21/08/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Yahoo open-sources Google | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Open source is the highest stage of software capitalism. Even Web 2.0 companies are starting to fight it out through open-source strategies, as Yahoo has done with Hadoop. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: had
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21/08/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Focus Projects - A number of really cool design, icon and wallpaper downloads, including CoverSutra replacement cases. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: coversutra, design, icons, mac design
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21/08/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Excellent Demonstration of Photography with and without Flash - Thanks to Gong for the tip.
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21/08/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : kaourantin.net: What just happened to video on the web? - ooh, 3gp timed text tracks
François Nonnenmacher : What just happened to video on the web? - Adobe profiles its upcoming support of H.264 video in Flash 9
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21/08/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
joshua : Maximum Aperture of the Nikon 18-200mm Throughout its Zoom Range
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21/08/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
joshua : Jeffrey Friedl’s Photography Tech Posts - lots of analysis
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21/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
adamrg : Touring the HP Garage, The Birthplace of Silicon Valley - This is what I needed to see today. Anything worth doing is worth committing to, and is worth working hard at. The HP story attests to this truth. The struggle makes the victory all the more precious.
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21/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : JNJ BTW » Blog Archive » You’re Doing What?! - "So, I’ve now lived a classic corporate public affairs nightmare: announcing a lawsuit against the American Red Cross. Would I have chosen this exercise as a reputation-building opportunity for Johnson & Johnson? No, of course not."
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21/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : J!NX : Gamer Tees - Magic Missiles kill people Tee - Clothing for Gamers & Geeks - "It ain't easy being out there with all the drugs, violence, and maverick spell casting."
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21/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : J!NX : Computer Gift - Stop Laughing Computers are cool now Sticker - Clothing for Gamers & Geeks
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21/08/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Smug Little Shit Behind The Latest Internet Phenomenon - The Smug Little Shit Behind The Latest Internet Phenomenon: heh... The Onion on Zuckerberg.
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factoryjoe : RubyForge: RailsCollab: Project Info - RailsCollab is a port of the project management tool ActiveCollab (which is written in PHP) to the Ruby on Rails framework, obviously written in Ruby. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ruby on rails, activecol
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21/08/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
factoryjoe : OpenID in RailsCollab at CuppaDev - RailsCollab adds OpenID support...! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: openid, rubyonrails, activecollab, gtd, project management
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21/08/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
factoryjoe : NOTCOT.ORG - Weird and various design things. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: design
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21/08/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
factoryjoe : News from Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. - The announcement of Flickr's launch! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: flickr, ludicorp, announcments, web 2.0, landmark
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Ethan Marcotte : 5ON - "Bring back the troops. They look delicious." #.
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21/08/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Poor little Luckystrike - Level 60 Undead rogue griefing lowbie Gnomes with exploding sheep in Coldridge Valley.
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21/08/2007 @ 17:43 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : "____" - "No airplanes or Bodhi trees; just me and a machine and the occasional cat. It may be boring, but I am living my dreams." #.
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21/08/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : What Excessive Pay Package? - One of the best infographical commentaries I've seen all year. [via Information aesthetics] [via]
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21/08/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Surviving Immortality | PBS - "The Singularity may well bring with it the end of death, but I am 100 percent certain that taxes will survive."
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21/08/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : FOWA Road Trip - Future of Web Apps: Road Trip. Great idea, great site design. Nice job, guys.
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21/08/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : "That's not a bug." - "That's not a bug, that's a feature."
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21/08/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : This Way to the Web, Print Designers! - This Way to the Web, Print Designers! (Don't skip the comments.)
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21/08/2007 @ 14:41 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Northern State, You Are Fired - Good lord, how I missed Indietits. #.
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Ethan Marcotte : Atmostheory: Christopher David Ryan’s portfolio - I think In The Changing Light is my current favorite. #.
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21/08/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : @media Ajax looks great - Includes a welcome inclusion of accessibility issues.
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21/08/2007 @ 13:32 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric - More rhetoric than the pan can handle. Via Gina. #. [via]
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21/08/2007 @ 13:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : Font rendering philosophies of Windows and Mac OS X - Good little summary.
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21/08/2007 @ 13:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : Just Another Test Text Generator - Lorem ipsum generator without the fake Latin, for primarily for typography testing.
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21/08/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django and the iPhone tutorial - Django and the iPhone tutorial. How to install SSH, Python and Django on your iPhone and get Django running against the call database. Less complicated than I expected.
Rod Begbie : livinghardknox: Django and the iPhone - Quick guide to installing ssh, Python and Django on your iPhone, so you can run local webapps. OK, I admit defeat: I'm finally tempted to hack my iPhone and install crap on it! [via] #
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21/08/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Simon Willison : H.264 support coming to the Flash player - H.264 support coming to the Flash player. It looks like this is a response to the higher video quality offered by Silverlight. I wonder if YouTube knew about this when they started transcoding their videos to H.264 for the Apple TV and iPhone.
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21/08/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Simon Willison : XRAY now works in IE - XRAY now works in IE. Westciv’s smart CSS debugging bookmarklet now works in IE 6.
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21/08/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Do You Want One Social Networking Profile to Rule Them All? « - 'There’s talk lately of the social graph problem: “people are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site.” One proposed solution is to create an open, interoperable representation of our social relatio
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21/08/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
deusx : PHP: Filter Functions - Manual - "This extension serves to validate and filter data coming from some insecure source, such as user input."
