2012 Weekly Reading List
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 1 Jan 20112012 Personal Reading List
Short list updated weekly of articles and papers I read and found worth mentioning in 2012.
week ending 2 Dec 2012
- Looking to Industry for the Next Digital Disruption
- Sorry, Mom: The Toyota Avalon Is The Most American Car Made Today
- Costco's Dividend Tax Epiphany
- Heart Gadgets Test Privacy-Law Limits
- When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism
- Techmeme founder: Give me human editors and the New York Times
- The third industrial revolution
- The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?
- Intel post Otellini: The big challenges ahead
- LG seeks to be major fabless chipmaker
- Research Discovery Could Revolutionise Semiconductor Manufacture
- Learning to Love Volatility
- Making Cents
- The University Entrepreneurship Report – Alumni of Top Universities Rake in $12.6 Billion Across 559 Deals
- Automated Documentation for REST APIs
week ending 11 Nov 2012
- The Problem With Measuring Digital Influence
- NASA Builds Interplanetary Internet, Controls LEGO Robot From Space
- Retaining the Free-Spirited Employee
- Cars will be designed like chips, says Mentor CEO
- Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future
- Cypress PSoC supported by graphical design tool
- Disney purchases Lucasfilm in $4 billion acquisition deal, includes LucasArts
- The University Entrepreneurship Report – Alumni of Top Universities Rake in $12.6 Billion Across 559 Deals
- Diablo gets $28M to marry memory and the processor
week ending 28 Oct 2012
- Concurrency is not Parallelism - it is better
- What Goes Wrong
- The Hardware Renaissance
- Jeff Bezos: The Smart People Change Their Minds
- How To Be In Business Forever
- I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough
- Graphene on SiC: technology offers interesting perspectives for power electronics
- Understanding 28-nm SoC Design With ARM-Based Cores
week ending 21 Oct 2012
week ending 7 Oct 2012
week ending 17 Sep 2012
week ending 2 Sep 2012
- The Andreessen Horowitz Effect
- The venture capital model is broken, and this damning report explains why
- Five "Neglects" in Risk Management
- Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good
- VC Transparency Is The New Black
- Copying Works: How Samsung’s Decision to Mimic Apple Paid Off in Spades
- Fenwick VC Survey: Q2 Funding Valuations Shoot the Moon
- When Freemium Fails
- What Successful People Do first Hour in Their Work Day
week ending 26 Aug 2012
- The Coming Oil Boom
- Khan Academy Launches The Future of Computer Science Education
- What Comes After FinFETs?
- Disruptions: The Next Wave for the Wristwatch
- Crowdfunded businesses may owe taxes, too
- Skilled Work, Without the Worker
- Google chiefs could face MPs over tax avoidance schemes
- Forget the Web, Start-Ups Get Real
- NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch
- Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system
- Mystery malware wreaks havoc on energy sector computers
- Startup SimpliVity pitches super-appliance for data centers
- And Now Facebook's Bankers Are Divvying Up The $100 Million They Made Shorting Facebook's Stock
- Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds
- How Instagram Could Have Cut a Better Deal
- Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger
week ending 12 Aug 2012
week ending 4 Aug 2012
week ending 29 Jul 2012
- Idea to Seed Funded - the Planwise Experience
- Working with Contractors is a Key Skill for Building High Performing Teams
- Why Everyone Should Do Customer Support
- Fashion startup JustFab gets $76M to continue super-fast growth
- GoodData brings in $25M to supply Big Data analytics
- The economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband
- Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia
- Expensive lessons in Python performance tuning
- The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?
- The Sparrow Problem
- The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry
week ending 22 Jul 2012
- OpenROV - Underwater Robots
- What Exactly Is GitHub Anyway?
- AOL building refrigerator-sized data centers
- Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy
- Korean company's tiny quad-core ARM Linux computer packs a punch at $129
- Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs With 3D-Printed And Laser-Cut Keys
- The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit
- Asynchronous API in C++ and the Continuation Monad
week ending 15 Jul 2012
- Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager
- 10 mental traits of truly innovative leaders
- Malcolm Gladwell: In 50 years, Bill Gates will be revered and Steve Jobs will be forgotten
- Shorter Flights at Lower Heights: The Right Way To Angel Invest
- Microsoft stumbles into crucial financial year
- Music the Internet's Original Sin
- Born on the 4th of July: Will There Be Collateral Damage in Cyberwar to U.S.?
