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February 2011

I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks (via @eastbiz)

I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks or when you make so much profit on every marginal customer that it would be crazy to not spend a bit of that profit acquiring more of them (coke, zynga, bud, viagra).

Great article! Must read for start-ups.

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How To Be Awesome On Twitter? by @princess_misia

Lot of common sense and #cptobvious stuff, but very well combined. Would love to see the talk on video.

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Finally a real docking solution for Macbooks?

Introducing Thunderbolt.
The fastest, most versatile I/O ever in a notebook.

Imagine accessing multiple streams of uncompressed HD video — from your notebook — at speeds that let you edit an HD feature film in real time. That’s how Thunderbolt technology will connect the next generation of high-performance peripherals to the next generation of computers — starting with MacBook Pro. Ultrafast and ultraflexible, the Thunderbolt pipeline is more than 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0, and it offers unprecedented expansion capabilities. It changes what you can do on a notebook.

The Thunderbolt port will give you plug-and-play performance with a whole new world of Thunderbolt peripherals, as well as with the Apple LED Cinema Display and other Mini DisplayPort peripherals. You can daisy-chain as many as six devices, including your display. And with support for video and eight-channel audio, it’s easy to connect HDMI-compatible devices — like your TV and home stereo — using the HDMI adapter you already have. Current VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort adapters are also supported.

Learn more about Thunderbolt

Hopefully. The Thunderbolt can do this and docking solution is painfully missing in the MBP line.

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Alluminium bumper for iPhone 4

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This thingy looks like a very nice option to protect iPhone 4 from drops. Would love to see it mounted.

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Shift 2 vs. reálne závodenie

Slightly Mad sa do toho fakt opreli. Už sa teším na hru!

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Crysis 2 Story Trailer

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Still only a Xbox360 footage, but looks very promising.
P.S.: I "may" be biased.

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Sandboxed IE Browsers from Spoon

These are sandboxed exe's from when spoon.net was Xenocode. You can run them in parallel. They are functionally identical to the true browsers.

Cool!

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