LessProjects: Tracking for Developers (7)
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The latest online project management site to cross my radar is LessProjects, from the folks behind the LessAccounting small business accounting software. This one will be of interest mostly to software developers, particularly those using an agile process, because it focuses on iterations and spec items rather than simply tasks. LessProjects is visually attractive and features some innovative display - most notably the status display, where you move specs between stages (”Not Started”, “In QA”, ...
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source - Will it Matter? - ReadWriteWeb (40)
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Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it. Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, ...
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nikan said:
The moment I read the first 2-3 lines I started thinking about federated social bookmarking services and, lo, Marshall jumps to the subject after the middle of the post. It is unclear though how is this going to be implemented.
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source - Will it Matter? (53)
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Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it. Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company has thrown itself to the mercy of the development community and is going to make its code available in open source. Ma.gnolia is tiny compared to Yahoo's Delicious, but in every way other than network effects, ...
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Forrest said:
Short answer: no. Open Source matters to developers and to a comparatively small number of users. Services like FriendFeed makes innately providing networking capabilities less essential than they would otherwise be. It will take something far more powerful than social tools and nice interface to overcome Delicious' large user base - something like Iterasi, which provides whole page capture and historical archiving.
Design Signatures (3)
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I’ve spent a bit of time over the last month designing a new blog that I’ll be launching soon, and in doing so, I’ve become aware of some design and coding habits which, when put together, clearly compromise a bit of a “design signature”. If you’ve designed more than five sites in your site, [...]
Arrogance and humility (4)
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Two perspectives. Clay Shirky, writing on A Brief Message: Design is arrogance. The designer says, “I know what you want better than you. Here it is.” A designer offers judgment as superior; as Henry Ford said, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” Design is humility.Users are experts in their own lives, lives the designer will see only if she understands their wants and needs. Design ...
Julia Child and 24,000 Others Confirmed as US Spies (1)
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Today the National Archives will release over 750,000 once classified files that link Julia Child, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg, the son of Earnest Hemingway, and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, among almost 24,000 others, to the Office of Strategic Services, a US spy agency predating the CIA. Until today, even veterans of the agency didn't know the exact breadth of its scope. However, the news will come as no surprise ...
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Chronicole said:
I love my odd feeds for exactly this kind of information
Zing (1)
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Thinking about going to SXSW 2009? (1)
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Attending SXSW interactive at least once in your life is a must for any web professional, no matter how far you have to travel to get there. You’ll get to see what some of the most interesting people in the industry have been working on for the last 12 months, you’ll meet some great people, and you’ll get to sup at at the trough of all the big name companies in the business at their ...
The Chameleon, Frederic Bourdain (7)
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Frédéric Bourdain is a Frenchman in his early thirties who has spent much of his life impersonating kidnapped or runaway teens. At police headquarters, he admitted that he was Frédéric Bourdin, and that in the past decade and a half he had invented scores of identities, in more than fifteen countries and five languages. His aliases included Benjamin Kent, Jimmy Morins, Alex Dole, Sladjan Raskovic, Arnaud Orions, Giovanni Petrullo, and Michelangelo Martini. News reports claimed ...
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This is the craziest story i have ever read.
6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then (16)
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I have been tracking Y Combinator (a new kind of venture firm for early, early stage startups) for several years. They have a distinctive approach to the early-stage funding process and have funded some interesting companies. YC is in the news again because of Google's recent acquisition of Omnisio, a YC investment. Thinking back on several years of YC history, I dervied the below list of companies that I would have funded had the opportunity ...
links for 2008-07-31: Comment Conundrum (1)
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Why we delete comments. (And how you can make us stop.) Brilliantly written. “If we attempted to pass a law preventing you from saying something terrible, that would be censorship. If you showed up in our living room attempting to say the same thing, we’d have the right to throw you out.” (tags: community) Jamie’s Comment on Random Mumblings Fantastic insights on comment moderation from a practitioner. “Some reporters might get upset that someone says ...
10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments (6)
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The other day Bob Garfield had a good kvetch about dumb comments on newspaper websites on his show, On The Media, and I posted my two cents, but I still don’t feel better. I think that’s because Bob’s partly right: comments do suck sometimes. So, instead of just poking him for sounding like Grandpa Simpson, I’d like to help fix the problem. Here are ten things newspapers could do, right now, to improve the quality ...
This is Not a Comment (6)
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(With apologies to René Magritte.) One of my favorite radio shows is On The Media. I’ve been listening to it for years. Their critiques of traditional media are astute and often funny. But when they talk about the internet, they reveal themselves to be the old codgers they are. This week, host Bob Garfield did a piece ostensibly about the problems newspaper sites have with website comments. Unfortunately it just came out sounding like another ...
A last lecture [Pharyngula] (5)
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Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father (1)
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Here is a touching story put together in images, a father who has no short term memory and a son who depicts his day to day in photos… Time to reflect…
How Limitations Influence Creativity (2)
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Illustration by Von Glitschka History itself is replete with examples of human ingenuity showcasing it’s creativity when faced with restrictive resources. So much so that a popular saying has survived a millennium and is still in use today to describe such situations. You have probably heard it. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” When I first started out in this industry I thought the most creative assignment you could possibly have is one that had ...
Around the world with Dorothy Gambrell (5)
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I mentioned passenger travel on cargo ships the other day. Dorothy Gambrell and her companion went on an around-the-world trip a couple of years ago, traveling mostly by boat and train. To get from North America to Asia, they booked passage on a cargo ship leaving from Oakland and bound for Taiwan. You can read about their adventures online...start here and use the "next entries" link at the bottom of the page to keep reading. ...
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Chronicole said:
I'm hopping a cargo ship next weekend. Taking 3G mobile with me
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Tiffehr said:
Good links is this one (thanks for sharing, Nicole!). The cargo ship article is the one I mentioned to you, Jaime. Good RSS reading.
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adam said:
To get from North America to Asia, they booked passage on a cargo ship leaving from Oakland and bound for Taiwan....They warned us. They warned us about the food. The freighter agency literature mentions several times that the food may not be what Americans are accustomed to -- for example, it says, "there may not be dessert."
Writing Flash for search engines (11)
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On June 30 Google and Adobe announced a new indexer optimized for Flash (SWF) discovered by its web crawlers. The new partnership takes advantage of a server-side Flash player optimized for a search engine indexing environment and unidirectional text (e.g. no Hebrew or Arabic). Search engines previously discovered the location of a SWF file on the Web and perhaps indexed its metadata but did not take a deep look inside its binary content. Last month's ...
Pattern Tap Launches (2)
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I'm psyched to see that Squared Eye has launched a veritable smorgasbord of interface and visual design inspiration with the user-generated screenshot gallery on Pattern Tap. Get your Tap on!
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By Jill Sobule, Singer and Songwriter Last year, here on the Voices blog, I asked you all for your thoughts on how to finance and put out my next record. I got some swell advice, as well as some good wishes. Many agreed that the patronage system–asking fans to donate money–was a promising idea. Well, I did it! I put up a Web site called jillsnextrecord.com, and within two months I reached my target figure ...Shared by Chronicole (1)Contribute commentJeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report (18) permalink
The notion that usability is the easy part—something you just add on after doing the hard part of writing the code—is hardly limited to the open source community.Shared by Chronicole (1)Contribute commentPharyngula (85) permalink
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