October 2008
23 posts
Android font →
Can’t help it. I just like fonts.
Minefield
Seems fast, but still’s got those memory leaks.
(I know, I know…it’s pre-alpha)
Nevertheless, download it.
Good Argument
“What if letting Lehman fail actually increased the amount of moral hazard involved in lending to banks?” asks Felix Salmon.
Joe The Plumber for Congress! →
“I’ll tell you what, we’d definitely be in one heck of a fight,” Wurzelbacher said during an appearance on the Laura Ingraham show Friday, “but, you know, I’d be up for it.”
Checking In On Facebook Connect: Where Are All The... →
Facebook Connect, a product that ties a user’s Facebook account to other sites on the Internet, was first announced on May 9, more than five months ago. Digg was announced as a launch…
Rackspace Acquires Jungledisk and Slicehost →
Image via CrunchBase
Rackspace had an event today at Austin, TX where they announced the acquisition of Jungledisk and Slicehost. In fact, they made it a big event with live…
Facebook Connect and OpenID Relationship Status:... →
Editor’s Note: This post was contributed by John McCrea, VP of marketing for Plaxo, which is at the vanguard of the data portability movement. He also blogs at The Real McCrea and does a…
Still looking for a backup solution
Carbonite.com is also a good choice. They just came out with a beta for Mac.
bijan:
Two years ago I wrote a post about backing up personal media on my old blog.
It’s funny to see what my needs were at the time.
-First of all bandwidth to my house has improved big time. I’m now getting 20Mbps up & down thanks to Verizon FIOS. At the time of my earlier post I was getting 5Mbps down and...
Guess what?
1. Put an ice cube in the microwave.
2. Turn the microwave on.
3. The ice cube doesn’t melt.
Hacking the vote
Map of states’ voting machines
via TheDailyBeast
“Such are the market forces generated by discontinuous innovations, or what more recently have been termed paradigm shifts. These shifts begin with the appearance of a new category of product that incorporates breakthrough technology enabling unprecedented benefits. It is immediately proposed as the natural replacement for a whole class of infrastructure, winning early converts and...
10 creative advertising ideas from students →
Very nice.
Gnip
I’m interested to see where Gnip goes.
According to their blog,
“Gnip provides an extensible messaging platform that allows for the publishing or subscribing of events and data from across the Internet, which makes data portability exponentially less painful and more automatic once it is set up. Because Gnip is being built as a platform of capabilities and not a web application the...
“The Club Penguin Times, after all, is more widely read than New York’s Daily...”
– I wonder who they’ll endorse?
Disney Makes Reading Cool
The world is a sad place.
(via totesfawkward)
Life in the (disorganized) cloud
The OS moving to the browser almost seems like a foregone conclusion now. But if our applications and workflow continue to get beamed up to the cloud, then how are we going to organize our many-tabbed life?
By the end of a workday, I’ve amassed 30 tabs and 4 browser windows. By the end of a workday, I’ve also crashed firefox 2 times. We’re talking a Windows 3.1 level of...
Thanks, Macworld! →
Good quotes from Dave G. about price point and the non-issue of feature parity with Excel.
Unfortunate... →
Free Vs Paid →
My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me “free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for”. He said “freemium is dead”. I reminded him that freemium…