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Twitter updates for 2010-05-23

  • RT @kyusik: @manukumar Another thumbs up for Helvetica. And if you like that, definitely check out Objectified. #
  • Just got tip on a great movie about a font! 'Helvetica' http://www.helveticafilm.com Can't wait to see it. Thx Carol Winograd! #
  • Discussion at d.school panel re-inforces that a slide deck is an awful way to communicate idea. Show, rather than tell. Prototype/URL FTW #
  • Congrats @akothari — Pulse mentioned at Design Thinking session @Stanford Leading Matters Bay Area in front of > 500 people! #
  • d.school focuses on a 'unconstrained problem, a real world problem' — why it's great for startups. A startup is an unconstrained problem. #
  • 'try something, it's not obvious what will work' : George Kembel, @Stanford d.school #
  • 'Never go to a meeting without a protoype' :David Kelly, @Stanford d.school #
  • 'Stop talking and make something' : George Kembel on the philosophy of protoyping at the @Stanford d.school #
  • At the @Stanford Leading Matters Bay Area event at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Jerry Yang (Yahoo) opening http://twitpic.com/1q4swz #

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Twitter updates for 2010-05-22

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Twitter updates for 2010-05-21

  • RT @golan: @manukumar The ass state of Twitter search is totally mindblowing for such a critical service. #
  • yikes! RT @bryce: eye opening set of pictures showing drinks & their sugar equivalent in food. think before you drink: http://bit.ly/bU7ym4 #
  • RT @VentureBeat: Tesla and Toyota teaming up to build electric cars, Schwarzenegger lets slip http://bit.ly/cbqsoO by @camillericketts #
  • RT @om: the way I see it Andy and android won at google. chrome os be gone in the wind soon #
  • Interesting perspective on the Carried Interest taxation debate. http://k9.vc/cdbvcF h/t @nvca #
  • .@dbasch Don't want to search the whole twitter timeline – only want to search my *own* tweets. Can't even do that! 🙁 cc @ablegrape @othman #
  • Huge implications for the future, +ve & -ve RT @newsycombinator: 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists http://bit.ly/cWWPen #
  • Reading the tweets and announcements from #io2010 and pleased to see Google's still got teeth/fight in it even as a big company. #
  • Good reminder RT @sonajain: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." :Mahatma Gandhi #
  • Huge congrats to @andysmith @davidcohen @techstars on @DailyBurn acquisition. http://tcrn.ch/ccd2LS (h/t @jrpowers) #
  • RT @honam: "The illiterate of 21st century will not be those who cannot read/write, but those who cannot learn,unlearn & relearn" -A.Toffler #
  • RT @google: Announcing Android 2.2. codenamed Froyo: make your handset a portable hotspot & more http://bit.ly/cDl7iq #io2010 #
  • Google's ended up w/2 OS's on it's hands: Chrome and Android. Interesting to see announcements on both (GTV and Froyo) #
  • RT @ZelkovaVC: Communication is critical between entrepreneurs & investors thru startup lifecycle and key to teamwork & success #hatchmatch #
  • RT @shaig: If you are an active angel/seed stage investor, I'm organzing an event on 6/3, SVB Seed Showcase, details http://bit.ly/Seed2010 #
  • Sorry, but anyone who says the pace of innovation is slowing down, just isn't plugged in to the right sources. #FunTimes #
  • Can anyone explain why this @Twitter search query doesn't work? http://k9.vc/9IeW1j Is Twitter search crippled? Or am I not using it right? #
  • Tried to find an old tweet. Amazed at how neither Twitter nor Facebook could find it. Only way was to search my own website w/Google. #
  • RT @techstars: "it is venture capital and not venture charity" -@arinewman #
  • RT @auren: the Art of the Email Introduction – http://bit.ly/bLxdAm (spread the word) #
  • Congrats @loggly & @kordless on the funding from @trinityventures! cc @dschol @puneet324 #
  • 'Revenue Development' RT @davemcclure: quotable @jkraus "make sure u put yr *business* model into beta SAME time u put yr product into beta" #
  • Wow, the http://clicker.com interface is impressive. Great job @jlanzone and team! (h/t @satishd @jason) #
  • RT @jasonmendelson: Difference between Golf and Skydiving? In Golf you here "Whack!" Followed by "Shit." ……. #
  • Used GrandPerspective (http://k9.vc/dsY75F, h/t @AvramC, Gary S) and Disk Inventory X (http://k9.vc/9pkq01, h/t @joshu) to reclaim ~1GB more #
  • LOL, wish I had more time to code, miss it sometimes. RT @vikasreddy: @manukumar You should be on a list called "Hackers Who Invest" =) #

