You may be thinking: “Who is Evan Williams? Should I know who he is? I have never heard of this guy before.” My answer: Yes, you should know who he is because he founded two of the internet’s top ten websites, and the latter has a $4.5 billion valuation. Or probably more if you are from the future. <– LOL. Actually, he has founded more than two companies, but he… Read More →
I’m personally interested in this list because I’m left-handed. I have being struggling through life because I can’t use a scissor correctly, it is impossible to use a popcorn scoop, I can’t play polo, I have to use my watches in my right wrist, and sometimes by mistake I raise my left hand when under oath. Sometimes we (the left-handed society) feel handicapped, but those obstacles may be the reason… Read More →
People are always complaining. Why can’t I drink at my job? Why can’t I celebrate a product launch or any achievements at work by drinking? Why can’t I blog can’t and wrute while I drinkk Boom! Domo!? (Not a typo. I know, humor in the web is hard to get or communicate). Well, your complaining days are over if you work for AOL. Every Thursdays, AOL’s employees participate in what… Read More →
If one day you wake up and feel like reading all the tweets posted in Twitter in that day, then you better change your career or leave school and do nothing but read the tweets for 10 consecutive years without taking a break. Why? Well, because it would take you approximately 10 years to read one day’s worth of Twitter post. Yes, 10 years just to read them all. Or so estimated… Read More →
When Steve Jobs was younger, he used LSD at least once. For those of you who don’t know what LSD is, LSD is commonly known as Acid. Still don’t know what it is? Well, watch the movie “Death at a Funeral” or let your friend Google explain it to you. In the 2005 book “What the Dormouse Said“, NYT reporter John Markoff quotes Jobs describing his LSD experience as “one of… Read More →
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The LAUNCH startup conference held in San Francisco on February 23-24, 2011 is an event for entrepreneurs to launch their inventions to the world. More than 120 companies presented their new products and ideas to investors and tech-enthusiasts. But the presentation that was talked and laughed at the most was Takahito Iguchi’s introduction of Domo, his new mobile app. The app lets you find nearby people with the same interest,… Read More →
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The first video ever uploaded to Youtube its called: “Mee At The Zoo”. It was uploaded at 8:27 on Saturday April 23, 2005 by Jawed Karim and shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. The video features Jawed Karim (co-founder of Youtube) talking about elephants and their really long trunks (the goat’s sounds at the background are hilarious). Before starting Youtube, Karim worked at PayPal and attended the… Read More →
Everybody knows 3M: the company who always come up with the most innovative products in the world. What do they make? Well, they make random useful stuff that we usually underestimate but are so essential to our everyday life. If you are a human and don’t live under a rock you have used Post-it notes. You use it for taking notes, for reminders, office and desk stuff, to bookmark a… Read More →
Many people think that Yahoo! started as a web portal and search engine website. But in reality, Yahoo! started as a simple website where its founders (Jerry Yang & David Filo) organized their bookmarks into different categories manually. Jerry and David created the website to better organize their research and reference sources (which were mostly online) for their PhD theses and all the other technical papers they had to write… Read More →
In their humble beginnings, Adobe Systems used to give a bottle of champagne to people they first hired. In addition, if the new employee had a female spouse, the founders (John Warnock & Charles Geschke) would take turns and hand-delivered a dozen roses to each of them. If the spouse was a man they delivered a bottle of cognac. They only hand-delivered the gifts for the first 18 months of… Read More →