January 2008
36 posts
Amazon Earnings Call Details: Web Services Use Up... →
Amazon Earnings Call Details: Web Services Use Up More Bandwidth Than Amazon.com; The Kindle is a Hit — Amazon earnings just came out. The company had a strong fourth quarter, with revenues up 42 percent to $5.7 billion, net income doubling to $207 million, and free cash flow doubling as well to $1.4 billion.
Source: TechCrunch
Author: Erick Schonfeld
Link: ...
Principles of Beautiful HTML Emails - SitePoint →
Good introduction to the issues around HTML emails and pointers on how to make beautiful HTML emails
David Recordon: An Exciting Morning! →
This morning two awesome things shipped: - the Action Streams plugin for Movable Type - Yahoo’s OpenID Provider which you can see in action on Plaxo You can read more about the Action Streams plugin on Six Apart news as well as a more technical post on MT.org. I’m extremely excited about it since for the first time in a few years my website isn’t just a black page with a giant...
Robot Love T-Shirt from Go Ape Shirts →
I love this new design from Go Ape, it’s called “while the kids are on standby”. Couple of funny things about this, it looks like a little robot porn, but it also looks like the female version of the plug is a little surprised about something, kind of a “penis goes where?” expression, or maybe it’s just me
From Icanhascheezburger
BTW anyone got any tips on insomnia, it’s 4.30 in the morning...
James Whittaker - Em based layouts - Vertical... →
Flash calculator for em-based CSS layouts with vertical rhythm
Me, IE8 and Microsoft Versioning →
If you work in Web design and development and haven’t read any of the articles and discussions taking place regarding IE8 and its use of meta versioning for standards compliance, it’s time to read up on it ASAP. Begin with Aaron Gustafson’s “Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8” on A List Apart. You can follow the threads from there. Russ Weakley at maxdesign is keeping a...
A quote from Ian Hickson →
If Web authors actually use this feature, and if IE doesn’t keep losing market share, then eventually this will cause serious problems for IE’s competitors — instead of just having to contend with reverse-engineering IE’s quirks mode and making the specs compatible with IE’s standards mode, the other browser vendors are going to have to reverse engineer every major IE browser version, and end up...
In Europe, Apple Faces Hurdles to iTunes Movie... →
In Europe, Apple Faces Hurdles to iTunes Movie Rentals — LONDON — After introducing an online film rental business for American consumers last week, the chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, said he expected that the service would be expanded into international markets later this year.
Source: New York Times
Author: Eric Pfanner
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Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could... →
[by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned. The Facebook placement could be as prominent as the YouTube button on the main screen of iPhone, our sources indicate. Also, the deal involves giving Facebook a major slot within Nokia retail products’ displays.
But another factor...
Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could... →
[by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned. The Facebook placement could be as prominent as the YouTube button on the main screen of iPhone, our sources indicate. Also, the deal involves giving Facebook a major slot within Nokia retail products’ displays.
But another factor...
Making Google Reader More Like Gmail →
Google Reader could add a lot of features from Gmail that would improve the way it organizes information. A filtering mechanism would allow you to automatically star, share, email, label or mark as read the posts that match a certain pattern. For example, you could receive an email for each post that contains GDrive in the title or automatically label as Apple all the post that contain one of the...
Scrum so far: Sprint 5 →
So we’ve just started our fifth two-week sprint since we adopted Scrum at Future Platforms; it seems like a good time to write about the things we’ve learned so far (and the stuff we still don’t get). At the end of each sprint we devote a day (which Joh ably facilitates) to reviewing the previous two weeks and planning out the next two; in the morning, we first review what was...
Delia Online: How to... →
Collection of how to’s on cookery basics such as roast a chicken, scramble an egg, etc.
Bug Labs: Products →
Modular hardware with Java SDK
Facebook’s auto-generation of clips for URLs you write on people’s walls is a great feature. One of those “why didn’t I think of that”s.
Brighton Digital Media Job Fair →
Wired Sussex in association with The Argus are holding a Job Fair for anyone interested in working or hiring within the ‘digital media scene’. Up to a dozen companies will be exhibiting throughout the day (and evening) where the programme will give both permanent and freelancers an easy way to meet the people behind the digital companies.
Date: 13th February 2008
Location: Jury’s Inn Brighton,...
Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Scientific... →
Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Scientific Data — Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.
Source: Wired: Top Stories
Author: Wired Science
Link: ...
Django snippets: "for" template tag with... →
Django snippets: “for” template tag with support for “else” if array is empty. A neat solution to a common pattern; I’d personally like to see this included in Django proper.
Mozilla gets more user interface power →
TechCrunch reported today that Mozilla has hired Aza Raskini and two other founders of Humanized, a Chicago-based software development company with a deep emphasis in user interface innovation.
