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WordPress.com recently published a new page dedicated to showcasing how bands and musicians can use the service to its full potential. I've always been surprised that WordPress.com didn'taggressivelygo after moretargetedverticals (besides VIP publishers) like music, movies, and so on. MySpace, Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter all make boatloads of cash off of these verticals and WordPress.com should be too….
The price? Four Instagrams. Dean J. Robinson: Lots of people I follow on twitter [sic] (pretty much all of them actually) are Star Wars fans of some description – and the general consensus is that while they are quite surprised by the announcement they don’t necessarily have negative feeling about it. In fact many seem enthused by the…
Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.
Speaking of Instagram… Instabar is a free app to view your Instagram feed on your Mac.
Mig Reyes writes about the redesign of the 37signal's blog: More often than not, company blogs are littered with pitches for their product. I don’t want to throw new job opportunities at you right away. I don’t want to ask you to subscribe to our RSS feed when you haven’t even read anything yet. These rules informed the layout: content…
Bruno Grande at App Storm: "In essence, instead of one entity having control over a medium like Twitter, a standard is made, allowing any person or company to implement the medium, which remains interoperable." Today at Viddler HQ, around the new handmade, reclaimed pine Viddler table, the lot of us were discussing App.net, Tent.io, Twitter and the state…
This is what Viddler always needed.
Reuters in Amsterdam: "Thieves have stolen paintings byPablo Picasso,Henri Matisse,Claude Monetand other famous modern artists from a museum in Rotterdam, Dutch police say." My money is on Thomas Crown.
According to The Verge: "Microsoft listed its Surface pricingat its online Microsoft Storethis morning, indicating that pre-orders will be available shortly." And then, promptly: "Update: Microsoft's online store listing has now gone offline." So, they tried. That was nice of them to try.
Austin Carr in a retelling of the Hipstamatic story for FastCompany: "By March of 2011, when Hipstamatic hired its new designer, Laura Polkus, Instagramhad already rocketed to 2.2 million users, and was growing by 130,000 users per week. But Polkus says the team largely ignored Instagram. “There wasn’t a whole lot of attention paid there,” says Polkus, who was…
A great video from CNN? Believe it. This is an excellent video essay about photography from Richard Koci Hernandez for CNN. /via Mike Matas on Twitter.
We break out the wool.
Before, After. Oh, and that rose was nothing to mess with.
This is what makes Randall's new series so incredibly good: In 1962, physicist Freeman Dyson wrote a memo discussing eight possible novel weapon systems, all of which looked like they’d be possible in the near future, and outlined the potential military uses and dangers of each. This memo has been declassified, but was never published. Freeman’s son, science…
Wynkoop to release a stout beer made with bull testicles. So, there's that. /via Laughing Squid.
Slate is a free, open source window manager for Mac OS X. In short, it binds key combinations to make it a bit easier to manage your application's windows. An example is: ALT Left Arrow will move the current focused window left 10% (by default). This is the default configuration file and you'll more than likely want to…
I'm totally jealous and inspired by this woman's rooftop garden in South Korea. Simple, great use of space, economical, environmental.
We recently started three new batches: Chardonnay, Zinfandel, and Riesling.
Wedge is a Mac client for App.net that I really like. It just hit 0.3.3 with a slew of updates. The rapid development of these clients, the feedback loop, and the growth of App.net is all very compelling and fun to be part of once again.
This time, the pigs aren't the Rebels.
I'm loving Be Square on the iPad over coffee in the morning. Oh, and Jeff Veen's "How the Web Works" is great. As always.
If you're a fan of Jameson, I can recommend Slane Castle.
Blame, I mean, thank my niece Kalie for this.