A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
Read the article on NY Times written by Steve Jobs’ sister. Moving.
“Be social by design - put people at the center, and start there.”
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
From ANA keynote live stream, Oct 22, 2011
Toronto Tempo
Time lapse video of various Toronto scenes, by Ryan Emond. Beautiful.
“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.”
– Ester Buchholz
The Power of Tablets
This says it all. 1-yr old baby thinks a magazine is a “broken” tablet.
“If you told Don Draper that campaigns as he knew them would die in his lifetime, he would have fired you. Even today, in 2011, after being hit over the head with consumer empowerment, the ad industry is still reluctant to face a very stark reality: it’s no longer the advertiser that controls the message, it’s the recipient.”
- Eric Wheeler, Co-Founder, 33Across
http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/ad-campaigns-dead/230213/
Pumped Up Kicks
This songs tends to get stuck in your head. Sweet video too.
Landscapes in HD
HD video of natural landscapes. Just think: the technology (cameras, video codecs, fast internet and fast CPUs to play it back) has all come together in the past 5 years. Amazing.
“Most of our political leaders are not engineers or scientists and do not listen to engineers or scientists. Today a letter from Einstein would get lost in the White House mail room, and the Manhattan Project would not even get started; it certainly could never be completed in three years.”
– Peter Thiel, Founder, PayPal
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278758/end-future-peter-thiel
Nginx Gets Commercial Backing
Nginx, the free, open source Russian web server I’ve become intimate with over the past 4 years, gets VC funding in prep for going commercial. This is one of the gems of the open source software world.
“Specifically, Alexeev wanted server software that could maintain up to 10,000 concurrent connections per server, which at the time was not possible. An average connection executed through Apache can take several megabytes of working memory, whereas a connection on Nginx can be only consume a few kilobytes, which means Nginx can manage more connections per server, Alexeev explained.”
