March 2013
7 posts
IBM CEO Predicts Three Ways Technology Will... →
Netflix Series Spending Revealed →
parislemon:
Andrew Wallenstein of Variety reports on a panel featuring CAA TV literary agent Peter Micelli, who spoke about Netflix:
“The cheapest show is $3.8 million an episode,” Micelli told a crowd of more than 500 lawyers in the entertainment business. “‘House of Cards’ started at $4.5 million and (executive producer David) Fincher took it way above that.”
It ain’t cheap, but with...
February 2013
3 posts
January 2013
32 posts
Rumor Mill: New Apple Store Coming To Market &... →
parislemon:
Considering New York has about 37 Apple Stores, San Francisco could sure use another one or two.
[via @lizgannes]
We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via gymcandy)
parislemon:
staff:
An upgrade, years in the making…
When we imagined Tumblr more than seven years ago, we dreamed of offering creators a new canvas. Every post would be a raw look through the author’s eyes and mind. We imagined the interface disappearing as these subjects came to life.
For years, this vision was challenged by limits in browser technology and an increasingly daunting set of...
Apple’s Profit vs. Amazon’s Promise →
parislemon:
Mark Gimein for Bloomberg:
Comparing Bezos’s fortune to Amazon’s earnings highlights how deeply puzzling that increase has been. Since 2003, the first year in which Amazon earned a profit, through the end of 2011, Amazon has reported a total of $5 billion in earnings. Amazon has not yet reported results for this year; it lost money in the last quarter, but is expected to turn a...
The Best Steve Jobs Quote Ever
melissajoykong:
We are moving into an era, for example, where the only way you can create enough...
– Bill Clinton gets the peer economy
stevenberlinjohnson.com: Bill Clinton On “Creative Networks of Collaboration” (via fred-wilson)
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health....
– (via haveyoueverpondered)
Foursquare has more data about real people and the places they go than anybody...
– yours truly
Foursquare | Crain’s New York Business (via fred-wilson)
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
– Seth Godin, The cost of neutral (via nevver)
When I drink vodka Redbull
soyeahduh:
I’m all like,
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...
– Teddy Roosevelt on Leadership, Effort, Dedication and Passion a very inspiring quote for the doers
Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” (delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910)
via http://stepwise.tumblr.com/post/40188743424/the-man-in-the-arena and Mark...
Melissa Joy: The Power of Going Above & Beyond for... →
melissajoykong:
I’m in Las Vegas this week covering the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The show is fun, massive, and overwhelming. And of course, Vegas itself is not an experience for the faint of heart. When most of us think of Vegas, we think of “Sin City” - the birthplace of gambling, overspending, binge…
did-you-kno:
The “crooked house” designed as if it has melted in its spot, is a famous tourist attraction and has restaurants, bars in it.The building was conceptualized by Szotynscy Zaleski, a famous architect in Poland.
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December 2012
38 posts
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them...
– Steve Jobs.
This could be the best quote to live by. If life didn’t work before, trust in that and start living for tomorrow.
(via themindofg)
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated...
– Martha Graham (via theangrytherapist)