Someone was wrong. But at least it’s a clean interface and not, like, MySpace spam. If you’re thinking of doing this to preserve your Friendster testimonials, may we suggest an embroidered pillow instead?
Startup svengali Paul Graham has a favorite maxim for entrepreneurs. Instead of searching for a great idea, focus on a problem you experience in your own life, then try to solve it.
The best salesman in the world can’t land a deal until there is a client to hear his pitch. That was the daily frustration for Ray Swyers, a middle-aged salesman of mind-numbingly boring compliance software that helps big corporations manage risk.
First there was the difficulty of finding a phone number for his mark, then getting past the receptionist. Emails he sent typically disappeared with no reply. So Swyers set out to invent a system that would allow him to discover the direct line to anyone, at any company in the world. Read More
It’s okay, you can admit it, you love ads. It’s just human nature.
So says Scott Kurnit, CEO of AdKeeper, in a lengthy op-ed in All Things Digital today.
AdKeeper is a New York startup that plans to seed the web with a button that lets users save ads they love Read More
Designer Daniel Arsham’s 90-square-foot apartment sits above the office of his design shop Snarkitecture at 60 Box Street in Greenpoint. He calls it Box/Box, and it’s a design experiment as well as his permanent residence.
The space is a converted storage loft that now includes a closet and bedroom accessed via a Read More
113 Spring is a staple of the New York tech scene, home to a handful of quickly-rising startups. On Wednesday night, there was PBR.
About 50 people from the New York Viral Meetup drank cans on the second floor, in the red-walled office of meme-maker BuzzFeed. Their eyes were on the Power Read More
