Here’s a good list to scan if you’re working on how to fund your startup. The list probably could be refactored to be half as long–some of the ideas are really variations of each other. Anyway, I find it interesting that Forbes is re-publishing Quora answers.
How Do Free Services On The Web Make Money? – Forbes
How do Free Services on the Web Make Money? This question was originally answered on Quora by Balaji Viswanathan.
So, 10 months, 26 months, 30 months, 45 months, 60 months and counting. Looks like a trend. Maybe Molyneux’s right–there will be no recovery this time.
The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Isn’t Scary Enough : Planet Money : NPR
One of the defining graphs of our time (yes, there are defining graphs of our time) comes from the blog Calculated Risk. It tracks the job market in every U.S. recession and recovery since WWII — and it shows just how brutal the the past few years have been.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkl3XlEneA
It sounds like Dwarf Fortress is more fun than watching golf on TV. Maybe it’s really just performance art.
Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time | Ars Technica
Who knew trying to build a virtual chair could lead to questions of self-worth?
Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game’s discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally “get into the swing of things.” One of his many fortress death spirals began, as the downfalls of society often do, with an immigrant dwarf who suddenly succumbed to a “secretive mood.” A short time later—kaboom.
The tentacles of spying state agents reach into all of our lives, but imagine having no choice but to invite a police detective into your home to open all your drawers on the off chance there’s something that could be turned into an indictment.
Fishing around for lawsuits
When the Department of Justice Antitrust Division sued to stop the merger of two beer makers last month, the complaint filed in court quoted more than thirty times from internal company documents.
The two companies involved (Anheuser-Busch InBev and Grupo Modelo) are private companies. How, one might wonder, did the government get its hands on their private internal documents, prior to making its first legal claim of wrongdoing?
