2 month ago
nelson : WSJ's fake Obama story - Reporter planted leading questions on the web, then quoted the only fake answer
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nelson : Asset allocation - Interesting disclosure from Leonard Lin about how he's invested. Sensible design.
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5 month ago
nelson : GTA IV: actor residuals? - Interesting article about the lack of royalty payments to video game talent
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13 month ago
nelson : TiVo + PayPerPost - Ah, conversational marketing
Andy Baio : TiVo uses PayPerPost for fake grassroots video campaign - later that day, they killed the program and are now trying to remove all the videos [via]
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14 month ago
nelson : iPhone accelerometer hack - Short little video of what would be possible if only Apple would open up the iPhone to third party developers
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16 month ago
43folders : How to pick an accountant for your online business | fortuitous - As an experiment, Matt had his taxes prepared three different ways. The man's full of good advice on what he's learned doing MeFi for a job.
Jeremy Zawodny : How to pick an accountant for your online business - How to pick an accountant for your online business: more good advice from Matt
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16 month ago
43folders : Some lingering iPhone questions I haven’t heard answered anywhere… | A Whole Lotta Nothing - "Or am I going to be required to use CoverFlow at 65mph?"
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17 month ago
nelson : Guitar Hero / Ironman - Clearly I'm late to the party, but damn this looks awesome
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18 month ago
43folders : fortuitous - "It’s a new essay every Monday about some aspect of business that I’ve learned while running the MetaFilter/PVRblog/etc empire." Go, mathowie!
adamrg : fortuitous - Mathowie launches fortuit.us
Andy Baio : Fortuito.us - Matt Haughey's great new blog on becoming self-sufficient online
nelson : fortuito.us blog - Matt's empire grows with a blog about how he does business
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18 month ago
jimray : Online Favicon creator - Upload a gif/png, spit out an ico - hot damn, that's handy!
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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Confessions of an Empty-Nester - Confessions of an Empty-Nester: the tale of how a couple moved downtowm from the burbs
jimray : Confessions of an empty-nester - Couple moves from the 'burbs to downtown Seattle and are pretty much loving it
jcgregorio : Confessions of an Empty-Nester - Zillow Blog - I sometimes wonder if the city is the "new small town", and if this is true of all cities or just special ones like Seattle and Portland.
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20 month ago
43folders : Announcing the new weekly MeFi podcast | MetaTalk - Mathowie launches a MeFi podcast. Yay!
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21 month ago
Isofarro : Victory Declared in the Battle for Wargames.Com - MGM, producers of the 1983 movie Wargames complained to the National Arbitration Forum that Rogers Cadenhead was domain-squatting on wargames.com. Rogers has an ecommerce store set up there selling war related games. The forum, thankfully, rejected MGM's
jimray : Victory Declared in the Battle for Wargames.Com - Took on MGM - and won!
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21 month ago
43folders : Pile O’ Tips | A Whole Lotta Nothing - "When picking people up curbside at the airport, tell your friends/family to meet you in departures, not arrivals."
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22 month ago
43folders : Apple is the new NASA | A Whole Lotta Nothing - "The iPhone isn’t just a new gadget. It looks like something that will transform the way we think about cellphones."
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43folders : Crap I love: Wesabe | A Whole Lotta Nothing - "For me, the main draw was simply having a powerful web version of something like Quicken, but flexible like flickr or delicious."
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25 month ago
43folders : John Hodgman at Powells on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - More and more Americans today are not Matt Haughey.
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25 month ago
Andy Baio : Google Book Search increased book sales - hugely obvious, but most publishers are short-sighted, paranoid luddites [via]
jimray : Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan - Hey, waddaya know, Google's book scanning actually increases book sales. Who would've predicted that, besides everyone on the goddamn planet.
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merlinmann : Unattached spam | A Whole Lotta Nothing - Sometimes the mosquitoes get so annoying that you really DO need a machine gun. Nice one, mathowie.
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26 month ago
kellan : Jared is liberating the USGS maps! - Help out. #
gleuschk : Free the Maps - excellent idea
jimray : Free the Maps - USGS maps now available for free from the Internet Archive
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27 month ago
jimray : evhead: Massive, Tangled Up Tubes! - So. Good.
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32 month ago
merlinmann : Comments on 11301 | MetaTalk - Per-user RSS feeds now available on MeFi. Totally sweet.
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35 month ago
jimray : bitter pill: applescript + vonage = one lazy bastard - I sort of tire of the whole "I figured out a clever way to do this because I'm lazy" meme -- it's not laziness, it's cleverness -- but this is certainly handy
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