9/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Linkorama : 11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft - Blizzard Entertainment, the envy of the computer game industry, has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business.
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9/04/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : ThinkGeek :: 1.3 Megapixel Spy Camera Sunglasses - "These camera sunglasses certainly aren't x-ray specs, but they do capture 1.3 megapixel still images (at a resolution of 1280x1024)."
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9/04/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
joshua : opentick - free real-time and historical market data for trading systems and trading platforms
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9/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Computer Science Unplugged - Simple worksheets to explain CompSci concepts like text compression or sorting algorithms. Pretty nifty. [via] #
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9/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Become a victim of the OBSIDIAN blackout — and make history | 7th Son: J.C. Hutchins' Podcast Novel Trilogy - "Now, you’re not an actor. You’re not a movie director. But you’re more than capable of creating creative, compelling, “authentic” content, because you are a creative, compelling, authentic individual. Be confident in your abilities. I have
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9/04/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Commodity cloud hosting - Doug Cutting, one of the smartest engineers I've ever met, argues for the importance of non-proprietary cloud computing technologies
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9/04/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Absolutely Everything DVD Box Set - The superb 90s sketch show Absolutely is finally getting a complete DVD release. Hurrah! #
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9/04/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : How computers worked in ye olde tymes - How computers worked in ye olde tymes.
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9/04/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Multiple SIDosis - Oddly experimental and yet totally square video of multitrack recording and splitscreen film.
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9/04/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : SIDosis on Youtube - save yourself the trouble of downloading this crazy experimental film
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9/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Thanks to Hulu, the world no longer has an excuse for not watching Arrested Development. - Sometimes the Internet just gives and gives and gives.
Andy Baio : Hulu posts all three seasons of Arrested Development - I've really been enjoying Hulu lately; popular episodes today and newly-added feature films [via]
mmb : Hulu - Arrested Development - Full Episodes streaming online for free - Hulu - Arrested Development - Full Episodes streaming online for free
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9/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Baking in Guinea. - For She Who Bakes At Home.
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9/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
jcgregorio : The Thing About Git - Good info, I even learned stuff about bzr.
joshua : The Thing About Git
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Jeremy Zawodny : Former Yahoo Exec to OpenX; OpenX to L.A. - Former Yahoo Exec to OpenX; OpenX to L.A.: "Former Yahoo senior vice president Tim Cadogan will take the CEO job at OpenX, the popular open-source ad server startup..."
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : A quick look at Mental Models. - The cover alone makes it a must have additional to the Airbag library.
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : The Gold Kit surprise. - As seen on TV.
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : China insists on bringing the Olympic torch through Tibet. - I think they're confused. Historically, monks have burned themselves in protest, not the other way around.
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Greg Storey : Swissmiss, SimpleBits, and The Big Noob join Authentic Jobs. - Welcome peeps, watch your wallet around that Croft guy.
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Khoi prefers his apps "offline", thank you very much. - I concur.
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Greg Storey : Write like a blogger. - Kevin, you should consider sending this directly to your customers. All of them.
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Hey Shrub, how about bringing the war a little closer to home? - Unless...are we...is that War on Terror still going on or is it just Iraq now?
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Tourist photos of North Korea. - Meh, the grays could use a little more saturation.
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Khoi Vinh : Wired: Ten Night Photos Taken by Readers - Some are gorgeous. Some are cheesy.
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
jcgregorio : "Worst. President. Ever." by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) - """But does Bush actually come in dead last? Yes. History News Network’s poll of 109 historians found that 61 percent of them rank Bush as “worst ever” among U.S. presidents."""
Greg Storey : Blood tests prove that Bush is the worst U.S. President ever. - And by blood tests I mean a vote by sweater wearing historians.
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jcgregorio : Man whose house was hit by five meteors believes he is targetted by aliens - Boing Boing - Somewhere out there is a teenager with a catapult, a cache of meteorites, and a twisted sense of humor.
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
jcgregorio : FT.com / World - Iceland counters alleged attacks - "Iceland’s Financial Supervisory Authority has begun an official investigation into alleged speculative attacks by international hedge funds on the country’s currency and stock market, according to people close to the probe." By Bear Stearns
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Cameron Moll : Brian Fling, Fling Media revived - Brian Fling has left Blue Flavor to revive Fling Media full-time. Lots to love about the one-pager he's put together -- static footer, Send Us A Note widget, and solid design overall.
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Cameron Moll : NYT: IPhone Users Love That Mobile Web - NYT: IPhone Users Love That Mobile Web. "84.8 percent of iPhone users report accessing news and information from the hand-held device. That compares to 13.1 percent of the overall mobile phone market and 58.2 percent of total smartphone owners." (thanks C
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Speaking the language of social applications in the enterprise - Eugene Lee, the CEO of SocialText, which offers an enterprise wiki, could be the person that turns social apps into business apps and communicate the benefits to a business audience.
