More Lazy Web Thoughts
Aug 08
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Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
Oh Hell Yeah! New KOL. Record’s coming out next month. Tour dates have been announced. Webster on September 23rd. Turn it up and listen to one of the great rock bands that is playing small venues and making records every year these days.
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“ But we are shifting, too, from a culture of scarcity to one of abundance. That is the essence of the Google worldview: managing abundance. So let’s assume that instead of a scarcity there is an abundance of talent and a limitless will to create but it has been tamped down by an educational system that insists on sameness; starved by a mass economic system that rewarded only a few giants; and discouraged by a critical system that anointed a closed, small creative class.
Aug 07
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Twitter: The hottest Web startup - Aug. 6, 2008
lashinksy weighs in on twitter
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A Secondary Market For Private Company Stock
The news that some Facebook employees are selling their stock privately naturally focuses on the price/valuation (a deep discount to the $15bn that Microsoft paid).
First of all, a deep discount…
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how could I not love a song called Fish Tacos. this is a really cool number.
Immuzikation - Fish Tacos
Coldplay - Viva La Vida + Weezer - The Greatest Man That Ever Lived + Cut Copy - Far Away + The Blow - Parentheses + M.I.A. - Boyz + Reading Rainbow
Sick! I can’t believe how seemlessly these samples transition and overlay.
(Thanks again to All Things Go! Love those guys.)
Aug 06
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Another Sunny Day - Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
we are in Scotland so I just have to play some Belle and Sebstian. That said, it’s anything but a sunny day here. It’s been raining steadily all day.
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Seedcamp London - Deadline Approaching
Seedcamp London is europe’s closest thing to YCombinator and similar programs here in the states (funny to say that because I am writing this in St Andrews University in Scotland).
The deadline…
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“ Peter Guber tells the story of his first meeting with his Sony bosses in Tokyo, after they installed him at what was then Columbia/Tri-Star, and he told them his business plan: make about 14 movies a year — 6 will do okay, maybe break even; 2 or 3 will do a bit better, and have franchise possibilities; 2 will be hits; 1 will be a monster hit; and at least 3 will be total losses, total bombs. They listened respectfully, then one of the older guys asked (through an interpreter), “May I ask Guber-san why he bothers to make the bombs?
