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The Atlantic: How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus
Reading this article just reminds me that I'm still upset Google killed its Google Reader sharing features. The Reader bridge has been burned for me, but I agree they could do more inside existing services to improve Plus.
facebook  google  social 
18 hours ago
Techworld: Pinterest growth driven by Amazon cloud scalability
Impressive growth for a company with 12 people. Database sharding is some sort of evil magic, isn't it?
amazon  cloud  infrastructure 
4 days ago
Single Serving Site: Your Public IP
There's a nerdier way to get your public IP then whatismyip.com. Skip the ads and run curl icanhazip.com.
internet  network  productivity 
8 days ago
The Hidden Truth About Hip-Hop Conspiracy Theories
Jay Smooth speaks the truth. Conspiracy theories often work to mask the real problems in plain sight.
music  society  politics  government 
8 days ago
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
A great though depressing article by Mat Honan about the history and current state of Flickr at Yahoo!.
flickr  photography  yahoo  startup 
9 days ago
The Detroit News: Toyota plans to limit sales of all-electric RAV4
Toyota is making a small run of all-electric RAV4s over the next three years. It'll be the first all-electric SUV.
cars  environment 
16 days ago
Technology Review: Why Publishers Don't Like Apps
Another blow to native apps. The number of subscribers, money, and time that went into their native app is pretty amazing. They're shuttering their apps and moving everything to the Web.
media  mobile 
17 days ago
The Real Reason They Still Play 'Mrs. Robinson' On The Radio
A good infographic about media consolidation. This is why it's important to find, consume, and support independent everything.
media  politics  visualization  insanity 
18 days ago
Douglas Rushkoff: My Preface to Boorstin's The Image
Rushkoff looks back at Boorstin's seminal media book written in the Mad Men era. He describes our collective nostalgia for those times as: "Those last wonderful moments before we drifted off to sleep."
media  history 
28 days ago
Ask MetaFilter: Books on history that are a delight to read.
Great recommendations for good history reads.
metafilter 
5 weeks ago
Skills
Joshua Schacter's latest project: tagging people's Twitter handles with skills they can perform. It's a way to see what people are known for among their peers. More tagging!
twitter  tagging 
7 weeks ago
HistoryTag
"HistoryTag records the histories of specially tagged things, so you can see how they were made and how they live in the world." The Internet of Things is off and running. This is a great idea.
history  community  tagging 
7 weeks ago
Letters of Note: I am very real
Kurt Vonnegut to the member of a school board that burned his books: "If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own."
books 
8 weeks ago
Railroad company logo design evolution
A nice collection of railroad company logos from 1845-2000. [via kottke]
design  history  travel 
8 weeks ago
MetaFilter: Two bits of wood bolted together
Nice look at the way they used to make guitars, and some good guitar stories in the comments.
metafilter  hardware  music 
8 weeks ago
NTY: For E.V. Drivers, a Stretch of Oregon Interstate to Relieve Range Anxiety
Oregon is starting to build infrastructure to support all-electric vehicles.
nyt  cars  energy  environment 
8 weeks ago
slabText
"A jQuery plugin for creating big, bold & responsive headlines." This page is a nice demo. Resize your browser to see the headlines at various sizes.
css  javascript  jquery  type 
9 weeks ago
Seattle Times: Red meat mortality study leaves many carnivores unfazed
(Except this carnivore.) Note to self: kick bacon habit.
food  health 
9 weeks ago
Time.is
The time. On the Web.
10 weeks ago
kottke.org redesign, 2012 version
Looks simple, sharp! Nice update.
design  weblogs 
11 weeks ago
tecznotes: bandwidth
Nice to see MetaFilter at the top of this list--we've been working on site bandwidth. And I agree on the jQuery problem. There's a bandwidth cost associated with easier development.
design  twitter  metafilter 
11 weeks ago
Least Helpful
Horrible one-star Amazon reviews. [via MetaFilter]
amazon 
12 weeks ago
Waxy: YouTube's Content ID Disputes Are Judged by the Accuser
Background bird chirping in a YouTube video is mistaken for content under copyright. Highlights of a broken system ensue.
copyright  youtube  google 
12 weeks ago
Andre Torrez: How Twitter Works
Hey, nice idea: public unit tests.
development 
12 weeks ago
37signals: Give it five minutes
Jason Fried on being open to new ideas: "So next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a little bit before pushing back, before saying it’s too hard or it’s too much work. Those things may be true, but there may be another truth in there too: It may be worth it."
life 
12 weeks ago
YouTube: B.S. Report: President Obama on Jeremy Lin and the Bulls
Obama knows basketball. Nice to see a more casual side of Obama.
