Derek Gottfrid: Archive

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Will Facebook have an IPO bounce? Has 409A changed the game? dondodge.typepad.com

EMR is by far the best way to run Hadoop MR jobs using low-level semantics of Java or higher level abstractions. Avoid the capital costs and move it all to the expense side.

badass

Internet radio made by music blogs

A fun way to navigate through thousands of music blogs. The web is your player, bloggers are your dj’s.

Play

“But the holy grail is real time subway times and this one hasn’t gotten the refresh it needs — the MTA is spending $384 million to implement countdown clocks in each station which tell riders when the next train arrives. The work is already underway, but won’t be complete until 2016. This seems crazy” —Scrappy Real-Time Train Tracking Systems at Back of the Envelope | Jonathan Wegener’s Technology/Marketing Blog

“So what made you write your first novel, Whatever, about a computer programmer and his sexually frustrated friend?” —Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 206, Michel Houellebecq

“I mean, they killed Hitler in Inglourious Basterds, so like, I dunno, who cares.” —David Karp Made a Hilarious Joke About ‘The Social Network’ At the ‘New Yorker’ Panel This Morning | The New York Observer

Fun app.

Wrong. Apple is great at products but terrible at serivces - esp cloud based services. How is mobile.me working out? or the .Mac stuff? Seriously, it isn’t in their DNA.

The problem isn’t journalism - it is the business models around it. They are attacking the wrong end of the problem.

This might be dumb and dumber

And now you know why i don’t live in brooklyn.

“Serendipity is the last bastion of the print apologist. It’s the final straw grasped by people trying to justify their enduring love of print.” —Derek Powazek - Design for Serendipity (via dawnw)

This is the future of music. Can’t wait to get in the US.

“I also think it’s great to see savvy investors like KP allocate significant resources to the next wave of social web innovation. But it’s hard for me to take them seriously when they don’t seem to take their subject matter seriously.” —cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / You need to use social services to understand them

Cracking the Facebook Code

What the article doesn’t metnion is that it itself is a backdoor. They have “mislabeled” every article as a type “website” so they can publish back into your newsfeed if you “like” this article. This isn’t possible if they had labeled it “article”. The hidden nuances of the opengraph tags.

Mashery competitor. Interesting.

“You can add nodes to a running job flow to speed it up. This is similar to throwing more logs on a fire or calling down to the engine room with a request for "more power!" Of course, you can also remove nodes from a running job.” —

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon Elastic MapReduce - Now Even Stretchier!

I really thought EMR was a joke when it started but they have continued to advance and now it is by far the easiest way to work with Hadoop. This latest feature is pretty killer since now I can have truly dynamic sizing

“Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality.” —Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

A whole week? I am confused as to why a whole week. I know FB had a hack day (actually I think it was a night) a couple weeks ago, perhaps Twitter is instigating some kind of hack arms race. Personally, I just wish they would just deliver on things they announced at Chirp in the spring.

“But the researchers also found that the gay profiles were shown ads that were not shown to straight people and had no obvious connection to sexual preference — like those for a nursing degree at a medical college in Florida, which appeared exclusively in the gay man’s account. If users click on such an ad and visit the advertiser’s site, they are essentially revealing to the advertiser that they are gay” —Facebook Advertisers Can Glean Private Data - NYTimes.com I am going to change my preference to gay to pollute the system. The issue isn’t that it’s being revealed, the issue is that people care about it.

“Nerds are fucking funny. Your nerd spent a lot of his younger life being an outcast because of his strange affinity with the computer. This created a basic bitterness in his psyche that is the foundation for his humor. Now, combine this basic distrust of everything with your nerd’s other natural talents and you’ll realize that he sees humor is another game. Humor is an intellectual puzzle, “How can this particular set of esoteric trivia be constructed to maximize hilarity as quickly as possible?” —Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook (via dawnw)

“The final thing I'd say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you'd wanted to understand what our lives would be like right now, you'd still be better off reading a single copy of Wired magazine published in that year than all of the sceptical literature published ever since.” —Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall will underperform – the numbers don’t add up’ | Technology | The Guardian

“I thought it would be good for sex,” Guenter Virtel, a German tourist in his 40s, said after his wife took a photo of him holding the penis. When Marie Helene Pollett, 65, visiting from France, touched the penis, her son Bruno Pollett explained that she did it for her husband, Jacques, who is 69.” —An Irresistibly Interactive Sculpture at Time Warner Center - NYTimes.com

“Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs” —KPCB - News

“Still, Dr. Hirsh-Pasek, struck on a recent visit to New York City by how many parents were handing over their iPhones to their little children in the subway, said she understands the impulse. “This is a magical phone,” she said. “I must admit I’m addicted to this phone.” —iPhones for Toddlers - NYTimes.com

Derek Gottfrid

October 2010

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