1 month ago
Andy Baio : IGN/Gamespy shutting down ClassicGaming.com on August 31 - Jason Scott broke the news last week, this includes all hosted sites
deusx : GameSetWatch - IGN/GameSpy Shutting Down Classicgaming Fan Sites - "IGN/Gamespy is shutting down its public hosting services as of August 31st, 2009, doing away with its Classicgaming.com sites and possibly others (e.g. Strategyplanet, RPGPlanet), according to a forum post by Kurt "discoalucard" Kalata.&qu
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deusx : Social Fresh Cruise, a Netcation | Social Fresh Cruise - "The Social Fresh Cruise is your opportunity to enjoy a Cruise vacation while also connecting with others who are leaders in the Social Media industry. It is a networking vacation; a Netcation if you will. Sharing the unique experience of a cruise is
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deusx : Bit.ly Builds Business on Libya Domain | Workbench - "So the names must conform to Islamic morality, and it's possible that the use of the domains could fall under the same rules. What are the odds that some of those 20 million clicks on a Bit.ly-shortened URL end up at sites that would be conside
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deusx : Main Page - Libre.fm - "libre.fm is a free network service that will allow users to share their musical tastes with other people. * It should be more than just a free replacement for Last.fm * It should have its own identity and features But it can also have fun
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deusx : Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) - ReadWriteWeb - "This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now Google employee, spoke about building sites around social objects. What this means is that the social sites we visit today are not just friend networks -
Simon Willison : Building sites around social objects - Building sites around social objects. Jyri Engeström’s concept of “social objects” is a genuinely useful new way to talk about social web sites.
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deusx : sunkencity.org: flickredit - "FlickrEdit is a Java Desktop application that allows you to display and edit your photos in a variety of ways. It also allows you to download/backup or upload your photos to and from Flickr. FlickrEdit is written in Java and it uses flickrj framewor
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deusx : Adactio: Journal—To protect and to preserve - "I’m gratified to see that my thoughts on archiving my data—prompted by the shutdown of Pownce, Magnolia, Ficlets, etc., etc., etc.,—are shared by others. But it’s all well and good for me to talk about how I’m backing up by using APIs, RSS
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5 month ago
deusx : Robot Wisdom auxiliary: Twitter's two cultures - Re-tweets suck. Unfortunately, so do Favorites. But Favorites should be improved to destroy re-tweets. I don't actually care about Favrd, personally. "dramatising the cultural divide between the 'Retweeters' whose Favorites folders ar
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deusx : Will Obama Break Up Google? (GOOG) - I hope not. Google's not a monopoly - it's got plenty of lesser competitors. They just happen to be really successful. It's easier to live Google free than MSFT free. "Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's antitru
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deusx : Citizen Garden Episode 11: Whither Ma.gnolia? on Vimeo - Honest look at what happened to ma.gnolia. Painful, but honest. In a nutshell: Make sure your backups are recoverable, and prove it regularly. Someday, something *will* go boom. It'll really hurt when the data loss is over half-a-terabyte. "This
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deusx : http://zork.net/~sneakums/fortunes/sneakums/787 - "Web 2.0 is where you have to read TechCrunch every morning to know if you'll be able to get your files that day. "
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deusx : Cornify - Unicorns & Rainbows On-Demand - "Cornify is the #1 unicorn and rainbow service worldwide, giving websites sparkle around the world."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers - Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers: Hmmm.
deusx : Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal: - Was never really a fan of the Mission College Yahoo! campus. All the events and interesting things happened over in Sunnyvale. Place seemed pretty empty a lot of the time when I worked there, too. Yet, when I first started there, it seemed like that�
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD - "Don’t blow anything into the Cloud that you don’t have a personal copy of. ... Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or whi
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD - "Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. They will burble about technology issues. They
Rod Begbie : FUCK THE CLOUD - "If you lose your shit, the technogeeks will not help you. They will giggle at you and make fun of your not understanding the fundamental principles and engineering of client-server models." [via] #
philgyford : ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD - A follow-up to the previous link on why keeping your stuff on servers run by other companies is a recipe for trouble. I try to avoid this but some things, like Flickr, make me nervous. (via Blech)
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deusx : Delicious Founder Schachter Joins Google? (GOOG) - "Delicious founder Joshua Schachter left Yahoo (YHOO) last June, about 2.5 years after Yahoo bought his social bookmarking service. So what's he doing next? Schachter is joining Google (GOOG), according to a Twitter message sent by First Round
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deusx : getluky.net » A Warning About the Real Cost of Microformats - "Anyway, here’s the question I want to put into the reader’s mind: should one spend time and effort making a frontend into an informal API through microformats, or to instead spend it on building a fully supported API or data publishing system th
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse - "A terrible thing happened recently. You might have missed it. AOL Hometown, which itself was actually a combination of a bunch of previously acquired websites, shut down. It shut down on October 31 of this year. If you try to go to a site that used
Andy Baio : Jason Scott on the closure of AOL's online communities - like physical evictions, there need to be laws protecting community data in the event of closure
Simon Willison : Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse - Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse. Jason Scott on AOL’s closure of Hometown, their hosting service. In related news, Lycos just announced they are closing Tripod, which has been providing free hosting for 13 years.
philgyford : ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse - Catching up on stuff... AOL Hometown shut down and wiped all its users' sites with four weeks' notice. It's bad enough when chunks of the web disappear, but worse like this. (via Simon Willison)
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deusx : Reasons Behind Yahoo!'s Four-Year Slump | Investing News | Print Financial & Investing Articles | TheStreet.com - This, in my short experience there, exactly: "But there are four other reasons to account for Yahoo!'s decline in the past four years: (1) A lack of product leadership; (2) self-isolated leadership; (3) a culture tolerating non-performance; and
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deusx : Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: web two point naught: watching the shutdown of free web 2.0 services - "Web 2.0 is over. Back up your important data now, or decide which parts of it you are willing to discard."
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deusx : timeago: a jQuery plugin - "Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago")"
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9 month ago
Rod Begbie : Nostalgia - Laughing Meme - Splendidly optimistic post from Kellan. "You remember those dark days after the first bust? You know the ones when all the MBAs left, and the people who loved the Web went on building it" #
deusx : Nostalgia - Laughing Meme - "You remember those dark days after the first bust? You know the ones when all the MBAs left, and the people who loved the Web went on building it — building meaningful, crazy, artistic cool stuff, and the ethos of the social web was born, back be
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10 month ago
deusx : Google Chrome-Induced Déjà Vu - GigaOM - "Reading the Google Chrome comic strip made clear the parallel to the emergence of QEMM and DESQview: All today’s browsers are effectively single tasking, in that only one tab can be actively processing, say, a JavaScript application at any given t
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10 month ago
deusx : FriendFeed Blog: Last.fm Loved Songs - I guess this explains why I don't see Last.fm events on FriendFeed. Funny how it happened almost a year ago: "A number of FriendFeeders complained that Last.fm was showing up too often in their feeds because we tracked every song you listened t
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10 month ago
deusx : Raptr Blog » Raptr Public Beta Launch! - "No more secret handshakes, no more private invites; we’re proud to open the doors to Raptr and share the service in an open public beta! ... Raptr was born out of a stellar team of people who are passionate about playing and discovering games. ...
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11 month ago
deusx : How Yahoo dropped the del.icio.us ball with a pointless 3 year rewrite (from mod_perl to PHP) : reddit.com - I'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load
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