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9/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
jonhicks : Westcote Inn - Cotswold Accommodation and restaurant situated in Nether Westcote
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9/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Lies I've told my 3 year old recently - Sadness can be eaten. [via]
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Greg Storey : Spring training. - Look out Bonds, you're record is going down—in a few years.
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9/04/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Greg Storey : On buying Cloverfield on DVD. - "Don't."
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9/04/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Open Architecture Network. - I hope this works as well as it looks.
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Greg Storey : Heller's piece on Al Gore's new logo would be better suited for Highlights magazine. - Nevermind that the logo was ripped from a Converse campaign.
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Greg Storey : The advertising/PR community weighs in on Mark Penn's boot from the Clinton campaign. - Tailspin '08.
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9/04/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Greg Storey : I love the tones in Miraruido's work. - So Sparta.
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9/04/2008 @ 16:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Waxy.org Redesigns - For the first time since I started blogging in 2002, I've redesigned Waxy.org. Over the last six years, I've grown pretty sick of the old design but never found the time to rework it. Mostly, the changes are cosmetic. Cleaner design, new logo, bigger t
plasticbag : Andy Baio has redesigned Waxy.org and it looks pretty great. - At some point when the current lunacy is over and my teeth are fixed, I have an apartment, Fire Eagle is completely launched, my taxes are done and Web 2.0 Expo and Where 2.0 are over I shall redesign too.
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : A List Apart: Issue 256 - A List Apart: Issue 256. The EveryBlock issue. Paul Smith on EveryBlock’s tasty custom maps, and Wilson Miner on EveryBlock’s tasty accessible data charts.
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Andy Baio : Tetroid 2012, electronic album of 21 musicians packaged as a Tetris clone - some clever twists on Tetris gameplay, too
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : First demo of Jim Leonard's Monotone - from the creator of 8088 Corruption, the first tracker for the original IBM PC speaker [via]
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : LA Times interviews Rick Astley about the rickroll phenomenon - finally! I tried for six weeks to get a quote, but I'm not the LA Times
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : TED just posted Clifford Stoll's hypermanic 2006 talk - amazing that he can stand still long enough to blow glass
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : FriendFeed releases their API - one of my favorite new sites just got better; looks robust
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Oliver Laric's ↓ ↑ - hypnotic video of immersion baptisms [via]
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Andy Baio : Smoking Gun reveals LA Times duped by federal inmate's forged FBI documents - great journalism, completely debunks last week's Puffy/Tupac expose
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Andy Baio : Google removes alleged Chicago drug deal photos from Google Maps - this Gawker article captured all the photos before they were pulled
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : YouTube adds metrics for video uploaders - one note: they're all relative instead of absolute numbers
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : home.mcom.com is back! - a perfect snapshot of the Mosaic homepage from October 1994, thanks to JWZ
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Dead Week - No entries this week. I've had a miserable flu since Sunday that's made it impossible to think straight. I'll see you Monday, Internet.
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Lower back tattoos available at Toys R Us - look just like mommy, and grandma!
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Estupido Espezial, a joke version of OCR-A with swashes - even their joke typefaces get them paid [via]
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Guncho, a multiplayer IF system based on Inform 7 - upload Inform code to create realms browsable by multiple people at once
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Porn for the Blind - a free public service
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Dropclock, Mac/Windows screensaver - lovely slow-motion Helvetica dunking; also: animate movement based on wind activity in your town [via]
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Game Neverending Relaunches - Just received word that Game Neverending is back online! This game was extremely innovative, but played by very few people during its limited beta test. One of the very first web-based MMOs, Game Neverending was eventually shut down as the Ludicorp team
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Blogoscoped has my favorite April 1 joke, so far - understated and unexpected, it fooled me
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9/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Andy Baio : BBC2's The Net, first episode from April 1994 - "As computer technology becomes part of everyday life, a new program comes to BBC2 now: be you beginner, buff, or somewhere in between." Thanks to Martin Brewer, here's the first episode of The Net, a documentary series that ran for four seasons from 199
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Andy Baio : NYT's interactive tribute to the Mad Magazine fold-in - the full article details Al Jaffee's illustration process
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Andy Baio : Charles Manson's 2005 album released under Creative Commons license - how does a 73-year-old man who's never used a computer hear about CC? [via]
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Andy Baio : Adrian Holovaty's jazz acoustic remix of Radiohead's "Nude" - current ranked #35 out of 423 remixes
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Andy Baio : South Park meets the Internet Stars - takes on Tay Zonday, Tron guy, Chris Crocker, Afro-Ninja, SWK, Dramatic Chipmunk, Numa Numa, and more
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Andy Baio : Akon Calls T-Pain - butternut reduction [via]
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Andy Baio : Internet Power Volume 2: Education - Earlier today, I received an email from Steve Ducharme, the producer/director of the Internet Power series that I digitized last month. "I produced, edited and narrated that video many years ago," he wrote. "Thanks for digging it out. I haven't seen it
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Andy Baio : Mike Gravel's cover of Helter Skelter - he should run for the President of YouTube
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Andy Baio : Quest for the Crown - old but good, I still can't get past level 12 [via]
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Andy Baio : Metafilter roundup of Paul Green's School of Rock videos - these videos of kids rocking out brings joy into my heart