- How to Become a Day Trader | Day Trading Strategy with Lower Risk | Pt 2
- Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A
week ending 1 Jul 2012
- Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data - Just Not With You
- How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy
- Could Instagram And Other Sites Avoid Going Down With Amazon’s Ship?
- Researchers use spoofing to 'hack' into a flying drone
- A Weapon We Can’t Control
- Thousands of office printers hit by "gibberish" malware
- 'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web
- Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
- How Extremely Successful People Turn Obstacles Into Assets
- 9 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People
- Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work
- Someone is Coming to Eat You
week ending 22 Jun 2012
- Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
- Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria
- Alan Turing: why the tech world's hero should be a household name
- Bizarre security vulnerability can exploit every x86-64 Intel processor
- E-Commerce Is Head Over Heels for Pinterest, and for Good Reason
- The Most Annoying, Pretentious And Useless Business Jargon
- The Social Network That Cried “Wolf!”
week ending 3 Jun 2012
week ending 3 Jun 2012
- Thinking with Joins
- Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
- Money making Black Box machines in Financial Markets
- WiFi’s future: faster, smarter, and fewer cables
- MIT spinout Liquid Metal Battery lands $15M from Bill Gates, others
- Japanese MH-2 Shoulder Robot Wants To Be Your Friend, Literally
- How Big Data Will Disrupt the $9 Billion Music Publishing Rights Business
week ending 20 May 2012
week ending 13 May 2012
- Jason Horowitz and 'The Washington Post' won, and the rest is political noise
- Apple Reveals Wildly Intelligent Multi-Tiered Haptics System
- About Tango
- What Is and Is Not A Technology Company
- If VLC can ship a free DVD player, why can't Microsoft?
- M6 demonstrates power of non-linear and multi-screen
- Turning 60: The Twelve Most Important Lessons I've Learned So Far
week ending 29 Apr 2012
week ending 22 Apr 2012
- Mavericks Invent Future Internet Where Cisco Is Meaningless
- Code Not Physical Property, Court Rules in Goldman Sachs Espionage Case
- Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees
- What one line of code can teach us
- How to Fail: Mark Pincus
- Instagram Cofounder: Here's How We Scaled Into A Billion Dollar Company
- Behind Instagram’s Success, Networking the Old Way
- Wanted: Epitaphs for Hot Topics
week ending 8 Apr 2012
- The Dirty Little Secret Of Overnight Successes
- Exclusive: a behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering
- How Does Y Combinator Scale Y Combinator?
- What’s Next for Linux as Red Hat Passes the $1 Billion Mark?
- The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
- How Companies Learn Your Secrets
- Bootstrapped Startup Saves Over $100K By Dropping IE
- The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile
- Top 25 semiconductor company rankings reveal big winners, big losers
week ending 26 Mar 2012
week ending 26 Mar 2012
- Shopping For Zero-Days: A Price List For Hackers' Secret Software Exploits
- The Five Personalities of Innovators: Which One Are You?
- For High Tech Companies, Going Public Sucks
- The New Law That Will Turn the Start-Up World Upside Down: Crowdfunding
- Developing Meaningful Work: How Leaders Do The Opposite – Part 2
- The Era Of Multi Inventions: Maintaining Technological Innovations: Part 2
week ending 11 Mar 2012
- How redhat killed its core product and became a billion dollar business
- Video Pre-Roll Advertising: SOLVED
- The Importance of Brand in an Era of Digital Darwinism
- Research in Programming Languages
- Facebook's "man in the middle" attack
- Pair Programming Considered Harmful?
- The Personal Analytics of My Life
- The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley's Startup Boom...
- Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
- How Hard Times Affect a CEO's Career
week ending 26 Feb 2012
week ending 19 Feb 2012
week ending 5 Feb 2012
week ending 8 Jan 2012
- The 7 habits of spectacularly unsucessful executive
- I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore
- top 10 reasons why large companies fail to keep their best talent
- To create something exceptional do sweat the small stuff
- 5 New Management Metrics you need to know
- The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups
- 13 Ways to think about and crush your competion
- The start-up guide to building a killer sales team
- Why we need to hire fewer and fewer people
- The Ten Most Annoying Management Terms Of 2011
- 5 disaster moves to botch your pitch
- In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants
- The Rise of Developeronomics
- Can You Stream It?
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 1 Jan 2011