youtube  sports 
12 weeks ago
A Whole Lotta Nothing: Neil deGrasse Tyson, QFT
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation."
googlereader  life  quote 
12 weeks ago
Mike MacCana: Content creation apps finally get out of the way
"After using all the UI richness available for such a long time to make beautiful and differentiated products, app designers have realized that the user's work, not their own, is the star of the show."
interface  design  google 
12 weeks ago
Infovore: A Year of Links
"I thought it would be interesting to produce a kind of personal encylopedia: each volume cataloguing the links for a whole year." Great idea, a physical copy of your Pinboard/Delicious links.
books 
12 weeks ago
How do blogs need to evolve?
I'm talking weblogs with a few other old fogey edge cases.
weblogs  decentralization 
february 2012
Scroll Sneak: maintaining scroll position between page loads
Interesting method for storing scroll position in window.name so it can be set via the back button.
javascript 
february 2012
Instacast for iPhone
This app is a good replacement for the cumbersome iTunes podcast manager. It downloads podcasts directly, no syncing required.
podcasts  iphone 
february 2012
This Is My Jam
Sharing music one track at a time. This is a fun site.
music  social 
february 2012
Storify: early adopter nerds, on flickr's past & future
lia put together this record of a Twitter conversation about the current state of Flickr and photo-sharing in general. Depressing: "...nobody cares about lasting value anymore. it's all about what's going on right this second."
flickr  photography  ethics 
february 2012
Google Refine
Handy tool for cleaning up data in a CSV file or spreadsheet. Tasks like removing columns are a bit tedious, but GREL is an interesting way to transform data.
software 
february 2012
37signals: Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud
A list of companies that have become successful without VC funding.
startup 
february 2012
Customer Image Gallery for Accoutrements Horse Head Mask
Hilarious gallery of terrifying horse mask pictures contributed by Amazon users. [via mlkshk]
joke  amazon 
february 2012
Stack Exchange Blog: The Trouble With Popularity
Excellent thoughts on community moderation. "This is why community moderators have real power; they need that power to intervene, educate, and refocus the community's exuberance on more substantive content. People will fight you almost literally to the death over their right to be entertained, and to entertain others."
community 
february 2012
How To Obtain The Size Of All Tables In A SQL Server Database
Handy query to get a quick inventory of a database.
sql 
january 2012
EDC
Everyday Carry. Pictures of what people carry in their pockets. [via torrez]
style 
january 2012
Steven Frank: Notes: Home
Great collection of miscellaneous tech tips. I have a bunch of these in a text file too. I should make them public like this.
productivity  programming  development 
january 2012
Cooper Journal: Oops! I ruined your life. :)
I agree that cutesy error messages are irritating. I'd rather see a more serious "we're on it" notice.
design  development 
january 2012
Request for Startups 9: Kill Hollywood
"What's going to kill movies and TV is what's already killing them: better ways to entertain people. So the best way to approach this problem is to ask yourself: what are people going to do for fun in 20 years instead of what they do now?"
media  startup 
january 2012
Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index
Russ Cox explains how the retired Google Code Search used to work. It includes links to a similar project you can install locally to search code using the same method.
google  programming 
january 2012
Marco.org: The next SOPA
"So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform."
media  politics 
january 2012
Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
Great talk from Clay Shirky that tells some of the history behind SOPA and why it's dangerous. "[Media companies] want us all back on the couch: just consume."
politics  future 
january 2012
GigaOM: Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA
"Once the market matures, the pirates go away. They always do. Legitimate markets work better than pirate markets."
copyright  politics 
january 2012
Glue
"Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites." Handy!
css  development 
january 2012
Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2012
The annual state of the world.
politics  future 
january 2012
Port25’s Authentication and Spam Assassin Tool
Good description of a handy tool that helps test mail server settings.
development  email 
january 2012
Chromeography
Not only a fun site to browse, but a good example of taking group Flickr content elsewhere for a new experience.
design  photography  type 
december 2011
Scripting News: Why apps are not the future
"The great thing about the web is linking. I don't care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can't link in and out of your world, it's not even close to a replacement for the web."
mobile  apple 
december 2011
Pinboard Blog: Don't Be A Free User
"Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won't do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you'll be the only game in town!" This is both absolutely true and heartbreaking.
economics  startup  software 
december 2011
Waxy.org: No Copyright Intended
"Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give."
copyright  youtube  law 
december 2011
Webstock: Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda interviewed by Matt Haughey
"Linux, and the Internet broke everything wide open. It’s taken 20 years to get a lot of it boxed back up again. I hope there are still air cracks by the time my kids are old enough to jam screwdrivers in there."
