February 2012
25 posts
How to Acquire a Domain Name (That Someone Already... →
Great post from the Domainr blog.
Did you know that about.me was originally intended to be the Montenegrin government’s primary tourism promotion site? My co-founder Tony Conrad worked the phones (see option 1: Direct Contact in the post) with Krutal Desai (who is quite possibly the most talented domain acquirer I’ve ever met) to convince them to let us use it. We’ve had a...
“Kobe has arguably reached the end of his prime, and while it’s fascinating...”
– Gilbert Arenas, Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the argument for signing Agent Zero - Grantland
Kobe-as-space-probe is the best damn metaphor in sports writing in forever.
Lana Del Rey Becomes a Star - NYTimes.com →
The backlash to the backlash has begun.
“Football is not the only competition in which New York is thumping Boston. For...”
– “New York Beats Boston (Again),” Crain’s New York Business (via nycedc)
According to Colliers map of Q4 VC Funding, San Francisco did $941M over 71 deals.
We’re not even talking abou the Valley. Just the City.
Watch(via LeBron James won’t apologize to Kendrick Perkins, tired of blame game - ESPN)
This clip contains a Masters course on the collision of existing media structures and Twitter. It’s fascinating.
“In American business, there is nothing stupider than the previous generation of...”
– The Ad Contrarian: The Waiters Are Doing The Cooking
“If you’re a smart Ph.D. from MIT, you’d never go to Wall Street now,” says a...”
– The End of Wall Street As They Knew It
“The idea is that if you never break anything, you’re probably not moving fast...”
– Mark Zuckerberg, in his letter to Facebook shareholders.
On this, we totally agree.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
“The one thing people who hate the idea of prequelizing Watchmen and the...”
– Great Moments in Nerd Trolling: The Watchmen Prequels 