Jason Calacanis on Internet Pollution

Brilliant.

Now, that’s progress

The IE team announces that IE8 passes the Acid2 test.  Nice.

There is no bubble!


One Pageview is Worth 10 Grains of Rice

FreeRice is a brilliant way of harvesting “dead time” on the web. Instead of playing Desktop Tower Defense or clubbing a penguin 300 yards, you can improve your vocabulary and “donate” free rice to the world’s poor.
The idea is simple enough: for each right answer (read: one pageview in the online economic model) the […]

The Original 24 Pilot

From 1994!

History in Motion

In just under six hours, a army of automobiles will descend upon Victorville, California to race across a 60 mile urban course. Not for the filming of another “Fast and the Furious” flick, or an impromptu rally race, but something a little more historic: in this competition, the contestants have more in […]

Cordoba Weblogs “Evento”

Last night a bunch of bloggers here in Cordoba, Argentina got together to drink beer, eat pizza, and talk about technology (among other topics).
Tons of fun.
Saludos en particular a Pablo (que buen marketing de tu blog!), Nicolas (vamos con la fuerza Mac), Daniel (sí, soy una masa…y humilde!), and Diego (que maestro de CakePHP).
Special thanks […]

Facebook is NOT worth $15 Billion

I know everybody is throwing around this insane figure of Facebook being worth $15 billion.  It is not true.
Nick Carr gets it right:
Welcome to Fantasy Island.
Extrapolating Facebook’s true worth from Microsoft’s investment is a ridiculous exercise, for two main reasons. First, the investment is part of a broader deal, the details of which are unknown.

Second, […]

What a bargain: $9,250 per song

If this isn’t evidence that copyright law is dangerously out-of-whack here in the United States:
Thomas, an employee of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, an Indian tribe, was ordered to pay a 9,250-dollar fine for each of 24 shared songs cited in the case, including Godsmack’s “Spiral,” Destiny’s Child’s “Bills, Bills, Bills” and Sara McLachlan’s […]

Why I’m buying a Mac Mini…

I’m with Chris Pirillo on this 100%…
The power of the PC is that it can support a billion different configurations, but some of us are at the point in our lives where we only need one config to work. I’ve come to this realization, and I don’t find it sad at all - I find […]