
Nov 3rd
Free Online Course Materials | MIT...
Nov 3rd
(via pile)
Nov 3rd
Warch Watch
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Nov 3rd
“We all have to start participating and engaging in educating...”
— Hacking Education
Nov 3rd
“Athletes often choose times of stress to mount attacks:...”
— For Leaders, Recession Is the...
Nov 2nd
A2B, Ultra Motor
Nov 1st
“The big question is whether a weak economy will push CFOs...”
— Cloud computing: Will the...
Nov 1st