November 2008
33 posts
Google Launches Message Board Search →
Some interesting notes on Google’s datamining efforts.
CS 294-5, Spring 2006: Great Algorithms →
Full lecture pdf’s on the great algorithms of computer science, hard nerd.
Mark Boulton's ebook: A Practical Guide to... →
Its book day at willolbrys.com! This one is not free, however, but check out the sample.
John Resig - EtherPad: Real-time Editing with... →
John Resig has a nice writeup of EtherPad, an improved SubEthaEdit for the web. This is why the web is exciting to me, stuff like this.
WatchDavid Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - Strange Overtones
I just heard it today, and maybe I’m biased because I love them as individual artists, but this album has a great sound.
Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront →
Amazon is making themselves a huge player. They are expanding in all the right ways and have “bigger than Google” written all over them.
Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying... →
I dont usually do political stuff, but this is just fascinating stuff.
Updated RSS Feed
I’ve just updated my RSS feed to use FeedBurner. If you could update your reader app to poll the new feed instead i would be forever grateful.
10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later →
Slow and steady wins the race. Unless youre ridiculouly fast and agile and have video sharing and auto tagging!!!!
The Unofficial Guide to Friendfeed: What Makes... →
Seriously. Friendfeed. If you’re not using this to manage all your networks how do you do it? Chi.mp? or Glue? I prefer the firehose method.
Gobby →
Windows, Linux and OSX compatible collaborative editor.
Google Adds Voice And Video Chat to Gmail →
Whats up super huge Google empire? Oh? Video chat you say?!1?!
Spot.Us Experiments With Citizen-Funded Community... →
Excellent citizen journalism site. I love this idea.
“It’s actually a possibility that we can access experimentally the minimum...”
– Time to test time : Nature News
“There’s a word for all the stuff we do with creative works — all the...”
– Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight
Tarsnap public beta →
Hardcore security backup.
Al Gore: Web 2.0 Needs a Purpose →
Al Gore! The Internet! Great talk.
Sneakey Robbers Turn to the Social Web →
I feel like this can be described as hyper-terrifying. Software so sophisticated it can reproduce a key from an image as low res as those from cell phone cameras. Combined with 3d printers and longe range photography and you can 0wn a whole neighborhood.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned... →
I’m not an iPhone developer. In fact, I am way more interested in open source Android stuff, but for the time being I may be doing some iPhone stuff. One of my fellow devs posted a link to this and I thought everyone should take a look.
FriendFeed and Enjit: Open Up the Firehose to the... →
FriendFeed updates in realtime over XMPP. Very nice.
Is That Steam In The Cloud? →
Valve is always ahead of the game. of games.
Weed Out Obtrusive JavaScript →
Nice tool to help fix your Javascript.
Why Your Next Computer Might Be A Linux PC →
When I tell people they will be using Linux sooner than they think, they never believe me. I run a super nice workstation entirely on free software. Unless it is job-specific(which a huge amount of it is), why aren’t you using open source? The beauty of open source is that if your answer is “It doesnt feel like a Mac” well, it certainly will soon.
Which Twitter-clone Should Your Company Consider? →
Roll your own with Laconi.ca. Done.
#magpie = $$$ OR unfollow? →
Twitter is a funny thing. It provides a service that is very barebones on purpose. Trying to monetize that service a company can very quickly look like douchebags, because they are going to screw up the ad to content ratio. Right now Twitter’s ratio is nil, because it doesn’t have any ads at all. I think this just goes to show you can’t monetize a publishing platform, only the...