Thursday, February 24, 2011
(Founder Stories) Tumblr?s David Karp: My Heroes Are Steve Jobs And Willy Wonka
Some Internet wunderkinds don't bother to finish college. Tumblr founder David Karp dropped out of high school, and now runs one of the fastest growing publishing platforms on the Web. In our final segment from this week's Founder Stories (also watch parts I, II, and III), Karp answers some of Chris Dixon's rapid-fire questions in the video above. He talks about his best business decision ever (shutting down Tumblr's profitable, niche, Web development business), why he has trouble sleeping, and how hiring the youngest, most brilliant engineers will become Tumblr's "biggest recruiting advantage." We also learn that Karp's biggest heroes are "Steve Jobs and Willy Wonka." Jobs makes total sense. Karp grew up being "obsessed with Steve Jobs keynotes" and the art of "the reveal." But Willy Wonka? "It's sort of the same as Steve?the idea that there is this magical factory, and you can't begin to imagine what went into these things," he explains. And, by the way, he thinks "Apple is way scarier" than Willy Wonka's factory.
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Video: Chandra Captures the First Direct Evidence of Superfluids at the Heart of Neutron Stars
The cores of neutron stars are the densest observable known matter in the universe, so dense that a single teaspoon of neutron star core would weigh some six billion tons. That density makes them fascinating to those seeking to probe the properties of matter, and NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has made an interesting discovery doing exactly that, finding the first direct evidence that matter there can take on a superfluid state.
Superfluids are strange states of matter, typically forming at very low and very high temperatures, exhibiting gonzo properties like a seemingly gravity-defying tendency to climb up the walls of containers and friction-free superconductivity. That is, they are perfect conductors that don't lose energy during transmission. And the fact that they appear to exist at the center of neutron stars tells scientists a lot about nuclear interactions in high-density matter and the life-cycles of neutron stars.
The pressure within neutron stars is so intense that in the stars' cores, charged particles merge, resulting in a star mostly consisting of neutrons (hence the name). This pressure also gives off a great deal of heat. But in looking at supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, about 11,000 light years away, Chandra noticed an ultra-dense neutron star that was bleeding temperature at a rate of about four percent per decade, a rapid and anomalous decline.
The explanation, two independent teams of researchers have concluded, is that protons at the star's core have taken on a superfluid state, causing the star to cool more quickly than expected. Catching Cas A's superfluid neutron star at this particular point in its life cycle should allow researchers to test models of how the strong nuclear force works in super-dense matter and study some of the stranger characteristics of neutron stars, like glitches in their rotations and odd occurrences in their magnetic fields.
[NASA]
Room 77?s Hotel Database Wants To Make Sure You Book A Room With A View
When researching hotels for a vacation or business trip, a visit to TripAdvisor to check out reviews of a resort are a must. Pictures of rooms on hotel websites often misrepresent the exact size or luxury of a room and betting on hotels can be a bit of a gamble. But TripAdvisor reviews encompass all aspects of a hotel, including food, grounds, views, service and more. Today, Room 77 is launching as a comprehensive search engine and review site focused exclusively on hotel rooms. The hotel room database and search engine has collected and indexed data on more than 425,000 hotel rooms in 2,500 properties and is also crowdsourcing reviews and ratings from travelers. For now, Room 77 focuses on three star hotels and above and features information on hotels in North America and the UK (but plans to expand to other markets in the future).
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Mark Cuban-backed 140Fire Lets You Create Real-time Overlay Ads For Your Video Content
Launching today is 140Fire.com, a Y Combinator-backed platform that allows advertisers, publishers, and media buyers to create interactive ad content and polls to overlay on streaming or pre-recorded video. What does this mean? As you can see in the image above, 140Fire's real-time editor allows BMW (in this case) to create and serve questions based on what's happening in the video. Here, in the depths of March Madness, Kevin Love has just stepped to the line to shoot a few free throws, so the ad asks viewers "how many free throws will he make?" According to Founder Jason Wilk, this allows brands to collect data on what viewers are thinking in real-time and monetize those high-interest points in video content.
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