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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…

I run into this problem every single day. Every. Single. Day. Brent Simmons simply reminded me that I need to yell a little more about it. He asks: "Take a look at your weblog. How easy is it to find your name?" You’d be very surprised how hard it is to find someone’s name in…

As I said, we’re cutting some seldom-used features over on Viddler soon. We created a quick video to show the thinking behind these changes and the upcoming redesign.

I’ve always been a proponent of allowing beer or wine in the workplace. I’ve never really needed to articulate why I thought it was a good idea but I think this one reason from Liz over at KegWorks nails it: "Working late isn’t so bad – with salaried employees there’s no overtime pay as incentive…

Path is a private social networking application that allows you to create a path (comments, photos, location, etc.) and share it with a select number of people. Their most recent update is absolutely stunning. Arguably the best looking application on the iPhone at the moment. Here is a good look at their application from Geoff…

In the good old days of the web I was able to subscribe to any site and receive updates via my feed reader for every post that the site made in the order that they were published.Even though RSS feeds typically only held a finite number of items in them the feed reader I used…

[Lookwork](http://lookwork.com/) is a very interesting take on a RSS reader. It is a little too Tumblr-esque for me. By that I mean that it is a very passive way to browse a ton of entries without ever slowing down and viewing each photo or post by itself for any length of time. It is one…

For those of you that jailbreak your phones there is [a hidden feature in iOS 5 that allows Camera.app to create panoramic images](http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/11/07/hidden-panorama-mode-uncovered-in-the-ios-camera-app/). This isn’t worth jailbreaking for. There are plenty of affordable and good panoramic applications in the App Store and obviously Apple wasn’t happy enough with this feature to include it. So it…

WordPress 3.1 exhibited an underlying feature that didn’t reveal itself in the UI in much of any way. Post formats. Post formats are sort of like categories of posts but are used to "handle" different post types in different ways. You can [read more about Post formats over on the WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post\_Formats). [Crowd Favorite](http://crowdfavorite.com/) has…

Good news! [Panic has just published a blog post](http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/10/panic-state-of-the-union-11/) confirming that Coda 2 is going private beta. As a Coda user I am super happy that they’ve gotten to this milestone. I found a few things mentioned in the post interesting. "Coda 2 has now been in development for about a year and a half."…

I don’t get it. During Apple’s press event, no matter which live blog I was following, the writers were constantly "yawning" whenever the event would – in their opinion – "drag on". Apple has just given launch dates for some of the most sophisticated, affordable, and approachable technology the world has ever seen and they…

I haven’t used the new Gowalla enough to have formulated a strong opinion but I thought I’d jot down my initial thoughts. Here are some bits from [their blog post announcing the new Gowalla](http://blog.gowalla.com/post/10513121010/a-new-gowalla). Here is the bit I really like: >"The cornerstone for this update is Gowalla’s new Social Guides. We’ve taken the best…

This doesn’t fit on [The Watercolor Gallery](http://h2ocolor.com/) so I thought I’d share it here. Krger is an amazing artist but what makes his work even more amazing is the scale at which he works. This painting of Mick Jagger is 71"x71". Amazing detail at that size.

This [graph showing the relative size of Facebook’s Photos feature](http://1000memories.com/blog/94-number-of-photos-ever-taken-digital-and-analog-in-shoebox) compared to Flickr, Instagram and other pools of photos is almost comical. There are services that fit in between the size of Flickr and Facebook (such as Photobucket) but it is an interesting way to look at things.

So says [the blog](http://blog.macromates.com/2011/whats-next/). I’ll believe it when I see it. /via [Shawn Blanc](http://shawnblanc.net/2011/09/textmate/).

Happily, Flickr is back at doing a little innovating in the photo space. >"Geofences are special locations that deserve their own geo privacy settings. Simply draw a circle on a map, choose a geo privacy setting for that area, and you’re done. Existing photos in that location are updated with your new setting, and any…