1/05/2008 @ 21:01 UTC
Cameron Moll : The Most Important Skill - Office mate John Dilworth attempts to answer the question, What is the one skill that can most positively impact your profession? "Great designers must perform many different tasks throughout the course a design project. Great designers need to be general
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1/05/2008 @ 21:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : A fight with invisible knives. - ∞
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1/05/2008 @ 21:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : Boston Web Studio - M&SS member Marc Amos takes the freelance leap. Good luck to you, sir! ∞
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1/05/2008 @ 21:00 UTC
Andy Baio : AT&T wi-fi hotspots now free for iPhone users - including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble; spoof the iPhone user-agent and it's free from your laptop too
mmb : http://www.macrumors.com/2008/04/30/free-atandt-wi-fi-access-for-iphones/ - http://www.macrumors.com/2008/04/30/free-atandt-wi-fi-access-for-iphones/ via /links/ [via]
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1/05/2008 @ 20:01 UTC
nelson : Maker Faire this weekend - Terrible website, but the Faire is in San Mateo this weekend
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1/05/2008 @ 19:01 UTC
Khoi Vinh : Start Here - “Linkable notebooks and accessories.” Exquisite paper products from my friend Tina Chang.
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nelson : Arabic typesetting - Good overview of the challenges and history
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1/05/2008 @ 19:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Mena Trott's Wasted on the Young - what if first-gen bloggers were vlogging in 1994? this is amazing, I want to see Kottke next
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1/05/2008 @ 17:01 UTC
Richard Rutter : Twistori - Twitterers’ loves, hates, thoughts, beliefs, feelings and wishes.
mmb : twistori - twistori via Anarchaia: A tumblelog by Christian Neukirchen [via]
Simon Willison : twistori - twistori. Lovely implementation of a neat idea for a Twitter app from Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs.
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1/05/2008 @ 17:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : Stoav Graphics - I think—no, I know I’m in love with that cutout effect. ∞
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1/05/2008 @ 17:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : Designing for the Social Web: the Book - Joshua Porter’s done and gone written himself a book. And it looks most excellent; my copy’s on preorder. ∞
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1/05/2008 @ 17:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : The perfect iPhone Ringtone - Don’t know about “perfect,â€? but I’m trying it out. We’ll see if I’m back to “Old Phoneâ€? before the week’s out. ∞
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1/05/2008 @ 17:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : Hivelogic on backups - Okay, Dan Benjamin’s got me sold on a Drobo. Time to pull the trigger, methinks. (Also, people who say “pull the triggerâ€?? Total asses.) ∞
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1/05/2008 @ 15:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Consumption is also about choice - Consumption is also about choice. Tom Armitage’s thoughtful response to Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 talk on television as “cognitive surplus�.
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1/05/2008 @ 15:00 UTC
Simon Willison : SourceForge Allows OpenID Logins - SourceForge Allows OpenID Logins. Excellent—SourceForge is the kind of site that I log in to infrequently enough to always forget my password (and indeed username) making OpenID a great fit.
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1/05/2008 @ 14:00 UTC
bmilleare : diNovo Edgeâ„¢ - This is *exactly* what I need for my media centre.
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1/05/2008 @ 12:01 UTC
factoryjoe : GSoC-08:Secure OAuth Services | groups.drupal.org - "By means of this project, I would like to contribute a module to the Drupal community which will make the existing Service API a pluggable authentication module such that users will be able to choose between existing API keys method or
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1/05/2008 @ 12:01 UTC
factoryjoe : Hello Mento — Introducing a new way to share links with friends and the peeps who matter to you | Mento Blog - Gregor announces the public release of Mento, for sharing links. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: mento, launch, beta, sharing
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1/05/2008 @ 12:01 UTC
factoryjoe : Relationships are awful (online, anyway) - Go By Airship - "I think DiSo is probably the best bet for an effective future where I don't have to spend most of my time online answering or sending friend requests and setting up completely arbitrary relationships. DiSo represents a network where soc
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1/05/2008 @ 12:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Load Balancer Update - Load Balancer Update. WordPress.com has switched from Pound to nginx for load balancing, resulting in a significant drop in CPU usage. I’ve been using nginx on my little VPS for over a year now with no complaints, nice to know it scales up as well as
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1/05/2008 @ 12:00 UTC
Simon Willison : so-you-wanna-see-an-image - so-you-wanna-see-an-image. WordPress.com use Amazon S3 to store images (presumably to save having to create a massive scalable redundant filesystem themselves) but the images are served a load balanced memcached / varnishd caching system that they contr [via]
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1/05/2008 @ 11:00 UTC
Richard Rutter : Motivating people to upload an avatar - By defaulting to a photo of someone else.
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1/05/2008 @ 11:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project - Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project. Talk about burying the lede... the real story is that Adobe are going to drop the license restriction that prevents other people from implementing SWF players. They’re also publishing the AMF a [via]
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1/05/2008 @ 10:01 UTC
Kellan : Twitter: Jobs - Operations Engineer experience with JVM-based application stacks, Systems Engineer code using primarily Java, Ruby, C/C++ and Scala. #
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1/05/2008 @ 09:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Leonard's roundup of the best Web 2.0 presentations - most are now online and it looks like Web 2.0 was much better this year
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1/05/2008 @ 07:02 UTC
joshua : a-thousand-words.net on GTA - the toy internet in GTA IV has a flickr parody, including this gem in the FAQ
mmb : GTA IV by joshua @ Flickr - by joshua via joshua’s favorites on del.icio.us [via]
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1/05/2008 @ 07:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Grand Theft Auto IV mocks Flickr and tagging - there's a parallel-world Internet in the game with hundreds of pages, including parodies like Craplist
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1/05/2008 @ 06:01 UTC
deusx : iBanjo » Blog Archive » Subversion’s Future? - "The Subversion project shouldn't spend any more time trying to make Subversion a better version control tool for non-huge open source projects."
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1/05/2008 @ 06:01 UTC
deusx : delicious blog » Firefox 3, del.icio.us, and you - "Today I’m pleased to announce a beta release of an enhanced version of our Firefox Add-on for del.icio.us that now has full Firefox 3 support while retaining Firefox 2 compatibility."
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Kellan : Internet News: Flickr Taking Privacy Just Casually Enough - Susan Kuchinskas has a nice write up of my talk on Friday that manages to hit most of my quotable moments (and leaves out the few that really shouldn’t make it to print). Slides coming soon. #
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1/05/2008 @ 05:01 UTC
adamrg : Best entry-level salaries for new grads - I like this article... it says that not only do I make more than the average for people with my degree, I make more than my ex-girlfriends :)
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1/05/2008 @ 03:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming - Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming. Scarily detailed online book on games programming, including 2D and 3D graphics, AI, multiplayer network code, indoor and outdoor rendering, character animation and much more. [via]
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1/05/2008 @ 03:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Damien Jay's Opolis - comic built from photos of a 3D miniature office building
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1/05/2008 @ 01:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Paulville, gated communities for Ron Paul supporters - no, really, the first one's in West Texas [via]
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1/05/2008 @ 01:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Tresling, Tetris controlled by arm wrestling - the battling dynamic reminds me of the rare Panic Park gameplay
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1/05/2008 @ 00:01 UTC
Linkorama : Information Arbitrage and the Window of Opportunity - This is a similar point to what I was attempting to make in my Content = Community post in that until people *do* something with information, it might as well not exist in terms of value.
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