For example, Enso, Humanized flagship product, is a launcher that quietly stays behind the scenes that you can access pressing and holding down the CapsLock key to bring a command line to launch...
twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter →
twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter (via). Brilliant proof of concept by Ian McKellar: an OpenID provider that authenticates you by sending you a Twitter direct message.
The OpenID mobile experience →
Two days ago, Ma.gnolia launched their mobile version, and it’s pretty awesome (disclosure: Ma.gnolia is a former client and current friend/partner of Citizen Agency).
In the course of development, Larry asked me what he thought he should do about adding OpenID sign-in to the mobile version. He was reluctant to do so because, he reasoned, the experience of logging in sucks, not just because of...
The OpenID mobile experience →
Two days ago, Ma.gnolia launched their mobile version, and it’s pretty awesome (disclosure: Ma.gnolia is a former client and current friend/partner of Citizen Agency).
In the course of development, Larry asked me what he thought he should do about adding OpenID sign-in to the mobile version. He was reluctant to do so because, he reasoned, the experience of logging in sucks, not just because of...
Steve Freeman: Checklist-Driven Programming →
In another brilliant article for the New Yorker, Atul Gawande writes about how Peter Pronovost, a doctor at John Hopkins Hospital, has been proving the value of the humble checklist in situations which are “now too complex for clinicians to carry them out reliably from memory alone.” Eliminating bugs (both kinds)
The example Pronovost started with was line-infections (getting infected in hospital...
Recognition →
It’s always nice to get some recognition for a job well done. Jane, Iain, Mike and Alison have all been working hard on the Haymarket project for a couple of months now. I joined them in December to work on some of the new features for Brand Republic and it’s been good.
It’s sites like this that make me proud to work with all the great people at Madgex. Well done guys!
Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The... →
Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup — After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it. Today changes everything you’ve ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before …
Source: TechCrunch
Author: Duncan Riley
Link: ...
The C5 Generic Collection Library for C# and CLI →
Open source Generic Collections Library for C#. Supposedly much better than the awful MS ones.
Flickr to Authenticate OpenID →
Flickr to Authenticate OpenID. Flickr /photos/username/ pages are now (almost) OpenIDs—they point at a new Yahoo!-wide OpenID server, but it hasn’t been switched on yet. It’s OpenID 2 only, presumably so Yahoo! can protect their users’ privacy by using directed identity to hide individual screen names.
53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | CSS... →
Compendium of CSS techniques
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers →
Ugh, I had promised not to read TechMeme anymore, and I’ve actually kept to my promise since then… until today. And as soon as I finish this post, I’m back on the wagon, but for now, it’s useful to point to the ongoing Scoble debacle for context and for backstory.
In a nutshell, Robert Scoble has friends on Facebook. These friends all have contact information and for whatever reason, he wants to...
Iowa Twitter Success →
When I first floated the idea of collecting Iowa Caucus results through the microblogging social network Twitter, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Iowa is a small state, and not particularly known for tech-savviness. Would I find anyone willing to whip out their phone in the middle of a caucus and text in the results?
Thanks to @podcastmama, @jakebouma, @chrisken, @kevin_s, @yogagirl,...
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks [Lifehacker... →
When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: finding exact phrases matches using quotes like "so say we all" or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little input box. Dozens of Google search guides detail the tips you already know, but...
Become a Celebrity: Put Your Face on Magazine... →
Want to see yourself on CNN news, BoingBoing or the front cover of all top magazines like TIME, Wired, Cosmopolitan, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, etc. Try these fake magazine cover creation tools:
1. MagMyPic - Just upload your picture and this service will instantly put that on the cover of TIME, Rolling Stone, Fortune, People, Maxim, Vogue and other popular magazines. The service...
Pointui, the definitive user interface for mobile... →
Freeware (Windows Mobile) - interesting replacement interface for Windows Mobile designed around touch.
2008 Prediction 2: Windows Looks Bad →
This is the second of five predictions for 2008, expanded from the short
form generated on short notice as described here.
Prediction
The short version:
The strain due to the fact that most business desktops are
locked into the Microsoft platform, at a time when both the Apple and
GNU/Linux alternatives are qualitatively safer, better, and cheaper to
operate, will start to become impossible...
5 Tracking Apps to Help You Out in 2008 →
Five highly-automated online services to help you out with your daily life and new year resolutions. Nothing complicated or time-consuming, only apps that truly deliver.
FINANCES
Mint - Get control of your budget and finances with minimal effort. Mint is a fully-automated, all-in-one online personal finance tracker.
Here are some of the things that Mint can do without your intervention:
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45 Things You Can Learn Online for Free! →
You know what I love about the Internet? You can find courses, tutorials and lessons for almost anything - and many of them are free. Are you interested in learning to crochet or designing your own website but don’t know when you’ll have the time?
Have you thought about taking up an instrument or learning to dance but can’t afford the cost of a class? Would you like to perform a few simple...