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At the Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco today, Google gave an update of its rich snippets initiative - which adds extra information to Google search results. For example,…

A potential new customer saw a coupon code at our site and asked us for an additional discount on Highrise.

Initial draft of a response:

I’m sorry, but we don’t offer any discounts or special…

The picture above is of KFC’s new Double Down sandwich. If you haven’t heard of this thing, here’s the official description: “This one-of-a-kind sandwich features two thick and juicy boneless…

How Pixar Creates Great Films and Balances Art, Tech and Success

• Great companies need to balance art with economics. Tension isn’t necessarily a bad thing if it leads to a great product in the middle
• The need to control and know everything as a manager can stifle innovation. Having great people you trust is a far more scalable method.
• Playing it safe doesn’t lead to long-term, consistent success; staying in the middle — the “unstable” place where new ideas are formed and art, economics, time, and technology are all being balanced — does.

Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don’t need, though, is someone…

Christopher McDougall believes we’re all runners at heart. You’ll likely convert to his philosophy when you read his book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest…