Blog
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The Web is a shopping mall not a concert
The social eruption on the Web has had many small eruptions over the last few years. The most recent eruptions have been Facebook for Websites and Twitter’s @Anywhere services. Adding these features to one’s website is now easier than ever but that doesn’t mean you should add it to your website. The entire Web needn’t […]
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HQ Garage
We’ve got a brand new parking garage at Viddler HQ, which is annexed in the excellent Ben Franklin Technology Center, and it is pretty nice.
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Todd’s UI is sweet
Believe it or not Viddler‘s "Super Sys Admin" Todd Troxell uses this text-based, window-less UI full time.
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Greyson Michael Chance
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So: Dude sings a song at a talent show-thingy, puts it up on his YouTube channel (there are a lot of fakes), everyone says he’ll be the next Bieber, Ellen sees it, has him on her show. Stardom awaits. But wait, did you catch the brilliant move that Ellen is now doing? […]
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Out to sea
Gloucester,Massachusetts. (Taken with a SeaLife SL320/SL32.)
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Secure video hosting for business
A new video for Viddler’s secure video hosting for businesses. We’ve got a lot in store for Viddler B2B this year and this video is only the tip of the iceberg. More tomorrow, next week and for the rest of this year.
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The \”What To Do When You’re Bored\” list
I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]
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The \”What To Do When You’re Bored\” list
I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]
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The \”What To Do When You’re Bored\” list
I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]
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The \”What To Do When You’re Bored\” list
I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]
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The \”What To Do When You’re Bored\” list
I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]
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The \”What To Do When You’re Bored\” list
I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]
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Gmail’s drag/drop image insertion
Looks like my recent switch back to Google Chrome is already paying dividends. The Gmail team has now moved a much loved lab feature that allows you to drag and drop images from your desktop onto a new message and have it automatically attach and/or insert directly into the message out into the open. I […]
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OneWay, FTP in the Finder
On the heels of the release of the great Transmit 4 comes OneWay a simple FTP utility (upload only, you can’t download anything) that works right from within the Finder. Need simple? OneWay. Need something a bit more? Transmit. Side note: OneWay is open source so there’s that. /via TJ Luoma on TUAW.
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The \”What To Do When You’re Bored\” list
I can honestly say that I can not remember a time when I was bored. I hear many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Let’s face it, we all have a measure of ADD but isn’t the world filled with enough to do to save us from boredom? […]
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Wood hull
Gloucester,Massachusetts. (Taken with a SeaLife SL320/SL32.)
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Chrome is faster than lightning
So Chrome is faster than Safari again. Not one month ago I said: "I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers." It seems I’m going to follow the speed and it turns […]
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Embed a tweet on your Web site
Dubbed Blackbird Pie this tool from Twitter makes it fairly simple to embed a tweet on your Web site. Provide the URL to the tweet and you’ll be provided with a HTML embed code for the tweet. Nice. Example. .bbpBox{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile\_background\_images/98837270/Untitled.jpg) #bfbfbf;padding:20px;}p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 […]
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How to really get things done.
We humans like to obsess over things simply as a way to distract ourselves from what really needs to happen. There are many examples of this in life, such as a widow obsessing over the funeral details to distract herself from her own sorrow, but no one more apparent than the obsession with "Getting Things […]
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\”Gone to Sleep\” by Moby and Kelli Scarr
Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]
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\”Gone to Sleep\” by Moby and Kelli Scarr
Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]
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\”Gone to Sleep\” by Moby and Kelli Scarr
Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]
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\”Gone to Sleep\” by Moby and Kelli Scarr
Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]
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\”Gone to Sleep\” by Moby and Kelli Scarr
Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]
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\”Gone to Sleep\” by Moby and Kelli Scarr
Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]
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\”Gone to Sleep\” by Moby and Kelli Scarr
Project Song is a neat thing put together by All Things Considered host Bob Boilen wherein artists have two days to put together an entire song. The process is quite fascinating. "Gone to Sleep" is a product of this process with Moby and Kelli Scarr and the 16-minute featurette is nothing short of awesome. Moby […]
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Clouds Over Valley
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Regarding this whole oil thing going on in the Gulf
No matter how it happened. No matter how much is spilling out into the water on a daily basis. No matter if it reaches land or not. No matter if they can manage to burn and or clean it up. The whole thing is absolutely horrible for the Gulf.
