There’s this thing in technology, almost a disease, where the definition of success is making the most. How many clicks did you get, how many active users do you have, how many units did you sell? Everybody in technology seems to want big numbers. Steve never got carried away with that. He focused on making the best.
Today, around 75% of all IKEA’s product images are CG, and they have a ‘bank’ of about 25,000 models.My mind is completely blown. Spend some time looking through those photos err images. They are all CG.
Yesterday we released Hyperlapse from Instagram—a new app that lets you capture and share moving time lapse videos. Time lapse photography is a technique in which frames are played back at a much faster rate than that at which they’re captured. This allows you to experience a sunset in 15 seconds…
Really cool stuff…
Looking back, Prodigy’s technology felt like a centralized, parallel universe Internet where technologies looked very, very similar to what we know now but are in fact fundamentally different—like lifting the hoods of two identical-looking cars and finding a diesel engine under one and a gasoline engine under the other. They both get you there, but in different ways. Even so, the similarities were close enough that patents, legal precedents, and online techniques forged from the Trintex and Prodigy partnerships still loom over the Internet in ways that few in the public understand.
Actor and comedian Norm MacDonald contributed a remembrance that may be the sweetest Williams story yet, involving a terrified MacDonald about to perform for David Letterman for the first time.
Consider my mind blown. I’m surprised 2.3 million people still know that AOL still has the ability to be an ISP.Tim Armstrong’s company says its subscription business generated $143 million in “Adjusted OIBDA” – its proxy for operating income — last quarter. That’s more than the $121 million in Adjusted OIBDA that the entire company generated.
BB has been giving a lot of praise recently. He’s not getting soft I hope.“I feel like Tom and I do have a good relationship and I have a lot of respect for Tom. No other quarterback I’d rather have quarterbacking our team than Tom Brady. I guess that’s the best way I could sum it up.”
Fantastic is the only way to describe this site.
Get your childhood jam on
Too often PMs try to impress their engineers with their technical acumen, but in my experience engineers are much more impressed with PMs who are willing to ask questions and say “I don’t understand that.”
Way to state the obvious! Seriously though, worth a read. Fascinating to see how ‘nuts’ data and marketing are getting.Here’s the short version: Everyone in advertising is buying exhaustive records of your purchases—all your purchases—and comparing them to your viewing habits so that they know which ads you saw and whether or not they changed your behavior.