Archive for June, 2010

The video of the day: This Japanese unmanned spacecraft called Hayabusa returned from a seven-year, 1.25 billion-mile trip, and plunged to earth in spectacular fireball … all captured from a NASA DC-8 airborne laboratory. The video is a fireball of its own now on YouTube. Take a look.

The good news, the samples and research the Hayabusa gathered from a comet called Itokawa, returned safely in a canister that survived the reentry and landed in South Australia.

Tech investor Fred Wilson breaks down and explains how to create a successful web application. The top ten:
1. Speed
2. Instant Utility
3. Software is Media
4. Less is More
5. Make it Programmable
6. Make it Personal
7. RESTful
8. Discoverability
9. Clean
10. Playful

Much better though to hear him tell it:

Get the full transcript here