Simperium
Brought to you by the guys at Simplenote,Simperium"is a service for developers to move dataeverywhere it's needed, instantly and automatically." Impressive demo video as well as samples that include a video demonstration…
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Marco Arment streamlines U.S. currency
Like many Marco Arment thinks it is time to streamline U.S. currency: 1 cent: I don’t care whether we keep these. I’ll still keep them in a bowl and eventually bring them…
The problem with advertising
The problem with advertising is that the customers will always be the advertisers and they will always want value for their ad spend and value typically comes from compromising the viewer's experience….
Mahdi Yusuf spends four weeks with DuckDuckGo
Mahdi Yusuf after spending four weeks using DuckDuckGo in place of Google for search: This brings something very interesting to light, I have gotten really good at processing information returned from Google…
Why I like No Reservations
Anthony Bourdain on the different types of people that like his show No Reservations: Generally speaking, there are two distinct audiences for this show: people who like to look at images of…
Jack Dorsey likes Cheez-Its
Beth Callaghan of All Things D asks Twitter inventor and Square Co-Founder Jack Dorsey twenty rapid-fire questions and some of his answers are pretty great. The best answer? Name your favorite guilty…
A Geek’s Journal 1976
Steven Thompson took his journal from 1976 and made it into a blog. It took off. He was offered a publishing deal. But he turned it down and decided to run a…
Working smart and hard
Andrew Wilkinson for The Next Web about building Flow without venture capital: At MetaLab, everyone is responsible for their own schedule. No bunk beds in the office or ramen-fueled overnight programming melees….
Google+ still hasn’t caught on in a meaningful way
Yours truly in August of last year on The plusses and minuses of Google+ – filed under minuses: For any social networking service the single biggest reason they fail is lack of…
Chicadee
Taken on March 13, 2012 in Jermyn, PA. Sadly the only photos I've been publishing are through Instagram of late. I haven't had the time to post process any images but I…
Chris Bowler on saving content for later
Chris Bowler on finding, and even trying to build, a service that helps him to store more link types for later: The issue is that none of the services I’ve seen fit allmy…
Krger’s ‘Sean Penn’
Sebastian Krger does it again with 'Sean Penn': His work is amazing.
Urban highway removal
Interesting topic. Cities, such as they are, were primarily built around the movement of cars. This resulted in a bunch of noisy, ugly, polution-creating highways running directly through cities where parks, rivers,…
GitHub, getting easier all the time
My friend Kyle Neath on the GitHub blog: Today we're rolling out a new and improved flow for creating repositories on GitHub. Remember when I said this, shortly after GitHub released GitHub…
James Cameron to mine asteroids?
So, let me get this straight. The guy that wrote, produced, and directed an amazingly successful blockbuster movie about how greedy, evil people were mining the natural resources of another planet to…
Great things take time. Details are everything.
My friend Abby wishes people would slow down and take the time needed to explain things. Details have such little value to many people. No one wants to hear the whole story,…
How to get more likes on Facebook
The Oatmeal takes a crack at how to get more likes on Facebook. Incidentally, the answer to that question is also the answer to how to build a business; make great stuff.
Instarchive – Yet another way to back up your Instagram photos
Instarchive will gather up all of your Instagram photos to-date and give you a copy of every one in a nice little zip. /via John "Loud Keyboard" Gruber.
Light Table, a new IDE concept
Chris Granger about Light Table: Light Table is based on a very simple idea: we need a real work surface to code on, not just an editor and a project explorer. We…
More Google searches for Tumblr than for blog. Unless you act now!
Quick, everyone run over to Google and search for blog before this happens.
Simple HTML parsing with PHP
PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser is a pretty great open source project for parsing the DOM using jQuery-like selectors. I recently used it on Nilai to parse recipes from the leading recipe…
Trent Walton on blogs
Trent Walton on blogs: Places on the web for sharing content and ideas often remind me of real life interactions. Facebook is the everlasting high school reunion. Twitter, which I love, is…
Viddler helps Foreigner to create an innovative online video contest
There have been some pretty interesting milestones in the history of Viddler for the last 5 years I've been on the team. This is one of them. We're working with Foreigner of…
Waxy.org turns 10
Andy Baio's Waxy.org is one of my favorite blogs and it recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Baio recalls a few posts from each of those 10 years in his post marking the…
Fanfare for the Comma Man
Ben Yagoda on the use of the comma: You see this kind of thing all over the Internet as well. People punctuate that way because, if they spoke these sentences, they’d pause…
Hiring for culture fit
Elad Gil 4th tip on hiring the right person for your company's culture: 4. Take people out for a "beer" test as part of interviews. We would take every candidate to some…
Management as administration
Joel Spolsky guest-posting on Fred Wilson's AVC blog about The Management Team: This is my view of management as administration—as a service corps that helps the talented individuals that build and sell…
Meanwhile at the Siachen Glacier
There was an avalanche a few days ago in Pakistan. You may have missed it scrolling by on the CNN news ticker. More than 135 people are either trapped or dead below…
The Great Collision
Umair Haque writes an interesting rag on why things are they way they are and to what eventuality it may all end up. The Great Collision. Here's why: It's easy to construct…
The WordPress.com API
Interesting. WordPress.com now has an API. Which is slightly different than WordPress simply having the use of the decade old Meta-Weblog API. This opens up features on WordPress.com like reblogging, following, etc….