pramanat

can someone explain this?

Reminds me of Gulliver's Travels where the Emperor of Lilliput appoints court officials by their rope dancing skills.

http://www.shmoop.com/gullivers-travels/the-lilliputians.htm...

Looks like the image was stitched together from multiple images, judging by the jagged edges at the top and the "fold" to the right of middle in the image. Very neat, nonetheless.

Perhaps a corollary could be that incubators also follow a power law distribution?

Josh, you might want to look at the Tokbox API to get the MVP out: http://www.tokbox.com/opentok/api

Aren't there some synergies they would be missing out on by splitting into two companies? For instance, their recommendation engine.

Intonow was spun out of Auditude which developed the audio fingerprinting technology, and Auditude has been around since 2006.

Very cool and a bit creepy at the same time. I'm thinking about Hitchcock's Rear Window. I'm able to see what my office building neighbors are doing (I think...).

Just tried it. Works. Don't know if the photos I'm seeing are from the neighbors in my office building, though.

Reminds me of my first programming job. One of my colleagues used variables named after baseball players.

"If a high school drop-out with nothing but a typing diploma could do it, so can you."

I want to believe it, but not necessarily true. We all have different abilities. The author is very talented and has acquired (and/or was born with) the ability to do business.

On the other hand, there is no way of really knowing, unless you try.

Age 12, BASIC on the Apple II at school. I learned from some books that had cartoon robots in them. Anyone remember these?

Good article ... looks like the author predicted something like the IPad.