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chrisco

  1. @Boris Your were supposed to hear all that ;-)
  2. What the Facebook IPO should have looked like (an auction like Google did for its IPO): Bill Hambrecht on Marketwatch: goo.gl/A3j6R
  3. Amazing tight range in Bitcoin trading over past few months, complete with gradually declining volume twitter.com/chrisco/status…
  4. YouTube: "HFT Tractor Beam in Facebook (FB)": youtu.be/KrkH_WQxxEA (a look at FB's underwriter vs. high-freq traders)
  5. Ted Talk: "Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?" goo.gl/Qorwe
  6. Bootstrapping your project is as easy as brushing your teeth: "30 minutes a day": goo.gl/ieZwO
  7. An article esp. for my finance-inclined friends: ZeroHedge: "Double or Nothing: How Wall Street is Destroying Itself": goo.gl/PdBjM
  8. "11 Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with exmpls. from YC startups)": goo.gl/Hwieb (good, brief reference/reminder)
  9. Funny Xtranormal video: "Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech": goo.gl/umyZF. Link to Eratosthenes Wikipedia page: goo.gl/pq16z
  10. Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act. HuffPo: goo.gl/aOAhP WashPo: goo.gl/FvwCB Petition: signon.org/s/WpasPP #signon
  11. For all the geek parents out there: Wired's list of "67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10": goo.gl/O1YAi
  12. Does the Pebble Kickstarter goo.gl/RkYkI really meet Kickstarter's "Funding for creative projects only" reqrmt? goo.gl/SVDtz
  13. CJR: "6 degrees of aggregation: How The Huffington Post ate the Internet": goo.gl/2jDki (some GREAT stuff interspersed in this one)
  14. CNET: "This ISP pledges to put your privacy first, always": goo.gl/y4e62 (ah, something I proposed at FSCONS 2011 is now on the way)
  15. Decent Bitcoin article on Reuters today: "Bitcoin, the City traders' anarchic new toy": goo.gl/eZ2Lt
  16. I don't watch Shark Tank (or any TV), but here are some good reminders: "7 Entrepreneurial Lessons From 'Shark Tank'": goo.gl/cwuCx
  17. Showoff Apache helicopter pilot fail: youtu.be/FguAOoUg3ZY (38 second video clip)
  18. @TweetDeck Where did the feature go that let me delete a tweet that is appearing in one of my columns, such as @ or DM? Thks.
  19. @TheHiringCloud What WP theme are you using, I have a site I might like to use it on. Thks.
  20. @owasp Nice to meet you and thanks for the presentation last night, Jim. Have a great weekend in Paris!