lambdaphant’s posterous

lambdaphant’s posterous

Michael Matuzak  //  Programmer by day, booze drinking calamari cruncher by night.

Dec 7 / 9:08am

How Did Israel Become “Start-Up Nation”? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

A key lesson from Israel is that innovation is not just something that goes on inside companies; it comes from a wider culture that fosters both innovation and entrepreneurship. Israel is a country of immigrants — there are over 70 nationalities represented in this tiny country. Two out of every three Israelis are newcomers, or the children or grandchildren of newcomers. The Israeli battery-operated car grid company Better Place was founded by the son of an Iraqi immigrant. The Israeli company Koolanoo — the third-largest social networking site in China — was founded by the child of an Iranian immigrant. The Internet music start-up FoxyTunes — which was recently sold to Yahoo for tens of millions of dollars — was founded by a young Ukrainian immigrant. Walk around Israeli neighborhoods, and you’ll find yourself dealing with Israelis from Ethiopia, Poland, Yemen, Russia, and Australia, to name a few.

Immigrants are natural risk takers since they were willing to uproot themselves and start over. In particular, the great wave of immigrants from the former Soviet Union in 1990 to 2000 brought to Israel a tremendous boost in engineering talent just as the tech sector began to take off. Israel is also the most pro-immigration country; politicians there actually compete with each other with campaign promises to bring in more immigrants, not fewer.

:) I feel proud to be working with the FoxyTunes guys.

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Dec 6 / 3:17pm

Christmas tree decorating

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Dec 6 / 10:51am

Cleaned atrium

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Dec 5 / 7:26pm

First pizza with our stone

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Nov 28 / 7:55pm

Trow

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Nov 19 / 7:58am

Dude, forget the piano. I'm making my kids learn the EIGENHARP. - hiphop-o-posterous, my lyrics are bottomless

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this is the coolest instrument ever.

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Nov 9 / 11:41am

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

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Nov 6 / 10:34am

Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales - Ars Technica

BlueBeat.com made waves this week in the music world by selling remastered Beatles tracks for a quarter a piece. Now, hit with a federal copyright lawsuit, the company behind the site has responded... and it says that BlueBeat actually owns the copyright on the works it sells. EMI is not amused.

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Oct 31 / 3:31pm

Titan

     
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Oct 26 / 10:59am

Reocities

Yahoo! has done an amazing thing by keeping GeoCities alive for as long as they did, but we feel that it is a waste to leave the Internet with a hole of this magnitude. At a minimum, Yahoo! could have simply left GeoCities as a monument to the early days.
Behind this minimalistic page stretches a wealth of Internet history. If any of it was yours and we have successfully recovered it, then we hope it makes you happy to see it restored.

We've rebuilt the walls to the Cities and the streets where a large part of the early settlers of the World Wide Web used to live in. You can still find them where they were before, but not all of the houses have been rebuilt yet.

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