Invented your parents’ favorite news aggregator, the first Android Twitter app, and many more failures. Prev: https://xitter.cf/t.co/5fHcsu3Nr5 ✕ @mcuban (acquired by @prorata_ai)
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This is Ruby. She likes to pet the other dogs at daycare. 14/10 extremely relatable (TT: alanahlorraine)
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Airchat is an emo night cruise for people who remember Klout. The worst, most basic college freshman dorm room-tier icebreakers from wear-a-leather-jacket-in-the-office millennials chasing the high of their first Foursquare check-in. Impressively bleak.
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In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy🪲🕵️
In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem👎
👇Read our regulatory submission (link in first reply)
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My latest Project Syndicate piece, How to think about the future of tech: "For a clear view of broader market trends, one should always distinguish between the real operating economy and the financial betting economy, where speculation often runs amok." prosyn.org/rfAZnIx?h=YDliefm…
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After nearly 25 years, I’m publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto in its entirety, an internal document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of our e-commerce platform. allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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This is Frankly. He overheard someone start talking about crypto. Would like to be airlifted out of this conversation immediately. 13/10
ALT a close-up photo of a red dachshund looking wide-eyed over his shoulder. his neck is wrinkled from craning backwards, and his lip is curled up slightly in disgust. he’s being carried, hopefully briskly, by a human whose face is just out of frame.
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Investment advice for 2022.
First there are the Innovators
Then there are the imitators
Then there are the idiots.
Before you invest in anything always make sure you know which category the deal fits in.
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On this day in 1975, Pink Floyd released their album Wish You Were Here in the UK. The album, through the music and the album artwork, explores themes of absence, the music business, and former band-mate Syd Barrett. lnk.to/PF_WYWH
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From the September AB Magazine, check out this Q&A with @mcuban from @JonAPrior:
"Fintech has opened the door for agile companies, including small banks and apps, to start to really take business from big banks."
americanbanker.com/news/mark…
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One time I met the inventor of the pool noodle. He was buying a private jet in cash.
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Microsoft's Original Logo..
From when Microsoft was founded 46 years ago today - April 4th, 1975.
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I'm officially addicted to a great news aggregator called @upstract. Check it out at upstract.com!
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What's the best newsletter you've discovered recently?
Mine is Briefingday by @Thomas
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Thomas Marban's "Briefing Day" has become a vital part of my daily lockdown infodiet. It's an excellent daily newsletter, cutting through the noise to zoom in on a selection of fascinating stories about the virus and more. Sign up over here: briefingday.com/i/6jbqsdrd.
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We are honored to be covered by @CNN for our new technology at @HeliogenInc to reduce emissions (and save money) by using renewable energy (highly concentrated sunshine) for replacing fossil fuel in heavy industry..
Heliogen, an energy startup backed by Bill Gates, says it has created a carbon-free solar oven that can be used to produce the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes cnn.it/2XYQ2Th
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I mean, tracking rings on your fingers, buds in your ears, Alexa in your ovens, on your pet... I just don't see how this shit flies when it's powered by the core data collection model of surveillance capitalism. We're going to reject this shit...right? techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/ev…