"My career is short ... You don't want to waste it; you want to reach your top level. I don't go to nightclubs ... It doesn't interest me whatsoever" - Aneto
Teach your children about the days when even uttering the name Morgan Stanley made college students faint. Read them the pre-2008 league tables, and make your sons and daughters memorize them alongside the ones for multiplication. Do whatever it takes to keep the legend of Wall Street as it was truly intended live on. When you think back on investment banking of the early 21st century, remember the heat—remember the passion. But mostly, remember the titans. - Aneto
In March of 2007, just as the credit crunch was beginning and HSBC spread news of its bad sub-prime mortgages, Rihanna released a song stressing the act of supporting those close to you in need. With the words, “You can stand under my umbrella,” she forecasted a series of acquisitions, loans, and, ultimately, the bailout. Looking back, was that song meant for Jay-Z, or Hank-P? - Aneto
The speed at which large screen display technologies showing poster quality moving images will replace what is left of windows on commuter transport?...Who will be first to offer personal urban transport where windows are an optional extra? - Aneto
interesting - i also noticed the same thing the other day on g trends. - Rami
Watch every hour and you'll see patterns emerge. Early mornings is random; late mornings you tend to see news. Evenings are TV and movie terms (for movies being shown on TV that night). Weekends are a bit more random. (Early mornings people search for crossword puzzle clues, but these are being filtered out of Hot Trends.) - Amit Patel
Tonight's topics: Leroi Moore dies (part of the Dave Matthews band), The Hot Chick (on FX), Mork and Mindy (also on TV tonight), Ed Quinn (plays on Eureka, tonight on SciFi), Tropical Storm Fay, Obama VP, and lots of Olympics queries. - Amit Patel
When asked by The Today Show what music he listens to while preparing to swim, Phelps paused before replying "Lil Wayne- 'I'm Me'" which includes the champion-themed lyrics:
"The hottest under the sun/ aint nobody fuckin' wit me, man/ and you already know that pimpin'/...fuck up my dreams; somebody gon' die tonight" and "Aint nothin' gonna stop me, so just envy it/ Hey, I'll accept a friendly quit/ I'm me/ bitch, I'm me/ so who you?/ you're not me/ you're not me/ and I know that aint fair, but i don't care" - Aneto
Thursday is the best day of the week because it comes before Friday (when I can work outside of the office) I enjoy the anticipation of Friday more than actually being in Friday and Saturday. Sunday is dampened by the anticipation of Monday : ( - Aneto
mm.. agreed :) just wait till school again... everyday will be a fun day! - Min Liu
Valley tech coverage is as hilly as hollywood media coverage, a year ago it was all praises, now they are starting dissent...watch as all the press starts to turn negative until the next darling comes along (e.g., Google, Joost, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed?) - Aneto
i agree w/arrington... f8 was for sleepers and they didn't go as far with vision as they should have. ppl have been waiting for fb to monetize for a long time.. and they still don't have a solution. i think why it has taken so long has to do with internal growing pains, but for an outsider like arrington, there really isn't much he can sympathize with. - Min Liu
Facebook should be printing money. The fact that they aren't is a little spooky for Web 2.0. - Scott Cederberg
thx nate. i've been trying to get a hold of paul for a while.. - Min Liu
well, a non-consumer company would be Pareto, the company I'm working for. Ooyala and Howcast are very new too? I would say Meebo for nearby but they seem older than the other ones I've mentioned. - Diana Thai
Ooyala is like the DoubleClick for Online Video, Howcast is how to videos, and Pareto is going to be the software as a service or like the Salesforce.com for business wireless networking. - Diana Thai
i think we already did meebo. would love love to head up to seattle and get some starbucks and amazon in. also. oh oh. d.light. sam goldman.. i totally wanna interview him. - Min Liu
d.light would be great. Amazon and Starbucks are ancient - they are NOT startups anymore! how about a woman entrepreneur like at Bebo or Flickr? Or even these - O' Light and Laser Seal: http://www.women2.org/winners-... - Diana Thai
bebo? bebo? di... ;) thx for the w2.0 link.. cool beans, looking fwd to more xx's in the field - Min Liu
oh, it doesn't have to be startups.. julio interviewed thomas keller of french laundry.. wouldn't mind getting a few edgy innovating chefs in too.. or wine country? - Min Liu
btw, i'm totally turned off by pareto after your 4th of july experiences w/them. hmprph. they gotz no interviews!! - Min Liu
Interview more non-traditional startups e.g., Maya's mom and more startups with diverse founders e.g., women founders, minority founders, maybe a startup in South Africa - Aneto
@aneto agreed, we have wayyy too many white guys + marissa - Min Liu
"Wholeheartedly agree!
I've been wanting site-scripting to have deeper interaction with the OS, UI, and hardware. It's the one thing that really cripples web applications and it's even more important to have on the phone.
Things that could be done on desktop: tray/dock notifications, file access, EASIER local file/data storage, interaction with other desktop apps
Things that could be done on mobile: social-enabled address books, GPS webapps, initiate calls within webapps, SMS+email tie in, notification sounds, direct camera access...all of which are impossible on a webapp today." - Q dub
I remember the Blake Ross startup was trying to bring direct browser - hardware interactions to the desktop before it was subsumed by FB. A world without the vagaries of OSs definitely sounds theoretically cool and I even think there are some linux PCs at Walmart that go straight to GMail, Gmaps, etc The need for start menus, control panel, etc is obviated in our web-enabled 'everything' world - less bloat more connectivity - Aneto
observation on comments.. i don't like scrolling down to see them. too lazy. also, would prefer to have ppl call out what paragraphs they're commenting on - Min Liu
Min's point could be a cool feature: word-processor style commenting where you highlight a segment and insert a side-bubble - Q dub
Yea I considered that early on, and it would be pretty straightforward to implement but then I tested it on my sister and shes not a poweruser like you guys so she couldnt be bothered, plus its a behavior change in how people like to comment, maybe ill try it in V2 - Aneto
The struggle continues. It's a good change for users but it might very well wipe out a large part of Facebook's long-tail apps. It will be most interesting to see which applications are important enough to users and motivate jumping the "extra effort" hurdle. - Greg
via Mento
What I dislike is that the changes actually decentivize (not a word) new app developers and instead maintain the status quo of apps who were spammy in the first place, its not a playing field leveler - Aneto
really? I thought it was alright. Definitely entertaining. Just campy. Very campy. - Chieze Okoye
I enjoyed the nostalgia, but compared to the standout 'last crusade' and the solid 'raiders' the plot for 'crystal skull' was not cohesive, it felt like there were gaps in the story and there were several unnecessary scenes which could have been replaced e.g. the whole nuclear explosion thing - Aneto
