February 2012
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January 2012
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So do I think a fourteen year old could have pulled it off? I sure think so, but...
– A 14-year-old could build 1998’s Google using her Dad’s credit card!
December 2011
5 posts
Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and...
– Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
The great thing about the web is linking. I don’t care how ugly it looks...
– Scripting News: Why apps are not the future
November 2011
18 posts
As super cuts become more common — and become part of the cultural...
– The Technium: Supercut Genre
Of course, I’ve written some free software that runs on many thousands of...
– Cost of Computing in Coal :: Copyrighteous
The Alfred App
I’ve been using the Alfred App for about a month now and it’s really one of the best desktop apps I’ve tried in a while. I have no idea if it’s widely used, but it has at least improved my productivity quite a bit.
What it does is that it let’s you search anything on your computer and the web, launch apps and do various in-app stuff (if you have the pro version)...
via The Waving Cat
Really neat presentation covering the basics.
So it seems to me and my colleagues at USV that an alternative currency with...
– A VC: Bitcoin
One of the most pleasant (and surprising) developments of 2011 was me starting...
– My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too — Tech News and Analysis
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The Internet is not just a series of pipes. It’s core architecture embeds an...
– unfinished work
Brad Burnham’s posts are always legendary.
The Web OS is already here… it’s just not what you thought it would be. Web...
– LukeW | The Web OS is Already Here…
Simple iPhone App Prototyping
I just came across Jyri Engeström’s blog this past weekend and found a really neat post on iPhone app prototyping. So many people seem to have an idea for an iPhone app these days, so while it’s not that hard to hack together something basic with HTML/CSS and a bit of JavaScript, Jyri’s approach is really neat if you just want to put together something super fast to show off your...
We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years,” his wife, Laurene Powell,...
– Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker
Been spending some time lately researching various solutions for doing web development on the iPad. Especially Ruby on Rails stuff. It seems like it will be a pretty constrained experience, but on the other hand there’s something about the clarity and lack of cognitive overhead that makes it very tempting to try out. At least on some occasions. The least feasible aspect of it so far has been...
Reich says that BankSimple adopted its “mobile first” design strategy not only...
– First Look: BankSimple’s iPhone App Aims To Reimagine Your Money | Co. Design
Really cool!
(via david-noel)
October 2011
12 posts
Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to...
– Apple designer Jony Ive, quoted by Walter Isaacson (via maxistentialist)
Really neat virtual art gallery app from Becks via PSFK
From my experience it’s still early days for AR. Especially from a UX perspective when it comes to usefulness. Somehow it reminds me of WAP. The general direction is right, but there needs to be more bits and pieces falling into place for it to be useful. Computing moving past the mobile phone/tablets and into the real world maybe?
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September 2011
19 posts
So, my definition of the Web then is resources loaded over the Internet using...
– What the Web is and is not, Joe Hewitt
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Google: 2/3rds of our mobile search comes from... →
bijan:
whoa, this is surprising.
wow!
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david-noel:
cacioppo:
“It’s what we do when confronted with huge amounts of data we do not understand: we pin them to the wall like butterflies and start telling stories.”
– Kevin Slavin at TED
Recommended viewing.
Super interesting
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theatlanticvideo:
Remix: ‘All the President’s Men’ vs. the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’
“I can’t stand it, I know you planned it, I’m gonna set it straight, this Watergate,” begins the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.” All the President’s Boys is one of those perfect remixes that works so well, you can’t believe you didn’t think of it first. Editor Jeff Yorkes “cinemashup” of footage from All the...
Some people think we are in a startup bubble, and that once the bubble bursts...
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home