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"One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what would the other 9 be?
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"The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples of such attempts include censoring a photograph, a number, a file, or a website (for example via a cease-and-desist letter). Instead of being suppressed, the information quickly receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks.[1][2] Mike Masnick said he jokingly coined the term in January 2005 “to describe [this] increasingly common phenomenon”,[3] the name being taken from a 2003 incident in which the singer Barbra Streisand attempted to use legal process to preserve her privacy, only to see the matter become far more prominent as a result."
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"This Google Maps mashup from the Scottish Road Works Commissioner has been designed to allow the public easy access to real time information about ongoing road works anywhere in Scotland. Users are able to find out how long the works are expected to last, which organisation is carrying out the works and contact details for that organisation."
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"As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important criteria for what he considered was good design. Subsequently they have become known as the ‘Ten commandments’."
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"While Spotify is totally awesome, it currently only runs on Windows and Mac OS X (and Linux, if you can live with WINE).
We wanted to be able to use Spotify in more operating systems and in more products. Let's just agree on the fact that it would be awesome if your random open source media center solution could do Spotify too! "
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"Maailma numeroina -taulukkopakettiin on koottuna 28 Excel-taulukkoon maittaisia rakennetietoja kaikista maailman valtioista. Maita on 246, joista itsenäisiä 195 (ilman Kosovoa ja Taiwania 193), ja teemoja yhteensä 265. Tietojen löytämistä helpottaa erillinen hakemisto."
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"Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile browser that gives you a web browsing experience exactly like PC browsing". Hmm, have to check out. Was it also for S60? Naa.
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