May 2008
53 posts
Web 2.0 Start-Up Field Guide
From Designer To Founder
Displacements
Sonic Camera
Missing an opportunity to be outraged is like missing a reference to...
– #101 Being Offended (via SWPL)
You’ve allowed them to settle on a mishmash Frankenstein product and bogged them...
– Getting Design Approval: The Single Mockup Theory
I looked up and to my astonishment I saw right up into the heart of the tornado....
– Will Keller, “a farmer of near Greensburg, Kansas”, quoted in the Monthly Weather Review, May 1930. The entire account is pretty remarkable. (via jstn)
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an...
– artist Robert Rauschenberg in his obituary
Extremely elegant asset management system from Nivea (via 37signals)
Wide vs. Deep
gknauss:
I’ve got this theory about what it’s like to be a manager and what it’s like to be a developer and which role suits a particular individual best, and I think it explains pretty well why I deeply, profoundly hate the former and dearly, truly love the latter. Photo courtesy of dirkstoop. A few years ago, the company I work for decided that I was such a good programmer that I had...
3D face-modelling technology
(“Modified optic flow algorithms never looked so sweet.”)
FAVRD runs on a no-webcock algorithm. If you see Twitter as a venue for public...
– Dean Allen on his new favorite-tracking Twitter service called FAVRD
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in...
– via Rands (The Nerd Handbook). Scary how accurate this is about me.
What’s the shape of your internet?
…that would be a totally defensive move, and Steve Jobs is not a defensive...
– Why Apple won’t buy Adobe via DF
explanation of the cognitive surplus (“what do you mean you have no time?”)
one of the craziest uses of new technology that i’ve seen in a while.
tinydb.org →
note to future self: not sure why this is important…yet, but i think some good things will be based off of this technology. you can thank me for it later.
It’s the first time I’ve seen rats swimming toward a sinking ship.
– Fake Steve Jobs (regarding the NBC-Zune deal)
Twistori →
jstn:
peterbaker— Interesting Twitter visualization. See what others Love/Hate/Think/Believe/Feel/Wish.
So international, French Riviera. Love for foreign cars would explain my...
– Malice (Clipse)