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Developers Are People Too, Don't Forget
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 29, 2008
Sometimes, in the race to declare one service better than another, to be among the first to say one product won't scale, one product will be killed or eclipsed by another, the rush of feeling declarative overlooks the fact that underneath every single one of these services we interact with each day lies people. In almost every case, especially when it comes to the nascent Web 2.0 market, the...
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Creating Feed Stories
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
Last week we released our beta sandbox to you all so you can start testing your applications with the new profile design. By now you've probably read the integration guide, too, so you have a sense of how Facebook Platform is changing with the new design. Today we want to start describing in more detail one of the most significant changes to the profile -- the greater focus on Feed. The Feed...
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Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 28, 2008
Today's news on SezWho's acquisition of Tejit stirred up, appropriately, a number of conversations around the Web regarding blog commenting platforms, and comparisons between SezWho and Disqus were common. But while some tried to paint the two products as competition, Disqus founder Daniel Ha publicly looked to open talks with SezWho, while, elsewhere, FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit...
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Security Holes
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
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Note to Web 2.0 Companies: Early Adopters are not the Mass Market
via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
If you work in the technology industry it pays to be familiar with the ideas from Geoffrey Moore's insightful book Crossing the Chasm. In the book he takes a look at the classic marketing bell curve that segments customers into Early Adopters, Pragmatists, Conservatives and Laggards then points out that there is a large chasm to cross when it comes to becoming popular beyond an initial set...
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Starve Yourself to Fend Off Jet Lag [Travel]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 24, 2008
Starving yourself prior to a long flight may be the key to preventing jet lag, according to Yahoo Health. Normally, the body's natural circadian clock in the brain dictates when to wake, eat and sleep, all in response to light. But it seems a second clock takes over when food is scarce, and manipulating this clock might help travelers adjust to new time zonesGranted, fasting is certainly...
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Video Introduction to Cocoa
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mat Lu on May 22, 2008
Filed under: Video, Developer, Found FootageOver at Theocacao Scott Stevenson has posted the video of his Introduction to Cocoa talk (entitled "Best of Both Worlds") aimed at those who want to learn a bit about Apple's preferred API for building OS X applications. The talk runs to over 90 minutes and includes "an introduction to Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C, Mac UI standards and...
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The Sandbox for the New Profile Design Is Now Open
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on May 22, 2008
As we promised recently, we've opened up our beta sandbox for the new profile design. You should have enough time to test the new design with your applications before we launch it to our users next month. We believe that the new design makes profiles cleaner and simpler, gives users more control over their profiles, and emphasizes recent and relevant information. We hope that as you try out...
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message
via programming: what's new online by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
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The other JIT: JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 21, 2008
... the slice and dice and squarified methods), an adapted visualization of trees based on the Spacetree, a focus+context technique to plot Hyperbolic Trees, and a radial layout of trees with advanced animations (RGraph).There are some cool examples such as the treemap visualization of his top 50 albums, or the network of pearl jam’s related artists, and finally the spacetree algorithm at work.
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