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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 he feels they’ve left the door to discovery wide open and how Podcasting could be rebooted. Considering that a podcast is no different…

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 on the iPhone and when they began allowing native applications Facebook was used as a shining example for both ways of building an…

The Theme Foundry, who is arguably doing the best work in professional WordPress theming, just announced that all of their themes already support WordPress 3.4’s new theme customizer. We’ve been keeping an eye on WordPress 3.4, and now that it is released we’re proud to announce that our 4 most recent themes (Portfolio,Chalk,Duet, andAnthem) support…

This is going back to mid-May but I’ve wanted to chime in on this NPR article about Pizza Delicious in New Orleans and their attempt to use Facebook Ads to drum up some more business. The campaign cost them $240 — almost $1 for each new Facebook fan they got from the campaign. "Is that…

I use Google Maps almost daily. Not just for traveling or directions but also to explore the world around me. So, I’m happy that Google is investing time, energy, technology and lots of money into Maps. I’m not too happy about this bit from Frederic Lardinois at AOL Techcrunch: Google doesn’t want to say when…

Great presentation by Joe Kraus on the Culture of Distraction and how we’re all training ourselves to be less able to focus on any one thing. STOP WHAT YOUR DOING AND WATCH IT NOW. 🙂 My take? I think I’ll develop a training program that works the opposite way. Over a year ago in a…

First, yes please. Now, Matt Mullenweg on what tablets should mean to WordPress: How we democratize publishing on that sort of platform will not and should not work like WordPress’ current dashboard does. It’s not a matter of a responsive stylesheet or incremental UX improvements, it’s re-imagining and radically simplifying what we currently do, thinking…

I think everyone who is addicted to their work runs into this problem of constantly feeling like there is more to do. And let’s face it, all of us that have been working with computers since about the time we learned to ride a bike are addicted to our work. We love it. However, by…

Fellow Viddler team member Jeff Johns explains how to use the Viddler API to generate Open Graph tags. One possible use case? Making your video thumbnail, and playable video, appear on Facebook’s News Feed whenever someone links to your website.

Matt Honan of Gizmodo: The site that once had the best social tools, the most vibrant userbase, and toppest-notch storage is rapidly passing into the irrelevance of abandonment. Its once bustling community now feels like an exurban neighborhood rocked by a housing crisis. Yards gone to seed. Rusting bikes in the front yard. Tattered flags.…

Interesting project by Adobe – Shadow is a way to share your current browser’s location with a bunch of different devices. In the demo embedded here it shows how easily it would make testing a site layout or web app on all of your devices at once. Pretty slick.

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. Countless well-meaning, tasteful, and respectable people have taken a swing at making friendly advertising that is both respectful of the viewer and valuable…

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 Kickstarter campaign instead. I thought it would be a clever idea to do my 1976 high school journal as a blog but I…

Sebastian Krger does it again with ‘Sean Penn’: His work is amazing.

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 for Mac: If Git is easy to use more people will use it and therefore more people will sign up and pay for…

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 the detriment of thehabitatand natives is now funding mining on extraterrestrial bodies? Got it. /via The "I said hot when I meant warm"…

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 milestone. I can remember where I was when a few of these posts were published. I’m just happy I, and our team at…

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 _Waiting for a Girl Like You_fame to help them bring a video contest online in a way that no other company could have.…

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, they just want you to get right to the point. […]In my mind it would be helpful to explain how I arrived at…

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. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

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 a narrative of victimhood; and a narrative of victimhood is as easily palatable as a Big Mac. Sure, you can argue that the…

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 social outing (typically dinner or beer after work). In a startup, people work long hours and you want to make sure people fit…

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 after the conjunction (and because the extremely fanciful and undependable Microsoft Word grammar and style checker refrains from applying a squiggly green underline).…

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 devices (mp3 player, phone, watch, etc.) are not waterproof. The number one enemy to their electric devices is water. Be it the humidity…

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."

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 recent blog entry: After changing my insurance and paying the copay, I waited for the doctor, and eventually went into the exam room.…

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 site’s Twitter stream a little more engaging. One of the small changes I made was to stop using post titles for posting to…

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 realize he was poking fun. But I wanted to address this topic anyway so I thought I might as well reply to him…

This was a post I was going to write here but I thought the Viddler blog a much better fit. We’re seeing huge demand for reliable, talented online videographers and we think videography is poised for a boom.

According to the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Jobs reportedly told Google’s Larry Page: [figure] out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning…

Henry David Thoreau, on January 7, 1852, pretty much nails my thoughts of every evening. We never tire of the drama of sunset. I go forth each afternoon and look into the west a quarter of an hour before sunset, with fresh curiosity, to see what new picture will be painted there, what new panorama…

You may remember that Jorge Garcia and his girlfriend Bethany Shady had a podcast for behind-the-scenes LOST stuff appropriately named Geronimo Jack’s Beard. Well, Garcia and Shady are back with a new podcast for behind-the-scenes stuff on Alcatraz, a new show coming in the spring, named Diego’s Soul Patch.Here isthe iTunes feed. I’ve seen the…

At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

Alex Knight proposes a pretty painless way of sharing screenshots using Apple’s built-in screenshot utility, Dropbox, and an Alfred extension. I think I’d still prefer Skitch but if you don’t this seems like a nice workflow.

The Mac OS X Dashboard is something I seem to use less and less. I think the Dashboard widget is a fantastic way to build small applications or utilities to help people keep track of something, do some quick math, etc. but these widgets don’t seem to get as much attention as they deserve. There…

Many people born over the last half-century have the habit of misusing, abusing, or flat out being ignorant of the true definition of words. Myself included. So I thought I’d start a series here on the blog that, quite simply, points to a few of these that I’ve noticed over the last three decades and…

File this under "I doubt this will work." Something must have told the Twitvid team that this is a logical direction to take Twitvid but I don’t see it. Broad category social networks have, more or less, been done and will, more than likely, stay the same as they are now for a long time.…

Hot on the heels of the Path app’s menu being reverse engineered into CSS3 and CoreAnimation is the Path app’s clock face that appears when you’re scrolling down through your timeline being reverse engineered by Florian Mielke.

Speaking of free services making major changes; Twitter has announced a major redesign that unifies all of their UIs.

Pinboard founderMaciej Ceglowski suggests demanding to pay for services that you like that might be free. In fear that free services that are popular are not sustainable. It is a great post. But it raises some questions from me. How would paying for a service ensure it won’t sell out? Maciej suggests that free services…

I have a few friends that are very different from me. While they do use the Internet to look up information from time-to-time and they use their phones to pull up maps, check sports scores, and check email – they don’t use the Internet to communicate. They don’t use Twitter or Facebook – though they’ve…