In The Extended Mind, Andy Clark and David Chalmers discuss the possibility of extended minds; coupled systems in which a human organism produces cognition, beliefs, and thoughts with the aid of external entities. Clark and Chalmers give the example of Otto, a man suffering from Alzheimer’s who uses a notebook to record his thoughts and [...]
Lifehacker is having a best-of-the-best poll for people’s favorite application launcher programs. In the lead are Launchy (Windows), Quicksilver (Mac), Find and Run Robot (Windows), GNOME Do (Linux), and RocketDock (Windows). The Windows apps have many, many more users so they’re accumulating many more votes. Please vote for Do to show your love and demonstrate [...]
Company make Flikr knock-off.
Company valued at $3 million.
Company raise $11.5 million in venture capital.
Company go boom when venture capitalists want out six months later.
A great debate about the situation can be found here. Some facts not included in the original blog article:
FilmLoop had been trying for 1.5 years to come up with a viable revenue [...]
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