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21/08/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Simon Willison : An update on Google Video feedback - An update on Google Video feedback. Google are now offering a real refund to everyone who bought a video, and are letting people keep the Google Checkout credit as well. Purchased videos will keep working for six months.
plasticbag : If you remember, Google turned off its TV distribution efforts and everyone who had bought things using its local DRM found that they no longer worked. They were 'reimbursed' with Google store credit... - Google have since reimbursed people. That's good. But this is the narrative of future DRM-based media collapses, only in the future when a company goes bankrupt you'll not likely get reimbursed for your lost media...
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21/08/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Selenium Remote Control: About - Saw a presentation on this at BarCampBlock, and I absolutely have to delve into it further. "Selenium Remote Control is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any [via] #
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21/08/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Backing up Apple //e disks over a serial cable - Backing up Apple //e disks over a serial cable: "I have backed up my Apple //e disks. I’ve been meaning to do this for about 25 years now, and now I’ve done it." Heh.
deusx : Backing up Apple //e disks over a serial cable [dive into mark] - "seriously, what can you say, in 2007, about configuring dip switches on a serial board plugged into slot 2 of the computer you grew up with? I’m as giddy as a schoolboy. What was I saying? I have no idea."
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21/08/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Beth's Blog: Thank you Tara Hunt, Chris Messina, and Citizen Agency for the T-Shirts and Schwag for Cambodia! - A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nptech, educational technology, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Deta
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21/08/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray HD DVDs - New York Times - More fun FUD that will ensure that neither format "wins". [via] #
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21/08/2007 @ 04:03 GMT
factoryjoe : furbo.org · MobileTwitterrific - "There are two things that I really want on my iPhone: Twitterrific and Frenzic. Last week I started taking care of the first one and am happy to announce a proof-of-concept." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags:
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21/08/2007 @ 04:03 GMT
factoryjoe : CocoaDev: UIKit - UIKit is the UI framework in the IPhoneRuntime, the equivalent of AppKit for traditional OS X apps. Most of the classes are more or less equivalent to their NS- prefixed AppKit counterparts. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give
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21/08/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : ipwnce - Google Code - This is a project started at C41 to create a Pownce client for the iPhone. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: pownce, iphone, iphoneapp, open source
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21/08/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Why Ma.gnolia is One of My Favorite Social Bookmarking Tools :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net - 'One of my favorite social features is giving "thanks", which is not a trigger for social gaming like Digg, but is an interpersonal expression of appreciation that really makes Ma.gnolia a friendly and positive social environment.' Sa
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21/08/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Tripoli - a CSS standard for HTML rendering - Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thank
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21/08/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : kyte: Channel View - Scobleizer: sponsored by Seagate - A good history of BarCamp as told by Tantek. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: barcamp, barcampblock, tantek, history, jeff lindsay, adam smith
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21/08/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Interrupt-Driven Life - The Interrupt-Driven Life: "Falling in love takes a shockingly huge amount of time!" and other stuff to think about...
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21/08/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
43folders : notes: The Sound Of Young America...is disappointed in me - "Either way, Jesse Thorn must be stopped."
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21/08/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
joshua : InfoQ: Erlang's Mnesia - a distributed DBMS for highly scalable apps - Erlang's Mnesia - a distributed DBMS for highly scalable apps
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21/08/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : Barry Bonds' legacy - The Onion writes the article I wish every newspaper had
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21/08/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Wiki Wednesdays / Wiki Wednesdays - "People get together to chat, learn about wikis, find jobs, talk deals and generally cavort"
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21/08/2007 @ 00:04 GMT
factoryjoe : Facebook messaging just got better | The Facebook Blog - Facebook now allows you send email to people outside of Facebook. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Facebook, email
tehu : Facebook | The Facebook Blog - `Now you can enter a friend's email address into the To: line when you send a message or share an album, and Facebook will email them the message.` -- unbelievable!
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21/08/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Andy's Blog: BarCampBlock: Social Network Portability - summary of Tantek's session on PSN. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: BarCamp, barcampblock, xfn, microformats
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21/08/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
Linkorama : BarCampBlock: The Grid - OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action.
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21/08/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
Linkorama : BarCampBlock: Review roundup - Lots of other people are talking about BarCampBlock. Here’s a link roundup. I’ll add to it as more stuff becomes available.
deusx : Infotropism – BarCampBlock: Review roundup - "Lots of other people are talking about BarCampBlock. Here’s a link roundup."
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21/08/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Aptitude vs Apt-Get - Aptitude vs Apt-Get: a case for why you should use aptitude instead of apt on debian and ubuntu boxes
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21/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Diet Coke is 99% Water (And That Is Now a Good Thing) - Diet Coke is 99% Water (And That Is Now a Good Thing): "According to this CBS News report, which puts soda revenues at $68 billion a year and stagnant, bottled water is now as big a business as soda." Holy shit!
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21/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Disconnects Grand Central Customers - Google Disconnects Grand Central Customers: As a commenter says: "This isn’t just evil — it is pointless, lazy, and short-sighted. WTF Google?"
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21/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sam Ruby: Sousveillance - Sam Ruby: Sousveillance: wherein Sam says smart things about social networks
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21/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve: "A box that many people can't figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design."
Rod Begbie : Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Joel on Software - As someone who installed Vista on a PC in January, and regretted it for months, I echo Joel Spolsky's summation: "I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary op #
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