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mathodaon It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad

If you're an HP engineer working on webOS, given the commitment level your execs have to that platform, why wouldn't you jump ship? Startups, Apple, Google, Facebook, even Microsoft, may benefit in terms of human talent.

mathodaon How an explorer of the South Pole did his employee recruiting

Thanks! They got written about in the NY Times :-)

mathodaon How an explorer of the South Pole did his employee recruiting

Sounds like a good A/B test.

mathodaon How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power

I was interviewed (and quoted) by the NY Times reporter who wrote this article. He had read my earlier essay on the topic, The Coming Digital Presidency: http://mathoda.com/archives/189

mathodaon Ask YC: Best HTML Prototyper?

i use adobe fireworks for drawing ideas out of my head and textmate text editor to actually code the page

mathodaon Good book for economics

the best selling book is currently Mankiw's Principle of Economics (Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/6euszg). i highly recommend his blog too (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/)