weblogs  history  metafilter 
december 2011
InstaCSS: Instant CSS Documentation Search
Does what it says on the tin. !important
css  development 
december 2011
mlkshk: bubble
Time often uses a different cover in the US.
media  marketing 
november 2011
Frugal Dad: Media Consolidation: The Illusion of Choice (Infographic)
This puts the concentration of media into perspective. [via mlkshk]
media 
november 2011
occuprint: Posters from the #Occupy movement
art  politics 
november 2011
NYTimes: At Occupy Berkeley, Beat Poets Has New Meaning
"If the students turned away, they pounded their ribs. If they turned further away to escape, they hit them on their spines." Hard to believe this happened in Berkeley of all places. By Robert Hass, former US Poet Laureate. [via sacca]
politics  insanity 
november 2011
The Huffington Post: Militarization of Campus Police
More thoughts on the UC Davis pepper spray incident and police militarization in general from a Davis faculty member. [via megnut]
politics 
november 2011
UCDavis Bicycle Barricade: Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
"Your actions directly threaten the safety of our students." A UC Davis professor is asking the chancellor to resign after the OWS pepper spraying incident.
politics  california 
november 2011
How to quickly access iOS settings on your iPad, iPhone or iPod
Hello Brightness shortcut icon! This is great.
iphone  productivity 
november 2011
Icon Fonts are Awesome
Nice demo. I'm not sure I buy it yet. You still have to download the entire font to use a single icon. If you're using a large number of icons it might make sense.
type  css  design 
november 2011
Molly Rants: How Facebook is ruining sharing
"I hope publishers will see that conscious sharing is better than passive sharing, and that content delivery is better than app delivery." Me too. Quantity of traffic beats quality in many people's minds so I'm not optimistic.
media  marketing  social 
november 2011
Roderick on the Line
You're probably already subscribing, but if not: this is the best podcast on the Internet. Merlin Mann and John Roderick discuss things. Humorous things.
podcasts  insanity  joke 
november 2011
Theresa Neil: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery
Nice collection of designs patterns and examples for mobile devices.
design  mobile  iphone 
november 2011
Expert Labs: ThinkUp Hits 1.0!
ThinkUp is a great way to archive/search your entire Twitter history and get some nice metrics in the process. Congrats on 1.0! (Don't miss anil's post about ThinkUp.)
twitter  software 
november 2011
Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0
We've been using alpha and beta versions of jQuery Mobile at Fuelly for quite a while now. It's great to see it reach this milestone.
javascript  mobile 
november 2011
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
"Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade." Bret Victor on imagining more tactile experiences with technology.
future  design 
november 2011
FT.com: Birth of the global mind
"The global brain is still in its infancy. We can raise it to help us make a better world, or we can raise it to be selfish, unjust and short-term in its outlook." Fantastic article by Tim O'Reilly describing a more practical form of global consciousness.
design  ethics  future 
november 2011
Mike Rundle: Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
Nice tutorial about using shading and texture in web design.
design  css 
november 2011
Shapecatcher.com: Unicode Character Recognition
Draw something. Get a matching unicode character back. Fun!
design 
november 2011
Mozilla Hacks: insertAdjacentHTML() Enables Faster HTML Snippet Injection
Nice little hack for faster dynamic HTML with JavaScript.
development  javascript 
november 2011
The Hairpin: Grading Gadgety Gift Guides for Guys
Brian Lam from Wirecutter on those soon-to-be ubiquitous holiday gadget guides. Nice axe!
marketing  media 
november 2011
aaronland: Parallel Flickr
Aaron Straup Cope of Flickr fame has put together some scripts to mirror your Flickr photos at a private domain. It uses Flickr auth and maintains privacy settings in the process.
flickr  photography 
november 2011
The Best Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies in the Entire World
"Holy Fucking Shit, these are good." ok, then. Bookmarking for future use.
food 
november 2011
MailChimp Voice and Tone
Interesting look at how MailChimp helps their employees write for different types of communication with customers. Their blog is laid back and funny. Their tweets are focused and to the point.
internet  writing  weblogs  twitter 
november 2011
Stack Overflow: Google Authenticator available as a public service?
Some good information here about using Google's iOS Authenticator app to implement 2-factor authentication at any website.
programming  security 
november 2011
slight paranoia: Two honest Google employees: our products don't protect your privacy
Vint Cerf on Google: "...we couldn't run our system if everything in it were encrypted because then we wouldn't know which ads to show you. So this is a system that was designed around a particular business model."
google  privacy 
november 2011
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