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David Heinemeier Hansson, Darth Vader and Merb
The Rails and Merb web frameworks merged recently and following the announcement, DHH wrote an interesting blog post on his blog, Loud Thinking. You can’t and shouldn’t try to make everyone love you....
View ArticleTim O’Reilly on the global economy as a Ponzi scheme
Tim O’Reilly on the global economy as a Ponzi scheme: Since Bernie Madoff has put Ponzi schemes back onto the front pages, it’s worth considering whether we are all complicit in the biggest Ponzi...
View ArticleDéjà vu – a quote on a financial crisis
A quote on a financial crisis (via 37signals): The financial crisis in America is really a moral crisis, caused by the series of proofs which the American public has received that the leading...
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Banner art from IndieClick
One of our products at Transmit is Smelltu (an english version is on its way), a web-app that measures banner pageviews, clicks and ROI. According to Doubleclick, the average clickthrough rate (CTR) on...
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Datasmoothie is accepted into Europe’s premium startup accelerator
First we were lucky enough to be selected out of hundreds of applications to compete at Seedcamp week and present our startup to a group of investors and mentors from Europe’s most successful...
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The $3bn husband-wife data company you’ve never heard of
A pioneer in the world of data science, that usually flies below the media radar, is up for sale and the price tag is somewhere north of $3Bn. Dunnhumby was founded in west London by husband and wife...
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Albert-László Barabási and the people who loathe academic popstars
The AngelList syndicate network from an earlier visualisation from this blog. Is it a scale free network? Who knows. Some scientists really hate when other scientists become media darlings. In my...
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Our MVP is one month away – same as it was a month ago
Salvador Dalís The Persistence of Memory. Should be called the MVP time estimate. One of the good things about Datasmoothie being part of Seedcamp is the entrepreneurs they drag in to share their...
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