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Andy Baio : straightest freehand horizontal one pixel black line contest -
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Andy Baio : Infochimps, insane collection of open datasets - subscribe to their blog, which tracks new data as its added
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Andy Baio : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing [via]
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Andy Baio : Imageshack launches free BitTorrent downloading service - for people who can't run BT or limited by their ISP, this sounds great
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Andy Baio : Magic Pen - complete clone of Crayon Physics, but still worth trying [via]
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Andy Baio : You Have to Burn the Rope - walkthrough available, if you need it
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Andy Baio : The Making of the Flagpole Sitta lip dub - Jakob made it look effortless, with quite a bit of planning
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Andy Baio : fruit mystery, a flash game - from the fine people at BrettCorp
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Andy Baio : Pitchfork.tv goes live - still beta and an awkward UI, but some great exclusive video including the full-length Pixies reunion documentary [via]
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Andy Baio : Improv Anywhere's Best Little League Game Ever - hopefully, they managed to avoid post-gig bitterness
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Andy Baio : Google App Engine - Google dives into the cloud; Python-only and free for limited use
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Andy Baio : How OK Go Benefited from Net Neutrality - NYT op-ed by their lead singer [via]
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Andy Baio : Friendfeed's Bret Taylor builds a blog CMS on Google App Engine - it's amazing how easy it is to get started; Nelson went from zero to app in 30 minutes
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Andy Baio : Gamasutra catches GamePro (and others) cribbing data without credit - entertaining, if only for the spot-the-fake games
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Andy Baio : Official Charlton Heston Postmortem Joke - using Tweetscan as Clichewatch
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Andy Baio : Rock Paper Shotgun's roundup of Yoshio Ishii games - I feel the same way about DOFI
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Andy Baio : Multiple SIDosis - innovative split-screen techniques and multitrack recording from the late '60s; high-quality video and backstory [via]
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Andy Baio : Twubble, search for people you might know on Twitter - exceedingly easy to use, but must be hammering the Twitter API
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Andy Baio : Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards - Wilson Miner explains how EveryBlock does it; also, Paul Smith on how/why they rolled their own maps
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Andy Baio : Huddle Chat taken offline after cries of plagiarism - people complained the UI ripped off 37 Signals' Campfire; here's an official response
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Andy Baio : Flickr Video's live! - this group includes some examples, including my son's testimonial and thud!
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Andy Baio : Flickr's cheeky acknowledgement of Video support - Techcrunch jumped the gun, it goes live any minute; it's very different from YouTube and very, very Flickr
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9/04/2008 @ 13:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Bedroomation » Web things that must die #2: XFN - A long rant against XFN. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: xfn, microformats
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9/04/2008 @ 13:01 GMT
factoryjoe : I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day - Early description of a social network for the iPhone. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: mobile, iphone, gogoapps
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9/04/2008 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Why We Need Web Apps on the Desktop - ReadWriteWeb - Yesterday on this blog Sarah Perez wondered how important is offline access for web apps? Her conclusion was that offline access is important now, but not as important ... Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Flui
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9/04/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
plasticbag : Get your weighted companion cubes here! - I'm sure Cal was scratching on the front door of the Steam offices (or whatever they use instead - orbital organitropolis probably) for one of these a while back.
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9/04/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Huddle Chat taken offline after cries of plagiarism - people complained the UI ripped off 37 Signals' Campfire; here's an official response
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9/04/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr Video's live! - this group includes some examples, including my son's testimonial and thud!
Richard Rutter : Uh oh, Flickr video has arrived - Limiting to 90 second clips may prove to be inspired.
Simon Willison : Video on Flickr! - Video on Flickr!. There’s a 90 second length limit, because “... Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of long photos, of capturing slices of life to s
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9/04/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
Simon Willison : OpenID for Google Accounts - OpenID for Google Accounts. Google App Engine integrates with Google’s user accounts, so Ryan Barrett (of Google) used it to build an idproxy.net style OpenID provider.
factoryjoe : OpenID for Google Accounts - You can use your Google Account to log into any site that supports OpenID! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: google, openid
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9/04/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Video on Flickr? - Video on Flickr?: heh
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9/04/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I Thought You We're Looking at Me in Silicon Valley - I Thought You We're Looking at Me in Silicon Valley: hahahahahaha
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9/04/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr's cheeky acknowledgement of Video support - Techcrunch jumped the gun, it goes live any minute; it's very different from YouTube and very, very Flickr
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9/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
gleuschk : Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills : NPR - the necessity of "free play" for building self-regulation
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9/04/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Multiple SIDosis - innovative split-screen techniques and multitrack recording from the late '60s; high-quality video and backstory [via]
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9/04/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rock Paper Shotgun's roundup of Yoshio Ishii games - I feel the same way about DOFI
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