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…
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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….
500px Terms of Service
Remember Tumblr's fairly easy to understand TOS? 500px has a similarly great TOS. /via AOL TechCrunch.
InstaBackup – Download all of your Instagram photos to your Mac
Speaking of backing up your Instagram photos. InstaBackup is a free Mac application by David Smith that makes it simple to download all of your Instagram photos to your Mac. /via Andy…
Liquipel, reviewed
As a follow-up to my link to Danny's post about Liquipel there is this review on iHeartApple2: After viewing videos and reading reviews I think Liquipel is a great idea that is…
Liquipel
Danny Nicolas, on the newly-revived Waking Ideas blog, about Liquipel: The number one complaint that I hear from friends, family and random strangers complaining on the train is that their personal technology…
Messages beta is driving people nuts
There is pandemonium in the streets. Riots are breaking out. Here is Dan Moren of Macworld with more: It’s been almost two months since Apple released the Messages beta, the revamped version…
PHP is like scrapple
Paul Ford, of NYMag, about Facebook: The company is also technologically weird. For example, much of the code that runs the site is written in a horrible computer language called PHP, which…
Export your photos from Instagram with instaport.me
Maybe you've heard; Facebook bought Instagram for a cool $1 Billion. Remember, I said it was a network not a camera. Well, some people are a bit miffed and are planning their…
Live Great Blue Heron Nest
Oh I'm done for. The Cornell Labs ofOrnithologyhas set up a live cam on a Great Blue Heron nest.
Viddler Customer Spotlight: Under the Belfry
One of my favorite customer spotlight videos from Viddler; Under the Belfry. "With Viddler within three days we were able to roll advertising. That's ridiculous."
Made by Hand
Working for a video-related startup for the past five plus years has given me the opportunity to see many ideas for episodic video content. Some great, some good, some bad. I've had…
Troy Rutter is back on The Diet
Troy Rutter, former member of The Diet, is back on. He's logging his progress publicly (something I canattestto being very helpful) at One Man's Loss. I love this bit from his most…
The transit of Venus
A rather rarecelestialphenomenonis about to happen. To describe just how rare this event is I'll let Wikipedia explain. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in…
Trying to increase engagement through Twitter and Tumblr
Jason Kottke recently redesigned his site. His analysis is interesting to read for anyone who has done the same for their site. Here is what he said on attempting to make his…
Justin Blanton: Softy.
Justin Blanton isn't just a hard-headed atheist. It turns out he's also a softy. Many happily married years my friend.
Responses to tweets about Instagram
Warning: The following may contain some strong language. I've tried to clean up the tweets a bit though. Last night, after a whirlwind trip to New York City on business and just…
Nilai: Introducing Previews
See also: Introducing Smart Labels. Nilai has quickly morphed from being a simple list of links to many lists of links each with their own purpose. Using Smart Labels, which are getting…
Loren Brichter on The Verge
Speaking of Loren Brichter and The Verge – Loren was recently interviewed for their 5 Minutes on The Verge series. In response to what phone he uses? A boring old machined-steel-fits-in-my-hand-scrolls-at-60-fps-with-proper-physics-glorious-retina-none-of-this-crap-pentile-display black…
Pay with Square
Square is rethinking the card case model and going more for an application that allows you to pay at Square-enabled merchants just by having your phone in your pocket. They call it…
The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972
AKA – August 10, 1972 Bolide. During a recent trip to a nearby observatory the presentation highlighted this little number, a comet that streaked across the sky in early August 1972 over…
Tumblr’s new Terms of Service
Tumblr, in their recently-updated Terms of Service that all logged in users are being asked to agree to. You have to be at least 13 years old to use Tumblr. We're serious:…
Instagram is a network, not a camera
Derek Steen, friend and co-worker, on Twitter. First, @cdevroe removes comments from his blog. Now, he's uploading DSLR photographs to Instagram. Talk about hipster… — Derek Steen (@djsteen) March 23, 2012 I…