January 2010
63 posts
“About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do...”
– Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs | Epicenter | Wired.com
Jobs aside, I feel this huge momentum swing towards web standards and advancement around developing for the web. Maybe it takes a closed but cool product, to get everyone riled up and excited....
“Firefox FORCED developers to get on board with the standards-based web.”
– Can Flash be saved?
“In one year, here’s what I caught (you might have your own list):
The...”
– Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Anil Dash
I really, really enjoy Anil Dash.
“Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection. Once or twice or maybe...”
– Richard Stallman on The Setup
“10:29AM “It’s powered by our own silicon. The 1GHz Apple A4 chip. It...”
– Live from the Apple ‘latest creation’ event — Engadget
Orly?!
“What’s the solution to Apple’s stinginess about Google getting an...”
– Google Voice Finally Heads to iPhone, Palm Pre With HTML5 Webapp - Google voice iphone - Gizmodo
“Cloud computing arrived, making VC deal terms economic only as growth capital...”
– Deprogramming VC & Reprogramming SWOT
Jesus, Rafer is so smart sometimes. This is the best rendering I’ve seen of a thought I’ve had for a few months.
(via giantrobotlasers)
Exactly. So now VCs trying to play in the <$1mm range have had to figure out how to scale their operations to make...
“Subway is an American fast food franchise that primarily sells submarine...”
– Subway (restaurant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Had no idea Subway had more stores than McD’s.
“On Monday, Apple revealed the results of its fiscal 2010 first quarter, which...”
– AppleInsider | Notes of interest from Apple’s Q1 2010 conference call
Never one to hide that I like Apple, but from an operational perspective, how can you not? Crushing it, and you also have guys like Cook, with quotes that make you want to root them on.
“Our whole education...
“A 301 redirect says that the URL requested (the short URL) has “permanently”...”
– URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?
Alright, that makes sense, but for Shortened URL services like Bit.ly, where in Google can you actually see that you are getting credit for a shortened link? search = site:yourdomain.com doesnt work. Seems like a blackhole and the major...
“McDonald’s says its sales and profit grew in the fourth quarter as more...”
– McDonald’s profit is $1.22B in 4th quarter - Yahoo! Finance
opportunity knocks for inexpensive, local alternatives.
(4:08) Modern Love - The Last Town Chorus →
rafer:
I’m not a music guy, but thesixtyone is a fabulous site.
Social sites of various sorts, including dating sites, Etsy, Yelp, and a host of others need to reach this kind of immersive representation of their subjects. It’s very tough to get users to upload visual media this good, but people who find a way will do very well.
It’s also fun to see another team use “hearted” instead of...
“RP: Are there any plans to expose hardware capabilities through JavaScript to...”
– Google talks Chrome OS, HTML5, and the future of software
“and drop.io was actually founded on the premise that for the first time in human...”
– sam lessin: modest proposals - a log on information, privacy vs. publicity, communication, change, people
Features As Companies
brycedotvc:
I would have never reengaged with Twitter if it weren’t for Facebook. So when I hear Facebook is prepping a new feature, I think of the hundreds of millions of people who will be conditioned to a new behavior and whether there is an opportunity to build a business singularly focused on providing it in a better, more interesting, way.
Via tedr.
“The guy who was introducing me whispered in my ear as he went to the podium, ‘we...”
– A Brazilian’s reaction to first hearing the acronym BRIC.
FT.com / Reportage - The story of the Brics
(via heyitsnoah)
I like the idea getting your idea adopted by one of the 4 major ad agencies. In this case, WPP. You figure they are in the brainstorming rooms of at least a quarter of the...
“New Urbanism is a movement in urban planning that began in the 1990s and...”
– Urbanization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“With a few clicks the data becomes much more granular, showing heart rate over...”
– Adidas miCoach Pacer Review: Interactive Fitness for Casual Marathoners | Page 2 | Fast Company
Nice.
“Amazon’s decline will come about because it will not be able to monopolize ebook...”
– Publishing Frontier » Blog Archive » Decline and Fall
Hmm.. I like this comment on the post:
You are very much right to say it is easy to set up a book store with free or very cheap components – although as you say Amazon could still be involved via Amazon Web Services (storage via S3...
“Huh. Yet another reason to lean into Android, no doubt.”
– The Evolving Search Interface: Mobile Drives Search As App - John Battelle’s Searchblog
Spot on. A combination of this and Rafer’s Semantic Search Provides no Clicks, provides some hotness into what could happen in time.
It’s a different collective data layer on the...
CodyBrown: This is a good question. RT...
Cool to see the conversations on Twitter about Journalists learning how to code. Would be awesome if the industries could find a way to meld in order to make them both better.
One reason I think people find it harder to reason with engineers v. editorial is the scarcity model engineers have over their industry v. editorial. There are a finite amount of people that know the language of coding. In...
“The new Twitter product will allow sites to authenticate users, pull data and...”
– Twitter’s Answer To Facebook Connect
Would like to see it move faster. The distributed web and the identity ecosystems that define them should continue to push.
Shirky: Situated Software →
“2. NYU and Manhattan are going to be very interesting places in the coming...”
– Year Zero for Journalism. (Scripting News)
I’ve been telling peeps to come to NYC. It’s where it is at, and awesome to see others are seeing it.
“So I have selfish reasons for appreciating Mr. Lanier’s complaints about masses...”
– Findings - Jaron Lanier Is Rethinking the Open Nature of the Internet - NYTimes.com
Lords of the Clouds. I like that.
