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ricmac : TechCrunch » Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists - Great list!
Linkorama : Top Five Web 2.0 VCs - Including Tim Draper and Pierre Omidyar
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19/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Simpy blog examines read/write patterns - "Overall, it looks like Read/Search activity exhibits a much bigger "hump", while Write/Additions are spread more evenly throughout the day."
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Paul Hammond : evhead: A smattering of mattering - blogs and feeds are not the same thing
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Paul Hammond : Really Simple History - we use a combination of hidden iframes, timers, and hidden form fields to detect various history changes and to persist history and location data in a way that will still be around if the user leaves and then returns to the page
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19/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Clean, cutting-edge UI design cuts McAfee's support calls by 90% - SoftwareCEO Feature - 2004-07-06 - user interface
jimray : Clean, cutting-edge UI design cuts McAfee's support calls by 90% - SoftwareCEO Feature - 2004-07-06
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Paul Hammond : Flexible Javascript Events - John Resig - addEvent and removeEvent
deusx : Flexible Javascript Events - John Resig - "This is the project page for my entry into the addEvent() recoding contest"
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19/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Tumblelogs (kottke.org) - a quick and dirty stream of consciousness
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19/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
plasticbag : They've discovered a zombie worm or some crap in the ocean or something. Could you care less? - How about if I tell you that BBC News translates the name of said worm as "bone-eating snot-flower"!? BONE-EATING SNOT-FLOWER!? That's so cool...
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19/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : An office inside an altitude chamber - What do you do when you have a 9-to-5 job and you need to prepare for an upcoming climb by spending weeks at high altitudes? You put your office desk into an altitude chamber. (Comment on this)
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19/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Sketchplanet - Art for everyone! [via]
Andy Baio : Sketchplanet - cute community for instantly sharing Flash sketches
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19/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Apple announces Aperture - Apple announces Aperture, professional-grade software for managing and manipulating photos. A little bit o' iPhoto mixed with Photoshop, it looks like. (Also, new Powerbooks...higher res, better battery life.) (Comment on this)
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19/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Linkorama : DFJ's empire grows - It is now raising new funds for (1) clean tech and (2) India.
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19/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Linkorama : The Web 2.0 open/closed debate - more to write about
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Linkorama : Orlowski on Wikipedia, again - Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems?
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Linkorama : Eurekster launches swickis - smells like wiki spirit
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19/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
WillPate : Review: Scott Berkun’s “The Art of Project Management†- Need to pick up a copy. Even though I'm not production, I can hand it around the office.
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19/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Canut Ki-in, club de go de Lyon / Simulateur d'influence - Interactive Go maps, shows influence and tension between pieces in color maps
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19/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
erikbenson : Today, why not learn about whales? - I love whales.
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19/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
merlinmann : Jon Udell: Attention economics
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merlinmann : NPR : 'Interruption Science': Costly Distractions at Work
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19/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
merlinmann : Micro Persuasion: Ten RSS Hacks - Wow. I hadn't heard of a ton of these. Some clever little apps in there.
jimray : Micro Persuasion: Ten RSS Hacks - Some good stuff in there
kayodeok : Ten RSS Hacks - Here, for no reason at all, are 10 RSS power user tips that you can use to enhance your life. Some of these you might already know, others you may not
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Eric Meyer : Windscreen repels armour-piercing bullets - I'm pretty much linking to this so I can say: "Transparent aluminum?!?!?"
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jkottke : The sustainable food movement and its problem with class - Gristmill reports on the sustainable food movement and its problem with class. "Demand for locally and sustainably grown food is concentrated in cities; but prices for farmland near cities are severely inflated by development pressure. Where farmland is c
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Richard Rutter : Ten Questions for Jeremy Keith - JK talks a lot about JavaScript and a bit about liquid design.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Flash-enabled feeds at Yahoo! - Flash-enabled feeds at Yahoo!: thanks to justin for making this happen
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jkottke : Aptonym - Aptonym "refers to a name that is aptly suited to its owner"...Ms. Banks who works in finance, Dr. Beach the marine biologist, Art Wolfe the nature photographer, that sort of thing. See also nominative determinism. (thx robert) (Comment on this)
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19/10/2005 @ 17:59 GMT
merlinmann : White’s of Henry Lane » Blog Archive » Instant personal intranet: just add water!
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19/10/2005 @ 17:58 GMT
merlinmann : Workflow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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19/10/2005 @ 17:58 GMT
Linkorama : WikiSpamWorkshop - State of the Art summary
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19/10/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Rod Begbie : HearFromYourMP.com - - "Sign up to hear from your MP about local issues, and to discuss them with other constituents". Fantastic idea. Build up a captive audience for your MP, effectively forcing them to speak to you, then giving you a forum to discuss. [via] #
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19/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Western Regional Climate Center - Western Regional Climate Center: useful resource for geting historical climate info
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Jeremy Zawodny : Multiplicity - Multiplicity: Multiplicity is a new program that lets you control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse.
