14/12/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Anil Dash: Google and Theory of Mind - Anil's arguement basically boils down to 'just get a blog', similar to the republican's argument that healthcare doesn't need to be fixed, just let the insurance companies fix it, which they have patently failed to do for 30 years.
nelson : Anil Dash on Google - A very thoughtful critique of where Google is weak
Andy Baio : Anil Dash on Google and the Theory of Mind - I had dinner with Anil on my first night in NYC last week, and he made me eat pig tails and veal glands; yum!
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14/12/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
43folders : Is a day of rest good for productivity? | Ask MetaFilter - Great links
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14/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : QLPlugins - Quick Look Plugins - QLPlugins.com is a repository for Quick Look Plugins, which are available only for Mac OS X 10.5. In addition, I seek to provide information for developers seeking to create QuickLook Plugins and to power users looking to use QuickLook m
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14/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | On the importance of being megadata
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14/12/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
plasticbag : Myth in a New Media World: A fascinating piece on the naming strategy for Fire Eagle - Ah, if only. The true reason is much more prosaic. Still it made me laugh. Just to let people know, Fire Eagle will actually have a much more normal name when we launch.
Simon Willison : Fire foxes, fire eagles, fire dogs: myth in a new media world - Fire foxes, fire eagles, fire dogs: myth in a new media world. Entertaining over-analysis of Fire Eagle, the code name for Yahoo!’s soon-to-be-released geo location broker. It’s actually named after Ze Frank’s Ride The Fire Eagle Danger Day, as an [via]
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14/12/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
wearehugh : Namespaced ARIA markup no longer supported in Firefox 3 - mozilla.dev.accessibility | Google Groups - the ARIA clusterfuck continues
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14/12/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : SomaFM: Christmas Lounge: Chilled holiday grooves and classic winter lounge tracks. - That Carmen MacRae/Sammy Davis Jr version of "Baby it's cold outside" was particularly excellent
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14/12/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Burningbird » Iron Clouds - Shelley doesn't like it. Now if only DW and Russell diss it then we'll have the usual hat-trick.
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14/12/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Ambulance Chasing 2.0. - This is disturbing, to say the least.
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jcgregorio : 2005ltr.pdf (application/pdf Object) - Great letter from Warren Buffett in 2005, particularly the Gotrocks, but then again there aren't many corporate year end statements that quote country songs, Mark Twain, and Isaac Newton.
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14/12/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Amazon SimpleDB - I give Amazon credit; they're doing very exciting things with web services
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14/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : xml2json-xslt - Google Code - "xml2json.xslt is a XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to transform arbitrary XML to JSON."
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14/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
gleuschk : Sciencedebate 2008 - a call for a Presidential debate on science and technology
jcgregorio : Sciencedebate 2008 - ...we call for a public debate in which the U.S. presidential candidates share their views on the issues of The Environment, Health and Medicine, and Science and Technology Policy.
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14/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : How to create custom ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 - Apple gives official route to creating your own custom iPhone ringtones. Of course, they only sanction it for "your original songs", but it's a big step forward from the lockdown a couple of months ago. [via] #
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14/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : John Resig - I Learned Some Things About jQuery Today - "Maybe you should take some time to sit down and actually try to use and work with other libraries, because while you were out bashing and slandering us we were writing rock solid code, sharing, collaborating, and discussing the future of the web.&qu
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14/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : stompserver - stompserver. I think this is the lightweight message queue I’ve been looking for: written in Ruby and EventMachine, easy to set up (thanks to gems), interoperates perfectly with stomp.py.
factoryjoe : stompserver's stompserver-0.9.8 Documentation - Stomp messaging server with file/dbm/memory/activerecord based FIFO queues, queue monitoring, and basic authentication. Handles basic message queue processing. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: activerecord, ru
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14/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : E-commerce, thy name is mud - "My choices, then, are: extortion, impossibility, slow extortion, or probable scam artist."
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14/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mobile Web Design holiday pricing ends tomorrow - Tomorrow is the last day to take advantage of holiday pricing on Mobile Web Design.
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14/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : 2007 = Social Media. 2008 = Mobile Media. - 2007 Was The Year of Social Media. 2008 is the Year of Mobile Media. "Whether or not Apple corners the mobile market is irrelevant. Apple has proven that the mobile experience doesn't have to suck and in fact can be delightful." (thanks Chuck)
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14/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : 'w00t" crowned word of the year - In an apparent attempt to stay current with the rest of us, Merriam-Webster crowns "w00t" word of the year, precisely four years after most of us began using it.
