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14 tracks - great design and concept - online music sales grouped around concepts of 14TiltViewerTwitter search for "WTF is up with" (via mediaeater)Twitter acquiring SummizePoketoZemantaTrendrrconversational search Read more

TipjoyAdNectarSeedcampBit.lyTinydb (and Quickerly built on top of it)Structuring unstructured data Read more

Screw all manner of betaworks' objectivity, this is pretty cool - John Geraci:Don’t have time to start a placeblog? Neither do I. But now, thanks to outside.in Radar, Twitter and Summize, we can placetweet. Placetweeting? I’ve got time for that. [...]  Read more

While eating Chicken Adobo at Cendrillion every other day for the past 6 months, we talk constantly about the value of data - how can an application or a technology create value to an existing or new group of users [...]  Read more

This week, I traded alot of emails with a great hacker in Barcelona, had a skype call with a CEO in London, and had lunch on Friday with a South African and a half British/half French guy (at a Filipino [...]  Read more

Paul Graham:The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity. And so it is in this case. There is a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup investing. Y Combinator funds startups at the very beginning. VCs will fund them [...]  Read more

Why did betaworks get involved with someecards? See below - Brook Lundy, co-founder. Read more

My list of most important apps/products of the last 30 years:*Remote control*MTV circa 1980-84*Curb-side check in*Caller ID*Email*Instant messaging*iPod 80 gig*EZPass*EpiPen*Metrocards on NYC subways*Suzuki method of teaching guitar*Senduit/Rapidshare/yousendit/megaupload etc etc Read more

Y Combinator's investor demo day was last week, out in Mountain View, showcasing the latest batch of companies that Paul & Co. have funded and worked with . Kind of blew my mind. Not because I saw 19 very interesting [...]  Read more