Twittering

Twitter is gaining a lot of momentum lately. I'm not totally in love with it yet but I know a lot of people who are. Add me here.

Warren buffet quote

Quote from Warren Buffet in his latest sharedholder letter:

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful."

Hot and cold marathons

A friend of mine is running (literally) a marathon-campaign called EarthFireIce as a charity project to raise awareness of global warming. They are aiming at getting a million pledges on the website, and the twist of the project are the two marathons the guys will run in the Sahara and later in the North Pole. Pledge here

Max Levchin video on starting companies...

Great video of a talk given by Paypal CTO and slide.com founder Max Levchin about starting companies, particularly in the consumer space. My previous posting of this cut out but this is the full version. Its an hour long, bad quality but you really should listen to it. Embedded below and linked here.

CERN's 27km Big Bang machine

CERN's 27km Big Bang machine at the LIFT07 conference. Video here

The new UK Apple ad

I wouldn't normally post about a single ad but in the new Apple ad, they have created something commercial people want to send to friends and made it amazingly location-specific with exactly the right actors. [addition] quite a vitriolic take on the ads and macs from a Mac hater. I don't love macs particularly myself, I think its just a nicer screen and keyboard with better available software for music and video.

Nice creative DIY video on web 2.0

Nice creative DIY video on web 2.0