People are using Netflix to watch TV programs
Brian Anthony Hernandez of Mashable sums up the Neilsen study: A new Nielsen study reveals 19% of respondents prefer using Netflix to watch TV programs — up 8% since a year ago — instead…
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Eric Schmidt, jinxing Google’s self-driving cars
Eric Schmidt, on Google's self-driving cars: self-driving cars should become the predominant mode of transportation in our lifetime I'm glad he said "should" but if anyone can jinx a project it is…
Gettysburg
Codex 99 which is "either an occasionally updated weblog or incrementally expanded website about the history of the visual arts and graphic design" has an excellent feature on the maps of Gettysburg….
Shorter flights at lower heights: The right way to Angel invest
Dave Balter wrote a great piece about Angel investing and how if it isn't done right a lot of good-intentioned Angels could lose money but if done right everybody (Angel, VC,Entrepreneur) wins….
Twitter needs to state their objective in much clearer terms
Jason Kottke, today: It's funny that so many of the things that make Twitter compelling weren't actually invented by Twitter but by the users and developers. It is true. Linking, @replies, #hashtags,…
What an investment in GitHub could mean
GitHub: Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment. The amount? $100,000,000. Even in today's money this is a fair amount of capital for GitHub to…
Wikiweb – An app for visualizing Wikipedia connections
Wikiweb: A delightful Wikipedia reader for your iPhone and iPad that visualizes the connections between articles. Sounds gimmicky at first but watch the video demo and you'll quickly see how this could…
An abandoned Walmart turned into a Library
Khoi Vinh: As is common when big box stores close up shop, when the Wal-Mart in McAllen, Texas shut down, the town was left with a 124,500 square foot building. They decided…
Google scuttles a few things
Google recently scuttled a few of their products with very little fanfare. What worries me, and others, is that one day Google Reader will be on this list. I think it is…
More on linking by Matthew Ingram
Matthew Ingram wrote a good piece entitled Why links matter: Linking is the lifeblood of the web for Gigaom. First, about giving credit: In the days when newspapers ruled the world of…
What Twitter could have been
Dalton Caldwell on what Twitter could have been: Nowadays, every time Iget a K-Mart ad in my feed, or see wonky behavior in the official clients, or see Twitter drop another bomb…
Andrew Kim’s Microsoft rebrand; \”The Next Microsoft\”
Andrew Kim sets aside three days to rebrand Microsoft. Holy crap.
\”Obamacare\” explained by Reddit
Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman's terms? Okay, explained like you're a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding…
The Talks with Adam Yauch
Posthumously published interview with the late Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys. One of the reasons that I wanted to direct our music videos was that I disliked music videos so much….
The way we handle linking
For the past week or so I've been publishing Daring Fireball-style links for the links category (or as some call them, the link list). I've been going back and forth on whether…
Tubes by Andrew Blum
Andrew Blum, in Tubes: "For all the talk of the placelessness of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical places as any railroad or telephone system ever was."…
Random rant #1: Opinions can go viral. – May 20, 2010
I have a bunch of old voice memos that I recently discovered are still on my iPhone. I'm not sure if I'll share them all but I've decided to share this first…
See what I mean about the Nexus Q?
Michael Margolis on Twitter: Wait… This Nexus Q does far less than AppleTV, requires an Android device to use, is much larger, and is 3x the price? See what I mean? /via Kara…
A new Facebook for iOS coming next month
Remember when Facebook's iOS application was used during an Apple keynote to show how great an app could be built by third parties? In fact, when Apple only allowed mobile web applications…
Adam Curry on rebooting Podcasting
Adam Curry, arguably one of the two people that invented Podcasting (of course, I'm referring to Dave Winer although there were others), has some thoughts on Apple's new Podcasting app and how…
Mike Rundle on mobile apps for iOS
Mike Rundle on Twitter: And to everyone trying to build great mobile-web-in-a-native-shell iPhone apps, give up. Facebook couldn't do it, and neither can you. I agree with Mike. Mobile web applications that…
Nexus 7
The Nexux 7 is a 7" tablet from Google. Naturally it runs Android but it runs a version of Android that no one else has yet and, if Android's track-record stays intact,…
Nexus Q
I'll withhold judgement on the Nexus 7 until I have one in my hands. But I'll immediately call the Nexus Q a dud without ever having laid eyes on it. Terrible industrial…
Satellite Eyes by Tom Taylor
I linked to this a few days ago on Twitter. You do follow me on Twitter, right? Satellite Eyes by Tom Taylor is a nifty little utility that uses your Mac's current…
Tommy Collison’s book of short stories
Tommy Collison, someone I've been following on Twitter since I went to Ireland (and then subsequently learned he was the brother of Patrick Collison the co-founder of the excellent Stripe), has published…
A few new details and theories about the Easter Island statues
The moai (or the statues on Easter Island) have been the subject of a lot of research but some new details (at least to me) seemed to have lately. First, something I…
How to use Preview in OS X Lion to digitally sign documents
John Gruber wrote: I’m guessing a lot of people don’t know about this feature. I sure didn't. Excellent tip.
Instagram 2.5 for iOS
Instagram was just updated to version 2.5. Here are a few of the highlights. Revamped profile tab Search for users and tags in the Explore tab Improvements to commenting User search autocompletes…
Top IAmA’s
Reddit's IAmA interviews in a readable format; Top IAmA. /via Andy Baio.
Why Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom was \”stuck\” at 301 views on YouTube
HBO decided to publish the entire first episode of Aaron Sorkin's latest TV-series Newsroom to YouTube. When I visited that page on YouTube yesterday I saw that the views were only at…