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Twitter updates for 2010-05-20

  • RT @fredwilson: VCs Who Code http://bit.ly/a4nnxk #
  • RT @TechCrunch: Google, Mozilla, And Opera Take On H.264 With The WebM Project, A New Royalty-Free Video Codec – http://tcrn.ch/99yrRi #
  • Will be at the 'VCs.Start-up.Connected' event tomorrow at Fenwick & West (details at: http://k9.vc/axy3Fx) #
  • Recovered 1.1GB on MacBookAir by using Monolingual http://k9.vc/a47iga. Don't need Afrikans, Swahili etc or PPC Arch! Thanks for the tip! #
  • #ChurchillClub Dave Weiden Trend 2: Internet driven healthcare. Healthcare is big. Even little change can be big. Time is now. #
  • #ChurchillClub Tony Perkins: Will we end up building robots that will enslave us? @edyson: That what happens when you have children! #
  • #ChurchillClub Steve Jurvetson Trend 2: Code Comes Alive. Gene synthesis beating Moore's Law. Genetic alchemy. Biotech 2.0 #
  • #ChurchillClub @Efrusy Trend 2: The Rise of the New Software Stack. Growth in *data* makes old stack unusable. Hadoop, memcached, etc. #
  • #ChurchillClub @edyson Trend 2: Long term accountability is the New Transparency. A result of lots of *data* #
  • Must be a cleantech VC 🙂 RT @joshu: was on sand hill road earlier. think i ran over a vc. important question: why was a vc on foot!!?? #
  • #ChurchillClub Ron Conway Trend 2: The Real-time Web. Will generate 1B in revenue in 12mo. LBS, check-in generation. #
  • #ChurchillClub @Jurvetson states that 'Consumer hardware is a bad investment' (reserving my opinion since hard to discuss in #140 #
  • #ChurchillClub Dave Weiden Trend 1: The next 100B connected devices. Hardware is the new software. (hope we something better than AT&T!) #
  • #ChurchillClub IMHO It's NEVER a bad time and ALWAYS a good time to start a company. cc @jurvetson #
  • #ChurchillClub @Jurvetson Trend 1: It's a wonderful time to start a company (isn't it always!?) #
  • #ChurchillClub Kevin Efrusy Trend 1: Social Web as substrate for new category killers. (isn't this similar to Ron Conway's) #
  • #ChurchillClub shouldn't the panelists abstain from voting on their own trend predictions? 🙂 #
  • #ChurchillClub @edyson: HomeBrew Health: We don't need no stinkin' care. Tools, *data*, social engagment for health. #
  • #ChurchillClub Ron Conway Trend 1: The web is now truly social. Behavioral engineering is >> algorithmic engineering #
  • #ChurchillClub Moderator Tony Perkins asks how many people must watch American Idol. *1* hand goes up. Not an audience of normals! #
  • At the #ChurchillClub Top Ten Tech Trends event http://twitpic.com/1p9zsq #
  • RT @binitbhatia: @manukumar try this http://j.mp/dWJxQ some frm here http://j.mp/Qo7tP use monolingual http://j.mp/13A1t & grand perspective #
  • Well put 🙂 RT @joshu: @manukumar web services need to give users a way to take their ball and go home. #
  • My 1st gen MacBookAir has been languishing/running low on disk space. Had to uninstall XCode/dev tools. Any tips for reclaiming more space? #
  • .@trevorburnham My tweet wasn't about FB only, but about any and all web services. They should all provide an easy way to delete/cancel. #
  • RT @dnanexus: Bio-IT World: Cloud Convergence, DNAnexus debuts cloud computing resource for NGS data. http://tiny.cc/ld7p2. #
  • Like the CAN-SPAM Act there needs to be new legislation that forces websites to allow users to easily delete their acccount. #

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