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14/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : MooTools An open apology to the authors of jQuery, Prototype and others - "Olmo is no longer a part of the Mootools development team."
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14/12/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Baseball commissioner vows swift response to steroid user report. - To form a new prison farm league for Bonds and others to play in.
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14/12/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Flickr introduces global and per-photo statistics for Pro users. Yay! - Flickr introduces global and per-photo access statistics and referrer(!) listings for Pro users. Yay! [related]
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14/12/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
philgyford : Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers - Dawkins, Dennett, Sam Harris. (via The Same River Twice)
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philgyford : Facebook | My Privacy - The page for opting out of Facebook's Beacon "feature" that tells people what you've been buying on other sites.
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14/12/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
philgyford : Interview: 'Eine' and the letters he paints on east London shop shutters | I Shot the Deputy - I've been meaning to look up the story behind the letters I cycle past every day, and a photo by Alice prompted me to do so.
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14/12/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
philgyford : Russell davies: conference advice - Bookmarked in the hope some more obscure conferences are recommended.
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14/12/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
philgyford : Video - The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton - (A reluctant) Eddie Argos out of Art Brut singing along with the Mountain Goats at the Union Chapel a week ago. Made me very happy.
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14/12/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Two-Faced Django - Two-Faced Django. Excellent Django tutorial by Will Larson that shows how to build a polling application with an interface both on the Web and in Facebook. Also touches on unit testing and Ajax using jQuery.
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14/12/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : Trolltech Labs Blogs » QtWebKit Development Update
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14/12/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe - Talk and Q&A given at Google by Randall Munroe, author of XKCD. Notable for a question from Donald Knuth about 22 minutes in! [via] #
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14/12/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
joshua : inside looking out » What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB - some simpledb details - erlang? woah
Simon Willison : What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB - What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB. Amazon have finally launched the database component of their web service suite. It fits a bunch of current trends: key/value pairs, schemaless, built on top of Erlang. “Eventual consistency” is an interes
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14/12/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Digg - The Next Social Network: WordPress - "Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He’s started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to
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14/12/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : BuddyPress & DiSo - "I think BuddyPress could benefit from something like DiSo. In the back of my mind I’ve always had the idea of letting BuddyPress installations talk to one another. DiSo could well be the opportunity to let this happen." Saved By: Chr
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14/12/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Can we get a first step in social networking portability? « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - "But here’s a challenge for social networks: how about you all add links to other social networks. So, when I look up Dave Winer on Twitter, for instance, I could see that he’s also on Flickr and Facebook." Saved By: Chris Messina |
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14/12/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
joshua : amazon simpledb - wow
Simon Willison : Amazon SimpleDB overview - Amazon SimpleDB overview. Attribute values are limited to 1,024 bytes; Amazon suggest that you store larger fields in S3 and use SimpleDB to query metadata about those objects.
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14/12/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Hueniverse: It’s About (OAuth) Discovery - "I’m happy to announce the publication of the OAuth Discovery 1.0 specification first draft. OAuth Discovery enables partial and full automation of the OAuth protocol by using a machine-readable OAuth configuration documents." Saved B
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14/12/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Ma.gnolia Blog: OAuth Discoveries Ahead - More on the OAuth Discovery Spec. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, discovery
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14/12/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : appscript - Control AppleScript from Python. The prospect of using Python to hack on my iTunes library is massively exciting! #
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14/12/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Linkorama : Encouraging people to contribute knowledge - Further proof Google gets collective intelligence, but not collaborative intelligence. And they had to come up with something recommended ahead of Wikipedia.
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14/12/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
adamrg : Goodie Bag :: Trajan is the Movie Font
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14/12/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
plasticbag : It's a classic - the Adam & Joe parody of 'The English Patient' - "God you're gorgeous! Yes, but my heart is like a stone...."
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plasticbag : Flickr Stats has launched if you're the kind of person who likes that kind of stuff, which I'm ashamed to say I am... - Really nice implementation. Mr Hammond worked on that particular project I believe. Well done to him and everyone else involved. Elegance!
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14/12/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Linkorama : NewsGator Get Moolah - NewsGator Secures $12M in Venture Capital Funding and Adds Lisa Reeves to Its Board of Directors
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14/12/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : dConstruct 2007 podcasts have been posted, including my talk should you be interested. - I really need to get up the slides for it. I think the thing is that I spend so much time on my talks that I can't bear to just use them once. But if the slides are out in public already, people don't enjoy them so much. Difficult.
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