April 2009
19 posts
Omaha, one of my favorites from Tapes ‘N...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
In the Heights (19)
The Killers (13)
TV on the Radio (10)
Phish (3)
Spoon (3)
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A Conversation on The New Facebook API
A friend: “so basically the move (which twitter initiated) is to desktop clients where you have your twitter (or now facebook) feed that is customized for you.”
My reply, which I was too lazy to turn into a post but I thought would be an interesting conversation starter:
Twitter didn’t exactly initiate it, the internet did. It’s about giving access to data in a bet that...
Identity Gateways Will Be Surprisingly Useful
Interesting post - I wonder if this value add is lost with full open stack implementation, as there would be no centralized gateway for identity authorization, only a set of standard protocols.
continuations:
If you operate a site or service and want to accept identity from large third parties, you encounter a bewildering array of implementations. Some are fairly proprietary, such as...
Facebook Opens Up Its Stream API To Developers →
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This is incredible news. Well done Facebook … who knew?
As we speculated this weekend, Facebook has opened up its activity stream through a new API for…
Yahoo Finally Kills Web 1.0 Relic Geocities →
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R.I.P.
Yahoo (YHOO) has finally pulled the plug on Geocities, the Web hosting service it acquired for $3.6 billion in 1999.
“After careful consideration, we have…
Paul McCartney Cool With Sending Pirate Bay... →
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Sorry Paul, it sounds like you aren’t quite in favor meritocracy
Four founders of the Pirate Bay face up to a year in prison for breaching copyright, and that’s…
Can Adobe's Flash Take TV To The Next Level? →
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Adobe lock-in play on the eve of their destruction by HTML 5?
Adobe’s Flash video and animation platform fueled the Web video boom. Can it finally bridge the…
“Facebook has had trouble finding a director of monetization.”
– Facebook’s Recruiting Problem, Explained
Kind of funny that companies like Facebook have something called “director of monetization.” Used to be that all operators had that title as a given right?
iPods, First Sale, President Obama, and the Queen... →
Great article on the over-complexity of copyright law from Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google... →
Guest blogger Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished
Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Director of the Berkeley Center for…
A Telling Map of Job Losses →
Slate’s Moneybox has an interactive map that shows job creation and loss throughout the US for the past two years. Watching it flow through each month’s up and down definitely made the employment…
Gmail Now Tells You Who You Want To Email →
Not sure who else to add to that group email? Gmail Labs now has a useful “suggest more recipients” feature that suggests contacts that you might want to include in a group email based on the…
Enjoy Dashboard
Just a quick note: Spoke to Alex this weekend about why I like Tumblr. It’s been nice taking 30 minutes tonight to catch up on a little art, a little music, and a little technology. It’s a nice lightweight amalgam of the things I care about.
That’s all.
“According to the magazine, numbers for Wednesday, April 8, show that the iTunes...”
– iTunes Store’s new pricing scheme effects the charts, that Lightspeed Champion guy expresses surprise
Does this prove that pop songs really are all the same? Seems like most are at least similar enough to be substitutes.
(via totesfawkward)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-5) →
In the Heights (40)
Animal Collective (20)
MGMT (10)
M83 (8)
Herbie Hancock (6)
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