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Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...

May 4 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an unconventional strategy? He went back and re-analyzed his data. In those cases, David’s winning percentage went from 28.5 to 63.6. When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded, “even when everything we think we know about power says they shouldn’t.”" - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Wow, interesting. Also: is that a record for colons in an web page title? - Ted Roden

Entertaining Gladwell Blink-like piece. If the little guy is creative he has a better chance of winning, I agree. But this works only if the big guy won't adapt. So all you big guys out there: get a move on! :-) - Daniel Dulitz

I think it's emblematic of game-changing startups. What's fascinating to me is how long a company can hold on to that "work immensely hard and break all the rules phase." What impressed me about Microsoft is that they did it for a full 15 or so years (between 1985 and 2000 when the Anti-Trust suit went on). I wonder if there are any companies that regularly exceed that. - Piaw Na

Piaw, drug cartels have adapted successfully over long periods of time. - Todd Hoff

"Why, then, did weak teams play in a way that made it easy for good teams to do the very things that made them so good?" - Because a good team can easily break the full court pressure of a poor team which leaves the basket open for an easy score. Concentrating your players in a coordinated team defense is a better strategy. They probably won because they used a novel strategy teams hadn't prepared for. Since this is an iterative game teams will adjust next year. - Todd Hoff

Todd++ The article gravely understates the faults of the full court press. As well, top college teams don't use it because _they have to recruit star players who want to go to the NBA_. And they don't use it in the NBA because you can't use a gimmick defense in the league and not get beat in the playoffs (edit: because the playoffs are seven game series each, so teams can adjust). So a college team won't get star players if they're all about the press. - Andrew C

is this another case of the insiders nay-saying the unconventional strategy? so what is your take-away from this entire article? - Serge

Serge, Gladwell covered some of this territory before in Blink when he wrote about the Red Team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) trouncing the conventional military in a war game simulation. So breaking the rules as a means of success is well established. Hannibal's campaigns against Rome and a million others have show this. One interesting question is why do people so... more... - Todd Hoff

"So breaking the rules as a means of success is well established" - see also Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru! (sorry, but someone had to do it.) Serge, my take-away is that not enough teams in that league devoted enough time to learning how to break a full court press. It's just a matter of inbounding and passing. Once broken, the defending team is badly out of position to defend a basket... more... - Andrew C

And the league doesn't spend time training for it because there's not enough payback for doing so.. .Until someone does it and wins. :-) - Piaw Na

Sure. I guess my problem with this basketball example is that it's not quite like the wargame example, where the computer program found dominant strategies for a game with underspecified rules. (Since the real point of the wargames was to produce viable real-world strategies.) Here, the coach was exploiting a temporary flaw (inability to beat the press), but it's presented as on par with discovering that, say, the wargame's rules favoured immobile but heavily armed ships. - Andrew C

Jeremy Zawodny

Impossible, brilliant - http://gargantuaandpantagruel....

March 19 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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"Erik Johansson, a young talented artist from Sweden, creates remarkable images by digitally modifying photographs that he takes himself. Here's a selection of his very impressive photo manipulations." - Jeremy Zawodny

Sol Young

The World's Largest MMORPG: You're Playing it Right Now - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...

March 16 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Paul Buchheit

Wolfram Blog : Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming! - http://blog.wolfram.com/2009...

March 5 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Some might say that Mathematica and A New Kind of Science are ambitious projects. But in recent years I’ve been hard at work on a still more ambitious project—called Wolfram|Alpha. ... It’s going to be a website: www.wolframalpha.com. With one simple input field that gives access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms. We’re all working very hard right now to get Wolfram|Alpha ready to go live. I think it’s going to be pretty exciting. A new paradigm for using computers and the web. That almost gets us to what people thought computers would be able to do 50 years ago!" - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Wow, this is exciting! Sounds like what I've been trying to do with Timepedia (a crawler using heuristics to auto-extract timeseries and statistical data from the web and stick it in a wiki for curation) but much more gradiose. Like hooking up Mathematica and MathWorld with Google Palimpsest, now add in Obama's data.gov to that! - Ray Cromwell

I wonder what it will be. Ray's interpretation sounds like it's in roughly the right galaxy. Any other guesses? - j1m

Sounds more like TrueKnowledge: http://www.trueknowledge.com/ to me - Adewale Oshineye

Einstein, DaVinci and Copernicus would have gone nuts for this! - Susan Beebe

Michael Hyatt

Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews the Amazon Kindle 2.0: http://online.wsj.com/article... #TOC

February 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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atul abraham

google has indexed 7 million of approximately 100 million known books #toc - http://twitter.com/mkirsch...

