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Imagine a florist who sells roses along with a air-tight cardboard box, and stipulates that the buyer sit inside this box every time he wants to smell this rose (so that others who…

When I look for flights, I check bing, kayak, orbitz as well as hipmunk. Which one do I prefer? Simple: the one that gives me the best fare. Unfortunately it ends up being a differ…

Interesting. 1998: Amazon acquires price comparison site junglee.com from Indian cofounders (later of kosmix/walmart labs fame). 2012: Amazon launches price comparison site for Ind…

Give them a break. Facebook first started reporting the active user counts at least 5 years after launch. Let us give G+ at least a year. A separate issue is how to accurately trac…

More pictures (Wormhole launch party at the Stanford cafe): http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanfordeng/6323012297/in/photo...

Here's an easier url (goes to the same .apk): http://j.mp/firedroid

Meanwhile Facebook is out talent-scouting at the White House: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/facebook-may-hire-rob...

The positioning of the dropdown clearly has a lot of influence on the results. People are horrible random number generators! In this case, people are unlikely to choose the ends (1…

I liked the tenant-rent analogy xlarge:large:small::house:room:couch. tl;dr version: The author is insinuating that Reddit doesn't have enough money to rent a house, so its renting…

It is because Twitter posts are public, and free for Google to use, unlike Facebook posts.

I hope Google learns from Buzz, and makes this an "explicit" opt-in. The blog post says that it will be only enabled if the user's Google account is signed in. But a user's Google …

Here's the tool: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ I just found that misunderestimate was not invented by Bush but the word predates him by a century http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph…