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Spreed:News Featured on the Chris Pirillo Show

Published on October 20, 2008

Last week we made some big announcements here at Spreed about some of our future and current products. The response from our users and the web in general was absolutely fantastic and I would like to thank and congratulate everyone for being part of a true revolution in the way people read online. Although I do not like singling people out of the crowd, I would like to say a special thank you to Chris Pirillo who put together a fantastic video review of the new Spreed interface. Thanks Chris!

Remember if you want to sign up for an early beta of Spreed:Docs, we only have 20 invites left. Click Here if you are interested in participating.

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes

 
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The Goodbye and FU Letter

Published on October 18, 2008

This letter written by Andrew Lahde departing from the hedge fund debacle, it is a fantastic summary of what is wrong with today’s world.

Today I write not to gloat. Given the pain that nearly everyone is experiencing, that would be entirely inappropriate. Nor am I writing to make further predictions, as most of my forecasts in previous letters have unfolded or are in the process of unfolding. Instead, I am writing to say goodbye.

The rest of the letter can be found on Tim Ferriss’s blog http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/10/18/investment-series-preview-the-good-bye-and-f__k-you-letter/

 
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How I Caught Up with Dad

Published on October 17, 2008

By Davy Rothbart

I think this article works on many levels, really makes you think about who and what is important in life…

His father had put on 50 pounds since retiring. So the writer issued a challenge: Walk together, an hour a day, for 1 month straight. He was trying to save his father’s life. Turns out, he changed his own.

For the full story, go to http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=guy.wisdom&category=family.guy&conitem=924d09749637c110VgnVCM10000013281eac____

 
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192 Lasers, Nuclear Weapons and Fusion Power

Published on October 17, 2008

The human brain is incredible…

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was built by the Department of Energy to gather data on the thermonuclear reactions that occur inside atomic weapons. And as an excellent side bonus, NIF (rhymes with stiff) could unlock the secret of harnessing fusion for unlimited, clean electricity.

To achieve these high-fallutin’ goals, NIF contains 192 of the world’s most powerful lasers, which wend their way through a series of amplifiers inside the three-football-fields-long laser bay. At the end of their journey, their energy is focused onto a tiny target about the size of the end of your pinkie.

When the facility is up to full-power, sometime next year, the physicists hope the lasers will fuse hydrogen atoms inside the target into helium, giving off more power than was pumped into them.

Check out the Wired Video blog to try and understand how the system will work… http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/video-podcast-6.html

 
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Buy American. I am.

Published on October 17, 2008

By Warren Buffett

THE financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity will falter and headlines will continue to be scary.

So … I’ve been buying American stocks. This is my personal account I’m talking about, in which I previously owned nothing but United States government bonds. (This description leaves aside my Berkshire Hathaway holdings, which are all committed to philanthropy.) If prices keep looking attractive, my non-Berkshire net worth will soon be 100 percent in United States equities.

Why?

For the rest of the article from NY TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html

 
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A comparison of two buildings…in pictures.

Published on October 17, 2008

Just saying…

 
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My Pumpkin.

Published on October 16, 2008

Here is a photo of the pumpkin which I grew. People seem to like it. (but seriously I grew this thing) Feel free to copy or upload it. S

 
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Report: The Hubble Telescope is Running off my home PC – From 1999.

Published on October 16, 2008

So the Hubble is broken again, and its running of a redundant system to keep it going.

Sadly that system is powered by a 486 – pre-pentium processor. The same kind in my home PC from 1999. I remember writing an essay about Roman Empire in word, it crashing about 4 times, and the s-l-o-w..ness of copy/pate (did I just admit that I copy/pasted and essay?).
Nice Job NASA.

 
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Spreed Just Got a Whole Lot More Interesting!

Published on October 16, 2008

The summer is coming to a close, but the Spreed team is more excited than ever. All your feedback has been phenomenal! Without you, our dedicated users, we could not make this application as good as it is today. Our Spreed team is hard at work on a number of new items based on your requests. When we first released Spreed we had the intention of only promoting it as a mobile application. However, we keep hearing that you like the interface so much that you want to see a similar look and feel on your desktop. In response to this we have completely overhauled our website and desktop application. This new and much improved site can be found at the same URL www.spreednews.com and we will be making updates to it constantly for the next while.

In addition we are very happy to announce the beta launch of Spreed:Docs. This exciting new product uses the same Spreed Reader as our news service does, however you can now upload your own documents. Spreed:Docs will be launching as a limited beta in the next couple of weeks. We have 100 invites to give out. If you want early access please click here and fill in the application form. Once Spreed:Docs goes fully live to the public all users of Spreed:News will also have an account at Spreed:Docs with the same login information.

This is a very exciting new product for us as we have proven the validity of our software using news as the primary content and are now opening up the service to handle any Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF file you wish to upload. If you have vast amounts of information to get through on a daily or weekly basis simply upload your documents into the Spreed:Docs document center and you will be able to blast through all of it in not time. Got a big essay to write this month or need to catch up on an industry over the weekend? You will have no problem getting through all your research with higher comprehension than ever before.

We cannot wait to begin building out even more functionality on both of these properties and look forward to hearing all of your ideas and suggestions for how we can make them even better than they are today. Please feel free to email me personally at Dave@Spreedinc.com if you have any feedback. And follow us on twitter and facebook for regular updates and interesting news on the digital publishing industry at:

http://www.twitter.com/spreed

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spreed/51827975076

Once again thank you and congratulations for being part of what Laptop Magazine is calling one of the best web applications of 2008.

Happy Spreeding,

Dave Coleman and the Spreed Team

 
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The Inverted Pint Glass Goes Mobile

Published on October 14, 2008

I found a very cool new service today called Mofuse that takes any blog or rss based content and creates a mobile optimized site for both the iPhone and Blackberry. On that notes, The Inverted Pint Glass can now be read by either of the above mobile devices at the following link:

Http://theinvertedpintglass.mofuse.mobi

 
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