No ei suuda ma siit NYC-ist piisavalt kiiresti reageerida asjadele mis Eestis toimuvad. Ja tegelikult ei olegi see nii määrav. Määrav on see, et iga inimene Eestis peaks võtma oma seisukoha kas ACTA või vähemalt selle ümber toimuva kohta. Täpsemalt siis selle kohta kuidas valitsev partei ja valitsus seda teemat käsitlenud on. Siin siis minu [...]

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Allikas: falkvinge.net Autor: Rick Falkvinge Tõlge: Peeter P. Mõtsküla <peeterpaul@motskula.net> Ma elan Rootsis, Stockholmis. Saja aasta eest oli Stockholm Ice üks linna suurimaid tööandjaid. Nende äri oli nii lihtne kui vajalik: nad aitasid hoida kiirestiriknevaid toiduaineid söödavatena, levitades kaasaskantavas formaadis külma. Talviti lõikasid nad külmunud järvedest suuri jääkamakaid ja panid need hiiglaslikesse küünidesse saepuru sisse hoiule. Hiljem lõikasid nad kamakad väiksemateks tükk...  show all text

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Nokia has just announced, according to Reuters that it is cutting down 4000 jobs in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it struggles for better profitability. Finnish Helsingin Sanomat expects that the factory in Salo will see some 1000-1200 jobs cut as part of downsizing the output to match demand in Europe. Even though the company is still the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, it is losing marketshare among the high-end smartphones where it is transitioning the production more and m...  show all text

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It’s a Twitterized world, we’re just living in it. Blog posts, Tweets, quick videos, Google+, the Facebook Timeline, and tens of thousands of images pinned to digital boards are flying past us faster than we can read them. Faster than we can even scan them, depending on the time of day. What does this mean for writers trying to cut through it all? At least two things that I can think of: You’d better know how to write a compelling headline You’d better know how to write bullet points that grab ...  show all text

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Often, after I give a speech, a new service business owner will hand me a piece of paper, on which eight or so almost identical versions of the same logo are displayed, and ask me which I think is best. Maybe one logo might be more curvy than another. Maybe one uses a slightly different font. Or, maybe one is a lighter shade of blue than the others. If they’re good enough I say with a smile, “Close your eyes, point at the paper, pick one, and get on with getting clients.” Their response is usua...  show all text

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Post written by Leo Babauta. I’ve trained for marathons, triathlons, 10Ks, a 13.5-hour challenge, Ubanathlons, and more. But my favorite fitness program isn’t one where you train for a major event. It’s where you get fit by a thousand little actions. When the actions are tiny, they are easy. You have no excuse. You can do them anywhere, all day long. I fold fitness into my life, like blueberries into batter, and it becomes a part of the recipe, not just a topping. If you haven’t found a way to ...  show all text

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We all know that guest posts grow blogs. But not many people realize that tactical guest posting grows careers. Most bloggers I see pump out these articles while reciting the mantra “quantity over quality”; there’s no real strategy and there are no real long-term benefits. In this post I am going to show you the seven crucial tactics for writing a radically successful guest post. Done right, these strategies will get you more email subscribers, coveted Google ranking positions, and a big head-s...  show all text

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When the maître d’ pours a glass of sweet, crisp French white wine to go with the next offering, I ask him why he wears so many hats in a restaurant that could afford to take on more staff. “If I just manage this place but don’t serve dishes, then what’s the point?” he says. “I want to see exactly how each customer responds to what we put before them.” When a company grows over a certain size its founders/CEOs tend to focus on the big – be if fundraising, partnerships, strategy – and let othe...  show all text

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A life well told is as close an approximation of a life well lived as I've found. Do you savor the memories of chances you almost took but didn't, adventures you packed your bags for but then never left the driveway?

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Briti ajakirja The Economist välistoimetaja, äsja Postimehe aasta arvamusliidri tiitli pälvinud E...

