1/12/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Greg Storey : Pownce is dead. Long live Pownce! - So when is Facebook going to buy Twitter?
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Andy Baio : Six Apart acquires Pownce, which will shut down in two weeks - unlike most acquirees, they thoughtfully built an exporter tool
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Andy Baio : How Jeremy Keith's Flickr photo ended up in Iron Man - it was CC-licensed, but attribution in the credits costs money, so he signed a release instead
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Andy Baio : Lolcats postcard from 1905 - here's a completed auction for the same postcard
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Andy Baio : Kottke on the "broken windows theory" applied to online communities - if graffiti can cause more crime, can the ugliness of a message board create more trolling?
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wearehugh : Canvas Tutorial - Introduction
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Linkorama : The Inbox, Part Two: Facebook Has An Ambient Awareness Problem - In short, Facebook is not a network driven by ambient awareness, it's more batch mode driven. And I have come to this startingly obvious conclusion: Social networks driven by ambient awareness will win. And, by the way, so will search solutions that
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Linkorama : Social Web's Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? - GigaOM - These two diametrically opposed views of how we are going to come to grips with our social web are going to face an intense debate until consumers vote with their clicks.
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Linkorama : The uncertain future of Blogging - It seems at times that blogging is becoming the domain of those people who still have something to say. I am now subscribed to more blogs than I ever have been, but at the same time I would say that I am getting real value from fewer blogs than ever.
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Linkorama : Implementing Enterprise 2.0 In The Real World - I have no patience for breathless enthusiasm about Enterprise 2.0, divorced from the real-world realities of the organizations that we work in. Instead, I think it's time to take a more measured and mature approach to Enterprise 2.0, building on past
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nelson : China Girls - Interesting bit of the projectionist's art: colour test images featured pretty girls
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Greg Storey : Mark Boulton, one of the smartest web designers around, has written a book. - Available for twelve Monopoly dollars sometime next February.
jonhicks : Five Simple Steps | Books - This looks like a MUST HAVE.
Cameron Moll : Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton available Feb 2009 - Mark Boulton has announced his self-published Designing for the Web will be available February 2, 2009. I recall Mark and I chatting in London a couple years ago about self-publishing, as both of us were kicking around the idea at the time. Good to see hi
Douglas Bowman : Boulton’s Designing for the Web now available - The practical, down-to-earth, and beautifully-designed book, A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web, written and self-published by Mark Boulton, is available for purchase and download (as PDF) as of today. -archive link-
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Linkorama : India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror - WSJ.com - As waiters started setting dinner buffets in Mumbai's luxurious hotels, the killings that would ravage this Indian metropolis began out of sight, in the muddy waters of the Arabian Sea.
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wearehugh : Smart Headers & HTML5 - Project Cerbera
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Greg Storey : We're giving away a scholarship to Train-ee ExpressionEngine Training. - I wanted to hold a knife fight contest but Leslie said the lawyers wouldn't go for it. Figures.
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Cameron Moll : The reengineered Campaign Monitor is now live - The reengineered Campaign Monitor is now live and available for plumbing through. "Send [email marketing] for yourself and your clients, or design them templates and let them send their own. Rebrand it as your own app and resell it to your clients for a p [via]
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Cameron Moll : 24 ways, the advent calendar for web geeks, is back - Drew McClellan's 24 ways is back, and with a new design to boot. "24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer." Also, f
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Cameron Moll : New tees from Resist Today, just in time for Christmas - New tees from Resist Today, just in time for Christmas.
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nelson : Online poker cheating - Detailed roundup of stories about someone being able to see opponent's cars in online poker sites
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nelson : Fallout 3 review - Great commentary on how the writing works
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Andy Baio : The Simpsons takes on Apple - many, many Apple in-jokes and a narwhal, too!
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Andy Baio : Give Me Something to Read - meatier articles bookmarked by the Instapaper community; related: the toread tag on delicious
philgyford : Give Me Something To Read - "Selections from among the most frequently bookmarked articles on Instapaper."
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Andy Baio : Change.gov switches from copyright to Creative Commons - small decisions like these, made quickly in a time of transition, are inspiring
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Richard Rutter : This t-shirt for Xmas please - Typographical geekiness in cotton form.
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Richard Rutter : 24 ways is back! - Yeah for the geek advent calendar.
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Andy Baio : Bio-Bak, the portfolio site of Dutch Flash artist Coen Grift - I've never seen anything remotely like it
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Jeremy Zawodny : Bacon on the gas grill - Bacon on the gas grill: "I deleted Whole Foods from the car’s GPS system when the Dow slid below 8000"
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Andy Baio : NYT on Mark Allen and Machine Project at LACMA - one of the most interesting people I know gets a writeup of his most recent project
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Andy Baio : MIDI Hero, Guitar Hero hack with a drum kit - the author later wired up his Roland V-Drums kit [via]
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Andy Baio : Emily the Strange character inspired by Nate the Great's Rosamond? - noticed before, but the phrasing on the sticker and book are virtually identical
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Eric Meyer : Iron Man and me - See, now that's just awesome.
Greg Storey : The road to Hollywood is paved in Creative Commons, er something like that. - Jeremy, are you signing movie posters in Austin this year?
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factoryjoe : iList Classifieds - Post and Search Free Classified Ads - "At iList, we harness the power of your social networks on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and more to share your listing with millions of people." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags::mento.info [via]
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Rod Begbie : App Shopper: TapDefense - Fantastic, highly-addictive and free tower-defense game for iPhone. After three (almost half-hour each) games, having trouble beating Level 30 on Easy. #
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factoryjoe : WordPress › WP-Oomph « WordPress Plugins - "Adds the Oomph Microformats toolkit's microformat overlay to any WordPress-generated pages (as long as the page has a microformat in it, of course)." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: WordPress,:mento.info [via]
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Simon Willison : Dopplr: New city pages, with public tips and Creative-Commons-licenced, Flickr-powered goodness - Dopplr: New city pages, with public tips and Creative-Commons-licenced, Flickr-powered goodness. Explains why I’ve been unable to convince any of the Dopplr crew to come out and do fun things for the past month.
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Simon Willison : Live Piracy Map - Live Piracy Map. That’s a heck of a lot of (real, nasty, sea-faring) pirates.
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Simon Willison : Magic/Replace - Magic/Replace. More inspirational magic from the team at Dabble DB. Be sure to watch the (short) demo video.
Andy Baio : Magic/Replace - spreadsheet manipulation built on the underrated DabbleDB; don't miss the demo [via]
43folders : Magic/Replace - Data Cleanup for Everyone from Dabble DB - Remarkable web app lets you normalize, reformat, and otherwise rejigger tabular data via a friendly GUI. This would have saved hours of my youth. via: http://flowingdata.com/2008/12/12/magically-reformat-data-to-get-it-how-you-need-it/
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