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Breakfast Instapaper
As you, the avid reader of my blog, already know I’m addicted to Instapaper. I mention it now and then. So obviously I think this is just genius. Breakfast Instapaper is an application that makes it really quick to bulk add articles from The Guardian, The New York Times, an Australian paper, and Delicious. I […]
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Enter the Mushroom Kingdom
Dude.
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HP buys Palm
HP is buying Palm for a cool $1.2B. Let the wild speculation and general blanket statements fly! However, I do like the way Marshall Kirkpatrick scoured Twitter and took the best tweets about the deal and featured them with commentary and context. Pretty nice. /via Daring Fireball and Read Write Web.
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Super Mario Crossover
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Quite possibly the most impressive emulator I’ve seen in recent memory. Super Mario Crossover allows you to play Super Mario using Mario, Mega Man, Link and more – all with their own individual controls, sounds and gameplay. Superb. /via Chris Coleman.
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The misguided Facebook guide for the new, umm, Facebooker
So, you’re new to Facebook. Welcome! You’ve just joined a website with over 400,000,000 members and climbing. Needle, meet haystack. Before you update your status, "install" an application, or like that photo of that person you haven’t seen since High School – here are a few rules from Colin & Eliza Devroe – the Facebook […]
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The misguided Twitter guide for the new tweeter
So, you’re new to Twitter. Welcome! You’re about to tweet your first tweet – but there are some things you need to know first. Some rules to live by if you will. @cdevroe and @elizard, Twitter experts with over 20,000 tweets between them, have created the following rules which are inarguably true and beyond contestation. […]
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Transmit 4
The latest version of Transmit makes me believe there is still hope for great software on the Mac. It is the first application I’ve downloaded that is truly great in months.
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Steve Jobs says \”Nope\” to Mac App Store
In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]
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Steve Jobs says \”Nope\” to Mac App Store
In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]
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Steve Jobs says \”Nope\” to Mac App Store
In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]
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Steve Jobs says \”Nope\” to Mac App Store
In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]
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Steve Jobs says \”Nope\” to Mac App Store
In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]
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Steve Jobs says \”Nope\” to Mac App Store
In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]
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Steve Jobs says \”Nope\” to Mac App Store
In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]
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GREEN-LIGHT
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GIZMORON
Meet Flip comes out of hiatus with GIZMORON. Flip always seems to make the wrong decision, doesn’t he?
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How to annoy competitive people
Another instant classic from Savage Chickens.
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The BeetleCam Project
This is the BeetleCam. Created by Burrard-Lucas Photography it is a DSLR camera mounted on top of a camouflaged RC car. Not exactly revolutionary – but using it on the African plains is simply awesome. You can read about the BeetleCam Project in detail via The Digital Photography School website and see the photos it […]
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Live chat – No Reservations – Food Porn 2.
Tonight’s episode of No Reservations, Food Porn 2, will be the first episode in many episodes that I will be watching "Live". I figured I might as well take the opportunity to do something fun. A live chat. I’ll be using FriendFeed, yes that FriendFeed, to make this dead simple to update. There is no […]
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The new iPhone, reportedly.
Reportedly this is the new iPhone that is due out this summer. Reportedly it has a ridiculously fine, nearly as good as print, screen. Reportedly it has a front-facing camera that could be used for all sorts of new applications. Reportedly the two-button volume controls, as opposed to the current single-button volume controls, could be […]
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Random 60: Kid toys
Special guest, and Viddler Systems Administrator, James Cross and I discuss kid toys.
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Random 60: Mountains
No question this time. Just Mountains. Special guest is Viddler’s Lead Designer Andrew Smith.
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