February 10 from #toc - Twitter Search - Comment - Like - Share

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Steve Rubel

Amazon is working to put the Kindle books on mobile phones - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...

February 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Oh, you mean like how Google just did with over 1 million titles? - AJ Kohn

Don't know if it's really a new effort to make E-books available for mobiles or more a renewed effort, see Amazon Company MobiPocket http://www.mobipocket.com - LonelyBob from twhirl

Social Media: Steve Cornelius

The Twitter Experiment - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

January 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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John Resig

Last night @brandonaaron released a jQuery API browser for the iPhone: http://brandonaaron.net/iphone... puts the api in a local sqlite db. Neat!

January 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Rob Diana

FriendFeed Emerges as Potential Competitor to Twitter and Facebook News Feeds - http://bub.blicio.us/friendf...

January 28 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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tech news:twitter & ff - Igor Poltavskiy

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Sun-Times Media Group to Close 12 Chicago Weekly Newspapers - http://www.inquisitr.com/14886...

January 9, 2009 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

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This is getting crazy. I have a feeling that there is going to be some big papers dropping this quarter. - Rob Diana

The entire newspaper industry is facing collapse -- it lacks a sustainable business model. The Internet pulled the rug out from under it. - Sean McBride

Seattle PI just announced officially they are up for sale, if not then an on line only paper. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Jeremy Zawodny

CES 2009: New SanDisk SSD G3 is as fast as a 40,000rpm HDD - http://www.i4u.com/article...

January 9, 2009 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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WANT! - Jeremy Zawodny

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Wow, the prices aren't bad either. It certainly beats my USB-drive RAID (which sucked preformance wise, but was otherwise fun). - John μller

Interesting to use rpms instead of iops. - Todd Hoff

todd: You mean interesting that the entire industry talks about 5400 / 7200 / 10K rpm drives vs iops or that SanDisk is choosing to use that same terminology? - Ken Sheppardson

It was very creative as people are used to comparing rpms. It's just usually SSDs are characterized by iops, which are the key numbers (read, write, sustained, random, etc). But I supposed people don't have a feel for those yet. - Todd Hoff

Duncan Riley

The second ugliest animal in the world - http://www.inquisitr.com/13653...

December 30, 2008 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

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lol - bcultral

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The Addams Family da da da dum clap clap. - Roberto Bonini

Yeah, the naked mole rat cannot be beat, by anything. - Mike Lewis

Man, I think I must be a freak or something. I continue to insist that creatures like these (Golem is a prime example too!) are so ugly that they become cute. Nobody seems to agree with me though...That naked mole rat however? That's just plain ugly. - David Adam

Robert Scoble

Thought for the morning: Every 10 days Facebook grows a Twitter.

December 17, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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How so? Numbers? or what? - Cheryl Smith

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FB is adding 5 million users every 10 days?! - Matt Hooper

Facebook is adding 600,000 people a day. Twitter is rumored to be about 6 million users. - Robert Scoble

And every second Twitter grows my blog. - Håkan Dahlström

users?? - Francisco Kemeny

Does each of those growth segments matter as much as Twitter though? I think not. But it gives an interesting perspective. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

You mean they're adding "small countries" every 10 days ;) - Dana Fosburgh

Twitter is for bloggers (@ this time...). Facebook is for people. Why? Most people will never have a blog. And that's okay! - Catholic Meme

Agree, Fransisco. HUGE difference between a subscriber and a user. - MVB (Grinch of FF)

how many of the users twitter users that join are real people and not spammers. & the same with facebook. - James Bayliss

Twitter is for bloggers? Nah, I don't think that's true. Many people use it via mobile for simple communications. Some of them have no clue about this whole blog thing. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

WOW those growth stats are mind numbing....impressive!!! - Susan Beebe

I can see this happening. Some of my friends and family that a few years ago I never imagined would even get internet access, much less join a social network are now signing up for Facebook. This includes the ones that are concerned with privacy. - Allen Blair

Twitter is for everybody. Facebook and blogs aren't. <-- the secret to Twitter's success! - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

My husband was talking with his 70+ yo mom last night about FB. Her sister is on, updating status and playing scrabble. It's a great way to keep family members engaged, in addition to the many business applications. - Cheryl Smith

More and more of the "normal" people I know in real life are joining FB. None of them have ever heard of Twitter. - Andy Roth

