December 2008
27 posts
“Facebook Connect is representative of some surprising new thinking in Silicon...”
– Great example of a concept being dumbed down for mainstream media to the point that it’s simply untrue. Way to go, NYT.
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web - NYTimes.com
observing the internet
davidhoffman:
analytics: the number of times per day a person checks analytics and their sanity are closely related.
creativity: there are a ton of creative mediums, both to create with and distribute ideas. some work better than others.
feedback: user feedback is a mixed-bag, but generally useless unless collected and pruned carefully and intelligently.
traffic: not all traffic is...
November 2008
69 posts
Apple - Thoughts on Music →
An essay by Steve Jobs from 2007 — really interesting hearing someone explain the role of DRM from Apple’s perspective.
“Starting this Black Friday and over the next 35 days leading up to the end of...”
– I always thought boycotts were silly, but this is interesting at the very least:
35 Days Against DRM — Economic Boycott of DRM This Gift Giving Season | DefectiveByDesign.org
“As times got tougher, people began to ask themselves whether they really needed...”
– With Sharper Image’s Demise, A Way Of Life Gone : NPR
Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation →
At the heart of this is the iTunesDB file, the index that the iPod operating system uses to keep track of what playable media is on the device. Unless an application can write new data to this file, it won’t be able to “sync” music or other content to an iPod. The iTunesDB file has never been encrypted and is relatively well understood. In iPods released after September 2007,...
“Last week, some Mac users were upset about a new anti-piracy feature built into...”
– Apple Eases Up Unfriendly Anti-Piracy Feature On New MacBooks (AAPL)
“We bounced around ideas on what the future of TV should look like,” Mr. Avner...”
– It’s Living Room 2.0 | The New York Observer (via fred-wilson) (via bijan) (via pegobry)
13 Drawings by Banksy →
really neat to see his sketching
“Social” has sucked a lot of oxygen out of the online conversational room.
...”
– Doc Searls, talking about the Social Internet as a “bubble”.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs (via skysignal)
“I think the big idea, as every big idea is, is just one amazing step beyond...”
– Larry Lessig Defends Copyright, Loves Charlie Rose Remixes
“My real fear is that the last 10 years have unleashed a kind of revolutionary...”
– Larry Lessig Defends Copyright, Loves Charlie Rose Remixes
“Mathematically speaking, “Napoleon Dynamite” is a very significant problem for...”
– The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize (via jratlee) (via slantback)
In a fit of irony, iPhone pirating app gets... →
marco:
SaladFork, the author of Crackulous, called the leak “absolutely disgusting, and downright insulting.” He writes about his pride of development, saying, “[I] have released a new version of Crackulous almost every day or two, fixing all the bugs that had been reported up until that day. I was proud of Crackulous, and put a large majority of my free time into ensuring it will be the best...
“Well they can’t ever change the odds — so when we go into a casino,...”
– latest episode of Radiolab
“Sony knew the economy was going to hell back in February. How? Camcorder sales...”
– Gizmodo quoting Jay Vandenbree, president of Sony Electronics Consumer Sales (via marco) (via mikehudack)
The Paradox of Choice →
the latest episode of Radiolab is very good — check it out.
“Make money: not by building an internet company, but by using the net as a tool...”
– Seth’s Blog: How to make money using the Internet
“It’s no secret that every startup’s wet dream is getting acquired by Google, and...”
– Really? Google seems full of crushed startup dreams to me. I have no regrets about speaking up about our frustrations when we left. (from Mashable article) (via dpstyles) (via mikehudack)
synchronicity
learned what ‘uncanny valley’ meant from my friends blog, then heard it twice this week
“If you use something like the command-line strings utility to examine the UIKit...”
– Daring Fireball: Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed... →
Watchjakeandamir:
Dating Service
“Over 90% of suggestions for changes to the site come from this group of users,...”
– Listening to users is bad… « The Paradigm Shift
“An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a...”
– “An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a …” - hot soup? anyone?
“Perhaps one of the bigger trends we will see in the coming years is the overall...”
– Intimacy 2.0 | Six Pixels of Separation (via somethingchanged) (via radarchive)
“For each application submitted for verification, the fee is $375. This fee is...”
– Facebook’s new ‘App Verification Program,’ otherwise known as ‘Fuck you, developers!’
“My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the...”
– Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole | Coop’s Corner - CNET News
(via mikehudack)
Thought of the day: in 1609 an unauthorized quarto of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare was hustled into publication illegally. 11 copies of the quarto survive today, which represent our source for all the sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare.
hereharehere:
The nacissism of small differences is a term coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917 that describes the manner in which our negative feelings are sometimes directed at people who resemble us, while we take pride from the “small differences” that distinguish us from them. (À la recherche du temps perdu ala ylnt)
MIT offers free classes →
kimboslice:
Lectures and notes from old classes, for you motivated ones out there.
“Facebook’s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an...”
– TechCrunch
Watchjonahray:
PART 2 of MASTER OF THE INTERNET.
“Or take the case of Bill Gates. Gladwell cites a body of research finding that...”
– Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers (via azspot)
“My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.”
– Mike Myers (via saramcpherson)
“Now all this fervent typing feels like we drank too much grain alcohol punch at...”
– Tom Davenport - Is Web 2.0 Living on Thin Air? (via artistspaid)
“The free flow of information and entertainment over the Internet doesn’t...”
– Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder | TorrentFreak
“Doing 4% less does not get you 4% less. Doing 4% less may very well get you 95%...”
– Seth’s Blog
