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The Viddler Blog: Decide who can access your dashboard, setup their own Viddler username and password, and choose what they will have access to in your account. Select who can view and/or manage certain videos or playlists, who can edit account or billing settings, and for those customers with sub-accounts, you can set permissions for accessing these accounts…
Jim Dalrymple at The Loop: We aren’t focused on pageviews, but rather posting things that interest us. Of course, the hope is that they’ll interest you as well. This is an interesting topic. And "pageview journalism" is an interesting phrase. The post that Jim links to on ZDNet describes pageview journalism as the act of writing about topics…
Tom Tunguz on how so many big products and entire companies started out as just a hobby. He should know: Google AdSense’s internal CRM is a Rails app called Toothpaste that I cobbled together one (late) night that now serves the global team. What is your hobby project?
This is ambitious and a bit ridiculous… but it must have been a lot of fun to work on. Bold Poker. Something I'd like to see is for an app that is as well-designed as this to handle what is arguably the much more difficult part of poker – the betting. I can't tell you how many times…
Craig Hockenberry opened the kimono on development of Twitteriffic 5: Personally, I find myself actively disabling notifications in most of the apps I install these days. Notifications are great when used in moderation, but it’s very easy to use them to the point of distraction. Since I read Twitter as free time permits, I don’t need a reminder….
As I mentioned on Twitter, if you have an iPhone you should check out KitCam. Fantastic, well-designed, and complete camera replacement application. /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
Me, not even a month ago: I’ve already made a deal with myself not to buy any more products, from Apple or any other company, that do not include a retina-quality display. And. Unlike John, Eliza and I will be waiting for an iPad mini that has a Retina Display. Well, I got her a mini. And it…
Tom Tunguz, of Redpoint, on financial planning for startups: The financial plan is a concise summary of the way a companyis likely to be managed. It’s helpful for the board to help validate the plan compared to other startups' plans. The plan is also a great way to level set the management team on the plan for the business….
Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.
Jonathan Moore recounts the day he saved his son's life, then makes this point: When we are presented with moments of crisis, large decisions or new opportunities often we find ourselves crippled by the lack of knowledge. We justify inaction with our insecurities in not knowing the right way to move forward. Or we trap ourselves in an…
Cap Watkins from Etsy says it isn't all about look-and-feel: Being design-driven means treating design as a partner (and a leader) in the product creation process. Look at your feature roadmap right now. Are there major initiatives and ideas that were generated directly from your designer or design team? If yes, was design in the room when the…
My friend Chris Coleman took the time, as CSS geeks tend to do, to create Mario using only CSS.
Jakob Nielsen: The UI is littered withswipe ambiguity, where similar (or identical) gestures have different outcomes depending on subtle details in how they're activated or executed. For example, start swiping from the right to the left and you will either scroll the screen horizontally or reveal the charm bar, depending on exactly where your finger first touched the…
MG Siegler reviews the Surface for AOL TechCrunch: After using it for over a week now, it’s hard to come up with a lot of nice things to say about the Surface. Don’t get me wrong, there are some solid things here. But by and large, it’s a strange, buggy, and clunky product that I simply can’t imagine…
Sorry, I don't like the word widget either. But, credit where due, Flickr has a new way to display EXIF information. Check out the sidebar of this photo. I like it. Hey, at least someone is doing something over there, right?
Buster Benson disconnects on Saturdays. I do something similar every Tuesday night. Doing it for an entire day would be interesting though.
Stephen Hackett, who is giving up his iPhone for a feature-phone for a year in an attempt to bring some balance to his digital life: I think there is a sizable percentage of nerds out there who realize the weight that technology has on our lives, and are uncomfortable with it at times. Yes, there is. I'm one…
Soundslice: Soundslice lets you sync tabs with video so you can see (and hear!) them in real time. Gone are the days of ASCII art approximations. I don't play guitar but I know something awesome when I see it. /via Jason Fried on Twitter.
The Oatmeal at his best. /via Everyone.
Me, in June: Actual judgements about the hardware aside (since, unsurprisingly, these aren’t yet on the market) this looks like the best work to come out of Microsoft since the Xbox 360. This isn’t me grading on a curve either. I’m not giving them extra points for finally making something that looks like it could be good. I’m…
App.net has a new API feature called Stream Marker.Dalton Caldwell: Multiple times a day, I switch between my laptop and my phone. It’s frustrating that I have to ask myself “have I seen this post?” as I scroll through My Stream. Today we’re adding support for Stream Markers to the API. This will allows clients to sync where…
Anthony Bourdain, who has it in his contract with Travel Channel that he must explicitly approve all uses of his name/face, etc: So it came as a shock and a disappointment to turn on the TV for the last two episodes of my show, and see that someone had taken footage that me and my creative team had…
Cabel Sasser is one talented dude. Side note: Perfect use of Soundcloud.
Good tip from Rob LeFebvre on Cult of Mac: You might notice that your hard disk is constantly spinning on your Mac. If you check Activity Monitor, you might find out that the CPU is also being used up by the Finder, which typically doesn’t use a lot of CPU. Turns out that the culprit could, in fact,…