September 2010
You’re Never Given Time to Build, You Have to Take... →
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One of the common traits I see between talented hackers and app builders is that they steal blocks of time to work on projects whenever they can. For most keen eyed coders those stolen…
Emptiness →
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Hope you enjoined that moment of Zen
The space above was brought to you by my killer task list and cheat…
Not every dev team hacks like Spiderman →
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Design for People First
As a humble student of web hacking/dev I come across some far out “superior tech”. Every coder and engineer hawks their wares as the next digital…
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“I did two angel deals specifically because the entrepreneurs wouldn’t...”
– Mark Suster
99 pages of apps on the wall →
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99 pages of apps
What should happen if one should fall?
98 pages of apps on the wall
Between the 250k+ iOS apps, 100k+ android apps, and the plethora of browser based apps, we…
Lazy Saturday Mornings are my Religion →
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I bucked my regular trend. Instead of waking up at 5, reading, grabbing breakfast at Panera Bread with Michelle, a 3-4 hour walk, then coding and doc reading, I did something…
The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.:... →
thechangelog:
As we promised on WatchWednesday, we’re bringing back FollowFriday, but for GitHub. As a regular Friday feature, we’ll offer up our list of who you should follow. Fork us and send us your list, too. Our community has its own celebs and high-profile founders, but let us say up front…
What’s Important →
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The biography of a man I’ve never met, JLM:
I was born in a snow storm at Camp Kilmer my mother having trudged to the dispensary through the drifting snow to be delivered of her…
Don’t just follow me, See the world through my... →
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Trey Ratcliff shares more beauty than I could have imagined, and he does so with only a single eye
*update* to clarify, I’m thinking out loud about a new app design
I’m…
Marco.org: Job transition →
marco:
After four years of my serving as Tumblr’s lead developer, Tumblr’s technical management needs have evolved to require types of experience that I don’t have, and my independent career has offered a lot of opportunities that I haven’t had the time to take full advantage of. While Tumblr’s…
Are the best Seed deals moving out of the Valley? →
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Between Mike Arrington’s sensational AngelGate post, and Fred Wilson’s reaction to the hype I’ve come to my own conclusion. If super angels are gathering it means something’s wrong….
A Mostly Current Reading List →
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A mostly current reading list: (inspired by Josh Fraser’s post http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/07/23/my-3-rules-about-reading/#idc-container)
I’ve been giving away books for…
State Propagation with Multiple Databases →
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Between a few stolen moments last night and early this morning, I was able to tweak the photo sharing app, Pics. One open issue, I may have borked Pics’ upload interface this…
VCs, Sprinting Horses till they Sweat →
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Highly motivated individuals see only the world they wish to shape, and the barriers to their success
I came across a curious tale of psychological profiling while reading a New…
Reckless Photo CouchDB App in 60 seconds →
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Assumption: you have couchapp and couchDB installed, see this post
Disclaimer: While I’ve read a bunch about couch’s background, I have yet to setup any apps. Today’s challenge is…
Open isn’t always free →
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Social sites have popularized content sharing over large centrally controlled networks^. The Freemium media model is nothing short of attention jiu jitsu. Initially a young service…
LazyMiracleDB, because you’re never alone on a... →
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Disclaimer, I’m not peddling new software but thinking over exactly what I want from DBs
I’m impressed with the marketing acumen of technology like CouchDB with Relax, or RESTful design…
What’s Going on with the Social Web? →
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Jesse Stay’s post this morning on the social web inspired me to think through the rationale and value offering of companies which provide modern real time one to many messaging systems.
Twitter is not “broader” than Pubsubhubbub →
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How can something like this:
be broader than something like this:
Right on Brett Slatkin ! http://www.google.com/buzz/bslatkin/Ue1EA9BfSKx
Brett Slatkins…
“A new field of urban entrepreneurs is developing where key insights are coming...”
– I’ve long believed that the great revolution of the social web is that new behaviors are now possible at the intersection of our off and online lives. Ron Conway’s team is using that as an investment thesis.
Always thinking ahead of the crowd, Ron’s list of investment decisions seems obvious…but...
Avatars Shattering the Boundaries between Virtual... →
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Groovy Second Life/World of Warcraft Character Design
Massively Distributed Virtual Worlds
The Internet is a Big place. So why is that every self claimed Massive…
Browsers aren’t Operating Systems, but will... →
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This post is inspired by Tim O’Reilly’s The State of the Internet Operating System, only 6 months late.
Can a Web Browser be as Full Featured as an Operating System?
No. It’s…
If you can’t beat them, join them →
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I took that advice quite literally this weekend. After spending much of my life working in an industry that’s behind the times as far as Internet policies go*. I decided the best…
Nifty Infographics, WordPress Ubiquity & Google... →
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Once again I’m strapped for time, so I’ll defer to the proverb that images are worth a 1000 words.
Since I’m a startup fanatic I’ll share Google’s Acquisitons First:
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Wordpress Infographic
src http://blog.page.ly/2010/08/the-prolific-wordpress-infographic/
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Tracking Google's Acquisitions [Infographic]
Research by Scores.org
src http://www.scores.org/graphics/google/
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Holy Crap Minecraft! →
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The above image is a beautiful castle constructed by 10-15 people over a few days within a single world node. I don’t have much time to capture the wonder and awesomeness that…
Cool Breezes, the Messenger of Change, and... →
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In just the past week, morning temperatures in the north east have dropped 15-20 degrees Fahrenheit. The huge drop in humidity and rise in air quality have transformed sweaty morning…
