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File: April 2007

2007-04-16 :: baron // links
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10 Most Successful Web 2.0 Startups To Date Welcome to the social. (tags: startups) Spotback – Rate Everything Portable ratings for site owners. (tags: startups)

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2007-04-14 :: baron // blog
Getting Ready for “the Launch”

I’ve always been fascinated with the internet since it first emerged in the mid-90s. When I was growing up I was more into Nintendos than computers. This is something I really regret but back then the average house wasn’t into computers. I got a hold of a Toshiba Dynabook in the latter half of college [...]

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2007-04-14 :: baron // blog
Getting Ready for “the Launch”

I’ve always been fascinated with the internet since it first emerged in the mid-90s. When I was growing up I was more into Nintendos than computers. This is something I really regret but back then the average house wasn’t into computers. I got a hold of a Toshiba Dynabook in the latter half of college [...]

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2007-04-14 :: baron // links
links for 2007-04-13

5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne The developer of Twitter talks scaling. (tags: twitter startups) Twitter trouble The developer of rails talks about Twitter scaling. (tags: twitter startups)

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As technology matures it’s becoming harder and harder to “wow”. I’ve been amazed by Apple many times over. The overall quality and attention to detail are almost cliches. But you know what? Since the mac is all I use day in and day out, you get used to it. In fact, you start noticing some [...]

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I’ve dusted off the old powerball after feeling a weird tingly sensation in my wrists a couple weeks back. I know I’m still okay but it’s hard to ignore the writing on the wall. Basically, the powerball is a spinning gyroscope that you grip hard and spin around with small movements of your wrist. The [...]

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2007-04-12 :: baron // links
links for 2007-04-11

Justin.tv Gets Lucky Title says it all. Who said strapping a video camera to your head isn’t sexy? (tags: web) The Singles Map A distribution of singles in the united states. (tags: singles dating) Top Stumblers Tell All Top stumblers reveal their secrets and more. (tags: stumbleupon) Google Adsense Revenue Split Revealed? That looks like [...]

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The Sanjaya Malakar wave sweeping the nation is puzzling indeed. There’s a lot of debate as to whether there is some kind of nefarious conspiracy to vote Sanjaya to the top and kill American Idol in the process. The debate is similar the one of whether Digg has a bury brigade. I really don’t care [...]

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2007-04-11 :: baron // links
links for 2007-04-10

DBAzine.com: A Comparison of Solid State Drives to Serial ATA (SATA) Drive Arrays for Use with Oracle Solid state drives will some day drastically change our computer experience. (tags: hard_drives)

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2007-04-10 :: baron // blog
Writing Better

An offhand remark by a friend the other day got me thinking about the quality of my writing. Has too much blogging and internet made me a bad writer? This assumes that I was a good writer before but setting that aside I thought I’d take a look at some reasons why digital communication makes [...]

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