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Wealthfront is an automated online investment brokerage that makes it easy for anyone to get access to world-class, long-term investment management – without the high fees or steep account minimums previously associated with this level of service. I’m singing their praises more and more these …
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Executive Summary / TLDR version: After a great 15 years I’m leaving Microsoft– my last day at the company is Friday September 14, 2012! Long and rambling version: Just over 15 years ago (June 30, 1997) I moved to Seattle to come work at …
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How difficult is it to re-develop a normal game into a motion sensing game? 1 answer on Quora How difficult is it to re-develop a normal game into a motion sensing game?
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So, pretend you’re a Hollywood studio executive. You’re trying to prevent your lucrative DVD movie sales business from being overrun by disruptive forces like online piracy, online streaming services like Netflix, and other rental companies. You currently make everyone wait 28 days from the day …
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The term “digital revolution” has been used to describe the phenomenon of how improvements in technology have broken down barriers to entry for all kinds of industries. This in turn leads to the leaders in those industries losing their advantage, their “special sauce” that previously …
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Last night I attended the the Twitter Developers “Tea Time” conference in Seattle. It’s a forum for the Twitter platform team to engage with their developer community, and showcases some of the most interesting examples of new businesses being built on Twitter data. I had …
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On my drive home from work Friday night, I realized I had finally reached a point of personal technology nirvana I had been chasing for over 10 years. I finally had in my possession a single gadget that addressed the vast majority of my …
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Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday – Computerworld. It, as they say, is most assuredly on. On Monday Google launched their Google ebooks effort, a direct shot across the bow of Amazon who already has a commanding lead (and so far, a superior …
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Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie Excellent memo from one of the world’s most impressive technology visionaries: Ray Ozzie’s swan song as he prepares to leave Microsoft. As an employee and a shareholder I’m sad to lose him, and in many ways I …