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jkottke : Evolutionary developmental biology - For some real controversy over evolution, check out evo devo, or "evolutionary developmental biology". Its proponents claim that evolution works primarily by changing when certain genes are expressed, not changing genes themselves. Scientific American has [via]
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19/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Linkorama : Web 2.0, Community & the Commerce Conundrum - Read the whole thing
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19/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Linkorama : The law of the wiki - So much I need to respond to
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19/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : watchvalley.ch - Tourist info for watch geeks
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19/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Battle ancient noodle - 4000 year-old pot of noodles found in China, settling (for now) the "hotly contested" question of who invented the noodle. (Comment on this)
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19/10/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
merlinmann : Words Ending in "-gry" - Tempe Public Library
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19/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Google Mail in the UK: The story behind the new "Google Mail" name - You may have noticed the Google Mail logo. We are changing our service's name in the UK. Starting October 19, 2005, all new accounts will have @googlemail.com addresses. Don't worry, though – all messages are being sent and delivered as before
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19/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
gleuschk : Integral Closure of Ideals, Rings, and Modules - a book in progress
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gleuschk : Your student fee...: HillTV's 'Over the Hill' prompts re-evaluation of programming - idjits
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19/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Genetics still promising, but struggling - In the five years since the sequencing of the human genome, "much of the data have little immediately useful meaning, and the research has produced only a trickle of medicine". And where medical science has failed, hucksters have filled the gap. (Comment
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Nelson Minar : Clock of the Long Now - nice update on the project, with photos (via Slashdot)
jkottke : The 10,000 year clock - Discover Magazine on a prototype of the fascinating 10,000-year clock being built by Danny Hillis and The Long Now Foundation. Here's more info on the prototype and some photos from its launch party. (Comment on this)
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19/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Earth from the Air - Stunning aerial photography exhibitions in UK.
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19/10/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : SF burrito reviews - Man, I'm missing this (via Metafilter)
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19/10/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : iKudzu - QuickTime getting the Real treatment! Erk :(
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19/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
jimray : Genuine VC: Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup
WillPate : Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup
Nelson Minar : Joining a startup? - Questions to ask (via populicious)
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19/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
WillPate : Ideas for Startups
Linkorama : Ideas for Startups - Ideas are the easy part
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19/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : GPS photo linking - Still early stages on this tech
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19/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Mass games video - Not great quality, but it's the real deal (via BoingBoing)
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19/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : kasumi fight stance in xbox360 graphics - Take THAT Sony
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19/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Footnotes vs. Sidenotes - If your design can accommodate them, sidenotes are way cool. Beau shows how (and be sure to read the follow-on post).
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jimray : Rising from ruin - MSNBC.com - Kevin Sites may be prettier than us, but we got better content, yo
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19/10/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : American broadband is a rip-off
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19/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Animated Boobs - Animated Boobs: it's just what you think it is
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19/10/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
merlinmann : See Also: "Getting Things Done" Lunch & Learn session
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19/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : ideas for guessing a password
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Time Warner earns $2 million per year from the song Happy Birthday
deusx : Unhappy Birthday - "Unhappy Birthday is a grassroots project run by citizens who are outraged by rampant copyright infringement in today's society particularly in relation to the song Happy Birthday."
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19/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : virtual wifi, connect to multiple wifi networks at the same time with one card
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19/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Scryer: Django page-view counter - Simple but informative Django recent stats package.
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19/10/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
WillPate : evhead: Three things matter - I think to be a successful entrepreneur only 3 things matter
Paul Hammond : evhead: Three things matter - Strong conviction that your product/service is going to make a positive difference
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19/10/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : Chad Dickerson’s blog » Blog Archive » Web 0.1 head-to-head: 37Signals’ Backpackit vs. Gmail in Lynx - The winner by a landslide: 37Signals’ Backpackit. Nice job
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Paul Hammond : People that say they are a badass usually aren't | A Whole Lotta Nothing - Show, don't tell
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Paul Hammond : Andy Budd::Blogography: d.Construct – Europe’s First Grassroots Web 2.0 Conference - I thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to bring together some of the pioneers in the field to talk about what is happening today and how things are likely to develop over the next few years
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19/10/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Blackbeltjones/Work: » Paul Smith = patron saint of Web X.X - A web of a different stripe, oddly reminiscent of a PS shirt
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Paul Hammond : Russell Beattie Notebook » Anonymity - most people default to anonymity first, and have to be coaxed into expressing themselves personally afterwards
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Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Google Maps and Their Data Providers - it's a safe bet that Google has had a battle with NAVTEQ to offer their free API.
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Paul Hammond : wg:A (slightly) better technique for "Back to Top" links. - Overkill? Perhaps.
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Paul Hammond : Getting Real: Take it slow if you need it fast - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - You will never have time right now if you don’t take it today
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Paul Hammond : The truth about Google's so-called "simplicity" - Anybody can make a simple-looking interface if the system only does one thing
jimray : The truth about Google's so-called "simplicity"
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jkottke : The secret of great pitching - By watching tapes of old baseball games, a New York illustrator has discovered the secret of great pitchers. "Witte's scientific theory, the specifics of which he refuses to divulge, has something to do with how successful pitchers keep their gloves eleva
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