January 2008 - Posts

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Putting kids where retailers won't go by Tim Marman

I read one of the most bizarre stories recently in a local Brooklyn newspaper. The city wants to open a new middle school — in jail. Developers responded so weakly to a city invitation for ideas for retail and residential use at the soon-to-reopen Brooklyn...
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TheFunded brings more transparency to raising venture capital by Tim Marman

Asymmetry of information plays a major role in negotiations, and it is often said that venture capital investments are made under extreme information asymmetry. On one side of the table, the limited partners don't know much about the company, the VCs...
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Facebook opens up with a JavaScript API by Tim Marman

Facebook just announced a new JavaScript Client Library that allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site . In other words, you can start building Facebook applications are live outside of Facebook. I agree with Charlie that this move " makes...
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Taking the Plunge and Rediscovering Passion by Tim Marman

In my first few years in college, I took a few gut courses that older friends assured me were easy, requiring only 4 hours of work a week. I did terrible in every one. The reason, of course, was that I hated those 4 hours and avoided the work whenever...
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Friday Fun: Hillary's inner Flick by Tim Marman

Tim Lee on TechDirt discusses the copyright implications of this Slate video . The copyright discussion is interesting and worth revisiting next week, but I figured for this edition Friday Fun I'd share the video if you haven't already seen it. (It helps...
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What exactly is "User Generated Content"? by Tim Marman

There's an interesting discussion going on over at CenterNetworks , with Allen calling out Mike Arrington and co. for giving Digg the award for "best user-generated content". Allen says that Digg doesn't belong in that category (which he includes Wikipedia...
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Scoble, Facebook and Data Ownership by Tim Marman

I've sort of ignored the whole Scoble/Facebook fiasco, with people arguing on both sides who "owns" the data. Jimmy Gutterman misses the point a bit , because Facebook has already opened up the social graph through the Facebook Platform API. What they...
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