February 2012
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How Foursquare Can Grow (Part II): Let Us Sound...
Friends Talk About Anything But the Present
If Foursquare wants to grow, it has to help us converse like adults who like each other. It could just give out lots of cheap swag, but like paying someone to keep you company, there’s no love in it. Few of these users stick around once cheap becomes too costly for you to maintain (witness Groupon merchants). Instead, appeal to stuff we already...
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How Foursquare Can Grow: Stop Treating us Like...
Kids Know Where, But Rarely Why
A friend’s 4 year-old kid used to call me because he’d seen his parents do it. He’d say “I’m at McDonald’s” and then hang up. You can’t blame him: he has almost no agency whatsoever. He has little more to discuss than his current location because he rarely decides to be there, his mom does.
Riveting conversation...
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January 2012
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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
Brilliant deductions, Holmes.
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the...
: Gore-tex →
What Gore-tex looks like:
keepsdiary:
It looks like a big, smashed, dirty piece of gum, and feels like a sneaker.
What you are looking at is condensed, raw Gore-tex.
This stuff is pulled using a huge, strong machine into a thin, semi-translucent layer. You can actually pull and stretch it out by hand, but not to the point where…
If Wikipedia stays down, and SOPA comes into effect, I will make an app that dials your congressman every time you need to learn something or settle an argument.
“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying.
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– - Seth Godin (via keepsdiary)
Every once in a while, this guy says some real poignant stuff.
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December 2011
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