Andrew Chen

I’m still on blog vacation but I figured I would reblog the links I’ve posted to my twitter account over the last week or two. You can follow me on Twitter if you like these! Many are work unrelated.

Anyway, here we go:

• Richard Dawkins and Derren Brown talk about “psychics” – fun set of videos: http://bit.ly/XTbB
• on-the-ground report of the startup scene given the recessionary environment from an ex-googler: http://bit.ly/BWKv
• presentation zen: nice lil video, shot all on cell phone, wins awards: http://bit.ly/6sVJ
• Will Freemium save Web 2.0? http://tinyurl.com/6p5ejq
• programming language that looks like cooking recipies: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/chef.html
• mobile CPMs collapsing, says AdAge: http://tinyurl.com/6p8d8j
• obama logos that weren’t chosen, some are still quite good! http://tinyurl.com/5c4bsj
• emarketer predicts down revenue year for myspace and facebook in 2009, 585M and $210M respectively: http://bit.ly/UVDj
• michael lewis (author liar’s poker) on jobs versus callings and a decimated wall st: http://bit.ly/zV8s
• hilarious basketball trick shot competition where lebron james loses: http://tinyurl.com/3qrtcg
• this kind of blog post makes me happy i’m not at msft: http://tinyurl.com/5so6ok
• New Malcolm Gladwell article: How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job? http://bit.ly/wm29
• great article on why there isn’t more transparency in the leadgen market: http://bit.ly/YB41
• watch a genetic algorithm try to evolve a car in flash, traverse the land without red circles touching the ground: http://bit.ly/fLgb
• creative! 3-d dominos sandbox: http://drawminos.com/
• comic: mostly i use facebook to send cutesy, useless gifts that require people to install apps that email them spam http://bit.ly/xEff
• funny video – chickens stop rabbit from fighting: http://tinyurl.com/2m5227