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Tech writer MG Siegler just noted a remarkable fact: Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. Think about that. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it's bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly. The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft. In the December quarter,...  show all text

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A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life? There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent  show all text

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Halfway to living up to its moniker with over 250 startups, 500 Startups held a series of demo days this week and last, where a group of 33 scrappy startups presented their wares to investors in both New York and San Francisco. As we are wont to do with these things, we visited the 500 Startups offices in Mountain View and interviewed the seven that we thought were the most interesting, from both an investor and consumer standpoint. The startups chosen spanned all sorts of market territory, from  show all text

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Somebody asked me the other day, what are all the possible ways one could increase the conversion rate? Is there a library of all the things that have made the difference? I looked for one, but couldn’t find it. So I decided to put one together myself. Here’s a list of 53 ways to increase conversion rate, along with an example for each case of how somebody did it. In no particular order. Find and communicate proof. Adding proof to the home page contributed a lot to the 400% boost in voices.com ...  show all text

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The wait is over: Facebook has just filed for its IPO. Facebook is looking to raise $5 billion— and will mint hundreds (perhaps even thousands) of employees as millionaires in the process. You can find its S-1 embedded below, or right here. Updating Rumors of Facebook’s public offering have been swirling for years, and have long been routinely sidestepped by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The company has openly acknowledged that an IPO was indeed inevitable, but has avoided giving...  show all text

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Man, have you ever really wondered Like why are we here? What the meaning of all this? —Outkast, Church Since Marc and I founded Andreessen Horowitz three years ago, we have raised $2.7 billion. That statement begs a few questions. The two most obvious are: Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? To get to the answers, it’s useful to go back to the original motivation for starting Andreessen Horowitz. After raisi...  show all text

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Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites. The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular categories such as home decor, food and wedding inspiration. Members can use Pinterest’s “Pin It” bookmarklet tool and iPhone app to save things they see online and offline, and explore and repin the images their friends  show all text

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AngelList was founded back in 2010 as a community for startups — part social network, part communication tool — designed to connect first-time entrepreneurs with respected angel investors. At the time, veteran venture capitalist and angel investor Mark Suster said that it was one of the most important contributions by the Web to angel investing “to come along in awhile.” He elaborated in a TechCrunch post in February. Many agreed, and some disagreed. Regardless, AngelList got hot in 2011, and N...  show all text

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Post written by Leo Babauta. We are often afraid of silence, because its emptiness feels idle, boring, unproductive, and scary. And so we fill our lives with chaos, noise, clutter. But silence can be lovely, and therapeutic, and powerful. It can be the remedy for our stress and the habits that crush us. If we want quiet in our lives, how do we create it? I’ve been exploring this myself. As a father of six kids, I have to admit that I don’t always have silence in my life. That’s not a complaint —  show all text

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Editor’s Note: This is a contribution by Sandy East “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ~Charles Swindoll I’ve recently dealt with numerous challenges that range from the ridiculous to the life-threatening. I’ve had friends telling me they “can’t bear to hear any more” about illness, financial loss, and an array of physical and emotional accidents that have broken parts of me, but not all. Every aspect of my life is changing: career, relationships, health, and beliefs.  show all text

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Hollywood is really mad at the technology industry for killing SOPA, their bill to equip the US government with China and Iran-like powers to take down web sites suspected of “assisting” piracy, without any due process. From their rhetoric, it’s clear that Hollywood still hasn’t learned anything from this. And then it struck me…why don’t we teach them? Since they’re so persnickety about licensing agreements, let’s amend all of our terms of use to require all movie moguls to use a special “Holly...  show all text

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The long-awaited tech IPO of the year — perhaps of the decade — is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. If it comes to pass, this will be the largest tech IPO in history, yielding around $10 billion for the social network. The next-largest tech IPO is Infineon, a German company that raised $5.9 billion in 2000. Google’s 2005 IPO, as big a deal as it was, didn’t even reach the $2 billion mark. SEE A...  show all text

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