Category: linklog (Page 7 of 8)

Farewell, HotJobs. Once upon a time, this was one of the biggest job sites on the Internet. I was flattered to have had the opportunity to work there briefly.

What's crazy is that AOL still has nearly five million subscribers (including my in-laws, no matter how much I tell them they're paying twice with their cable modems)

Bluetooth-enabled device monitors your sleep patterns, wakes you at the optimal REM stage. This is genius—I can always tell when I wake up at the "right" point in my sleep cycles. An alarm clock that ritualizes this for me may be worth 10X its weight in gold

Blogger shutting off FTP access for remote posting. This is fascinating to me–not long ago, FTP was really the only way to publish a blog to a personal domain. Fast forward a few years and 0.5% of Blogger's users are FTPing anything. Interesting shift in both Blogger's usage trends, and probably of the migration of domain-level bloggers switching to local install apps (MT, WordPress) and then to remote services with auto-redirects (Tumblr, Typepad, and Blogger itself)

Jake Dobkin knows from chutzpah

This provides great perspective on the iPad. The startup making the JooJoo is creating an off-the-shelf Windows machine with a touchscreen for $499. That same price will now get Apple's polish and a unique user experience on a similar product. I know which one I'd buy

Thirty-five. Not a misprint. Wow wow wow.

"Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site." Not to crow too much, but I proposed this very model for Economist.com back in 2002 (Andrew Rashbass, call me when you're back in New York)

I've noticed this too (Amy, take note)

This is fantastic

R.I.P. Brad Graham, one of the earliest bloggers and among the first people I met in the blogosphere, back before there was such a thing.

Great data points on air travel to quell nervous nellies. "Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. … These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. … This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune. … There have been 7,015,630,000 passenger enplanements over the past decade."

Fantastic (via waxy.org)