6 Million users a day? You have got to be kidding? That is not per month? - Darin aka iGoByDoc

Meh. Short term statistics are nice, but especially when talking about growth you need to consider product life-cycles and exogenous trend-changing events. - David Wynn from fftogo

One Twitter = 100 Identi.Ca? - David Parmet from twhirl

all the more amazing given Facebook has 140 million subscribers. They're growing into the non-techie Mainstream now. - Pete Steege

Facebook usually talks in terms of active users (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days). And keep in mind, there is almost nothing t do on facebook unless you are regeistered. That helps explain why in the past, their active user numbers have been pretty close to comscore's estimates of their monthly uniques. - Erik S

People's myopia is funny. The techie crowd was never a hugely important audience for Facebook (or even myspace). Both really caght fire by appealing to a generation who grew up with the Net. Probably 90% of the entering class of my alma mater was on Facebook before even a quarter of my techie friends were. That myopia may also cause people to miss progress of techie darlings into the mainstream. Google insights suggests that interest in Twitter has spread well beyond typical tech centers in the past year - Erik S

I think that line is from "It's A Wonderful Life". - Kevin Leroux

Are "twitters" contagious? Will I get one if I share a drink on Facebook? - Marla

Facebook is such as hugely different crowd for me-- even diff't than linkedIn too. I mix it all together, but one needs to be in more than one place these days - Doug Haslam from twhirl

I find very few techies on FB. It is way more social and a lot less network, too "cutesy" than ever with little icons and way too much trivia to wade through. Broadcast vs.cable, again. - Phil Boiarski

I would love to see a visualization of the data over time. Based on the 600K per day, they have added the entire population of New York City and Philadelphia in December. - Rob Diana

Soon Facebook will have to sponsor a breeding program to keep their growth rate up. As a stick they can say have 3 babies or we'll suspend your account. As a carrot, well that doesn't seem necessary. - Todd Hoff

Its still WAY cleaner than the MySpace nightmare zone! - Eric Rost

Echo'ing Erik & Phil. My techie college friends are barely on FB... - Mitchell Tsai

imo, Twitter will surpass Facebook over time in number of active users. Eventually it will be the preferred social networking platform that people will use as a starting point to other svcs. The former is simple as google and allows much more opportunities to engage w/people from all stripes vs the latter.. - Lee Hsieh

Robert Scoble

@DonMcAllister says MacWorld is not dead. Sorry for the bad news. Remember Comdex? MacWorld won't survive without Apple.

December 16, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I agree with your Robert, Macworld is finished. This will be the last one unless someone resurrects it!! - Paul

Richard

Magazines Come to Google Book Search http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

December 9, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Scott Beale

Google Dictionary - http://www.google.com/diction...

December 5, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Sol Young

Random House: 8,000 e-books to jump to almost 15,000 in months - http://www.teleread.org/blog...

November 24, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Robert Scoble

Web 2.0 Summit Takeaways - http://emergic.org/2008...

November 10, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Writing a post on the potential downfalls of betting on display advertising as a strong business model. - AJ Kohn

John Resig

jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio! (intellisense FTW) - http://www.reddit.com/r...

September 28, 2008 from Reddit - Comment - Like - Share

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Rafe Needleman

Is ShareThis the next Digg? - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...

September 22, 2008 from Webware.com - Comment - Like - Share

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i've been tinkering w/ it a tad. I think i like the naitve bookmarklets better from individual sites. - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

I remember people calling Mixx.com the next digg almost a year ago now. - alphaxion

Sol Young

Everyone but Apple joins new "buy once, play anywhere" group - http://arstechnica.com/news...

September 15, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Uncle CW™

Best Buy To Buy Napster For $2.65 a Share - FOXBusiness.com - http://www.foxbusiness.com/story...

September 15, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"NEW YORK -- Best Buy Co. said Monday that it agreed to buy Napster Inc. , a digital-music service provider, for $2.65 a share in cash. The purchase price, including $67 million in cash and short term investments Best Buy made of Napster as of June 30, would total $121 million, the companies said. The proposed acquisition would allow Best Buy to have 700,000 online music subscribers from Napster and allow the No. 1 U.S. electronics chain to reach new customers. "We can foresee Napster acting as a platform for accelerating our growth in the emerging industry of digital entertainment, beyond music subscriptions," said Dave Morrish, Executive Vice President - Connected Digital Solutions of Best Buy, in a statement." - Uncle CW™ from Bookmarklet

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$121 million?! Best Buy got ripped off! - Mona Nomura

700,000 people use Napster? For what? - Eric P

WTF? - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)