December 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
Arcade Fire (16)
AFX (13)
Black Eyed Peas (13)
CSS (11)
Blur (11)
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November 2010
iPhone photographers, get your Glif on with new... →
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I’ll be getting one of these.
It’s a local-boys-make-good story for the Internet age: two New Yorkers brainstorm an idea for the kind of iPhone 4 tripod mount/stand…
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For sale: baby foreskins, never used. →
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Whoa! Related: I need to watch Fight Club again
Hospitals routinely sell foreskins collected from newborn circumcisions to companies for thousands of dollars. These companies…
Juggling fire: what I learned about business from... →
Interview with friend Mick Liubinskas about his experience of his days at file sharing network, Kazaa.
[Humor] If Jimmy Wales was Steve Jobs →
Now this Wikipedia campaign looks to have attracted the web somewhat like the Hitler videos. Here is how Steve Jobs would have to say if he had a personal message for Apple.com visitors
3 Analyst Firms on the Trends Shaping the Future... →
Yep…. :)
Adding it Up
Looking over all of this, I think we can find some common themes and boil it all down to five points:
Location independence, mobility and remote work
Cloud computing
Standards and interoperability
Patterns and analytics
Collaboration
Do People Want Mobile Video Chat? 3 Million... →
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Wow, really? 40% of Skype calls are video!? “Skype, which has now seen some 150 billion calls, 40% of which involved video”
Tango, a cross-platform mobile video chat…
Give Me Something To Read - Best of 2010 →
A compiled list of the best articles and essays posted on Give Me Something To Read through 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →
Bonobo (31)
Ratatat (22)
Artfull Dodger (20)
Atom Tm (20)
Attica Blues (15)
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Interaction Design is the new Art Direction? →
Tweet Earlier this month at the RGD DesignThinkers conference here in Toronto, I checked out a talk by Khoi Vinh, former Design Director of the New York Times. Having spent many…
Steven Frank - stevenf.com: When I heard that the... →
I’m now trying this method of no flash in my browser… let’s so how it goes…
+ some other tips from Gruber (daringfireball.net)
stevenf:
When I heard that the new MacBook Air models were shipping without any Flash plug-in installed, the first thing I did was check to see if one of my long-standing Safari annoyances was fixed. It was.
It used to be that if you completely...
Mobile First Web Second (continued) →
I wrote a post called Mobile First Web Second a few months ago. In it made this point:
The thing I like about these kinds of apps is they are with you all the time and can be used in moments…
Find My iPhone (or iPad, or iPod touch) is now... →
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The only thing I wanted from MobileMe
Buried in Apple’s press release regarding the availability of iOS 4.2 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch was the fact that the…
New Economists worth knowing →
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I need to read more about the findings by these people.
Forbes magazine asked me a few weeks ago to list the “Seven Most Powerful New Economists.” I am not sure what the…
The story of Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, one of... →
Shared by atariboy “Both of them had this ability to not invent products, but discover products. Both of them said these products have always existed — it’s just that no one has ever seen them…
Google's beautiful HTML5 guide to the Web →
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20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web is a beautiful and educational example of what we can expect from the HTML5 Web. It was developed…
Infinicam gives you a boatload of filters for your... →
It’s been almost a year and a half since I took a look at CameraBag, an app that allows you to filter your photos, mimicking classic film cameras from days gone by. Now the creators of…
Capcom's free-to-play Smurfs' Village out-grossing... →
If you, like me, responded to the release of Smurfs’ Village by saying, “Really? A freemium game from Capcom? Based on the Smurfs franchise?” then you probably want to rethink how the App…
The Next Really, Really, Really, Big Thing →
So the next big thing is really not much different than the previous ones. There will be an interesting idea that has real value and most of the companies who jump on it will screw it up and lose a lot of money.
The difference, of course, will be made by the people who are working to solve everyday problems, how they are developed and how they treat each other.
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote →
Great story about CDbaby dealing with Apple
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →
The Beatles (36)
Mos Def (16)
Doves (15)
Raekwon (15)
The Bloody Beetroots (15)
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Boomerang for Gmail →
Schedule when to send off an email or hide emails to be ‘re received’ later when you define. Send and receive email when YOU want.
Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m →
The answer, it turns out, was quite simple: “We had an optional field on the site under ‘Name’, which was ‘Company’,” Megibow said.
“It confused some customers who filled out the ‘Company’ field with their bank name.”
After putting in their bank name, these customers then went on to enter the address of their bank, rather than their...
TidyPSD - Get your PSDs organized! →
“What’s the purpose of the service? It’s very difficult for coders to work with someone else’s PSD files if they’re not organized correctly. We help fix that problem by organizing your PSDs for you.”
Apple buys Wi-Gear, branded Bluetooth headset... →
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Hope so!
It appears that Apple is spending at least a few dollars out of that US$51 billion cache of cash. 9to5Mac reports that the company has purchased a small…
The 1140px CSS Grid System/Framework · Fluid down... →
“The 1140 grid fits perfectly into a 1280 monitor. On smaller monitors it becomes fluid and adapts to the width of the browser.
Beyond a certain point it uses media queries to serve up a mobile…
