Twitter only had 160 users after three months but they were sending up to 1000 messages per day, or roughly 6 messages per person per day. Of course, the whole thing didn’t really start to catch on until March 2007 at SXSW. That’s when they started to get thousands of users.
Why Color got itself $41 million in funding
According to Nguyen, Color is built on some serious technology. The company has six patents pending and sees itself as “much more of a research company and a data mining company than a photo sharing site.”
As such, Nguyen explains that Color can ingest and analyze four times the amount of data than Google did in its early days. This, not a tech “bubble” or an early exit, justify the $41 million investment.
CEO Bill Nguyen explains the massive seed funding from Sequoia Capital ($25 million), Bain Capital ($9 million), and Silicon Valley Bank ($7 million)
“Why do Birds suddenly appear, everytime you are near” sang the Evil Green Pig to the eggs…
The iPad only does less than a regular computer to us geeks
By giving people freedom to explore the app store without having to worry about anything (except their wallets), Apple has possibly made the best move they could make by locking down the iPad’s installation sources. That’s the one that’s the most helpful for the general state of technology. Apple is encouraging people to explore and play around. The iPad only does less than a regular computer to us geeks.
Paul Graham on intelligence vs determination when investing in people
Determination. When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out that intelligence was not as important as we expected. If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham explains his decision in picking startups based not on ideas but on founders and their determination. Ideas can be trivial. Ideas can advance far beyond their original inception, but determination and persistence go a long way.
Paul Graham on intelligence vs determination when investing in people
Collection of Instagram apps
If you’ve been bitten by the Instagram bug like millions of people have or annoyed that you can’t properly view the Instagrammed photos on the web, you might want to check out this list of apps and services created using Instagram’s API.
For whatever reason the folks behind Instagram aren’t keen on the idea of taking the Instagram experience outside of the iPhone app and into the open web. The app’s not even available on any other platform, at least not for a while yet.
Visually it’s not a great list to look at but if you want to find out what Instagram oriented apps have people come up with, it’s worth checking it out.
iPad 2 roll out on March 25 (Taken with instagram)
How far away is the moon? It’s further than most people think : science
A thread full of graphics and descriptions of how insanely far away all the objects in space are from each other.
How far away is the moon? It’s further than most people think : science
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