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It's interesting how Facebook has such a keen eye to spot the next pivot and move their giant ship inch by inch methodically in the right direction. They did it with newsfeed for t…

There's likely a bunch of factors that go into it. Might even be a score that is updated based on your purchase, return history, length of having a prime membership, amount spent o…

especially the disconnected last line thrown in

yep, marketing turns a commodity into something cherished and desired. Literally everything is a commodity unless marketing has put gloss on it

All about leverage points. Being the middleman is a great leverage point on the internet - fb, amazon, google.

Its sad how very few if any news orgs will mention his recent loss of his mother and serious injuries to his father in a boat accident as a potential cause for taking a leave of ab…

http://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpr... Another notch in the history of Chinese/foreign labor doing great things to improve american lives :) >Winter 1866-1…

The verge usually does a 10 minute summary video covering the big announcements minus the annoying attempts at humor and banter

Shots for each time they said platform in the keynote will get you alcohol poisoning

Nope, they made a box

Isn't he the guy from the hello internet podcast?

Is this in response to the bloomberg article on how the new CFO over the past year has been cutting moonshots?

Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. Short(shorter than usualy for Google) term financial motives kill any far fetched ideas from ever having a chance. Wall Street demands up and to…

any inspiration from hypercard for the original name?

i would love it if he writes more :D

you are forgetting by the time this becomes a reality we would have all become perfect human beings with perfect ethics and morals and social responsibility just the way silicon va…

Walmartification continues, except with Amazon. Amazonification I guess

welcome to costco, i love you

This sounds conceptually similar to how teaching CS or teaching programming to some one later in life focusses on algorithms data structures and other "inside baseball" concepts ra…

I have a similar situation. I had created an account just for a specific client to share files via google drive. Don't remember the password any more and can't access those files. …

So if you were to build a time machine and go back to 2004 and told some one the following, which do you think they will believe: Microsoft joins Linux foundation and has a seat on…

Any good sources to read and learn more about this form of advertising? Thanks

The music to code by series from the dotnetrocks guys is real good too

feel strangely emotional about the end of the mission :(

Agreed 100%. Same was the case with Google maps download for offline use. They added that feature after a lot of feet dragging.