since techcrunch broke this story there have been more entousiastic reactionsfred oliveira ubiquity this is a big dealrobert scoble mozilla gives the passionates one with ubiquitymathew ingrammozilla the browser as operating system twitter search has many enthousiastic reactions.this is a follow up post to my previos one the most important new thing since ajax...... [Show More]
got quite a lot of feedback on yesterdays post about the iphone app store so this one comes as a bit of an addendum. i typically dont create a new post just to link somewhere else but gizmodo has a great new article with a few thoughts on the iphone sdk that developers and those of you interested on mobile platforms as a whole should read. click here for the full article.
from gizmodo there are ... [Show More]
sometimes the pieces just fall into place. two years ago i was writing about needing a better connected device. then the iphone launched and people some people not everyone wanted a tablet. it makes sense. a bigger lean device that people who live and breathe on the web can use to be connected. no need for gsm its just not a phone. its a platform.
anyway fast forward from two years ago to present ... [Show More]
quotes are used to emphasize excerpts of text. since users almost never read but scan we need to provide them with some focus anchors to fix their attention to the most important parts of our articles. furthermore quotes are always used for testimonials and sometimes for blog comments. they can be styled using graphics css and a little bit of javascript. sometimes creative dynamic solutions can be... [Show More]
metallica has done it again. forget going after people pirating their music this time theyve gone after people writing about it after inviting them to hear it.
the story so far
heres how the story goes metallica representatives recently played tracks from their upcoming album to a bunch of criticsblo ggersjourn alists depending on whose take on this you read. they then surprise surprise blogged a... [Show More]
a month ago i was pondering social bankruptcy but since then i really hadnt made any changesuntil today. the recent and frequent twitter outages have inspired me to give that service up cold turkey.
outages aggravation. who needs aggravation not me.
ive seen a lot of folks excuse or apologize for the twitter outages by trotting out the well it is free argument. frankly i call bunk on that. but il... [Show More]
microsoft withdrawing its offer to buy yahoo is a sufficiently large story to demonstrate the problem of redundant news content on the web. google news is currently tracking about 2000 versions of this story. to get a better sense of why its a problem to have 2000 stories about the same thing ive reproduced about ten percent of them below just the headlines and ledes. if you have the stomach to s... [Show More]
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when designing blogs i noticed there are a few different design elements that i have to take into account every time. i have broken these different design elements into nine different parts. the more attention you give to each part the better your overall blog design will be.
header
content area
primary navigation
secondary navigation
headlines
comments
posts footer
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heres a few of the things that caught my eye on the blogosphere this week. this is sort of a way to apologize for the lack of proper posts which ill be going back to as soon as i come up for air
the latest ala is all about everyblock and some of the things their team learned building the service. theres some genius nuggets behind the way they build maps and a few suggestions for accessible data vi... [Show More]
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lifestream aggregator turnedsoci al network freindfeed is the most hyped thing since sliced bread or at least the most hyped web app since twitter. among the scads of lifestreaming apps friendfeed has garnered the lions share of recent press and hype among early adopters. the promise of lifestreaming is that it ... [Show More]
coincidences are fun and this one is pretty cool. so yesterday i posted about friendfeed needing two things to make it complete. well strike one out of the list because search has been done as techcrunch mashable and the guys at friendfeed themselves are reporting. i know when to say a product is lacking and i know when to praise this is time for the latter for this simple modification my friends... [Show More]
last week i posted about information overload and how we were being constantly bombed with content bits from all corners of the web like twitter facebook rss feeds whatever else. also last week a lot of people started using and blogging about friendfeed. some people actually call it this years twitter.
ive been using friendfeed a bit myself and while i find it cute and somewhat useful as you prob... [Show More]
yay totspot launched Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Mar 01 2008 17:30:38
ive been and so has the rest of the team here pretty quiet during the last few months. mostly because we were pretty busy working on totspot blog which we launched with a group of really smart people. totspot is a social publishing platform for parents and their kids. its a pretty niche market but an exciting one too.
totspot started out as client work and it became our single focus for months d... [Show More]
third times the charm back to acid beach
story photos by john vonderlin
email john benloudman sbcglobal. net
photo johns spectacular goal warm water lagoon.
hi june
im not sure if failure is a necessity or failure is not an option better describes the philosophical underpinnings of my third attempt to reach acid beach and its surrounding wonders.
but i do know the third time is the charm aptl... [Show More]
next month im hitting las vegas for mix08. march is a pretty good conference month with etech in san diego holy crap what an ace program this year mix in vegas and sxsw in austin and although ive been pretty unimpressed by conferences as of late one of the exceptions being reboot which i was lucky enough to be a speaker at im still looking forward to meeting some of the people attending mix08.
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if you want to understand what motivates a guy to pick up skateboarding you could bring him into a sterile laboratory and interrogate him or you could spend a week in a skatepark observing him interacting with his friends practicing new skills and having fun. ethnography is observing peoples behavior in their own environments so you can get a holistic understanding of their world one that you can... [Show More]
vote for adegga Post Source: blog.adegga.com Posted: Dec 06 2007 11:45:16
techcrunch gigaom readwriteweb and venturebeat are organizing a competition and award ceremony the crunchies 2007 to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups internet and technology innovations of the year.
we are going for best bootstrapped startup nomination. the best bootstrapped startup is for a company that has raised less than 100.000 from individuals angels or others which fit... [Show More]
bhagaban
social networking sites are supposed to provide us powerful platforms where minds share ideas but they are now open for online criminals who can access to your sensitive personal information shared on the net.
the security experts have demonstrated the security flaws of web 2.0 sites at the ongoing black hat and defcon hacker conferences. they have shown how myspace is vulnerable to... [Show More]
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