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Bought a new Zippo lighter today. I don’t smoke, but it’s handy for setting fire to fields of sugar cane to flush out enemy snipers.

Brush up on your counterinsurgency skills.

PaperKarma, Craigslist and unintentional disruption

I study and write a lot about disruption caused directly or indirectly by the Internet. It’s actually the key tenant that matured my wonder and fascination with the Internet beyond just the technical/geeky aspect but into the socio-economic. Most disruption is intentional, and it’s now a well-weathered story to hear about a genius young entrepreneur […]

'Avengers' game coming to Facebook

The Avengers are assembling on Facebook. Coinciding with the blockbuster movie swinging into theatres this summer, the Disney Interactive Media Group is releasing 'Marvel: Avengers Alliance' as a Facebook application-game in Q1 of this year.

From the notebook: musings about so-called ‘acqhire’ talent acquisitions

So-called “acq-hires” (when a company will buy a startup solely/mostly for the talent rather than the product itself) recently came up in a discussion amongst friends and industry peers. In my consultancy practice I tend to work with larger corporate/enterprise technology clients who want me to help inject a bit of ‘startup mentality’ into their […]

What visa type do you need, exactly, to legally participate in Y Combinator?

Hacker News has been buzzing with the story of Canadian citizen Zak Homuth, who was refused entry earlier in the week by US Customs and Border Protection to participate in Y Combinator with his new startup Upverter. His own account of what happened suggests that Zak made over-reaching assumptions as to his ‘rights’ to enter […]

Sword-swinging Sakura a great value

A princess is missing and everyone's favourite mustached plumber is not coming to the rescue? It's the truth, gentle readers.