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Wanna learn JavaScript? Here are 15 video lectures (with key ideas written out)
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
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Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 14, 2008
by Sean HodgePodcasting is an engaging medium that is available in both audio and video formats. Podcasts often refer to audiocasts, but now with iPods and other media players being able to play video, videocasts are just as popular. A handful of web design podcasters deliver both audio and video formats. Some do so through the same subscription, others separate the two.Audio podcasts are a great...
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Great Ideas are Valuable, But Extremely Hard to Recognize
via Scott H Young by Scott Young on May 14, 2008
Recently, Steve Pavlina wrote an article entitle, The Value of Ideas. In the article, he talks about how ideas are cheap, the real work comes in implementation. This is an area I wholeheartedly agree with, as for every 100 “idea-people” there might only be one or two that can actually bring things into reality. Ideas are easy, work is hard.While I agree that ideas are cheaper than...
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What Problem Does It Solve?: Convincing Grandma She Needs a Feedreader
via Profy.Com by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira on May 14, 2008
Much has been made of the early adopters vs. middle America argument when it comes to much of Web 2.0 technology. And while everyone likes the "cool factor" of being part of the first tribe to have adopted a product or app, we all know that reality dictates more widespread adoption for a company to succeed.There are some companies who have already managed to gain more widespread adoption....
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Twitter for Music
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 13, 2008
Twitter is an efficient technology for spreading and harvesting concise ideas. Unfortunately, it’s not so great for sharing rich media. Want to broadcast a video? You’ll have to settle for a TinyURL to YouTube, or maybe switch over to Seesmic altogether. Pownce improves on the Twitter model by supporting file transfers and at least one new data type: the structured event. It also appears to...
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Start a meeting by looking backward
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on May 14, 2008
The whole 37signals thing gathered in Chicago for a pow wow last week. How do we start a meeting? By celebrating.No confetti or streamers. Just a recap of everything we’ve accomplished since we met last (we hold full-team meetings every few months). We tick off the accomplishments and let the champions of each one explain what happened and what was learnt. Plus, they get to bask in a bit of...
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Prying Open the Social Graph
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on May 13, 2008
Technology buzzwords come and go…virtualization, green, SaaS…and after sitting through the Google Friend Connect announcement, reading about Facebook’s Connect service and writing about last week’s MySpace Data Availability launch, “open” appears to be just the latest. But open is one of those words whose definition can be spun into a variety of meanings.While Facebook isn’t yet...
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David Remnick lists the top 100 essential jazz albums. Caveat:...
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on May 13, 2008
David Remnick lists the top 100 essential jazz albums. Caveat:I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector.The list is a companion piece to Remnick's article on jazz DJ Phil Schapp. (link)
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Yahoo! Internet Location Platform: One Location ID To Rule Them All
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Brady Forrest on May 13, 2008
Today Yahoo launched a preview of the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. It essentially creates an ID (a Where On Earth ID aka WOEID)for each place on earth and provides the API calls to geocode to and from that ID. It's very similar to Geonames IDs.It's based on the dataset acquired with the acquisition of Whereonearth Limited. The company was created primarily for use on the backend...
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More on Brijit
via Megan McArdle by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
About a month ago, I linked to Brijit, a new media aggregation website. The idea behind it is intriguing; it's sort of a curated Google News. If you're like me, you have too many newspapers and magazines, and too little time. The idea behind Brijit is that they tell you what you need to read.I went to see their offices a couple of weeks ago, which are conveniently located a couple...
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